Title: GMTV
Date of transmission: Tuesday 23 October 2001
Network: ITV

Charlotte performs "Carrickfergus"

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Performance - Carrickfergus

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Eamon : Now we're gonna take a .. a little trip down memory lane here. At 3 years ago.. a young girl just 12. But boy has she grown up since this.

Flash back to November 1998: Charl singing at age 12 : "Pie Jesu, Pie Jesu, Pie Jesu, Pie Jesu ..."

Eamon : "Just 12 then .. look at her now at 15.. all grown up."

Charl: laughs

Eamon : "3 years and a whole new look for you."

Charl : "It's not really like a conscious thing. It's not kind of like oh I'm gonna change my look cause it's best for marketing or it's more commercial .. it's just that I'm growing up and I'm experimenting with looks and I'm trying different things and a lot of the press is saying what happened to the 12 year old angel? Well the 12 year old angel is almost 16. So .... "

Eamon : "Yes. So what about .. I mean do you take advice on looks? Do you have people that say what about this? .. What about that?"

Charl : "Well you know they're stylists because I just havent got the time to shop half the time cause I'm working so much."

Eamon: "Yeah."

Charl : "Uhhhhmmmm But generally I just wear whatever I want. And you know .. theres some days that I just wanna dress like a slob and wear big baggy trousers and trainers and there's other days that I just wanna dress up and kinda be like now."

Eamon : "It must be so hard being known as a child performer for want of a better term .. and then suddenly to become an adult. I mean people are always going to do the comparison."

Charl: "Yeah, yeah ... and it has been quite difficult you know.. the whole transition which is still happening but .. umm .. because everybody kind of stereotypes you. And also a lot of people stereotype me as .. 'oh parents must have pushed her'.. and 'she's gonna end up a wild child by the time she's 16.' But it's not like that at all."

Eamon : "We like the metamorphosis. It's happening very well. It's it's developing very well so far."

Charl: Laughs: "I hope so."

Eamon : "Now with the new look does a new find come with that new look?"

Charl : "Yeah it does quite .. quite a lot .. I mean I've got a new album out called 'Enchantment.' And umm I've kind of.. I mix a lot of different musical cultures and musical gendres. And I think it makes for a more kind of like eclectic album .. so .."

Eamon : "Like what? Now what do you .. what do you mean? Whats different that you haven't done before?"

Charl : "Well I mean I've got like Celtic Songs, and Religious songs and arias abnd then I've also got .. there's this one song called Habenara, and it's got really big south American drums and really terrific flamenco guitar. So and so its quite a different sound to it. But you know it's old me and new me mixed in together."

Eamon : "Well I was in America two weeks ago and every music shop or record shop that I went to .. there you were displayed. You were everywhere."

Charl : Giggles : "Yeah it's kind of getting quite big in America. Cause its scary really cause it's all so huge and everything. But uh .. yeah it's all been going really really well in America. And uhhh .. so I'm just ...."

Eamon : "And you've been like that promoting stuff they like you. You've been on the telly quite a lot [transcribers note - for those that do not know what telly means .. it is the name folks in England use for television.] They like you that way."

Lady : "And you've met Bill haven't you?"

Charl: "Yeah I've met bill Clinton. And I also did President Bush's inauguration. Which was ... uhhh he asked me what state royals are in. And I was kinda going .. Britain."

Eamon : "Poor President Bush."

Charl: "Yeah I know."

Eamon: "Now while also you were in New York. Did you get close at all to the trade towers?"

Charl: "Yeah .. Uhhmm .. I did I went down to ground zero.. uhhmmm .. where the whole thing happened. And it was just realy, realy disturbing. It was .. it was so heartbreaking to see. And it was very early. And it was like a ghost town. But uhhhmmm .. you know after .. after I went there I kind of felt a bit like .. uhhh .. well I have no right to go down there because it wouldn't. Because basically its a grave site. It's aweful to say. But it's ... and it's .. and I thought it would have been silent.. people going down there to pay their respects. That's why I was going down there. Ummm .. but it wasn't. there were people climbing over cars to get the best picture and it was just like .. it was really, really odd. But you know, I mean I'm glad I went there, [about 4 words not understood by transcriber at this spot] ... to see history in the making."

Eamon: "And it's interesting to hear that story from you. Uhhmmm we're gonna hear from you singing. Yeah .. yeah."

Charl: "Yes."

Eamon: " We're looking forward to that. So look what Charlotte Church's life .. all grown up. She's gonna be singing live for us one of the tracks of her new album Enchantment .. right here in the studio but you have to wait.
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Later after the break
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Fiona: "Well.. we made a huge promise before the break and were fulfilling it now .. Charlotte Church here to perform one of the songs from her new album Enchantment. Here it is .. what's it called?"

Eamon: "It's a good Irish one. One I sing myself when I've got a few drinks in me. It's called ... but not like this. Here it is.. Charlotte Church .. with Carrickfergus.

[after charlotte sang Carrickfergus the talking continued]
Clapping from Eamon and Fiona.

Eamon: "Lovely! Beautiful rendition Charlotte. Thank you very much indeed. Excellent. Excellent."

Fiona: "You know .. you know she might be very well Oscar nominated next year as well. She's about to sing a soundtrack of beautiful mind in the new Russell Crowe film."

Eamon : "I'm not surprised. Excellent. That Carickfergus .. they all sing that in Ireland, when they get a few drinks in them they get all maudlin and their hands shake. Peoples hands shake.

[transcribers note: Charlotte is seen still standing before the microphone smiling widely at that comment.]

Eamon: "I wish I were in Carrickfergus.... "

Fiona: "Is that before or after Danny Boy?"

Eamon: "and they're all holding pipes when they sing it but anyway that will bring a few smiles."

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New-look Charlotte


Charlotte Church shows off her new image on Tuesday's GMTV

She was known as the Voice of the Angel - and she certainly looked like a cherub. How things have changed.

The little girl who was signed by Sony Music at the age of 12 is back with a stunning new album - and a verging-on-raunchy new image that screams "I'm not a child any more."

Growing up
Now 15 (but mature beyond her years), Charlotte Church sports highlights, sophisticated make-up and a trendy new wardrobe. And while she insists the new look is "not a conscious decision", it's clear she's now keen to escape the child-star tag and establish her own identity in the music world. 

Her new album, in its own way, attempts to do the same: "The album is very different from what's come before," she says of Enchantment. 

"I really wanted to try a lot of different things, but at the same time give my audience what they've come to expect from me."

The album, produced by Keith Thomas of Barbara Streisand fame, is an eclectic mix of musical styles, ranging from pop and classical to Celtic ballad. There are even a few songs from Broadway musicals, including the show-stopping Bali Ha'i and Somewhere.

Big break
It's all a long way from Pie Jesu, the song which the 11-year-old Charlotte sang on ITV's Talking Telephone Number in a move which landed her a multi-million pound Sony record deal.

Since then, she has notched up numerous musical acclaims following the release of her debut album Voice of an Angel. She made pop history in November 1998 when she became the youngest ever female singer to reach the top 40 album charts (she was just 12-years-old).

She's sold six and a half million copies of her records and sung for the Pope at the Vatican, Tony Blair, the Clintons in Washington, for the Queen at the opening of the Welsh Assembly and the Prince of Wales at his 50th party in London. 

She was even invited to perform at the inauguration of President George W Bush: "He asked me what state Wales is in!", she laughed on GMTV this morning (Tuesday 23rd October).

Sombre
On a more sombre note, she recently visited the site of the decimated Twin Towers in New York. "I went to Ground Zero," she said, "and it was so distressing; it was heartbreaking."

"After I'd been I felt I had no right to go there - it's a gravesite. But I'm glad I went to pay my respects."

Down-to-earth
Surprisingly though, fame and fortune doesn't seem to have gone to her head. She may have the world at her feet - but those feet are firmly on the ground.

She still goes to school in Wales, although she has two tutors who travel with her when she's touring. And though she's associated with classical music, she's a pop girl at heart - listing Puff Daddy and Eminem among her musical idols.

"I'm like every other girl," Charlotte insists. "I like shopping, combat trousers, jeans and shoes. As for the ball gowns I have to wear for concerts, I hate them! That's one thing that's got to change."

She even has the usual parent gripes - just like any other teenage girl: "Being with my parents 24 hours a day can be a pain. If my dad catches me scouting for boys he gives me a disgusted look."

But the biggest drawback of all? "I won't be able to get into nightclubs when I'm 16 because everybody knows how old I am!"

Charlotte's new album, Enchantment, is out now.

Victoria Brown

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