Top Of The Pop - July 2001

Candy: 'Scream' is the best album I have bought this year and much better than 'Schizophonic', what's your favourite track on the album and why?

Geri: 'Calling'. I think it's my best work to date, the best song I've ever written.

Ryan: Why do you think you're so drawn to the limelight? Have you always been a bit of a showoff?

Geri: When I was a child I was a show off, [sings] "Show off, show off, pick your nose and blow off!"

Nicola: Did you have a lot of training before going into the business in terms of dancing,singing etc..?

Geri: My training was listening to Top of the Pops on Sundays and watching it on Thursdays.

Kat: Which lyric do you wish that you had written?

Geri: I wish I'd written 'Let it Be'. I'm a massive Beatles fan. I was also an early Madonna fan. When I was 12 I used to listen to her.

Rob: Have you been following Big Brother? If so, who do you want to win and will you throw a party for the winners like George Michael did last year?

Geri: I saw it for the first time the other night. I could not believe the girl from Wales! I think it's inevitable if you lock together a male and female, it's all going to get a bit hormonal.

Sian: Are you still in touch with the boy you took to see the Bridget Jones premiere?

Geri: No.

Viktoria: You are my favourite singer and I like all your songs.I want to know which of them is your favourite?

Geri: 'Calling' is my favourite. It's going to be a single.

Gill: Where do you get you inspiration and ideas for your music? Who would you most like to do a duet with and why?

Geri: Anything, anyone, people, places, things. Anything that's going on in my life. ks I'm reading, music I'm listening to. People I'm hanging around with. I just write it on scraps or pieces of paper. As for a duet...George is more of a friend than a duetter.

Kat: With two albums under your belt and a few b-side cover versions surely you have enough material to go out on the road. When will we see you on tour?

Geri: Maybe next year.

SarahC: Geri - do you use the intenet much? Do you visit your own fansite and visit forums?

Geri: I do the use the internet - I use email a lot, but that's about it. I actually prefer the fansites!

The dalek: Can you actually ride a motorbike?

Geri: I did have a motorbike crash once. I went straight into a tree. But it didn't put me off getting onto a motorbike for this video! I'm actually a big jet-ski fan. I've got two hobbies. One is beading necklaces and the other is speeding on jet-skis!

Sarah Louise Baynes: Geri, do you think you'll go into acting? and if you do will it be soaps or movies?

Geri: If I did, it would be a movie, not a soap.

Stefan: Do you have any ambitions left to fulfill?

Geri: I'd like my album to be a big world wide success. I'd like to be balanced and quite normal...that's quite an ambition! I haven't achieved that one yet. My ambition is to give birth to puppies! No, I'm joking...just staring at my dog. My ambition is to go on tour and then maybe get a baby in my belly, by a man. That's a huge ambition. To keep my health good.

Marty: Geri, I saw all the pictures of you doing yoga on the beach. Tell us all about yoga and how much you do!

Geri: Yoga is very good for your health. I really recommend it. I wanted to kill the photographer when I saw those pictures of me doing yoga.

Kayle Halford: What video did you enjoy doing the most?

Geri: They're all like giving birth to babies - come up with an idea, plant the seed, conceptualise and giving birth to them is really painful, a lot of hard work. 'It's Raining Men' was freezing, for example.

Therese: If you were a journalist for a day interviewing yourself what would your question be, and why?

Geri: I'd like them to ask me to leave the room and go home. That would be my best question from a journalist.

Nickki: Will you ever get another dog?

Geri : I have got other dogs. Lucy is back at the ranch. Harry stays with me. I do like those British bulldogs. What are they called? ers. But Harry doesn't really like other dogs.

Cara-Jane Terry: Where's your favourite place in the world and why?

Geri: Probably on a beach.

Chandler Bing: Whats your favourite food?

Geri: Mashed potato

Aurelie Verhaeghe: What are the best and the worst feelings in the world for you?

Geri: Feeling loved makes me happy...My worst feeling is fearing fear.

Matthew H: Do you get nervous dancing on stage in underpants, in case they creep up your bum or something?

Geri: Yeah! At Party in the Park, I danced in my pants because I couldn't think of anything else to wear!

Rat Garden: What gives you the most satisfaction in your work?

Geri: Writing a nice song and when I hear other people singing it. I love it when taxi drivers love my songs. I love coming out my house and hearing a wad of fans singing my songs.

Therese Cleave: Would you ever contemplate switching places with someone like me for the day?

Geri: Of course I would! I'd like to switch places with a school teacher. I'd live in a little house with my husband and make cakes for the fete and have after school activities where we would read Shakespeare. It would have to be junior school teachers.

Katy: If you could do any job apart from a singer, what would it be and why?

Geri: As I said, it would be a school teacher. I like teenagers, I like their bravado and their cockiness. They have challenging minds and challenge the system.

Sam Smithson: Have you ever used a look-alike to escape from all those people after a show?

Geri: No. I have once tried to dress up as someone else but I got caught and felt really stupid!

Holly: Please could u say happy birthday to my friend Lizz because shes a big fan of yours!

Geri: Happy Birthday Lizz! Thank you.

BBC Host: Just time for one more question...

Amy Hynd: What do you think of your fans?

Geri: I love my fans because they've been loyal to the end - no matter what. No matter what any journalist or radio station has said, they are the ones who have stood behind me. I love loyalty, I'm a Leo.

BBC Host: Here's Geri with a final word

Geri: I want to take this opportunity to say "Hi" to everyone. Sorry I couldn't answer all your questions. For all my fans out there, I wrote a really beautiful song recently. It's on the B-side of the new single. It's called 'Broken Glass' and I'm so proud of it. It's about unrequited love. I think we've all experienced that in our lives. A big thank you and kiss to everyone. You can come and see me at Stockton-on-Tees on the 29th of July...