Mrs Browns Boys comes to Lancashire

Blackpool Gazette

Brendan O'Carroll talks everything Blackpool, why Mrs Brown is such a nightmare and what’s next for her...

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00:00 We played Blackpool for the very first time last year.

00:02 And we went, "Oh, we've got to come back here."

00:05 Because we only played for three days.

00:09 Because there's only three days available.

00:10 Everybody's looking for venues.

00:12 As soon as COVID finished, everybody was looking for venues.

00:14 There's only three days available.

00:17 We knew the three days.

00:18 And it just sold out.

00:20 And there were so many people who didn't get to the show.

00:24 So we said, "Okay, the new show, we'll come back to Blackpool."

00:28 So we're back again in Blackpool.

00:30 And I can't wait to get back there.

00:31 It's just a fabulous theatre.

00:33 It's just beautiful, the opera house.

00:35 We're constantly touring.

00:37 But there's something different about getting to Blackpool

00:40 for the very first time last year.

00:42 It was just a completely different vibe.

00:45 The last time I was in Blackpool, I was 12.

00:48 And it was with a football club.

00:50 We went over to play a mini competition.

00:52 And I had never seen amusements like it.

00:54 I'd never seen anything like this place.

00:57 It was lit up and the trams going up and down the car.

00:59 It was just magical.

01:01 And I got that feeling all over again.

01:03 And it's funny, the song that was big at that time,

01:07 that was number one in the British charts at that time,

01:09 was a song called "Puppet on a String."

01:13 And every time I hear "Puppet on a String,"

01:16 every time I hear the intro,

01:17 ♪ Mm-mm, do-do, mm-mm, do-do ♪

01:19 I go, "You know what? It reminds me of Blackpool.

01:22 And it reminds me of Blackpool rock.

01:24 I have to bring back rock for everybody."

01:26 You brought back a stick of rock.

01:29 And I didn't realize also that all those beachfront shops

01:33 that had those naughty postcards,

01:36 that I would end up being a live version

01:39 of the naughty postcards.

01:40 (laughs)

01:42 - Very full circle.

01:44 - Yeah.

01:45 - Yeah.

01:46 When you went last year,

01:47 did you get a chance to go to the amusements,

01:49 try Blackpool rock?

01:50 If not, will you do it this time?

01:52 - I got Blackpool rock,

01:54 and I got, in Blackpool,

01:57 no matter what ship you go in,

01:58 you get the best fish and chips.

02:01 So we had Blackpool rock,

02:02 which we brought home for the grandsons.

02:05 And we got our fish and chips there as well.

02:09 It was just absolutely gorgeous.

02:11 Just gorgeous.

02:12 Well, we didn't get to the amusements, no.

02:16 - You didn't get what, sorry?

02:17 - We didn't get to the amusements.

02:19 - No? Well, this time? - No.

02:21 Gonna try.

02:22 Definitely gonna try.

02:24 - Mrs. Brown rides again?

02:26 Rides a green?

02:27 - Mrs. Brown, no, Mrs. Brown rides anything.

02:30 - Oh, okay.

02:31 (laughs)

02:32 Is she hard to control, would you say?

02:35 - Oh, God, yeah.

02:36 - Yeah. - She's just,

02:38 you see, Mrs. Brown gets away with stuff

02:39 that I'd never get away with.

02:42 And I think it's because she's, you know,

02:43 a mid-70s old dear.

02:45 She doesn't care.

02:47 You know, you get to that age, you know,

02:49 when you get to, they don't care.

02:52 And, you know, you'll be canceled.

02:55 Canceled from what?

02:56 I don't do Twitter.

02:57 I don't do social media, you know.

02:59 And so those people have a certain amount of freedom,

03:03 but also a lot of wisdom.

03:05 So I think, you know, Agnes is,

03:08 she's very wise when it comes to her family,

03:10 particularly her family.

03:12 Now, she can tell them that they're brats,

03:14 but she won't have anybody else tell them that they're brats.

03:17 And she's that kind of mother that would, you know,

03:20 if one of the sons killed somebody,

03:22 she'd be so disappointed with them,

03:24 but she'd have them hide the body.

03:28 I was going to say, I'm sure most people will relate

03:29 to this character, and then you brought in the murder cover-up,

03:31 and I was like, oh, maybe not so widespread, but yeah.

03:37 But you know what I mean?

03:38 She, it's about her kids.

03:40 Life for her is about her family.

03:41 That's it.

03:42 She doesn't, she doesn't think beyond looking after the family.

03:47 And being of, and interfering in the family.

03:51 The people who already know the character,

03:53 they'll recognize all the same elements this time around.

03:56 I get letters from, from Mumbai in India,

04:01 who tell me that Mrs. Brown lives just down the road.

04:04 You know, everybody seems to know a Mrs. Brown.

04:06 She's kind of that, that wild aunt,

04:09 or that wild grandmother that, you know,

04:11 turns up at the wedding all dressed to the nines,

04:13 but you know, after three or four vodkas,

04:16 she's standing on the table waving her knickers in the air,

04:18 and everybody expects that from her.

04:21 So she's kind of like that.

04:22 - She's obviously getting on a bit.

04:25 - Yes. - This isn't her last hurrah, is it?

04:27 Are we, do you think there's more to come from Mrs. Brown's after this talk?

04:30 You're not really discussed. - Oh, oh God, yes.

04:34 You know, I want to do a Tommy Cooper.

04:35 I want to be dragged off the stage,

04:38 and have the audience laugh, and just think it's part of the show.

04:41 - You're going to go to the very end of it.

04:43 - Oh, absolutely.

04:45 You'd have to drag me up.

04:46 You'd have to shoot me.

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