I'm sorry it's taken so long to getting around to you but it's a bit mad isn't it?

Yeah, it's going pretty good. I've done twelve..........well actually the way we work is to make sure you are picking the right songs. You do twelve rough demos and you only pick six songs out of that to start with.

Last week I did twelve demos in 2 days I know it sounds ridiculous but the tracks had already been done for the demos so I put the vocals down to see how they'd suit my voice. Then the record company came over from Germany to listen to the tracks and we picked seven out of the twelve that really suit me and we're going with them. Now we'll do the proper tracks. I'm going over there Tuesday to start putting the final vocals down.

Yeah Dublin. Fabulous place Dublin is. The trouble is you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well. I think it's fabulous the night life there and we stay in U2's hotel. They bought a hotel, The Clarence, a nice place and it's right, bang, centre. It's in an area where everything's happening so many fantastic restaurants and bars and the people are so friendly. You know you think the Welsh are friendly but the Irish are fabulous. So we're having a great time as well as making a good record, I hope.

It won't be out until about February 1998. There's no big rush on it. I mean so many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush and I don't want this album to be lost.

Yeah I've gone......it's not rock anymore. It's still, I mean you can't get away from Bonnie Tyler's voice!! It's unmistakably Bonnie Tyler. We've got a lot of celtic elements in it. A lot of celtic instruments. It works really well and I've got this fantastic new songwriter, a Swedish guy, Per Anderson. I'm doing at least three of his songs and they're very good. I'm also doing a song by Moira Brennan from Clannad. She wrote a song for me and she's actually going to be singing on the track as well.

In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" all over the world. The BBC called me down there and I'm sent to the head office. I didn't know why they wanted to see me they just said they had something fantastic to ask me. I thought, "Oh God I'm going to get my own show or something". They said we'd like to change the formula for the Eurovision, "we want you to sing all the songs and the people will decide" (which one will represent Britain). But I'd just had a number one all over the world and was working on a new album and didn't have time to do it. That was the only time I was asked.

There are no plans at the moment but I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would love it.

My show is.......................I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987 with "Holding Out For A Hero" and people tend to think you don't work anymore, you know, which is absolutely ridiculous because I work so much I'm never home! So I know my show is perfect for America.

I just need someone to have the faith in me to get me out there because, I tell you, they're gonna love it. I want to play. I want to do it!

You've never seen an audience like this!! You want to come to Europe. Although the audience were fabulous here, in Europe they really get you back. I do three encores in Europe, I did one tonight. I was told I could have gone back on, but I don't like going back unless they are really, really calling. They did love it I know they did.

I've been around for such a long time, I find this all the time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them. So I get another generation of fans. It's really fantastic because families can come to my shows and they all like it. It's really weird.

No. I left out songs that I normally do in Europe because I can't do too many songs that they don't know. I've had a lot more success in Europe than here in the last few years you know. It depends on where I am you know? Like if I'm in France. I've had a lot more hit records in France than I've had here. Then when I'm in Germany I've had a lot more different hit records. Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.

She's from Belgium. She's come all the way from Belgium to see the show. I think her name's Nicole. There are people here from Austria. You know it's incredible. I think it's got a lot to do with the Web site.

You know what that's a good one! Actually I should do that because a lot of people would be interested in that wouldn't they? I get a lot of letters asking about "My My Honeycomb".

It's a good idea, I'll make a note of that now.

It was on RCA records, it was the first release. I think it was released in 1976 but it didn't do anything. The only radio station that played it was Swansea Sound. It was a good song but it didn't get played on a lot of the big radio stations so it didn't do it.

So then the next single to be released was "Lost In France" and then that became an international hit. "Lost In France" was in the top ten for a record 6 months in Germany!

You know I love my album "Hide Your Heart" and you know I had four songs on there that became big hit songs for other people.

I recorded "The Best" two years before Tina Turner did it. I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turners biggest fans. I love Tina Turner. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material by recording "The Best". I thought I wasn't wrong, I did pick the right song, I just didn't get the right bloody push on it.

At the time I was on CBS records and everybody and his dog released a record that week and mine was put on the back burner. They were very sick about what happened in the end because they realised what they'd lost. "The Best", they'd lost; "Save Up All Your Tears"; "Don't Turn Around" and "To Love Somebody" and they were all massive hits and on my album two years before anybody else recorded them.

Then when I released my album, "Angel Heart" with a German company CBS realised what they had on their catalogue. So they released "The Best Of Bonnie Tyler" banged it on television with all the television advertising. People were going into shops to buy my new album and were getting confused with the two. So my old record company did really well out of "The Best Of" and it went platinum.

Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.

Is it!! God I didn't even know that!!

Ohhh I doubt it very much but I'd love to. I know I will work with Jim again, there is something in the pipeline, but I'm a little superstitious. I never like to say too much in case it won't come off. But there is something in the pipeline for the not too distant future. Let's just leave it at that!!! (laughs)

Well to be honest I wasn't into dance music at the time so it didn't impress me. I say goodluck to her. A few years before, knowing that dance music was very popular, I had thought about releasing a dance version of it myself, but decided against it. Jim Steinman liked it because he said she had copied a lot of the phrasing. It was a monster hit for her. Wow!

One of the nicest things that happened to me was the British Album charts when I went straight in at Number 1 with "Faster Than The Speed Of Night" and knocked Pink Floyd's "The Wall" off. That's pretty big bloody competition.

I was doing a promotional tour at the time and I was staying in Leeds in this hotel, in the Princess Of Wales's suite. I had a phone call at 9.00am in the morning "You've just gone in the charts, straight in at Number 1 with "Faster Than The Speed Of Night". Well, I tell you the Princess Of Wales couldn't have felt better than me!

It's incredible to go straight in the album charts at Number 1and I was the first girl to do it.

That's down to the record company. It probably will be done but it's down to them.

Thank you, I enjoyed it.