Both December 5th and 6th 1997 were unforgetable days, it was the first time I ever saw hanson live. That friday, (the 5th) I had school off. For the last several weeks the radio and t.v couldn't stop announcing the arrival of hanson in Montreal. They weren't here to do a concert but a promotional appearance. Anyways, my friends and I went shopping downtown and decided to check out musiqueplus (where hanson was supposed to do an hour long interview). When we got there at 2:30pm the place was already packed. Nobody was actually in the studio yet but waiting around outside. The only ones allowed inside were contest winners. My friends and I met someone we knew from school who was able to let us stand right in front of the window, where she was. It was perfect because we were standing right on the side, of where they were performing. At 3:00pm hanson came out to do a sound check. I couldn't believe my eyes, right in front of me was standing ISAAC, TAYLOR AND ZAC HANSON :-). It was so awesome!!!! While Taylor and Ike were helping with the sound check, Zac kept jumping around the large windows. Several times they all came to the window to say hi to all the fans waiting outside. Finally the hours passed and it grew dark before the interview started. More people who had been waiting outside got to go in, including the girl who had let us pass the barriers nearer the windows. I was happy where I was because I could see hanson perform 2 feet away from me ( I was on the other side of the window though). The screaming and excitement of the crowd was uncontrolable when the hosts presented Hanson. They ran down the stairs and took their seats beside one of the hosts. Zac was wearing those famous yellow pants and a black shirt, Taylor some jeans and a white shirt with a brown shirt on top and Ike some brown pants with a shirt, they looked awesome. The host asked them the usual questions, how did they like montreal? when had they arrived? what had they visited? etc. Taylor said that we were extremely loud for the size crowd we were. At certain points, the other host went to the audience for questions and one question stirred up some screaming. The girl asked what was Zac's favourite animal? Zac was unable to answer quickly and got interrupted by Taylor, "girls!!!" was his answer. He then cleared up the misconception by saying "I couldn't think of an animal, so I thought of something better", and Ike added, ''yeah,something really hot" :-) Afterwards they played the "where's the love" and "i will come to you" videos, while the guys danced around. They sang Man from Milwakee and Madeleine, several parts during the song, Taylor and Zac turned around towards the windows and said hi to all the fans outside, including me. This was all being broadcasted live on tv that very day, and because I taped it, I was able to notice a part when they are singing Madeleine, Taylor turns around and takes a look at the window and smiles in our direction and then takes a double take and smiles again while singing, then continues singing and lifts his leg like he usualy does. I love this part, not mainly because he looked in my direction (not necessarily at me) but the awesome look he had on his face. Because I was right in front of the window, I got to knock on the window and he knocked right back. He kept turning around and smiling.:-) then they continued their interview. We had them taste what we call "poutine" ( which is fries, cheese and sauce) and we asked them if they liked hockey. They said if we did, then they did (ahhh, oh sweet) and we gave them some Canadians jerseys. It was so hilarious because they started pretending to model them and were making all kinds of faces. The host asked them if they knew any french and they said "well some; like bonjour and comment ca va?". The host asked them to say "musique plus, je vous aime" and they did it very well. Then they told us to say "we love you" and of course we all said it because most of us know how to talk english. Although we meant it to them, they acted very modest and said that, instead we loved musiqueplus (although that wasn't the case). Anyways, after that they sang Mmmbop as a final song and thanked us very much for coming and said that we were awesome. After they left, crowds of people were all headed in the same direction, the side of the building were they would leave from. Finally a van came from the garage but there was no one sitting in the back seats, obviously they had ducked so people wouldn't go crazy. A large bus followed that van and they disappeared. Some people waited for another car to come out, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Hansons but no other car came out. It had been them in the van, so everybody left. My friends decided to return downtown tomorrow to see hanson perform at HMV. The next day was a whole other adventure awaiting!!