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The twins say they were brought up in a very musical family and that they weren�t that old when they started making up their own songs and performing them. Of course their dream was to become performers, but it was at that point - just a dream. "Then, as we grew older," they say, "it started to look more realistic. We thought, 'Yeah, we can do this!'" But for a band, they needed two more girls. Edele and Keavy dropped out of school a year too soon, and Edele began working as a shop assistant and Keavy as a trainee in her father�s garage. One day Sin�ad�s car broke down just outside the garage, and the girls � who recognised each other from the Digges Lane dance studios in Dublin where they both used to take classes � began talking. Sin�ad was introduced to Edele the next day. Only one to go! Then Keavy met Lindsay at a kick boxing class. And then there were four. (Thank God for Keavy!) They all moved to Sin�ad�s flat in Dublin, where they immediately started writing songs and singing into a tape recorder. We have all been able to read that the neighbours knocked on the door and asked them to turn up the volume. Is this really true? "Yes," Sin�ad says, "it was like this. We were singing, practising harmonies and playing different melodies when somebody suddenly knocked on the door. We got really scared because we thought we were too noisy and that we were disturbing them. So we were prepared to go out and apologise. But when we got out in the hall, they said that they just wanted to hear what we were doing. And they said that we could turn up the music because they thought it sounded good." (Why don�t I have neighbours like that?!) The girls used to rehearse their dancing in a park, St Stephen's Green, even though the people passing by often gave them strange looks. "We had a personal stereo with little mini-speakers to play our music on," Sin�ad says, "and you could hardly hear it!" Keavy continues: "You could see people stopping and thinking, 'Why are those girls dancing at no music'!" Pretty soon they invited a lot of record company people to a tea party! The girls served Jell-O and marshmallows. "They remembered us, I can tell you!" Lindsay giggles. Sony liked them and offered them a record deal. They haven�t regretted it since. The girls moved to London, and began promoting themselves. They did a lot of radio and club appearances, plus a 'school tour', where they played at different schools to introduce themselves for their soon-to-be-fans. Sin�ad really liked it, "because we got to meet the kids who are gonna buy our music." Keavy did too. "It was great when you saw the kids dancing and singing along with us." On May 25 their debut-single C�est La Vie was released in the UK. the girls had hoped for maybe a top 30, but it went straight to the number one spot. "We didn�t know whether to cry or laugh!" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
We are four girls who happen to be in a band together." say B* Witched. "We don't want to be one dimensional. We don't want to be about one thing. We want to be about everything. We want B*Witched to be nothing less than a celebration of being alive." | They're about as lively and lovely as it gets right now. Fizzier than a vat full of lemonade. They're B*Witched. Four multi-talented girls from Dublin. Who have single-handedly breathed fresh life into the pop charts. "We're more interested in bringing joy into people's lives than becoming incredibly famous," they say. With the incredible chart success of their first two singles - the instantly infectious "C'est La Vie" and "Rollercoaster" - they look set to do both. The roots of B*Witched extend back a long way. All the way back to Dublin where, in the early eighties, twin sisters Edele and Keavy discovered a mutual love of music. "We come from a musical family," they say, "So there was always music around us when we were growing up. Our grandad played the fiddle, so we never needed much of an excuse to dance and sing. From a really early age, we started making up our own songs and performing them. I suppose, at some point, it occurred to us that we might grow up to be performers. But it seemed like a distant dream. Then, as we got older, it started looking more realistic. We thought, 'Yeah, we can do this' ". It was at that point that things started falling into place. All they needed now was to recruit a couple of kindred spirits. Those potential team mates were out there somewhere, harbouring similar dreams of pop stardom. All that was required was a few simple twists of fate to bring B*Witched together. Like the twins, Sinead had been involved in music from a tender age - playing piano from the age of seven and going on to study dance and performance. One morning, she wandered into the Dublin garage where Keavy was working as a part-time mechanic. The two girls bonded immediately and the B*Witched line-up was three-quarters of the way to making up the full coven..... Enter Lindsay who was already an accomplished musician, having learned the piano at seven and the guitar at thirteen. She met up with Keavy at a kick-boxing class and, bingo, B*Witched were ready to cast their collective spell. Inspired by the success of the twins' brother Shane (a member of Boyzone, no less), the four girls decamped to Sinead's Dublin flat where, for months on end, they buckled down to writing songs and singing into a cheap tape recorder. "Right from the start," Sinead recalls, "we just seemed to hit it off, both musically and socially. But we didn't want to hurry anything. We knew we had something good going, but we wanted to take our time with it. Between the four of us, we had all these different musical influences, everything from hip hop to pop, from soul to traditional Irish folk. And we wanted to take all our influences, absorb them, and create something that was entirely our own." The release of "C'est La Vie" made for a boldly spirited start. A sublime slice of contemporary music, which incorporates elements of soul and Irish jiggery, it stands out as one of the most animated debut singles in recent memory. The kind of song which wastes no time in burrowing into the listener's subconscious and refusing to budge. A storming debut, so it is. And the start of an exciting new pop adventure.
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