*B*WITCHED ODDIIAL INTERVIEW 99*
Everyones saying you've got more grown-up. Do you feel like that?
Keavy: You just naturally grow up like everybody else. We got together three years ago and we've learned a lot: we've been all around the world.
Edele: But I don't think that at any point this year we've turned to each other and said "We feel really grown up."
Keavy: I think our parents think we've grown up though. I remember talking with my dad and him sitting back and saying, "I'm so impressed with the four of you, it's like you are all 26! You've grown up six years instead of one. You've just learned so much."
Lindsay: Yeah, you learn a lot in this business really fast.
How about musically?
Keavy: Well, hopefully "Awake and Breathe" will bring us to an even wider audience, as well as giving our fans more variety. We've got more pop music, ballads that we didn't have on the first one, we've got country music which you hear on Jesse, a Jam and Lewis type number and we do a collaboration with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the African choir.
Edele: Our fans are really loyal to us, but if they had to hear the same things all the time they'd be like, "That sounds just like the last record with different words." So it's good for them that we're bringing our music to another level and changing the style a bit.
Keavy: You've got to keep people on the edge of their seat thinking, "What are they going to do next?"
Did you ever consider ditching the denim?
Keavy: We had a choice with the second album whether to carry on with it or get rid of it, but we thought it would be best to stay with it 'cause it's part of us now. Some other group out there has every other image there is. We don't want to wear clothes like everyone else as we wouldn't be distinctive!
Did you get time to enjoy America aside from the touring?
Keavy: We only had about two days off so we didnt have time to go sightseeing, but when we were working we had lots of fun.
Lindsay: We saw the Statue of Liberty in New York and we had a day off in Atlanta so we spent the day up near the lake which was absolutely gorgeous.
Keavy: We've seen the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz but that's about it. We wanted to see the Grand Canyon and we were close to it so many times, but we never got to go!
Do you think it helped being Irish in America?
Edele: I think what really helped us is the fact that the pop market is not that big in America at the moment. Plus weve got an image that nobody's really seen over there, so we stood out and everybody really liked us. But mostly, I think its because were very talented and were a good group!
Sinead: I guess it helped that we were Irish as well though, because Americans really like the Irish and it seems like every American you meet can trace their roots back to Ireland in some way.
Apart from friends and family, what did you miss?
Sinead: A cup of tea.
Lindsay: I agree. The teas different in America somehow.
(tea discussion continues for five minutes until) Keavy: I missed Irish bread.
Edele: And I craved boiled potatoes.
Are American fans any different?
Lindsay: No, all our fans around the world want to be entertained and just have a good time.
Edele: I think a B*Witched fan is one that wants to think positively, like, and they can find positivity in our music.
*O ZONE INTERVIEW*
The interview takes place in New Orleans, it also has clips of the new video shoved in for good measure.
Presenter : New Orleans in the Mardi Gras capital of Americ and where better would you find four lovely little Irish Girls.
B*Witched : Hi
Presenter : Otherwise known as...
B*Witched : B*Witched!
Presenter : So what are you doing over here in New Orleans?
Keavy : We're doing a tour with N-Sync and we're just doing everywhere but mostly around the west coast and when we first came here everyone was kind saying, 'don't expect any reaction because you're girls and they want to see the guys, and we were like OK but it ended up being absolutley brilliant.
(Video clip of dog floating on wood - possibly drowning)
Presenter : Have they been quite big audiences?
Edele : Actually they've been ranging from around 3000 to 10,000 nd one night you'll have a theatre and another night an arena, yer know. Tonight's concert is about 9000 people so.
(Video clip of car coming out water)
Presenter : So what's the best thing about America?
Sinead : L.A. The weather was absolutely gorgeous, and the shops, but we had a day off and we were gonna go to the beach and we went to Venice beach and it was absolutely freezing, it was really cold, and there was those flies around us so we said NO lets go back to the hotel.
Presenter : There was flies?
Sinead : I don't know why.
Lindsay : It was because whatever body lotion we put on was attracting the flies.
Edele : and it was yours! (pointing at Lindsay)
Lindsay : It was my body lotion.
(Clip of C'est La vie video)
Presenter : Although B*Witched have only be signed for a year, their run of success looks set to continue with a fourth number 1.
(To You I Belong clip)
Presenter : Are you hoping for a number 1 again?
All : No.
Edele : We never hope for a number 1.
Presenter : Stop, you want to go in at number 33?
Edele : Well 37 I think.
Presenter : So what is it about, what is the feeling of it?
Keavy : Blame it on the man upstairs.
Edele : It's reminiscing reltionships you've been in before like and things you have done and places you have been together.
Presenter : So what is this about a jewellry range?
Edele : B*Witched Jewellry being made, our B*Witched rings and then there's B*Witched chains and there's all sorts of chains. There's some celtic ones and then there's chains that say B*Witched. B*Witched rings but mine's broken.
Presenter : That's not very good quality control is it?
Edele : It fell off.
Presenter : Well, thankyou very much for speaking to us, it's very nice to see you in New Orleans. Lst time it was Rome now it's New Orleans, where's it going to be next time? The moon?
Edele : The moon, yeh the moon. In the year 2000 we're doing a concert on the moon, so do you want to come?
Presenter : No, I'll think I'll miss.
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*BLAME IT ON THE HAIRDRESSER* Smash Hits Magazine - April 7th 1999 (also free CD containg B*Witched BIOTW remix)
Fashion disasters, false nails, and tears over nightmare haircuts. The B*witched girls talk beauty...
Who takes the longest to get ready?
All (except Edele) : Edele!
Edele : I don't know what I do to or how I take along; I just potter around. i didn't used to be that bad but recently I've been terrible. It's not like I spend half an hour looking in the mirror - I just do absolutely nothing.
Keavy : We'll all be like : "Right, it's time to go," and she'll still find something else to do.
What about the rest of you?
Lindsay : I'm not too bad, but I do like to have enough time to get myself together.
Keavy : I always make sure I get up three quarters of an hour earlier, so I can have time to relax and have my breakfast and stuff.
Edele : But that's almost worst for me because I think 'ooh I've got even more time!' and I take even longer.
Sinead : We're never already when our driver turns up, so we invite him in for a cup of tea. We act like we're being kind, but really it's because we're trying to stall him so we can finish getting ready! (all laugh merrily)
Where do you buy your makeup?
Edele : (happily) MAC have just given us some free actually.
Lindsay : (confused) Have they? I haven't seen any of it yet!
Keavy : Apart from that, our make-up artist Lee will buy it, because he knows what suits us.
Edele : I just nip into Boots, but I always end up spending a fortune!
Lindsay : I'm the same. I only go in for one thing and I come out with bags full. I love cosmetics and I can't help myself.
Edele : We never had a Boots in Ireland until last year. Keavy bought me a £50 voucher and i went mad with it - it was fantastic!
Do you ever do each other's make-up?
Keavy : Lindsay used to do our make-up when we first started out and when we did our first shows and stuff
Lindsay : I've always been able to do make-up and I really enjoy it. I've never learnt or anything, but I think it's really fun.
Keavy : In the beginning, we'd all be there slapping on a bit of lipstick on and Lindsay would be doing her face up really perfectly. We'd be like (looks disappointed): 'ohhhhh...' So, in the end, we'd get Lindsay to do ours for us as well!
Keavy : I'm not great at doing my own hair so i have quite a few.
Edele : Yeah, but Keavy is really fussy with her hair and she like sit to be perfect. That's why she has more disasters. If we're abroad and the stylist doesn't know what she's doing, she really panics!
Keavy : Once when we were abroad, we had someone trying to dry our hair poker straight - with their fingers! I'm sorry, but that was never going to work.
Edele : We were asking them to use a brush and they were like, "No, this is the way that I do it."
Sinead : Then I looked in the mirror, and my make-up looked like a two year old had done it - it was terrible! So my hair and make-up were terrible, and I was so upset. (whispers) In fact, i cried!
Edele : I had a disaster when I was younger. I had my hair cut really short. this boy asked me if i was a boy or a girl. He only did it to be mean, and I cried.
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Lindsay : Nasty boy!
What's your no.1 essential beauty essential?
Edele : My concealer!
Keavy : Or moisturiser...
(all nod in agreement)
Lindsay : You can't live without moisturiser!
Do any of you wear false nails?
(they all extend their hands to reveal a fine set of falsies!)
Sinead : We've all got them in at the moment, but just nail tips. We had them done for the Blame It On The Weatherman video and they look brilliant!
Edele : Well I can't wait to get them off!
Lindsy : I like them, I don't ussually wear them, so it makes a nice change.
Edele : I find them really annoying!
Do you borrow each others clothes?
Keavy : Sometimes. But I borrowed Edele's trousers and ripped them. And I ruined Lindsay's blue dungarees - I'm terrible! I still borrow other people's clothes, although Iknow I shouldn't.
Edele : I borrowed some gold sandals off Sinead. Well, more hid them, actually! She wore them round to our house when we first met her, and I thought they were so horrible that I hid them from her! I did admit is soon afterwards, though. they were a serious fashion disaster on her part!
Have the rest of you made fashion faux pas?
Lindsay : I had these awful bright pink stonewashed jeans with zips - disgusting!
Edele : I don't think I was ever that bad. Whatever I wore that was terrible, Keavy wore as well, because we used to wear matching clothes, but in different colours.
Keavy : Our mum used to buy matching clothes for us, but most of the time we wanted to wear the same anyway!
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