B*Witched made a three-mendous return to The Late Late Show on Friday night as Keavy Lynch missed the show.
Edele Lynch, Sinéad O'Carroll and Lindsay Armaou joined Ryan Tubridy to chat about their record-breaking run at the top of the charts, as well as the inevitable breakup.
After performing their first hit, C'est La Vie, from all of 25 years ago, Ryan spoke to the girls. "You’re not a quartet - you’re Three-Witched."
"Keavy’s baby is not well," Lindsay explained. "I think Keavy herself is not well today."
"She sounded awful," Keavy’s sister Edele added. "It happens."
Ryan then asked Edele about the fact that success came suddenly to the foursome. "That must be a bit tricky?" he wondered.
"It was kind of crazy," Edele recalled. "We didn’t expect the attention that we got - and so quick. We’d been working in the background for years, but as soon as C’est La Vie came out it was number one midweek and it was insane.
"I think for Keavy and I we probably saw a little bit of it with Shane, so we kind of expected what was coming. He was in Boyzone and when you’d open the curtain in the morning there’d be kids standing at the wall and you’s be going: 'Oh no! I’m in me jammies!’
"It was so mad and so crazy it took us a while to know what was going on. And I remember - it was in Australia, down Bondi Beach - we’d just got off the plane, we were all in bikinis and little kind of beach tops. And everyone was staring. We couldn’t understand what they were staring at.
"Then we realised it was because we were B*Witched, and when we landed we were number one in that country. It was like, ‘Oh right! They’re looking at us!’"
Ryan then spoke to Sinead, recalling that she said she hated being a pop star.
"It was more the attention," she said. "It was more the attention I was uncomfortable with because you’d get to the airport and you’d have 14 and 15-year-old girls, the age of my daughter now, sleeping in the airports overnight...
"To be honest, innocently enough I thought I was going to do musical theatre. That’s why I went to college to train. When I met Edele first, it was just: ‘Aw, do you want to go into the studio?’ It was so innocent.
"And then this door just kind of opened..."
Ryan then asked if they partied or stayed at home, which got them laughing. Lindsay said: "We were so sensible," she recalled. "We were the ones who never partied, we went to bed early."
Ryan then brought up denim, the B*Witched look. Sinead smiled and then said: "Looking back, denim was the best thing. I look at bands like The Saturdays and Girls Aloud. All dolled-up, the fake tan - my god, the prep that those girls probably had to do - a lot of work.
"We just had to throw on the jeans and it was just happy days. It was so easy."
Edele also recalled when B*Witched were dropped by their record label, signalling the end of their initial success. It was rather sudden.
"Just as quick as it went up, it went down" she said. "Myself and Keavy were on holidays in America with our sister. The team had gone out to reccie Africa for our next video, so we were waiting for he call to tell us when to follow."
A call came, but it wasn’t the one they’s expected. Edle elaborated: "We were like, ‘Okay, great. Are we getting on a plane today?’ And they said, ‘Actually it’s done. The whole thing is done, B*Witched is over. It was literally like that.
"I didn’t know what to do with that, so I went out, drank loads and got a tattoo."
The Late Late Show, Fridays, RTÉ One and RTÉ Player, 9:35pm
