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Sinead, Lindsay and twin sisters Edele and Keavy make up the bubbly Irish pop group B*Witched. Hailing from Dublin, the girls exercise an irresistible brand of popcraft reminiscent of England's Spice Girls--these teens display youth, charm, soul and sweetness that can charm even the most resolute curmudgeon. Let's face it-they're just downright cute. The contagious single "C'est La Vie" offers an exuberance that's all about being joyful and young at heart. The girls' flirtatious warbles fly over funky guitar, slippery turntable scratches, cheerful keyboard chords and a thumping beat that culminate in a soaring fiddle jig, giving the music a modern buoyancy with a touch of traditional flavor. This is the kind of contagious fun that charts across oceans.

Found from a UK Magizine.....
The girls are still on tour with N'Sync at the moment. They are travelling all over America having an amazing time and wowing audiences everywhere. After the N'Sync shenanigans, the girls stay on in the States for a tour with 98° and they won't be back over here (UK) until June.

B*Witched Rides Chart Success, Eyes Next Record
The invasion of foreign pop sensations is continuing unabated with Ireland's B*Witched, who are currently enjoying the success of their platinum-certified self-titled debut on Epic Records. Even though the young quartet (aged 18-20) is currently sitting on a top 20 album (No. 16 this week), and is in the midst of a tour with 98 Degrees, the group -- which blends pop music and traditional Irish elements with a Spice Girls- at- Disneyland sort of image -- is already working on their next album. "We're currently recording our second album as well [as touring]," says co-frontperson Edele Lynch enthusiastically. "We're kind of halfway through it. We're recording it over here in America with our producer [Ray Hedges]. We've done a few bits in England for it as well." Why would they be working on their next album, though, when they're just breaking here now? "Well, in England we're way ahead of where we are in America," Lynch explains. "In England, we're four singles ahead. We're finished with the first album, so we needed to get the second one on the road anyway. So it's going to be released in October in England, and it could well be released in October here as well." Don't expect the new material to sound just as their current record does. "Um, no," she says carefully. "There's going to be a few more surprises, but I'm not going to give away much because we still want America to concentrate on the first album." With all their success, one has to wonder how long they'll be opening for other acts on the road. Lynch addresses that straightaway. "We actually have our own arena tour in the U.K. in November, and we're going to take it to Australia and New Zealand as well. Hopefully we'll get to bewitch America more, and bring it over here as well." The group will also join up with Nickelodeon's All That tour -- which also features Monica, 98 Degrees, and others -- from July 23 through Aug. 18.
- Scott Wilson

SINEAD IN AGE 'SHOCKER!'
The rumours may or may not be true but it has been said that Sinead is actually 25 and not 19. The Daily Star claim to have her birth certificate. Edele was right when she said the press wouldn't be able to bring up anything from their past to use against them, this is pretty low, uninteresting drivel even for The Daily Star. Even if she is, does anybody really care?

B*WITCHED TO WORK ON NEW ALBUM
B*Witched, who are currently nearing the end of their 98 Degrees tour in the US, have unveiled details of their plans to work on their second album when they return to the UK. "We're coming back (to Ireland) on May 14, which is my birthday - just get that in there," says Sinead O'Carrol. "We're going back for nine days, and then we go to England for a few days to do more recording on our second album then we're back in the US basically for the rest of summer." The follow up to their first album B*Witched - which produced four number one singles in the UK - will undoubtedly produce more number one's and continue the unprecedented success of Irish bands like Boyzone, Westlife and The Corrs topping the charts. As reported by dotmusic, whilst in England B*Witched will attend the Ivor Novello Awards in London where the single 'C'est La Vie' is nominated in two categories, Best Song Musically and Lyrically and Best-Selling UK Single. Competition will be stiff for the prestigious awards as they're up against Cher's 'Believe' and Boyzone's 'No Matter What'. Ironically, B*Witched's Edele and Keavey's older brother is Shane Lynch from Boyzone.
B*Witched were crowned queens of the Internet last night after winning two prestigious gongs at last night's UK Music New Media Awards. The Official B*Witched website won the dotmusic Readers Choice Award - as voted for by 32,000 dotmusic users - and the Best Artist Website category. The awards, which were hosted by Radio One's Mark and Lard, were held in London's Hilton Hotel as part of the Creative and Design Awards (CADS). Other triumphs included the C3 Virgin Records site (which features artists such as Billie, 911 and the Spice Girls) winner of the Best Label Website category. Massive Attack took the award for the Best Promotional Campaign On The Web for the launch of their album 'Mezzanine'. Another major winner was Dave Stewart who was recognised in the Most Creative Use of New Media category. Ex-Eurythmic's star Stewart held a live webcast from his London studio where Internet users sent him ideas for lyrics. He used this material to create the album 'Sly Fi' which can be downloaded from the web. I only know because I carry you around.... in the background. ~Dotmusic website

B*witched made history by becoming the first act EVER to have their first four singles debut at Number One in the UK singles chart. A big, big thank you to everyone who helped make it happen.
B*WITCHED's single, "C'est la Vie" is CERTIFIED GOLD in the U.S.!!! "C'est la Vie" moves from 25* to 17* on Billboard's HOT 100!! The "B*WITCHED" album debuts at 38* this week on Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart!!!
Catch B*WITCHED/FIVE on the DISNEY CHANNEL's "In-Concert" Series airing 4/21 @ 10 pm, and 4/23 @ 6 pm, air times are ET/PT. B*Witched performs "C'est la Vie" and other hits from their debut album, "B*WITCHED". Check your local listings for times. B*WITCHED will be performing "C'est la Vie" on the "Ricki Lake Show". Check your local listings for dates and times.
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enter the sweepstakes: go to any musicland location and fill out an entry form OR visit www.zoogdisney.com by April 30, 1999, and you could find yourself backstage at a B*WITCHED or FIVE concert!!

Edele Lynch Keavy Lynch Sinead O'Carroll Lindsay Armaou
"We are four girls who happen to be in a band together. 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." B*Witched: Four multi-talented girls from Dublin, Ireland who are about to single-handedly breathe fresh life into the pop charts with the March 16, 1999 US release of their self-titled Epic debut album. B*Witched includes the group's smash singles "C'est La Vie," "Roller Coaster" and "To You I Belong" each of which entered at Number One on the UK chart. Only six other artists in UK chart history have scored three consecutive Number One singles, but only B*Witched has seen its hits debut at Number One. Weeks before their US album release, B*Witched hit the American highway on a sold-out tour supporting 'N Sync. "We got really good cheers," a well-pleased Edele Lynch reported to Pollstar. "We were going on right before one of the biggest boy bands in the US, so we were a little bit nervous, actually, to see what reaction we got [from the fans]. But they were all standing up and dancing to the songs!" The group's roadwork paid off: By late February '99, "C'est La Vie" had cracked the Top 20 of the SoundScan Singles Sales chart and was climbing the Hot 100. In its "B+" album review, Entertainment Weekly said: "It's hard to deny the music's appeal. B*Witched's pajama-party tunes, from 'Rev It Up' to 'Rollercoaster' are effortless jump-rope pop." And Request predicts that "the four teenage Irish lasses of B*Witched are poised to cast their collective spell stateside Brogues intact throughout, B*Witched proves its Irish-influenced brand of pure pop is no novelty?" Keavy Lynch describes the group's style as "Irish hip-hop/pop," combining irresistible pop hooks with traditional fiddles and flutes, and modern dance rhythms. "On the album," twin sister Edele told Pollstar, "there's pop music, a little bit of indie, a bit of rock, a little bit of drum 'n' bass, and then the Irish music runs through all of it Everybody seems to like [the Irish strain] because it's quite uplifting in the up-tempo songs and in the slow songs, it's quite haunting and touching." The roots of B*Witched lie in the love of music shared by Edele and Keavy Lynch (both born 12/15/79) from adolescence. "We come from a musical family, so there was always music around us when we were growing up," Edele explains. "Our granddad 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," says Keavy. "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." Like the twins, Sinead O'Carroll (born 5/14/78) had been involved in music from a tender age: playing piano from the age of seven, going on to study dance and performance. One morn-ing, she wandered into the Dublin garage where Keavy was working as a part-time mechanic...and soon the B*Witched lineup was three-quarters of the way towards their full coven. Enter Lindsay Armaou (born 12/18/80), an accomplished musician who had first studied piano at age seven and guitar at thirteen. She met up with Keavy at a kick-boxing class, and shortly thereafter B*Witched were ready to cast their collective spell. Inspired by the success of the twins' brother Shane, a member of hit UK group Boyzone, the four girls decamped to Sinead's Dublin flat where they buckled down to writing songs and singing into a cheap tape recorder. The foursome knew they were on to something when the neighbors started banging on the walls, asking them to turn the music up. "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." Unlike many entrants in the current wave of teen-oriented groups, B*Witched is the creation of its four members: They didn't need a controlling Svengali or an entertainment conglomerate to bring their pop dreams to life. "We choreographed all our own routines and we bought all our own clothes," Lindsay recalls, "and that was for about five months." About two years ago, an Irish television crew visited the group's Dublin rehearsal space to film them for a documentary; two weeks later, B*Witched were invited to perform on the show. The next step was joining forces their co-managers Kim Glover and Tommy Jay Smith. "What was there was very raw," Tommy later told Billboard, "but they had written their own songs and routines. They had styled themselves [and] they had huge ambition and drive." With the sudden chart-topping success of "C'est La Vie," B*Witched took to the stage on major UK tours with Boyzone and 911, turning in the kind of high-energy performances that have left their audiences happily screaming for more. Right now, it looks like they've got the international pop world by the tail. "We don't really think about limits," says Keavy Lynch. "We're just busy enjoying the ride at the moment. We totally believe in what we do. We totally believe in the power of pop music to raise people's spirits." "And that's exactly what we intend to do: Raise people's spirits and make them feel more alive. If our music can do that, then we're achieving our ambition." B*Witched finish second album
B*Witched put the finishing touches to their untitled follow up to their UK double platinum eponymous debut last week at London's Olympic studio.
B*Witched, the first band to reach number one with their first four singles, see their first new single, 'Jesse Hold On' released on October 4. The single is pure pop in style, even though other releases are expected to move them on from their young fanbase to enable them to grow with their audience.
The only UK-signed act other than Cher to have scored a US Top 10 hit this year, B*Witched have also been recording, alongside acts such as Aerosmith and AC/DC, in Los Angeles at Bryan Adams’ studio with Ray Hedges (label boss for Glow Worm, B*Witched's record label) during promotional visits.
Hedges says, “The album’s such a mixture. There’s a country track, an a cappella Irish folk track, a Jam & Lewis-type thing, hip hop vibe, out-and-out ELO/Beatles thing, William Orbit-type track – a real mixed bag.” One track, 'I Shall Be There', features Ladysmith Black Mambazo. From Dotmusic.com

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