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.
 

"It's a song that could be interpreted a number of different ways," Edele continues. "But we see it as a kind of modern fairy tale - a song about being young and innocent. Which is pretty much how we feel at this time in our lives. All the stuff we write is based on our own experience. We are writing songs from the viewpoint of late-teenagers. We're cheeky and we're giddy on life. But we're not Bad Girls. We just believe in enjoying life to the max and we want to get that feeling over in our songs."

"If we've got a message in our music, it's basically, 'Live your life to the full' That's essentially what we're about."

B*Witched have proved that they can craft music of top-notch quality. Having toured with Boyzone and 911, they have proved beyond doubt that they can also cut the mustard on stage - turning in the kind of juiced-up performances that have had excited audiences hollering for more. Right now, they look like they've got the world by the tail. Full of zest and radioactive with self-belief, it seems that B*Witched can do no wrong.

"We don't really think about limits," says Keavy. "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 peoples spirits and make them feel more alive. If our music can do that, then we're achieving our ambition."

B*Witched are certainly on target to do just that. "C'est La Vie" went straight into the UK charts at No.1, outselling every other single by nearly double. They are the seventh act to achieve this accolade and they are also the youngest girl group ever to have a number one.

"C'est La Vie" notched up 9 weeks in the Top Ten and has sold over 800,000 copies. Since their two week reign at No.1 in the UK, B*Witched have left Europe spellbound. "C'est La Vie" reached No.1 in Ireland and New Zealand and was a huge hit in Australia. B*Witched are the first girlband to debut at No.1 with their first single.

Their second single, the instantly memorable "Rollercoaster" is just that - a ride of musical highs, and in true B*Witched style - instantly memorable. It is accompanied by a stunning video that sees the girls flying around the world (literally). The single crashed straight into the UK charts at No.1, making B*Witched the second new act (after Robson & Jerome) in chart history to debut at No.1 with their first two singles.