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L&K Friday
As I understand it, this was their first UK tv appearance (they had done a performance on Irish tv before). L&K Friday is the sibling show to Live & Kicking, both on BBC1. I was recording it because Melanie Clark Pullen was a guest that week, and I planned to copy the bits with her out of it. Then this band came on that I had never heard of before and they made such an impression, they I had to keep the whole recording...
First they assisted in the Men In Black give-away, so they are dressed as Women In Black and Edele is trying to play the MIB computer game. Later they performed C'est La Vie which was a stunning, very dynamic performance. It has been very difficult to capture the dynamism in these frozen shots, and the quality is also low because of their fast movements.
Live & Kicking
They've been on Live & Kicking several times. These are from the time they were promoting Blame It On The Weatherman. First they performed that song, later they taught Shamrock (one of the leprechauns) how to do that hand movement they do to symbolise the rain, in a segment where they were trying to dance with Shamrock without Mr Sage noticing. There had also been a competition question asking which band is known for always wearing denim, and the snap shows them wondering which band that can be. Finally there are two snaps from the "Quick Fire Questions" segment, where the guests have to be in a phonebooth answering ten questions in under two minutes. They took too long talking to their fans, so Jamie said they didn't win the holiday to the Seychelles. This disappointed them a lot of course...
I like that each of the four women has a different way of doing the mock-disappointment, and that you can do some nice psychological profiling based on that... The bottom left snap in the first map is a perfect desktop wallpaper and purely the result of coincidence.
Blue Peter
They performed Blame It On The Weatherman on this long running BBC children show. They also had to assist a couple of times in the line dancing they were doing on that show.
Brit Awards
At the 1999 Brit Award ceremony B*WITCHED performed a medley of ABBA songs, together with Billie, Steps, Tina Cousins and Cleopatra. I've not yet been able to make good snaps of the actual performance. Later backstage they were talking to journalists, together with Bjorn of ABBA. This performance has been released as a charity single with the title Thank ABBA For The Music.
Smash Hits
These are scans from this UK magazine. The first one is from the cover, but only the bit with Lindsay on it. The second and third are from the same photo (taken by Neil MacKenzie Matthews). This photo is one of my favourite photos of Lindsay, together with the one by Philip Ollerenshaw on the official webpage. The zoomed version, with Lindsay's face life-size, is currently my desktop wallpaper. I find it interesting to remember while looking at that photo and almost having nose on nose contact, that she can wriggle that nose like in the tv series Bewitched.
