B*Witched

Okay, fine.

We had, uh, Bewitched and Boyzone.

Right.

We had Jay-Z, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Beyoncé.

... last month.

A little reference to, uh, probably one of Amanda's favorite girl groups, I bet, Bewitched.

First of all, I would say they're my favorite girl group.

One of my favorites, but they were, they made a, a lot of rounds on my, uh, burnt CDs back in like the-

Really highlights how the American music industry is just such a bigger beast, and it just moves so slowly that it can take three years of, like, you appearing on other tracks, releasing promo singles, appearing on soundtracks before anything can happen for you.

And that's maybe why so many British acts struggle to break America just because, you know, most of those, like, Mis-Teeq, for example, who tried to break America or B*Witched, these bands only last three years, and often three years you're not even on national radio in the US.

But eventually, this song comes out, ends up at number thirty-one on the US Billboard Hot 100.

But there is just something so fundamentally B-tier about the whole project.

Even some more niche artists, for example, like my ...

I think the first cassette that I bought was B*Witched.

And then I went to-

Oh, my God.

Yeah

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but then I went to the Mighty Hoopla in London because B*Witched were playing.

Yeah.

Oh, that is what you are.

And then here's me with Bewitched.

Yeah.

Oh, don't bring that up.

First found fame as the producer of the first Take That album, Take That & Party.

He has since had number ones as the writer or producer of C'est La Vie, Rollercoaster, To You I Belong, and Blame It On The Weatherman by B*Witched, as well as Boyzone's A Different Beat, and a song that recently kept coming up when I was looking at lists of the worst ever football songs, Shout for England by Dizzee Rascal and James Corden.

Also weirdly, he was the producer of Chicane's iconic trance track, Saltwater, and even weirder, half the Towers of London album.

So funny that Donnie Tourette was out there pretending to be, like, a real punk whilst making an album half produced by the guy who did B*Witched.

He also seems to have been involved in The X Factor in some way.

I think RCA Records was sort of related to Simon Cowell, so that would make sense.

gibbet we need ggc gibbets but i showed this to my mom i went up to her house before the show like a couple of days before and i was like look at my new pink pink sparkly crocs for the show it's like oh Jordan not with that lovely dress not for on stage for God's sake although they could have worked

if you were at the show the other night thank you so much for coming can I tell you we'll go through what our what our favourite and least favourite part of the night was can I tell you what my least favourite part of the night was oh God Right on stage with Bewitched at one point and I have obviously said to you but you know I was we were like we're so we were so blessed to be on stage the four of us with the four of them all singing roller coaster together what a high literally because we were on the roller coaster and I me and Sinead Sinead was on one side of me Adele was the other side of me turned to Sinead she's got her microphone on my face we're like singing together and she's singing all the correct words because she knows them because it's her song and I'm there all And she just dodges my eyes because she's like, what the fuck are you singing? What are you singing? So I turn to the right to Adele and just repeat the exact same thing to her.

Perfect.

I'm so scundered because I was like, we're there being like, we're super fans.

Good for you.

Very, very good.

I'm on tour with Bewitched now, which is really cool.

and then for anyone that obviously people don't know this but at we had obviously planned to do the art chance and with bewitch but when we were doing our sound check they were like do you just want to do roller coaster as well and we were like a blessing oh no we don't want to purchase out or anything but like let's learn it right now we had to learn the dance there and then

Do you know, it's so funny you mentioned the thing about the posters on the wall because I saw this thing on Instagram recently where it was like, millennials, we grew up in the era of like, there was no room.

Like, my bedroom, there was the, only the roof was not covered in like, mainly UK pop but it was like, there was a Spice Girls wall, there's a Boys Own wall, there's a four, there's a five wall, a Bewitched wall and it was amazing.

I love that.

And so, and now, all these kids have these like, very like, neutral coloured clean bedrooms so my bedroom Sons and I actually spent the weekend.

One of the things I love most about Bargain Chemist is that they are New Zealand owned and their aim is to help New Zealanders save money on the things that they actually need, which I think is absolutely amazing, especially with the cost of living right now.

When I think about like the era that you were in, like that UK pop era when you were like on the come up and you were huge at the time.

And like the bands I mentioned before, like you had had Boyzone, you had Westlife came later and we had Five and Oasis, the Spice Girls, Bewitched.

There was the All Saints.