BASICS
Full name: Lindsay Gael Christian Elaine Armaou
Name means: Linden Trees near Water
Nick name: Linds and Binoffy (but only for Keavy), but "I don't really have a nick name, but some people call me Linds for short." and... "Sometimes Keavy calls me Binoffy."
B*Witched symbol: A Cat
Special number: 3
Origin: Mother's Irish, Father's Greek (and he played the accordian in the Greek Navy)
Wished origin: "I would have liked a nosey in my ancestors lives."
Background: "I'm 18, I'm half Greek and half Irish, and lived in Greece until I was 13. Then my mom wanted me to have an Irish education so we moved to Dublin. I was always playing piano and writing songs on guitar since I was little. I started dancing and that's how I met the others. I also took up kickboxing, and Keavy was in my class."
Languages: Greek and English
Old home: Lived in Athens until she was 13, then moved to Ireland - "The trouble was that my dad didn't want to move as his business was in Greece, so they decided he should stay. I didn't fully understand at first that we'd be in Ireland for good and when it finally dawned on me it was awful. But it didn't take long 'til I loved it, I'd made friends and everything was fine - apart from missing my dad."
Home now: With the other 3 girls - "We actually live together as well in England."
Number of bedrooms: Four
Mummy?: Lindsay would like to have 3 kids (like Edele)
Future children's names: "Maybe I'd choose the name Star."
Birth place: Athens, Greece
Birth date: December 18, 1980
Star sign: Saggitarius
Age: 18
Self descripition: "I'm bubbly, ambitious, giddly, friendly and laid back! I hate getting up and going to bed. I hate sleeping, full stop!"
Siblings: None
Eye color: Brown, but "My eye's change colour from green to orange to brown!"
Hair color: Formerly blonde, now black (with a kinda blue tint to it)
On her hair: "It's really weird, but before I moved to Ireland I had straight hear. Honest! It must have been the rain."
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 8 & 3 quarter stone
Cats: Leah and Snoopy
Dogs: Husky, Cheeky, and Chubby
Driver?: She passed her Greek exam
Before B*Witched: "I used to be an Shop assistant and Juliens in St Stephens Street in Dublin." and school
Hours of sleep needed: 8 - "Otherwise, I'm moody the next day."
FOOD & DRINK
Favorite food: Fruit - "Like mangos, bananas, and watermelons!" and Sea-food - "Because I grew up on it."
Favorite restaraunt: The Chipper, but "Actually, I'd rather raid the fridge when I get home."
Veggie girl: Red-meat vegetarian - "Myself and Edele don't eat red meat, but we eat a lot of chicken."
Favorite ice cream: Yellow vanilla
Favorite drink: Full fat milk
On American tea: "The tea's different in America somehow."
Ideal Party Food: Vanilla and chocolate ice-cream
Alcohol?: She drinks an occasional glass of wine
MUSIC
Favorite song on the 1st album: Castles in the Air and Blame it on the Weatherman - "I like the acoustic guitar on it."
Favorite song on the 2nd album: If It Don't Fit
Favorite album: Fanmail - TLC
Music lessons: She started piano at 7 and guitar at 13
First record: Michael Jackson - "Bad"
First single: Madonna - "True Blue" - "I used to be totally into her and I vividly
remember buying that when I was quite little and living in Greece."
First concert: Boyzone
Musical tastes: Sheryl Crow, Mariah Carey, Robbie Williams, The Verve, All Saints, 5ive, and Backstreet Boys - "The only music I don't like is Rave."
Wedding song: 'N Sync - "God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You" - "It's
lovely. Whenever they played it on the tour I'd have a lump in my
throat. It's so sweet."
Dream duet: Mariah Carey - "She's such an amazing singer. I'd be really intimidated,
but I'd like to anyway, just so I could say I'd done it!"
Mariah for a day: If she could switch places with anyone for a day, it would be Mariah Carey - "...so I could live one day knowing what it'd be like to have a voice like hers. It's absolutely amazing."
On the Spice Girls: "Our music is completely different."
More on the Spice Girls: "We have met the Spice Girls and they're really really nice. We met them after Geri left last year." and... "Yes, we have met them. They're very very nice girls, actually."
Fun with Five?: Lindsay said she had tons of fun hanging out with Five in America, but "We didn't hang out with J and Sean though."
On J & Sean from Five: "We've actually made a real effort with those two, but it just hasn't
worked. We don't hate them or anything, but it's just a case of, if
they can't be bothered why should we?"
Is Billie good?: "Yeah, I think she's doing great because she's quite young and she's doing it on her own."
On Westlife: "It's great that they're keeping it Irish!"
On 'N Sync: "They're really nice guys, not to mention really talented."
On the 'N Sync tour: "It was the best of all the tours we've done here [America]. We were
playing some really big arenas too, which is good."
Would like to do a concert...: "On the moon!"
Favorite song to perform: C'est La Vie - "Because we always get such energy when we perform it."
Hitting #1: "We just went mad! When we actually found out we were on stage in front of about 500,000 people. The DJ said it over the air and everyone just went mad and we just screamed!"
On the 1st album: "There's a wide variety of different musical styles on it: a bit of
pop, hip-hop, a few ballads and a tiny bit of indie and rock, but there's
that Irish feel throughout it."
On Awake And Breathe: "There's a wide variety of styles on thre, a bit of pop, some rocky
stuff and even a touch of pyschedelia."
On C'est La Vie: "I think I pushed for a certain unique sound on our first single. I wanted something that was very immediate and appealing."
On The C'est La Vie video: "A couple of people have said that the set looks like Teletubbyland, but it's not intentional. It's just because the grass and flowers look similar."
On Rollercoaster: "It's basically about how we feel about our lives at the moment."
On Rollercoaster UK Video: "It was fun to fly, but we had to have the belts on us for 17 hours!
And it was very uncomfortable. when we walked on the floor we looked
like ducks!"
On To You I Belong: "It's not romantic, it's actually about our parents."
On the Weatherman: "It's always his fault! Always!"
On Jesse Hold On: "It's hooky and uplifting."
On the music biz': "You learn alot in this business really fast."
FILMS & TV
Favorite movie: Titanic - "because you feel every emotion: sadness, happiness, frustration etc. And I also like Leo."
Favorite Disney movie: The Lion King
Most terrifying movie: Jaws - "I think Jaws is about the most terrifying film ever." and Scream - "I liked the way that one minute you were laughing and the next you were on the edge of your seat."
On horror films: "You can always tell when something scary's going to happen 'cause
of the music."
B*Witched the movie?: "It hasn't been planned yet, but you never know."
...Well how about a cameo?: "We were asked to appear in a Disney film starring the supermodel Tyra
Banks. It was a cartoon about a doll which comes to life and we were
to perform in the advert for the doll, but there wasn't any time in
our schedule.
Dream movie: "I'd love to do a film one day, preferably a happy story
featuring Brad Pitt!"
Favorite actor: Brad Pitt
Favorite actress: Meg Ryan
Favorite TV show: Friends (Ah, the girl has good taste =)
Ideal TV roll: Rachel on Friends
Dawson or Pacey?: Dawson
FASHION
Lucky outfit: "With me it depends on my mood. Sometimes I feel great in a pair of jeans and a little white top and then other times I want to dress up. i used to love wearing my long suede boots with a short skirt but I don't wear short skirts any more."
Purse?: "Our record company gave us Prada bags. I use mine all the time with my Prada purse and key ring."
Star with best clothes: Mel B from the Spice Girls
Favorite cosmetic: Urban Decay's chocolate-flavoured lip gloss - "It smells absolutely delicious!"
Favorite designer: G-Star Jeans
Favorite jeans: "A pair of dungarees that I've cut. They used to be dungarees and now they're trousers."
More on denim: "We travel quite a lot, so that it's comfortable is really important, haha!"
Even MORE on denim: "It's kind of a B*Witched image, to wear denim, it's casual and quite tomboyish! We need something we can dance in , and it looks good too." and..."I never wear skirts. I always wear trousers."
Number of jeans: "We got about 15 pairs each!"
Ever ditching denim?: "We'll never get rid of the denim completely!"
Worst fashion mistake: Wearing a pair of pink stone-washed jeans
FAVORITES
Favorite childhood toy: A little keyboard - "I used to play it, and when I had come up with a melody, I called for my dad who would come and listen."
Favorite school subject: Music (Of course!)
Favorite animal: Cats - "I'd be a cat! Basically I love cats, and grew up with them all my life."
Favorite smell: Cool Water by Davidoff
Favorite country: Italy - "Because there's a lot of culture every where you look, because there's ruins and statues everywhere you look. And it's pretty and warm."
Favorite color: Red and Blue - "'cause it's striking." (hence the old site's design)
Favorite sports: Basketball most, but plays netball, soccer, swimming, and tennis
Favorite household appliance: Hairdryer
Favorite flower: Red rose
Favorite word: Splendid
Favorite word (again): Buckarooed - "Edele said it the other day and I was in stitches
laughing."
AROUND THE WORLD
Always travels with: Her phone - "It's quite important to me!"
On travel: "I hate airports! I'd much rather be on a bus 'cause you avoid all
that waiting around. It's weird when you first try getting to sleep
on a bus though, 'cause you're in a little bunk bed and you can feel
the bus moving!"
On America: "I really like it. Not so much that I'd live there - it's too far
away from all my friends and family - but the shops are brilliant!"
On New York: "Everything is just so big in New York! The buildings are huge, the
streets are bigger and the portions of food are enormous. Even the
people's personalities are big!"
On Thailand: "They have the nicest gold there, beautiful frosted stuff, but we
didn't buy any 'cause it was just too expensive."
On Japan: "Good manners, raw fish, good clothes, and beautiful hair."
On New Zealand: "I love New Zealand 'cause it's absolutely beautiful, and the people
are really laid back."
On the Australian accent: "I love the Australian accent, and I've loved it ever since I was
young. I've tried to do it, but I'm not very good."
Fans like me =): "When we were in Australia, a 14-year-old girl came up to me at an
in-store signing with this great big bag of presents and letters.
Each said, "I love you - you're my idol. Every time I look at a
picture of you, I feel happy.'"
GIRLS ON GIRLS
Them on Lindsay
Keavy: "She's very outgoing."
Keavy on Lindsay watching soaps: "If she does watch the soaps, she goes, 'Who's that? What's happened now?' and we're like, 'Just watch it!'"
Keavy on theft: "I once stole a towel to make Lindsay happy..."
Sinead on Lindsay's slippers: "She walks around the house, always wearing her slippers. It's really annoying, 'cause she never lifts her feet, so they go swoosh, swoosh!"
Sinead on Lindsay's sleeping habits: "I think Lindsay talks in her sleep now and again."
Edele on Lindsay in the band: "I let Lindsay in the band 'cause I was scared of her!"
Edele on Lindsay's hair: "Her hair looks quite Victorian."
Edele on Lindsay being gullible: "Who in B*Witched is the most easy one to fool?' Lindsay-Pindsay! It's definitely Lindsay actually. I just say some really stupid silly joke like, and Lindsay will believe me, like, and I will just joke and then I laugh and she'll go 'You ALWAYS do that to me! It's SO unfair, I never know when you're joking!' Last night on the plane I told her that I was talking to our manager and she said that Sin�ad had to get an earring in her nose and in her eyebrow and that she had to have it and Lindsay was like 'I don't believe you! Oh no, what am I going to say to her?' and I was like 'I'm only joking' and she goes 'Oh, you ALWAYS do that to me!'"
Edele on Lindsay's flashing: "We only noticed Lindsay's flashing when a fan pointed it out. One
girl used to take photos and her mum said 'That Lindsay, in every
photo of her, her underwear's showing!' She didn't think it was a
good example."
Lindsay on Them
All the girls: "Edele is straightforward, Sinead is earthy, Keavy is hyperactive and I'm bubbly!"
On living with the girls: "It's great fun. We actually get along quite well."
On Edele's fashion sense: "She loves being different and noticed. She likes striking colours and unusual patterns."
On Edele at parties: "When we're leaving a room full of people she'll always be the
last to leave, as she wants to say goodbye to everyone."
On Edele being angry: "She's very calm and cool, but when she gets angry, she gets really angry! Then she just yells!"
On Edele's unorganization: "Even her bag's unorganized!"
On Keavy's tapdancing: "Keavy's great! - she's always breaking into new
routines!"
Sinead: "Sinead's really scatty!"
On Sinead's untidiness: "Sinead can be untidy too. Sinead had all these clothes she was getting
rid of and they were all over her room - you had to jump over her bed
to get to the other side of the room."
What kind of dog would Sinead be?: "She'd be a baby poodle!"
SCRAPS
Glam queen?: "I really don't class myself as hugely famous.
It isn't about glamour 'cos it's really not glam at all, it's hard work."
Sickly: "I haven't thrown up in years! It's unbelieveable!"
Last time bedhopping: Halloween - she stayed up all night with the other girls and they got so scared they jumped in the same bed.
Smoker?: No
Toothbrush: Purple and White
Number of pillows: Two
Bank: An Irish bank called AIB
Exams passed: Nine
Keychain: A rubbery cat
Allergies: None
Word she invented: Gropies (IE: Her mislead interpretation of "groupies")
Hobbies: "Jet-skiing, going to the gym, reading, watching TV, talking on the phone is one of my favorite recently!" and... "I like meeting up with friends, reading books, listening to music...That's about it really, I don't have time for hobbies."
About Girl Power?: "Not necessarily, our message is more about living life to the full. Going for your dreams because you only live once."
On jealousy: "I think if I have a close friend and if she does really well in something, or she looks very well, you know, I�d be proud of her and I�d be enthusiastic for her. I wouldn�t be jealous for her."
More on jealousy: "It�s also important to be able to identify jealousy, because sometimes it looks like that person is just being mean to you because they don�t like you, and you think �Oh, why doesn�t that person like me?� but you have to realise that it�s because they are jealous of you, and therefore that helps you to ignore it more."
On age limits: "When you're 16 it seems like you have to be 18 to get in everywhere and when you're 18 it seems like you have to be 21!"
Ever been kicked out of a club?: "I haven't been kicked out, but I've been turned away from a club."
First crush: "It was a guy called Louis when I was at English school in Greece. He was actually Australian, but he didn't like me back so it was a crush that faded after a while. But I'll never forget it because it was the first time I'd ever felt anything like that."
Bad girl...: "Once I told my parents I was staying at a friend's house so that I could go out without them knowing."
Most embarrasing moment: "One night the lights went off when I was onstage and I fell off the back of the stage, luckily the lights were off so I was saved the embarrassment of anyone seeing me."
Most overused phrase: "Are you serious?! Oh really?!"
Special talents: Wiggling her nose like Elizabeth Montgomery (Samantha from the show "Bewitched"), dress designing and eye brow shaping - "Never pluck above, always under. Make sure the beginning of your eyebrows are in line with your nose."
B*Witching Abilities: "I have this ability to communicate with cats. I seem to understand them. I've always had cats, I used to sit and talk to them and I know all their different movements, what they mean. I think I was a cat in a previous life."
B*Witched - sex symbols?: "No way, we're not those type of people. I think we'd just look
foolish if we tried to come across as sex symbols, wearing revealing
clothes and acting all sexy. We're much happier wearing casual gear
and feeling comfortable. That's not to say you won't see a bit of
glamour if we're going out or attending awards ceremonies." (In my opinion, and I don't think I'm alone here, this quote kind of back fired.)
Strangest dream: A UFO landed on her head (she had a bit of trouble getting it out on the interview - it took 4 takes)
Weirdest Question she's ever been asked: "Who's your favorite alien?"
Question she never wants to hear again: How did you get together? - "I think we've told that story
about five million times! And it's such a complicated story, you just
can't summarise it."
Collects: Teddy Bears - "But I haven't so many as Edele, though. She got millions of them!"
Secret passion: Mango
Wishing she was there?: "Somebody once said that I reminded them of Natalie Imbruglia!" (Sorry, I just don't see it...)
Dream date: Peter Andre and Brad Pitt (yeah, he's only 17 years older than her!)
Biggest fear: Sharks - "They're really scary!"
Proudest moment: "I once saved a litter of kittens from drowning when I was ten." (Forget all those #1 singles... :)
Learning experience: The Irish dancing done in C'est La Vie - "I'd never done it before."
Motto: A dream can become reality if you work for it
Heros: Her parents - "They are the ones who supported me and told me to go for my dreams."
Wish: "What I'm living right now. I'm not looking too far ahead, I just want to enjoy this at the moment, to be performing and making music, it's a dream come true. I want to enjoy it while it's here."
Her three wishes: "I'd wish that the album does well. I'd wish that we could stay together for lots and lots of years, and I'd wish all our families to be happy forever!"
