Interview with Tara Egan-Langley and Kevin Bruce on 2TV on May 4 1998. Interview by Dave Fanning.

Dave: Last time I met you was in Studio 8 in the Radio Building when I was doing Gerry Ryan's show in the morning and you had a different singer that time. So what's happened? Where did you find Tara?

Kevin: Well, Jan disappeared while we in London doing some gigs. And Naimee Coleman, a friend of ours, just recommended Tara to us and we just chased her up.

Tara: Joey searched Dublin and found me eventually.Dave: So you got a phone call from them, and just to be courteous you said 'Ok I'll go.... who the hell are this crowd?' Be honest Tara, had you ever heard of Kaydee?

Tara: No.

Dave: Ha ha. Very good. I love it... So in other words, all the promotion for the first single didn't work basically. I hope it works this time around here, cause you are playing lots of gigs and you're also doing in-store stuff as well. So what's it like? Did you want to do this? What were you doing before this?

Tara: I was in another band. I was in the Wilde Oscars, and I was singing with Igloo as well. So I was busy enough and I heard about this band and I wasn't really that interested, but then the Wilde Oscars broke up, so I thought 'Well, I'll give them a ring and meet them and see what it's like and...

Dave: I just realised something! I saw Igloo live at the Da Club once. Were you with them that night?

Tara: If there was a girl with them, I was me...

Dave: There was a girl with them. It was you was it? God, Igloo were great. What are you doing leaving them for Kaydee?

Kevin: That's nice isn't it!?

Dave: I've never seen Kaydee live. I'll check out one of these gigs. So are you any good Kevin?

Kevin: Yeah, we're quite good, yeah.

Tara: Pretty amazing...

Dave: So what's going to happen? You have this single out. It's been played a lot on the radio isn't it?

Kevin: We're getting loads of air-play, yeah. And hopefully it'll shoot up the charts.

Dave: And what about album-wise?

Kevin: We've an album recorded. And we re-recorded all the vocals with Tara's voice and it's ready to go around the end of the summer.

Dave: So you had it done, but you wanted to do it again?

Kevin: Yeah, we just put Tara's voice where Jan's was. And that was it...

Dave: Which is easy enough to do these days. So you had a sort of a residency in London didn't you for a while?

Kevin: We were over there... we were in the middle of doing gigs in London when Jan decided to pack it all in.

Dave: See this happens with every band. It's a sort of gestation period, these things just happen and you're now got it... I assume you've got it all sorted out? Or next time on 2TV, it'll  be Tara out and somebody else in!?

Kevin: I don't think so... no.

Dave: So what does Tara bring? She's just mentioned some pretty high class names that she's been playing with. So does that help her? When Naimee said 'this person is good', what did she mean? 'This person would suit Kaydee' ?

Kevin: She's got a great voice...

Tara: A wonderful personality..

Kevin: And she's able to perform...

Tara: Very tall...

Kevin: So that's all you need really... and she's able to travel in a van with the three of us.

Dave: Yeah I was just going to say... is that a difficult one, is it with these guys?

Tara: No, it's fine.

Dave: And also, are you the outcast 'cause you're not from Kilkenny?

Tara: Yes, it feels a bit weird. I've discovered Kilkenny now and I've spent many an afternoon wandering around their music cloud. It's lovely...

Dave: And what about the music? You obviously had no hand in writing any of this at all, 'cause it was all done.

Tara: Yeah, not the music. And then I was just given vocals and told to go for it really, and I heard some of what Jan had done and took it from there.

Dave: Ok, very good. Best of luck with it. When is the album coming out?

Kevin: Towards the end of the summer.

Dave: Ok, I've got dates here that I'm gonna mention after the song. Let's take a listen to this now, which is the single. Would you call this nearly you're first single, in terms of this is a whole new start?

Kevin: It is, yeah.

Dave: Ok, well then we'll call this the debut, even though it's not. It's actually their second single. This is Kaydee and this is called Mr. Sweeney.