HOW did you land on the name Mellow Candle, which seems so right for the era?
CLODAGH SIMONDS: Our original, pre-teen name was The Gatecrashers. The word ‘mellow’ was floating around quite a lot, and the whole hippie thing coming out of California seemed irresistibly exotic and alluring to a bunch of cooped-up Irish convent girls in a country still pretty much dominated by C&W. I guess we wanted to signal which tribe we were aspiring to.
The years 1970–71 sounds like a busy and exciting period for the group. Could you say
