We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

We play our Irish songs a bit more loosely.

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.