Aoibheann studied English and German at UCC, and combined her music career with various jobs, including working at Microsoft and at primary school teaching. Joe studied commerce at UCC, and went back to college to study music and recording at a later date. They came together in 2005 to form the band, Jodavino, with three other musicians.

Jodavino recently released a single, 'Some Love', taken from their debut album, Deep End. They will be playing live at the Savoy Theatre, Cork on 3 March, Sandino's, Derry, on the 8, and Crawdaddy, Dublin, on the 10. For more information check out www. jodavino. com Aoibheann on Joe I was two when Joe was born, and we got on great and used to play a lot together with our older siblings Ed and Aisling, and particularly with our younger sister Alma. Joe was always a very jolly child, and could talk for Ireland, and had a tremendous energy for chat and fun. He provided the levity in our trio, and I provided the bossing, although it has to be said that Joe never took any s**t from his older sister.

I think our interest in performing came from an early age, because we had a pre-occupation with capturing our voices on our cassette recorder. I found a tape a while ago of a whole "newsreel" we'd done on Beirut, which was a real hot spot at the time.

Joe began playing guitar at 15, and he was a real natural. Our parents Joe and Mary loved music but weren't great singers, so they used to proffer us up as performers, and it sat lightly with us because we were mad to get up in front of people. I loved acting, and as I got older I got more interested in the music side of things!

Joe loved performing too, but in a more subtle way to me . . . I definitely had more diva-like tendencies, although they've been well-ironed out now.

A funny incident I remember was when Joe was working as a solo artiste and was on our local radio station for an interview. I phoned in pretending to be a fan to give him a bit of support, and didn't I go and win the prize of tickets to his gig. The DJ called me back on air, and I hadn't got the smarts to come up with a fake name, and when I gave my name, he said, "As in Joe Carey's sister?"

The DJ thought it was hilarious, and I haven't been let live that one down since.

Joe is a very chilled-out person, and very sweet and loyal. I think his best quality is that he's very funny and always manages to turn a bad situation into a good one by using humour . . . he's a good person to have around in a crisis. He's a very talented musician, and I really admire the fact that he's a great wordsmith. The worst thing about him is his time-keeping, because he's always late, but he's improved lately with a bit of pressure from the band . . .

we're a bunch of nerds at times, and he's definitely the hippie among us for time-keeping.

Working with Joe hasn't caused any problems at all for us, but I think that when you are that familiar with someone, you always have to remember that you're in a professional environment. The best thing is that sense of telepathy, where you know what he means by just a shoulder shrug or whatever. We've just set up a record label with the rest of the band, and we're really focused on all of our projects.

Joe on Aoibheann My name is Joseph Niall, but Aoibheann was only two and a half when I was born and she misheard, and took it upon herself to call to all the neighbours telling everyone that I had arrived and my name was Joseph Knife. So I made a spectacular entrance, and she was definitely doing PR for me from an early age. And that story of her calling the radio station still gets tossed around at Christmas every year.

I have clear memories of Aoibheann always singing and dancing as a child, and we get a great kick out of watching old home videos, with her promoting and starring in little gigs, and the rest of us as her sidekicks, playing a supporting role. We got on very well as children, bar the normal little things that happen with siblings.

Aoibheann was the usual bossy, protective kind of older sister, but she was always pretty cool really.

Aoibheann and I had different friends growing up, and it was probably when the music became our common interest in the teenage years we socialised together more. We started doing bits and pieces together, and it was working well, and then it kind of grew organically to the point where we decided to start up the band Jodavino together.

Some people can have reservations about working with family members, but it helped that we had already worked together over the years. You might imagine that there would be mad arguments and strops when things go wrong, but there aren't, and given the nature of the business we're in, it's great to have someone there that you can completely trust.

Working with a sibling is great because a lot can go unsaid and you don't have to go around in circles trying to explain things.

Aoibheann has always been very supportive of me, and is a very loyal friend as well. Her fiance Joe is in the band too, and it gets even more complicated than that, as I started going out with his younger sister Maura around the same time. We all go out together and get on very well, and Maura is the only one of us with a normal job . . . she works for Aer Lingus.

Although Aoibheann is my older sister, she's not bossy around me any more, although there are times when her protective nature still comes to the fore; an example is when I was getting repeatedly electrocuted by the microphone during a recent gig, and she was shouting for the sound engineer to come and help me out.

She's good fun, and doesn't take things too seriously, and is good old craic to have around . . . but let's just say that joke-telling is not her forte!