 At the age of eleven, she formed her first band, Mellow Candle, with two schoolfriends, Alison Bools (later Williams, later O'Donnell) and Maria White.They released their first single, "Feelin' High", on SNB Records in 1968, when she was 15.Three years later, and with an expanded line-up, Mellow Candle released their only album, "Swaddling Songs", which made little or no impact beyond Ireland until around twenty-five years later.