Fiomily - Transylvania
Fiomily are Fiona, (on the right, as usual), and Emily, (on guitar, as always). They are sisters, and as of this performance a little over a year ago, they were 13 and 15. Otherwise, they're prudently mysterious about their identities and location, but they recently revealed that they are English girls living in Germany. Most inexplicably, their web site is on a Turks and Cacos Islands domain: http://www.fiomily.net.tc/
I haven't known them to perform any original songs, but they are determined to outshine the original artists on their covers. They cover a number of artists, but McFly and The Beatles seem to be their favorites, so outshining the originals is no mean feat. They certainly perform most of their covers much faster than the original artists, and the result is that this one, at 2:35, is one of their longest videos.
I haven't known Fiona to play an instrument, although in one video she clapped a few times, and a tambourine has been suggested by more than one YouTube Fiomily fan. Emily is very good on the guitar. Fiona seems to be their techie person, and she can frequently be seen jumping up at the end of a song to shut off the cam.
In more recent videos, they introduced a drummer about their age. About the same time, the type of songs they perform also changed. I suspect - and hope - that all this was more of a social decision than a career move.
Locating MOG account...
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sisters sometimes make great bands. like Coco Rosie...
Come to think of it, some Fiomily fans on YouTube compare them to Heart.
Ack! I can't believe that a Google search for Fiomily brings up a pic of ME! It's enough to make me feel like a pollutant.
Fiomily are on Facebook and Twitter these days: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alemaniaalemania/Fiomily/108798915971
Fiona and Emily may not be such amazingly little girls as they were when they started performing for us. There's no doubt that the sensation of them being so young is what originally drew some of us to their videos at first. However, they didn't make videos to show off how cute they were; they made videos to perform. They're cute on their videos simply because they can't help it!