B-Side the Leeside: The Cork band picked up by Madonna  

Featuring in a film with the American star is just part of the story of Métisse's brush with fame after the success of their hit 'Boom Boom Ba'

Métisse are comprised of Cork man David ‘Skully’ Sullivan and Aïda Bredou, originally from Côte d’Ivoire.

The phone rang and there on the other end of the line was Madonna Louise Ciccone. The biggest pop star on the planet had fallen in love with Boom Boom Bâ, the new single by Cork- Côte d'Ivoire duo Métisse. She knew nothing about the song or the band but of one thing she was certain. She wanted it on the soundtrack to her new movie. With that, an army of assistants had scrambled to track down Métisse to the not-quite-pop-hotbed of Fountainstown, 23 kilometres south of Cork city.

“She said she loved what we were doing,” recalls David 'Skully' Sullivan, the Cork-born component of Métisse. “And then it went on the soundtrack to the Next Best Thing, which went to number one in America.”