As famous for their relationships with Pete Doherty and Johnny Borrell as they are for their anarchic DJ sets, the Queens of Noize have been responsible for almost single-handedly rejuvinating the indie scene. Now after a six-month self-imposed exile, the dancefloor divas have returned to sunny Albion.

"WE'RE the indie Ant and Dec", exclaims soon-to-be 24-year-old Mairead Nash, one half of the notorious DJ paring whose "uncompromising" deck-wrecking style and celebrity-infused glamour and glitz has become a rallying-point for the cool and the hip, and whose club nights have helped kick-start bands eager for mainstream acceptance.

"We should really be a lot richer than we are."

The Queens of Noize are a Camden institution, who, over the last four years via their Barfly residency have transformed a waning indie scene into the most sought-after social environment for the trendy and musically charged.

In only a short period of time, Mairead and 31-year-old Tabitha Denholm (25 on paper, I'm told), have become synonymous with the great and the good of the indie world, with a multitude of rock stars and certain tabloid-friendly supermodels eager to join the party.

"When I started it was because I hated all the DJs playing at the time," says Mairead. "Pete and Carl (Barat) and Johnny all used to help me out. Then I met Tabitha and we just did it because we love it."

Both the girls have had their fair share of celebrity boyfriends. Tabitha's long love-affair with Pete Doherty was well-publicised, and Mairead's relationship with Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell was infamously captured in the band's hit single Golden Touch.

"I was very much in love at the time," says Mairead. "I've been in love with all of them at some point. That song represented something amazing.

"I spoke to Pete last week. "I've known him since I was 16. All of us just hung out together and we all believed in each other. We're old friends and I care for him and love him. He is on his own journey and he'll work it out for himself."

Following a successful MTV2 slot and column in NME, the girls have just returned from six months of state-side touring, taking time out to escape the London scene.

"I wasn't enjoying it as much," continues Mairead. "We started something which other people have gone on to do and it was making me a bit cross that we were being copied. We've been doing this for four years now and just needed a bit of a break to experience more if nothing else. People had to realise what we have contributed.

"It had got to the point where we couldn't even go out any more because people were always expecting something to happen and it was straining mine and Tabs' relationship."

A whistlestop tour of Mexico and the US saw the Queens play with hip-hop heavyweights the Roots, and the sabbatical even culminated in a surprise wedding. "Me and Tabs got married in Vegas," beams Mairead. "We wrote vows and I proposed and everything. It was lovely."

The new Queens of Noize night, Invitation to Dance is on the second Friday of every month at 333 in Shoreditch. Visit www.queensofnoize.com.