Hello!
This is a wee chat I had with Charlie and James from Bang!Bang!Eche!
I think it’s pretty funny.

charlie: GEMMA!
tks: Hello!!!!
charlie: its charlie
is james talking also?
james: hello!
tks: ah!

After a whole lot of initial technical adjustments and small talk we
get into the… substantial part

tks: ANYWAY
james: = )

tks: How do you spell ‘Eche’ phonetically?

charlie: hehehehehe
charlie: not like that. i was just laughig…
tks: lol
charlie: ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
tks: Bang!Bang!ehehehehehehe!
james: Et Cha
???
etcha?!
james: Maybe you should answer this one charlie.
charlie: WTF
charlie: HWF
tks: your damn right!
charlie: ok so its like etsch
charlie: or maybe estch
james: Thats more like it…..
nah
yep.
First one

tks: what does it mean?

charlie: theres no ‘a’ on the end though that was james being a spazz
charlie: what does it mean… hehehe… which story shall we tell
ttoday james?
james: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
charlie: oh you cant say that james thats boring
james: Actually it has Lots of meanings…
tks: make up a new story
charlie: A NEW STORY!?!!?!
james: I dunno man, you chose…
tks: or combine them
charlie: i think we’re rolling with the ecocore one
charlie: ok so E.C.H.E stands for the European Conference on the
History of Economics
Bang Bang Eche love their economics
all our songs are deep extended metaphors for economics

tks: so ‘from tokyo to France you know you want to dance’ actually
insinuates the ‘dance’ of trade maybe

james: as The “ECHE” Is a Gathering held anually in Brussels
charlie: nah its not in brussels this time! i looked it up
its like in portugal or something
they’ve moved.
charlie: oh and yep, the dance of trade! between japan and france
4 to the floor is about the fair trade agreement between japan and
france.
james: Oh Shit…. But yeah that line “From…. To….Dance” Is
basically about trade.
james: Well Said Charlie
yep.

tks: you guys have been doing a heap of exciting stuff recently.
What’s been going down?

charlie: what has been going down?
charlie: practice…
james: Geewiz, Where do we start?
charlie: im not sure…
tks: You have been playing all over NZ aye
when did you guys start again?
james: LOTS of shows? i think Chch is gonna get sick of us realy fast
charlie: we started about this time last year

tks: And whats going down in Chch at the moment
I use to live there you know!
It seems pretty awesome music wise at the moment
charlie: really?!?! you should come back some time we could rad party!
yes i spose it is!
james: The garden city…. Did you know The Botans Are the THIRD
BIGGEST Botanical gardens in the WORLD, Thats just a little Chch Fact
for you
not much is happening at the moment though…
charlie: hahahahhahahahaha

tks: it seems like a lot of people play in clubs – like dance clubs
is that true or am I making up lies
and by people I mean bands
charlie: hmm… yeah sometimes. like double happy and stuff…
theres a new venue called yellow cross which is a bit gross
James Says : LIES
but apart from that theres just the dux and the jetset basically
charlie: all the bands are leaving anyway
tks: just something I noticed when I was down there
charlie: or dying
james: Basically in Chch there is the dux… and the jetset…
charlie: yes
black market art are moving away to auckland and germany
james: O’Lovelys are going over seas
charlie: yeah, cause matt from bma is in the o’lovelys
james: Insurgents are gonna be all over the world
yeah thats a shame
tks: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooohh
are the insurgents from chch
charlie: yep, but they’re all moving to far away places
tks: are they epic live?
charlie: like auckand, and liverpool
charlie: yep! theyre awesome!
charlie: we play lots with them, they are fantastic.
james: Yeah they like to party!
charlie: its really stupid that theyre breaking up
charlie: they could be huuuuuuuge

tks: I think there needs to be some dream island where all awesome
bands can go live together
James Says: YES!

tks: Who are some more of your favourite NZ bands?
james: You can pick up islands for quite reasonable prices lately
charlie: haha…
charlie: i like so so modern
james: http://www.privateislandsonline.com/
charlie: and i like the mint chicks if they are still a new zealand band
tks: I heard they made some pretty sweet islands in Dubai
james: Yeah Thats REal Crazy what there doing over there
charlie: yeah but theyre real expensive. we’ve been researching some
cheaper alternatives.
tks: are they legit though. that’s the trouble with the internet not
being able to tell whats legit…
charlie: frequent hurricane regions are usually pretty cheap for islands
james: Yeah i’ve heard that
james: There this dunedin band… Who we say the other day… They
are called haunted love?
james: i think there gonna be pretty big eventually
charlie: oh yeah haunted love!
theyre awesome
tks: what are they like?
charlie: we played with them last saturday in dunedin.
charlie: they’re like au revior simone if they were actually good
hehehe
james: A Female Casiotone for the Painfully alone… Meets. like…
charlie: yeah!
james: AWESOMENESS
charlie: with awesome on stage banter
tks: I love bands who have good on stage banter
like Rosy tin Teacaddy in Wellington
charlie: they are quite geeky, but thats what makes them fab
james:Yeah, None Of this Bullshit “singer Songwriter” banter…..
hahaha
charlie: this song is about my ex girlfriend and how she makes me
ache inside…
James Says: Havent you noticed with singer songwriters They just
explain ALL the meanings to their songs…
James Says:Yeah man… Fuck that.
charlie: yeah, it bulks up their sets though
tks: shouldn’t it be FELT through the MUSIC
BANG!: charlie: hehehe yes!
tks: i tried to find an emoticon with a tear
[cry]

(If you ever use gmail chat you will understand what we are talking
about… It’s AWESOME. Otherwise I’ll just put a little marker where
you should start reading again…)

BANG!: charlie: THERE ARE EMOTICONS!??!
James Says:WHERE?
tks: can you see that one i just did???
BANG!: charlie: yes! i wants!
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charlie: THEY MOVE!?!?!?
james:Yeah, it did a little spin at the start ha
james:Intense. Thats more Smileys then a pig out show
charlie: hahaha…

(Emoticon chat OVER)

charlie: when can we next see holiday with friends gemaa?
*gemma you fool
tks: lol
ummmmm
I think we are doing a national tour in… June or July!
charlie: NATIONAL TOUR!
james: CHCH SUPPORT!!!!!!!
tks: yeah!
charlie: Ya know you wanna
tks: Would you??
charlie: ahhahaha
charlie: OF COURSE!!!!
james:No
charlie: we’d love tooooooo!
charlie: JAMES?!?!?!
tks: fuck you james
james:JOKES! HELLS YES WE WOULD
charlie: FUCK YOU JAMES
tks: jokes with me too
charlie: no jokes.
tks: Sometimes people don’t get my harshness
charlie: im so excited
tks: and get thoroughly offended like BRAND NEW MATH
charlie: i love hwf
tks: oh thanks!
I love you guys!!!
charlie: i’ve only seen you at camp last year though…
that was special.
with the hats…
tks: It’s weird playing hungover
charlie: hehehe yes
charlie: thats camp..
james: Yeah, Our Friend… His Name is Todd… He is like… So
Offensive.. I can’t think of a person who makes more Un Pc REmarks
then todd.. haha, but its all GEEZY
charlie: he got us in trouble with the dux.
tks: LOL how?
charlie: while we were playing he was shouting at his uncle in the
courtyards
james: And how he went up to that guy and was like…. I HAVE A
KNIFE… But it was his uncle HAHAHA
charlie: yep! and “your wife is leaving you” or something
and hed just got a divorce
i dont know
either way, bad times
ahwell.
hes a funny lad
tks: oh man – he sounds…
james: but he didn’t know it was his uncle
tks: I’m not sure what the right thing is
charlie: he did though…
hes really nice
tks: how could he not know it was his uncle?
charlie: he was just really drunk
i dont know
no one knows, we were playing..
james: Two Words… Country Cask
charlie: hahaha
tks: that stuff is LETHAL
charlie: especially in matts hands
charlie: he can power that shit down
James Says:LOLZ!

tks: I need to ask you guys a final question cause my lasagna is ready!
it’s been cooking for an hour
charlie: a final question!?!
tks: well
charlie: ps yummmm lasagna
tks: It’s vegan lasagna too
not that I’m vegan
james: Even Better!
tks: OH YEAH
you’re the vegan huh
james: No no… Just the Vege…
tks: ahhhhh
james: The Token Vege
tks: cool
ummmm
charlie: hippy
tks: I was going to ask you something about Moron Says What?
BANG!: James Says: Go for gold!
charlie: hahahaha!
charlie: WE WERE DRUNK
WE DIDNT KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING TO US
tks: I don’t quite know what to ask anymore
HAHAHAHAHA

How did you guys meet them?
charlie: personal ads
tks: what did theirs say?
charlie: it was maria, looking for a female lover
charlie: and james responded
it just went from there
james: Gee Chaz… LOOK WHAT YOU DID!
tks: James has long hair don’t you
charlie: hehehe
charlie: yes he does
james: Not Very long anymore….
tks: well that makes sense
charlie: he and maria are in a relationship now, but shes angry cause
he cut it all off…
James Says:It used to be like…. Xcore…
charlie: hahahahaha
James Says:Yeah, Lesbians Just dont like dudes with short hair
charlie: Gemma, are hwf friends playing this weekend?

(And by this weekend he meant at the amazing Here’s To Future Days at
Bodega!)

tks: sadly not
but it’s going to be amazing!
charlie: why arent you playing!?
iit wouldve been brilliant
tks: not my gig!
cause our awesomeness would just add too much awesomeness on top of
the awesomeness already there and then the universe would collapse
we don’t want that burden upon our shoulders
james: We understand
the universe would collapse.
tks: ok – that seems like a good place to stop!
charlie: Hungry?
tks: i’m not sure if many questions got answered though
but I had fun
charlie: no me niether… ahwells
james: QUICK FIRE
charlie: quick fire?
tks: oh man- is that rude of me to go?
james: 10Questions 10 SECONDS
tks: OK
charlie: no go i dont know what james is talking about

QUICKFIRE ROUND

tks: What is the best place to play in New Zealand
james: Just below Livin
charlie: the big house in auckland.
james: Actually. yeah The big house

tks: who would win in a drinking competition – Holiday with Friends or
the Tiger Tones
BANG!: HWF…
HWF would dominate.
but if it was a Marijuana smoking comp
Andy would Take the Cake
hahaha andy…
sigh

tks: who is your favourite myspace band find?
charlie: im not sure whether you shouldve said that james
tks: innappropriate things come out in the quick fire. That’s the fun!
tks: NEXT QUESTION!!
BANG!: charlie: oh gee wiz…
charlie: yes good
james: Radical Face… Its Ben From Electric Presidents “Other”
Band…AMAZING
Charlie?
your answer??
charlie: i dont know… does it offend you yeah?
charlie:HAnson
james: I suck
tks: does what offend me?
BANG!: no no the band!
“Does It Offend You, Yeah?”
Thats the Band name
the band
yep
I just got their album, its sweeeeeeeeet

tks: NEXT QUESTION
charlie: WAIT
NO
FOALS
FOLAS
FOALS
.
sorry
continue
NEXT QUESTION

tks: If each of your band members had magic powers what would they be?
charlie: power over water
charlie: t’nealle would be able to create hurricanes with her eyes
Pez would be able to blow things up by looking at them hes so brutal
charlie: im not sure about zach…
james: Zach – Jesus
hahahaha
I dont know what mine would be though
charlie: just because he has a beard dosnt make him jesus james
tks: everyone with a beard reminds me of jesus
it was his ‘thing’
charlie: yeah i spose.. its just been such a long time. ahwell.
haha
he made it cool.
James Says: yeah, he made it cool

tks: NEXT QUESTION
ummmm
did you know that there was a band called Bang!Bang!Aids! when you
came up with your name?
charlie: haha…
i did
but i had forgotten about them
so when tnealle came up with the name i was like yeah sweet whatever
james: Bang Bang Aids were so good….
yes so good
and after you have a myspace… and like gigs n steeze, a name change
would be hard….
haha nah not really, we asked them if it was okay and they loved it
but we messaged them and they were all sweet because of the break up
n what not
we were going to play with them at camp but it failed
tks: They stayed with my friends Courtney when they came to NZ and she
had to have a break from them cause they drank so much and were so dirty
dirty as in dirty talk
james: HAHAHAHAHA
yes the singer is pretty offensive
tks: That would have been a great camp combo!
charlie: i thought all that shit he said to us about scribe was just
cause it was scribe..
james: Most Austrilians are
but apparently not.
charlie: yeah ive heard
tks: hahahaha – scribe bagging
charlie: they love the scribe bagging

tks: Anyway – is it next question time?
I think I may just do one more
charlie: we have multiple emails from them about scribe
its intense
james: apparently scribe was filed as a “missing person” awhile back…
but turns out he was in Oz Trying to “Make it big”
charlie: oh wow
did it happen?
james: I Bet Scribe would get sweet hook ups….
charlie: we should email him

tks: Last question
james: dude, i saw a guy today carrying two boxes of medical waste…
The Yellow hospital containers that they put used siringes in… it
was real gross
charlie: gross
james: He as real Junked up too….
charlie: was it zach
tks: If Scribe was alone on a desert island and he needed to get off
the island how would he do it?
james: He’d Call on EAST CANTABURY. and his hood, and then NORTH
CANTA… And so on
they would band together to help him out
james: and thy would all form a human chain
and he would walk across them to safty
he would be saved.
tks: hahaha
james: LASAGNA TIME?!
tks: I think he would bind together all of the free pencils that he
gave away with his album and row ashore
charlie: lasagna for me?
tks: I’ve already eaten
I can multi task
charlie: oh wow muliti tasking!
ive heard about that
james:Yeah those pencils!
HAHA
he gave away pencils?
maybe we should try that
tks: yeah!
charlie: his album went gold didnt it
Yeah man, little Mini Golf ones
and its pretty shit…
tks: Cut off your hands gave away free pieces of coloured wood
james: really?
free pieces of coloured wood
tks: now THAT is special
charlie: wtf do you do with wood
Dude, we need more gimmics
were you meant to make something with them?
tks: it tied into the album artwork but if you think about it its
pretty funny
charlie: i see.. what did they do?
tks: here’s some WOOD. Go CREATE
charlie: at least pencils are easier to create with
tks: yeah
write me some mean rapz
james: scirbe 1 – cut off your hands 0
tks: I spose you could slowly spell things out with the wood bits

LAST THING
charlie: except cut off your hands are fucking sweet and scribe isnt
OK LAST THING
tks: can you write me a rap that you would with your scribe pencil
freestyle
charlie: yes ok
tks: BUT
james: its about magic okay?
tks: WAIT
james: but?!?!
what
tks: you have to do a line each
line about
charlie: gah okay
about what?
ABOUT WHAT?
tks: Magic I think was the topic
charlie: about scribe?
tks: or LOLCATZ
james: lol cats!
LOLCATZ!!!
charlie: IM IN YOUR COMPUTOR
IM THAT FUKIN SNIPER SHOOTER
james?
james: Yes>?
charlie: NEXT LINE
i did the sniper one
HURRY
james: OH ARE WE DOING IT NOW?
charlie: YES!
sigh
tks: START AGAIN
james: I HAS A FORCE FEILD
Look at whats i weild
wield?
I made you a cookie……..
NEXT LINE
james: But i Eated it
charlie: that was mike tysons bodygaurd, but i beated it
james: THIS RAP IS TERRIBLE…. HOW ABOUT…..We write a proper
rap… and sing it in the bridge of 4to the floor in wellington
ok
tks: YAY!
That’s awesome
james: i wrote moron says what a rap before
its really goodi
its about magic
archi told me to do it
do you want to hear it
its called Yeah Magic

and it goes like this

our m-m-m-magic is way better than yours
our mystical raps are gonna drop yo jaws
you think you’ve seen it all on harry potter,
But you aint seen witches that will make you hotter,
you’ll think that you’re all under the imperius curse,
cause you want us bad but the others got here first,
You fake wizard playaz better wait your turn,
we gonna show you boys what you aint never gonna learn
in HOGWARTS! where they dont teach you shit,
our enchanted spells are gonna make yo SICK,
we learnt our magic skills here on the streets,
and you know our shit is tight whenya see our magical treats.
our devious charms sure gonna make yo dance
your magic wand’s are gonna go off the charts!
you wizards all know that we’re the hottest witches,
cause we’ve got evil sorcerors as our bitches!

Yeah magic! we got this shit down
Yeah magic! Dont mess us around
Yeah Magic! Cause its just so easy to see
that the killing curse is easier than 1, 2, 3!
Yeah magic! oh you got a pointy hat?
Yeah magic! well a brookstick dont mean jack!
Yeah magic! Aww your scared of you know who who?
well he’s our biggest fan, yeah you know its true.

tks: oh cooooooooooooool
ok
sweet way to end!
YOU GUYS ARE ORSM
james: its for the new msw song.
we’ll write you a rap too!
and we’ll sing it in wellington this weekend
in the 4 to the floor breakdown
LOOK OUTFOR IT

tks: OK!
charlie: DOUBLE RAPS… OH YEAH
tks: will do
james: you better be there gemma
SEE YOU
tks: I will!
BANG!: good.
tks: BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
charlie: BYE GEMMA!!!!!!!!!!
james:HAVE NICE NIGHT!