It's a beautiful thing...

The Children are hard at it again, hammer and tong in the depths of Mike's Studio. We are shaping the third album, and the working title is "Stereo Bang Bang."

Now there seems to be a lot of controversy over the title. So we jumped in the hydrogen fuelled, enviromentally friendly band jet and flew to New York. We asked the Madison Avenue marketing firms of Harris Polls and Decima Research to do a survey of 20% of the world's population to determine the suitability of the name, (you may have received a call.) In sum, after months of painstaking research, they told us there was a mixed reaction.

But what do they know, they are only right 19 times out of twenty within 3-4 percentage points. So we blew them off and we tried to stiff them but we are now on a payment plan with them that includes, among other things, bottle returns and shoe shines for life.

Unsquiffed, we conducted our own polls, asking our gig audiences what they thought. We sat in places like the Spiral Cafe and accosted whoever would talk to us between sets to see what they thought of the name. Strangely enough, (curse you Madison Avenue) the verdict was resoundly and resolutely

mixed.

Which suits the Children just fine.

You see, we aren't really about being completely one way or another. I think we are all at that point in our lives where we realise few things are absolute and being comfortable with opposing values and thoughts is one of the few things we can contribute to help build the global dialogue.

That and music.

So we will keep laying tracks and you keep the discussion going:
Stereo Bang Bang, love or lose it? Discuss...

thoughts from the middle child...
Kevin