Mint Chicks leave a sour tasteSo, wannabes The Mint Chicks are 'the next big things', huh? Well, far be it from us to bitch, but owing to a lack of evidence in their music, perhaps this refers solely the grandiosity of their egos.

Far too busy and important for a face-to-face or even phone interview, their record company FMR contacted this website to offer an email interview with 'the boys', who had just returned from an excursion to Britain and the United States. We at Noizyland dutifully fired them off a list of questions.

How did your meetings go with Geffen, we asked. How large and receptive were the crowds you played to overseas? According to the Americans you met, where can NZ be found on the map? Were you able to communicate clearly and easily?

FMR thought our questions were very good. This pleased us, as we have been working as music journalists now for a very long time and according to a myriad bands, both famous and in this case, not so, we have so far had nothing but praise when it comes to our question-asking skills.

Sadly for us, however, The Mint Chicks' manager John Baker disliked them and said he would not pass them on to the band. When pressed, he added that he was 'unhappy with the tone' of the questions. When pressed still further by FMR, he replied, rather sulkily if we may say so, that he no longer wanted to proceed with the interview.

So now we have only one outstanding question for The Mint Chicks: who the fuck do they think they are? Jennifer fucking Lopez?

We would like to thank FMR, who handled the situation admirably despite their obvious embarrassment and to all the bands we've loved before, because they're good people.

And are we still taking the money from advertising their new EP on our website? Damn straight we are.


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