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Bad Break Magazine
Vol: 01
Music
I remember Kenny in Glasgow telling me you were named after Nicky Banger, the footballer. [laughs] I know you’ve told me since that’s not true. It was Kenny up to his old tricks. Have there been any other rumors popped up about your name anywhere else? I don’t know if there’s rumors about it. I always find it really funny that bands get asked about what they’ve called themselves so much because, you always, always see people being asked unless it’s something really obvious; I think naming a band is just one of those things where someone has an idea like Andrew coming in and saying “Hit the Beach, we’re gonna call this band Hit the Beach” and you’re like “yeah that’s cool we’ll go with that” with this it was like we wrote some songs and then we were like “What are we gonna call this?” and we’d all sort of joke about names we were gonna call it and then Bangers kind of stuck. And I think that must be the same with so many bands. I think naming a band is just one of those things where at first everyone laughs at and then it becomes less funny and they’re like “Yeah I can live with this, this is fine”
“Muncie Girls, I’ve been listening to that Muncie Girls record loads. I think it’s awesome.”
Sorry to bring that up again I remember asking you about that in Edinburgh and straight away you saying “Did Kenny tell you that?” I still find it funny that it spread so quickly. Hahaha no not all! Someone else asked me about this! Yeah I remember someone quite literally saying “So you’re named after Nicky Banger? Why is that?” and I was just like “Who? What?” I don’t know anything about football. I bet he said it with a real straight face as well.