- Who are you guys?

We’re three musicians from São Paulo, Brazil.

- Do you still live in Brazil?

Yes, we do. However, we would be more than pleased to go to your city and play for you.

- Why?

Why what?

- Why do you spend so much time writing, rehearsing, producing, recording and shooting videos?

Because chicks dig musicians. Because being artists we need all that stuff. It's like our release. It's also a lot of fun, so really we do it for ourselves. We also do it for you, the intrepid seeker of juicy tidbits about Brazil's biggest, best and ball-ticklingly brilliant band: MegaRex.

- Is it true that the lead singer, Flavio, answers all the band's messages personally? Yes, well, it is for the moment. Obviously, when the time comes and the band are rich and famous, there will be a small, under-paid wench to attend to such trivialities, as Flavio (oops, sorry, I mean, "me") will have televisions to throw out of hotel windows, motorbikes to drive into exclusive sports-club pools, and Margaritas to drink from the navels of unsuspecting female fans on the fancy beaches of exclusive Caribbean islands.

Obviously, the fans will always be in his heart, it’s just that there will be other things occupying his body.

[Just kidding or my wife will string me up.]

- Where is Brazil? Is it in Mexico? Why does it sound funny when they speak "Spanish"?

Brazil is in South America: Leave north America and take a sharp left after Mexico and then keep going for about 6000 km. Their Spanish sounds funny, because it is in fact Portuguese. Portuguese is how Spanish would sound, if it were spoken by small, slightly drunk and rather violent furry animals.

- So why do you sing in English?

It's all part of our plan "Megarex and the world".

Since we've already released an album in Portuguese and having toured a lot in Brazil, it seemed somehow unfair to deny the rest of the world our very shallow brand of musical depth. The incredible insight and genius that we manage to imbue our work with and the subtle way in which... ok, ok, the truth?

No speaky English - no gringo diñero!

If we don't sing it in English, the gringos won't buy it and how is that going to help us buy a small tropical island and a fleet of Italian sports cars?

It's also a lot of fun to compose and perform in another language. Personally, I love writing and using English so it was the obvious choice.

- Can we steal your music?

Well, that all depends.

Do you like our music? If you think it is the rock equivalent of having your ears forced up your nose with sharpened chopsticks, then help yourself. By the sound of it, you'll need all the cash you can find for your upcoming lobotomy. If you pay a little more, you know, they'll even let you choose from which side of your mouth you dribble most.

If you like it a bit, but don't see yourself having the great good sense to become a fan, then take it with our blessing. But in the interests of harmony, why not tell someone about us, spread the word, a little. We brighten your day, your brighten our prospects, you scratch our back, we scratch yours. That kind of thing. Sound fair?

If you're a fan, you know, the "on your knees in the dressing room" kind of fan, then how can you steal?

What we have is yours. What we do, we do for you. However, to be able to satiate your fan-like desires, we need to pay many costs, to record, to tour, buying instruments and even music lessons in some cases. So please help us in any way you can (the "knees in the dressing room" thing, sounds like a pretty good place to start). Seriously, though - if you're a fan, supporting us with your purchases is what lets us do what we do and what we do, we do for you!

- When do you expect to be performing in my city?

The minute you stop asking silly questions, and write to your local politician demanding that Megarex play in your city. The moment you start designing, printing and distributing leaflets, speaking to concert promotion agencies and selling the less important family members into slavery to bribe your way onto TV talk-shows to talk about us. Then, and only then, will we consider popping over to play and sing a bit and then grabbing the cash on the way out and buggering off home.

- Are you all nice?

Well, there's nice and then there's, you know, "nice".

Firstly, let us categorically state that we are not the fifth most populous city in France after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse. We do not have a population of 348,721 and it is not our naturally soft light that has enchanted painters such as Chagall and Matisse. That is Nice, a town in France (which, in case you didn't know, is the fifth most populous city in France having a population of almost 349,000 and of whom it has been said that its particular brand of soft light has strongly appealed to some of the 20th Century's most accomplished painters, like Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse).

We are, however, pretty cool, most of the time.

- Will this FAQ section ever end?

If you stop Frequently Asking Questions, YES!

- How many albums has MegaRex done so far?

“Recyclable Data” is our second album. It was our first attempt in English. Our first album, the self-titled "Megarex" was in Portuguese. If would like to check it out (obviously it's brilliant) you can download it for free at www.megarex.com.br. The style is quite different, as we are always trying to be true to ourselves and as we change, our music changes - we even had a fiddler with us back then.

- How can I get out of this FAQ?

You exit through the gift shop - oh, bugger, Banksy's already had that one... erm, good question. I know there's a door around here somewhere... you mean didn't leave a little trail of crumbs or tie a bit of string around a tree near the entrance? Erm, "Hello!", "HELLO!" "Anybody there?!