"WE LURVE YA"

'It's been a while since we've heard from Hanson,' we were thinking t'other day. Then, as if by magic, the brothers were on the blower, telling us about their latest japes...

TAYLOR

What have you been up to recently?
We've just finished out first fan club magazine - it was totally manic! We were very involved with that. We put lots of articles together and stuff. It was really cool!

And in your spare time?
Ha! I don't know what spare time is! But we have just gotten some motorcycles, dirt bikes. We go out and hit jumps and stuff. We have a 200cc, a 250cc and a 400.

Does Zac go on the little one?
A 200 isn't little! It'll throw anyone off!

Any nasty accidents?
Our dad actually! He juiced it a little too much, and it threw him right on his butt! It's funny cos our mom's more worried about him than she is about us!

Any tim for dating?
No, there's been no dating at all. I haven't got my eye on anyone in particular at the moment, but we're always on the lookout!

How's your little sis Zoe?
Oh, she's very cool, and getting fatter and fatter by the day. She's growing fast.

Does she like your music? She's a happey baby, but she definately responds and smiles when we play music.

So when's she joining the band?
She's probably not gonna join our band! We were thinking about it at one point, but Isaac's 17 years older than she is! In a few years when Isaac is 23, she'll only be six. Mabye she can start her own band.

ISAAC

So what's been going on in Tulsa?
Not a lot, apart from preparing for our tour. It's a fairly short one - we're gonna be in Europe for the first few weeks, and we should be coming over to the UK. Apart from that, we go out and do as much stuff as we have time to. We just get out and do whatever anybody else does. We've been rollerblading and watching films.

What films have you seen recently?
I saw Lost In Space, and that was alright. It was kinda interesting. There were definately good parts...

Would you like to do some more music for film soundtracks?
I guess if we got the oportunity, yeah, doing music for films would be very cool. But at the same moment, we are concentrating on our tour and doing loads of preperation for that.

How does making videos compare with writing music?
I think it is a very similar process, and we really enjoy making videos-it's a lot of fun!

So what about a Hanson film then?
There's always been talk, but no, that's not gonna happen. Well, I guess it may sometime, but not in the near future.

ZAC

Are you still as mad and hyperactive as ever?
Erm, I think you must be thinking of someone else. (Er, no, we're not!)

Why did you decide to call your album Three Car Garage?
I don't know- It's just kind of a cool name. I think it was 'cos we wrote the songs in a garage, and there are three of us, so it kinda works! We like the way it turned out, anyway.

Does it sound weird when you listen to your old stuff?
It sounds different, but if we thought it sounded bad, we wouldn't have put it out! We definitely sounded more like chipmunks then!

Where do you keep your Smash Hits awards?
We keep them in the garage! That's where we've got all our band stuff.