Bang Bang Machine

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Bang Bang Machine were a cult band from Evesham, Worcestershire in England. They formed in 1989 and split up in 1996 after record company troubles.

The band experimented with different styles of music, for which reason many found them hard to categorise. Musically they covered alternative rock, Goth, pop, ambient and dance.

Their most famous song, the dark epic "Geek Love" was inspired by the book by Katherine Dunn about a family of freaks. The artist David Hughes who drew the "Geek Love" book cover also illustrated the band's Eternal Happiness album cover. Geek Love also uses audio samples from the controversial Tod Browning film Freaks.

"Geek Love" was championed by BBC Radio One DJ John Peel as a perfect example of a band self finacing their debut single. It was voted number one in his Festive Fifty in 1992. He famously stated "Even if they never made another record, they'll have achieved more than most of us do in our entire lives" about Template:"Geek Love".

The band were known for creating moving songs about unusual topics. Their song "16 years" was about the Stefan Kiszko case, where an innocent man was jailed for a crime he didn't commit.

They appeared on the Channel 4 programme The Word doing a live version of their song "Technologica" in 1993. They were also featured in Deadline comic and Volume magazine. Steve Eagles now plays with the punk band Blurt. Lamp is a DJ in Brighton. Stan Lee married Elizabeth Freeth in 2005. Stan Lee A.K.A. Marc Angel now plays with Template:PSYCHOWRATH, a new incarnation of Template:WRATHCHILD.