Hill asks: "What happened to Chad’s first name?"

Chad: "I lent it to somebody when I worked in a bar. He never brought it back and I left the bar to join the band."

lucy lu asks: "How many times have you played on TOTP and are you miming or playing live?"

Chad: "This is our sixth and we *always* play live."

Stove: "Wide Open Space, She makes My Nose Bleed, Taxlo$$, Closed for business, legacy and being a girl. Except we haven't actually done being a girl yet."

Pips asks: "I saw you live and you were all acting very rock god on the stage. It didn’t seem ironic. Please tell me it was!"

Stove: "Do you work for the NME?"

Chad: "And is that Pip from South Park?"

Stove: "Define ironic."

yasmin asks: "Which bands do you get along best with?"

Stove: "Suede and the Manics."

Chad: "They're the only two bands we've really got to know. Oh, and Cast."

Jooly 2 asks: "I've read that you have some scary fans. Have their antics put you off meeting your fans face to face?"

Stove: "No!"

Chad: "We meet more than ever really."

Stove: "We've got all the time in the world for our fans."

Chad: "The average time it takes for us to get from dressing room to tour bus is about three hours."

richy asks: "Would you mind telling me which song is your favourite song on "Six"? "Special/ Blown It"? That's my favourite!"

Chad: "Richy, how have you heard the album when it's not out yet??"

Handy man asks: "Take it easy chicken, Stripper vicar...where do you come up with such great song titles?"

Chad: "Inside out brains. Most of them are word play really. We're into puns and spoonerisms."

Stove: "It all comes from Monty Python."

phil asks: "Do you still play Take it Easy Chicken in your live set?"

Stove: "Yes, we do play Take it easy Chicken."

Chad: "Every time!"

Stove: "It's the only song we've played every time"

Sam asks: "Are you going to see MSP in Chester?"

Stove: "We'd love to. We will be playing with them in Europe at the end of the year so we'll get to see them then."

BlokeXV asks: "We know one of you stalkers! He gets in the way of photos all the time...have you noticed a big bleached male head?"

Stove: "That's me! I'm in the band."

Web Toed Wonder: "If you could have been born a girl who would you be?"

Stove: "But I don't bleach me hair. It's natural!"

Stove: "I would be a girl Blade Runner."

Chad: "Sporty Spice."

Dave Nattriss asks: "Hey guys - Paul, can you call me - I gave Chad my number on Friday. Anyway, what is your reaction to the NME review of Six? Do you care?"

Chad: "I've given your number to Paul. He's gonna ring ya."

Spanky asks: "If you could be shot out of a cannon who would you most like to hit?"

Chad: "Monica Lewinsky. I'm not into the harassment that Bill is getting. It's an obvious set-up."

Stove: "Yeah and he fell for it."

beeb: "Big discussion going on about the US president..."

Keith asks: "What are some of the more obscure guitar effects used on Six?"

Chad: "The bel bf20 flanger, mxr flanger, tc electronics fireworks, eventide dsp 4000.......etc etc"

Sam asks: "Where's Paul?"

Stove: "Doing other interviews"

Chad: "In my pocket."

Keith asks: "Any plans to headline a show in Dublin soon? I saw you in Belfast in March, excellent stuff."

Stove: "Yeah. Hopefully. We went over and played Dublin last week at the Point. Good to see a few Mansun fans showed up. As we were supporting Page and Plant. Hopefully we'll have our own show."

Ali asks: "Are you famous enough that lots of people recognize you when you walk down the street?"

Chad: "No."

Stove: "No not really"

pvc asks: "I don't believe it's just guitars on six...how do you get a guitar to say "this is sky news?""

Chad: "How have you heard the album before it's released?? Please don't misconstrue everything we say...obviously it's a bit of a sweeping statement to say it's only guitar on the albums because there's drums too. There's also a few obvious samples and bits of piano but the rest of it including the sound effects is done on guitars."

Stove: "See you on tour."

phaedro asks: "A question about the concept (?) in the video "being a girl". Is it one of those nice demos of what it's like being in a gang? And who's the girl you're talking about/to? Anyone's sister?"

Chad: "Well the video was...we picked that video out of three or four video treatments but it's a director's interpretation of the song."

Stove: "And the song title isn't to be taken literally about being a girl."

Chad: "It's sort of metaphorical for your natural curiosity about what it's like to be someone or something else. It didn't have to be called being a girl. it could have been called being a zebra."

Da Fringe asks: "What makes you laugh? Because you always look dead miserable in your pictures. Is life really that bad?"

Chad: "Haaaaaahahaa."

Cheriy asks: "Where do you get your clothes? They all look good!"

Stove: "We get our clothes from charity shops."

Chad: "Most of mine are hand-me-downs from my older sister."

Sam asks: "How come I didn't see the 7-inch of Being A Girl anywhere in Liverpool? I only found it by accident when I was in Manchester. Was it that much of a limited edition?"

Chad: "More limited than the cds. We don't have control over what the shops order in. If they only stock the cds then that's out of our control."

Rob asks: "How's it going in the studio? - I hear that you're recording trax for the next ep"

Stove: "By the end of this weekend we will have finished all the tracks for the next EP."

Fran asks: "What song would you most like to cover and why?"

Chad: "Give Me Everything by Magazine."

Stove: "New York Mining Disaster 1941 by the Bee Gees"

pea brain asks: "You went through a period where you were branded as bad boys by the press, trashing hotel rooms and the likes. Was that a fair tag or were the stories wrong?"

Stove: "We can't recall the press calling us bad boys because we never read it."

Jooly asks: "what's your fave website?"

Stove: "Top of the pops website."

Chad: "And the Mansun website - www.mansun.co.uk, and the Star Wars website"

Stove: "And South Park"

Mighty Mouse asks: "Do you think there was any good in the so-called Britpop movement or do you disown it all?"

Chad: "I think it ruined British guitar music. Up until about 1993 guitar bands were exciting and then they all became very boring until about last year when everyone decided they didn't want to know anything about it anymore."

laid-backhen asks: "Hey guys, it's Kate here (from Mansun's secret lurve bunker!) - how's going? Did you get the copies of our Mansun'zine 'Smelling the Roses'?!"

Chad: "Yeah we did yeah. And it's fantastic."

Stove: "Hello"

Rob asks: "Can I join the band? - I can play maracas"

Stove: "No, you're too talented."

Keith asks: "For your October gigs, you choose the support bands from demos sent to you. Any stand out bands to recommend?"

Chad: "Plasticene from Chester."

Chad: "We've short listed all the bands we need for the tour now and we're going through the process of working out the bands to play. We're gonna hold on to all the tapes anyway for future reference because we prefer to choose our own support bands."

Shaggy asks: "What would you sell your mother for?"

Chad: "Cash."

Stove: "Hard currency. As long as it's all unmarked bills than can't be traced."

Chad: "No consecutive serial numbers."

Boing asks: "Who is the little kid talking at the end of the album?"

Chad: "It's my nephew."

Dave Nattriss asks: "Anything interesting to look out for on TOTP tomorrow in your performance?"

Chad: "My invisible keyboard."

Stove: "And Andie on stilts."

Dave Nattriss asks: "What's going on with you in the US? Loads of people want to know when 'Six' is out there."

Chad: "January I think. And we'll be going out there early next year."

Mayyee asks: "Our fanzine is called Mansun's only HK fanzine! it's out lately! so watch out your mail box! Chad and stove!!!!!!!!"

Chad: "Ok we'll look out. Thanks."

Cat Woman asks: "What happened to all your old drummers? Are you ever tempted to cover Spinal Tap songs?"

Chad: "Yeah, I wanna cover Working On A Sex farm."

Adrian asks: "You say that the new album Six is going to sound a lot different form Attack of the Grey Lantern. What have you done differently?"

Stove: "We've left out all the epic big string arrangements synthesizers etc. It's mainly a live guitar album. It now represents a bit more how the band sounds live than the first album."

Chad: "It's nice to know that someone doesn't have a promo and still has some patience."

Mayyee asks: "Chaddddd! Will you be the main vocalist in some songs in the future?????"

Chad: "Maybe on one of the b-sides on the next EP."

Kiki Kollapsible asks: "If you could have been born with an extra organ what would it be and why?"

Chad: "A Wurlitzer. I always think they sound better than Hammond."

Stove: "I'd have a extra arm so I can scratch myself in more than two places."

pick asks: "I love the art work for Being A Girl and for the new album who comes up with them, they're better than the usual band photos"

Chad: "They're our ideas carried out by, well, the album cover was painted by a professional artist and a design company creates the sleeves."

Jooly asks: "Have you ever got to meet any of your rock heroes when recording for TOTP?"

Stove: "I met Diana Ross last year. I got her autograph for my mum. She was lovely."

Chad: "Peter Andre. He was very nice."

Tuna Salad asks: "Are you tempted to do something very Rock n' Roll on TOTP, like show your bum or be sick on the audience?"

Chad: "Stove shows his bum frequently. Nobody wants to see it."

Stove: "I just happen to do it when there are no cameras around."

Rob asks: "Chad - can you teach me how to play the geetar?"

Chad: "When I've got the time and you've got the money."

Jon asks: "Hi, I live in Gloucester... you apparently played a gig at the Guildhall.... did it go well (I do like to think my fellow townspeople treated you well) ?"

Stove: "The gig in Gloucester was brilliant. Why didn't you go??"

Jess asks: "where's it all going and will it end -any thoughts?"

Chad: "It's heading towards the final almighty thing, the exploding finale of light and sound."

Stove: "It'll end at the end. Who knows how many chapters there will be."

Cheriy asks: "What books are you reading these days?"

Stove: "I'm reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. I'm reading it before I see the movie. I just finished reading American Psycho which is a very good read as well."

Chad: "I just finished reading My Noisy and now I'm reading Mr. Strong."

Stove: "Yeah it it took you months."

Chad: "I just finished The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. It's about a fellow who has a stroke and he suffers from complete paralysis."

jupiter asks: "What do you think was your best live show ever?"

Stove: "Reading Festival last week was great, definitely the best festival we've played. My favourite show was in Chester, our home town, last year."

Chad: "Glasgow last May was great."

Stove: "Yes."

Keith asks: "Is it true that Chad's hair is illegal in Malaysia?"

Chad: "Yeah."

Stove: "He wouldn't tie it back for a tv show so we left."

Chad: "It was never long enough to tie back but they said are you going to do that or get it cut off."

Rob asks: "do you ever come to blows with each other?"

Chad: "No."

Stove: "Never."

Chad: "Definitely not."

Sam asks: "I'm not allowed to use the chat relays on the university computers. What's my excuse if I get caught?"

Stove: "Just tell them to sod off if you get caught."

Chad: "Just tell them you got there by mistake and don't know who Mansun are."

laid-backhen asks: "Chad - how are the laces?! Any more plans for their own web site?!"

Chad: "Laces are fine, they're in the boots."

Jooly asks: "When you were kids, did you used to imagine yourselves on TOTP?"

Stove: "Not really. I always imagined myself being on Match of the Day."

richeyRAXEL asks: "What's your masterpiece? Chad & Stove?"

Stove: "Musicwise, The Chad Who Loved me on the first album."

Chad: "I created Stove, he's my masterpiece."

Melissa asks: "What would you all do if you weren't in Mansun?"

Stove: "I'd still be working in a graphics company where I worked before the band started."

Chad: "Working in a pub serving beer to them."

Mayyee asks: "Stove..... have you received any articles on James bond from the post lately? 'cos i have sent you some...."

Stove: "I get James Bond memorabilia all the time. And thanks to everyone who sends it to me, send some more."

Dave Nattriss asks: "Me and some friends are thinking about starting a Mansun tribute band. Would you approve of this - and would you show us some of your solos Chad?"

Stove: "Yeah, 'course we would as long as you let us come hang out with you in the studio. What would you call the tribute band?"

Chad: "Stove and Andie say you was better than me when you played with them anyway."

Rob asks: "what would you do if Paul asked you to cover "Bros"?"

Stove: "Er, call the doctor?"

Chad: "Cover Bros in what?"

Chad: "Paul wrote the lyrics."

mike asks: "You had all the record companies trying to sign you and instead you put out a release on your own indie label. Why?"

Stove: "'Cause we couldn't decide."

Chad: "The original release on Sci Fi Hi Fi was before anyone knew about the band. It was really because that got played on radio One by Steve Lamacq and John Peel that the record companies wanted to sign us."

richeyRAXEL asks: "Chad, do you like Winnie The Pooh?"

Chad: "I'm reading a book at the moment called Pooh and the Philosophers."

Rob asks: "Who would you most like to play "naked twister" with?"

Stove: "Hey, what do you think we're doing right now? beeb, right hand to yellow square."

Fran asks: "If I go on holiday to Chester, what should I visit?"

Stove: "Go around the Roman walls. It's beautiful."

Chad: "Go to Liverpool."

richeyRAXEL asks: "r u the real Chad and Stove?"

Stove: "No we're the human model latex versions. Chad and Stove are encased in carbonite, hibernating for the October tour."

beeb: "...a quick word from the 'real' Chad and Stove to say goodbye..."

Stove: "Thanks to everyone who came online today. It's nice to see everyone. Hope to see you next week at the Virgin In-stores. Otherwise see you on tour in October. Hope everyone enjoys the new album."

Chad: "Byyyeeeeeee! Dunno how Stove thinks he can see anyone. He must be talking to the people in his head. But it was nice seeing what you were typing in."

beeb_: "That's all we've got time for with Chad and Stove. We hope you enjoyed chatting with them. Don't forget that we are live backstage from Top of the Pops every Thursday, with one of your favourite bands."