Thanks to Kim who typed up this transcript and made it available for us to use:)

Channel[v]: zed are in the greenroom at the moment, sipping cups of tea and doing other rock and roll kinds of things.... we'll be talking to them soon....

(They play renegade fighter and you can hear me in the background going "oh! they're playing zed!")

Interviewer(s): That was zed... this is zed on the big couch, Adrian, Andy, Nathan and Ben, welcome to the big show, if we had 10,000 people here they would all scream and clap, but the people who are here will go..... (fans go nuts, woooo hooooo ) glad to have you gentlemen.
ZED: thank you
V: Welcome, I, you are the first people from your contenent that i've really met that have come to your contenent since channelv's been in new zealand, do you actually see us over there?
Age: we dont
Ben: if your rich.... yeah.
V: if your rich? So what kind of people would watch channel[v] in new zealand?
Age: people that have cable tv.
Ben: Hill folk
V: hill folk?
Ben: yeah
V: alright, so they're, on, the hill...
Ben: Hill folk and shore folk...
V: sorry? So zed are, hill folk or shore folk?
Ben and age: No! We're swamp folk! *Andy is shore folk*
V: really?
Ben: yeah....
Age: yeah!
V: so you've come from the swamps?
Nathan: (finally) like, in christchurch, theres like, the hills and then you come down, and it used to be swamp, yeah, its all sort of....
Ben and Nathan: Reclaimed land!
V: oh, right....
Nathan: so, yeah, there you go...
V: GROTTY
(all laugh cute)
Age: hey, hey ,hey
Ben: grotty swamp folk, yeah

V: I didn't want to ask you because you know, like, australians have grown up telling New Zealand jokes and I thought how this would be a really good time to get back for your country. You've got about 4 million people watching would you like to tell your most cutting australian joke you can find?
Age: I think telling an australian joke in front of 4 million australians.....
V: DO IT!
Age: ...... just doesn't seem right
V: we say new zealand jokes all the time...
Ben: yeah.....
(here someone mutters something really weird like "saying australian, saying jokes" nathan?)
Ben: australian?
V: and thats it! Oh, very ZEN!! (or is it zed?) I'm liking that action
Nathan: like, most of the australian jokes that we've heard, like yeah, they've actually turned out to be fact, so yeah.
V: oh! Okay, so you don't have.... how many australians does it take to x and ah.....
Nathan: yeah-so-actually-they're-just-true-they're-not-funny-they're-just-true.
(cutest and fastest thing ever said! Zed laugh)
V: so, whats the truths you've found out about Australians?
Age: ummmmmm.....
(someone laughs)
Ben: well, you know that YOU DO have more sheep per capital than new zealand?
Age: YEAH!
V: do we really?
Zed: yeah, yeah, yeah
ben: we did our research.....
V: I don't really know about our wool industry i guess it doesn't really touch my heart....
Zed: right..... (laugh)
V: but that's the thing I did see most of while I was in new zealand, mountains and sheep, but anyway...
(zed protest quietly in the background)

V: you're a band, so we better talk about music, i guess.... the debut album is here folks... that's what it looks like, zed, with the record there (showing), its got some sort of Australian work in there, I think you did some work in Melbourne or something like that on it, but it's got a couple of tunes..... (couple? Try 13!)
you guys were, like, really big in high school and stuff weren't you?
Nathan: Well, we first started out there, yeah.
Ben: yeah.....
Ben: we weren't really BIG!
V: well, BIGGISH
Ben:.... we were getting there.. um... well... we released a couple of tracks while we were still um... long haired and pimple-faced and rock and roll.
V: that's alright! There's nothing wrong with being long-haired-pimple-faced-and-rock-and-roll
Ben: Now we just get the make-up put on so you can't see the pimples! Yeah, yeah.
(nathan's funny laugh)
Ben: Andy's still got long hair....
(finally Andy speaks! But he says something weird like...)
Andy: I love it, it's nice....
V: I'm assuming, the only, I mean most of the music we've heard from New Zealand over the last couple of months, is well, we had KING KAPISI in here the other day, he's cool, long hair.
Zed: alright! Yeah? He's cool.
Andy: He's a dude!
V:and of course you know John and the lads from shi-had who have moved to Australia and as you know have been nominated for Arias they've been here that long... is ZED gonna move to australia? Split endz style? Russel Crowe style?
Nathan: ooh.....
Ben: who knows? (let them down gently boys.)
V: speaking which, Congratulations on your behalf for Russell Crowe, I mean he is a New Zealander after all.
Zed: yeah, YEAH!
V: do you get pissed off when we call him OUR Russ?
Nathan: Aaaaah...
Andy: RUSTY! When you call him RUSTY, thats....
Ben: That's getting personal!
Nathan: that's too much!
Andy : OUR RUS-TY.....
V: our Rusty? (laughs) Well, we'll tell him you told us to say that to him... are you gonna move to Australia? Like SHIHAD ?
(Zed go a wee bit quiet..... pretty unusual, lol)
Age: Well... we could, we could be ANYWHERE in the world though, you see? With music, so we may just live out of a hotel in every city, so......
Ben: But Sydney is a very cool city... I mean.....
V: But you need a place to put your playstation, you've gotta have somewhere, where you know...?
*yeah, its called new zealand! You better recognise....*
zed: hmmmmm....
Nathan: and ben, BEN here was born in sydney so....
V: Oh! So your OUR BEN!?
Ben: yeah, yeah.
V: YAY! WE GOT ONE OF THEM! (laughs)
Ben: yeah, spent a while in the fetus, yeah.
V: well, that's, that's ? very splendid....so after this are you slipping around Australia for a little while, can people see you or are you just over here in Sydney doing a bit of press work?
Ben: (sighs) doing a bit of promo, but um, um I'm staying around to party for the weekend....
V: oh, nice...
Ben, and um, see the city and, um, get back in touch with my roots....
V: oh! It's MY BIRTHDAY tomorrow night, you wanna come?
Ben: love to....
V: oh! Sweet, alright, cool, I'll tell you about that later.....ummm....
...are you gonna come back and play properly?
Age: yeah, we're gonna come back and play, yeah.
V: what time? When can we expect this?
Andy: In may, MAY, may.....
V: in May?
Zed: yep, yep
V: so, like, are you gonna support with anyone or....?
Ben: there is gonna be something which we can't mention, coming up later in the year. *Its Coldplay!!!*
V: GO ON! COME ON! You've gotta have contraversy! Your a band in Australia, no ones gonna talk about you unless there's contraversy...
(zed laugh)
Age: We're supporting Metallica in August.
V: EXCELLENT!
Andy: ... and IRON MAIDEN
(the other three agree laughing) .... yeah, and iron maiden!
Age: yeah, but before that, we are gonna do our own dates in May...
V: please, don't even be teasing me about the IRON MAIDEN METALLICA!
(zed laugh over interviewer)
V: RIGHT, so ZED, supporting Iron maiden and metallica in spandex, you can catch them in may...
*SPANDEX????? I'M THERE!!!*

V: um, Its been lovely to have you gents, well we want to play you a video, I'm guessing you're gonna go homegrown?
(zed enthusiastically agree)... right, right.
V: well, which SHIHAD song do you want? I won't even ask.....
(zed laugh)
V: (impatient) which shihad song do you want?
Ben: the GENERAL ELECTRIC!
V: because....?
Ben: IT ROCKS!................... oh! It's a cool clip, yeah.
V: Do you inspire to be...?
Ben: these guys are New Zealand rock idols, and if you're a musician, you look up to them and ah....
Age: (laughs) they're Australian rock idols too...!
V: they are, they are... absolutely awesome..... I love shihad and this is probably one of the-most-awesome-videos-of-all-time.
Nathan: watch the intensity in this

V: apparently, we were going to get you guys on for a webchat.... but... we'll have to see how that goes.
Nathan: (weirdest/funniest voice) WE BROKE IT!
V: Yes, they where out here before, downloading pornography New Zealand! Infact they had never seen cable before... it was just too fast..... and they were just into it.... (zed crack up laughing) (nathan really loud)
V: this is the general electric, shihad, DEMANDED by ZED.....
 
 

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