Though the extraordinary amount of talents involved led the band to split up in a burst of distorded noise just days before its first gig, Fred and Frank kept in touch, planning a trip to Los Angeles where they, fools, thought their own demos would raise the attention of their all time hero, ex-Utopia leader and producer Todd Rundgren, who they'd been in touch with through his Patronet web service.

Once there, and before they even got the chance to localize Todd's place, the boys hotel room on Alta Loma road, West Hollywood, was burglarized and all of their money was stolen. Broke, they decided to drive the Valley up and down in search of odd jobs, and eventually landed at Sound City Studios where they got hired as cooks by Italian born chef Carmine. None of them knew how to boil an egg.

There, they spent a couple of months cooking pastas for a dozen of musicians and sound engineers, hanging in the studio workshop (which they one day accidentally set fire to), and sleeping in the rest room at night to save the money they needed for their return flight tickets.

Luck was still on their side, but they were not to realize it before Boston experimental band Ghost entered the studio with malaysian-born french drumming wizzard Faez, who Frank and Fred soon befriended, and who with they decided to form a band as soon as they'd be back in Paris, where they finally landed in the fall of 2004.

Named after Carmine's favorite joke (« Attenzione a kiss kiss bang bang di papa Carmine, i francese ragazzi ! »), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (K.K.B.B.) was born. The boys soon began rehearsing in the french countryside, where Frank's family owned a warehouse packed with drenched 70's porn magazines and World War Two used equipment (including a german light tank), building up their songs patiently, and recording them live on an 8-track analog recorder. Unfortunately, they had to leave this creative heaven last january, when a polish pipe manufacturer moved in and urged them out.

Their pockets full of new ideas, they moved back to Paris where they started to hang out in search of a bass player who would be as tough and graceful on the neck as Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon. They needed genuine style and inspiration, not the six-stringed muso type. Laurencina - who they'd met on the shooting set of a Sonic Youth video in their coffee tech days - had both of them. She also had white leather boots and a killer vintage short scale bass. K.K.B.B.'s line-up was complete.

Now rehearsing in a parisian studio they want to keep the name secret, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang are preparing to hit the road with a unique set of pop songs that blends together an explosive variety of influences, ranking from 70's american pop music to indie rock, progressive nuttery and contemporaries such as twisted belgian act dEUS, Blur, Soulwax or Canada's favorites The Arcade Fire, to name but a few.

Sunset Boulevard's hip rock clubs might still be far ahead on the road, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang's fresh and inspiring sound already makes the band one of the most promising acts on the new french rock scene.