The Barenaked Ladies don't just make music, they also make jewellery.

In recent years, the Canadian fivepiece, who've been knocking about since the late Eighties, have gone all eco-conscious.

They fashion necklaces from their broken guitar strings (or at least get other people to do it), run their tourbus on Biodiesel and ensure their backstage litter is recycled.

The band's greening up is mainly due to vocalist and committed environmentalist Steven Page, who has formed Barenaked Planet - to help the band make their tour carbon neutral. Back in the days when the band started out and a carbon footprint was something the coal man left, the height of their worries wasn't global warming but finding a name.

Page and his pal Ed Roberston, who formed the band at a teenage summer music camp in Ontario, came up with the name while pretending to be music critics at a "lame" Bob Dylan gig. Name intact, their first effort, The Yellow Tape, was a self-produced, home-marketed, fivesong cassette, which went Gold in Canada setting their native recording industry on its ear and triggering a do-it-yourself indie revolution.

Over the next decade or so, BNL amassed an impressive catalogue, from their precocious debut Gordon to memorable hits like If I Had a Million Dollars, Brian Wilson and If You'd be my Yoko Ono.

Last year, the band came full circle from the days of their home-made indie cassette, returning to self-rule with their own label Desperation Records - albeit on a grander scale.

"Desperation Records and Barenaked Ladies Are Me (their tenth album)," Page explains, "are about forging new relationships with our fan base - online, in concert and on their stereos.

It's the fans who make our music and the lives we lead possible, so we're trying to get the music to them in innovative ways.

"Musically, we were very excited that we were on our own. It was daunting at first, but ultimately really liberating, to know we were the masters of our own destiny in this new world."

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