"They've translated the lyrics? Oh no" Marina Vello, MC with Brazil's Bonde Do Role, could be right to be embarrassed after the Weekend Guardian included some potted summaries of their Portuguese lyrics in last Saturday's Guide.

With song subjects ranging from James Bond wishing he was a transvestite to raps about food, sex and bodily fluids, Marina freely admits they are not aiming to change the world.

"Leave that to U2," she says. "It is just funny jokes between us. We don't want to help people, we want to have fun."

Anyone in any doubt, and without a working knowledge of Portuguese, should only listen to the samples they include in their songs, which range from Manfred Mann's Do Wah Diddy Diddy to Summer Nights from Grease.

Marina says: "It's awesome when audiences realise. In the UK it's funny to play Darkness samples, because everyone hates The Darkness."

The band was started two years ago by Pedro d'Eyrot and Rodrigo Gorky who met while DJ-ing.

"I met Gorky because I used to go to the parties he used to DJ at," says Marina. "My cousin introduced me to him as they were looking for a girl to sing in an electro-rock band."

Since then they have been spotted by US DJ Diplo, who released their debut EP on his own label, before being snapped up by independent UK label Domino, which is releasing their debut album, With Lasers.

Despite all this, the band still doesn't have a record label in their home country.

"We have people who want us and want to release the album in Brazil," says Marina. "But we don't care much for Brazil now. We only play big places in Brazil because small places don't want to pay you. They think they are doing a favour to you.

"It doesn't work like it does in the UK or in the First world.

You can't tour in Brazil, they don't have the organisation."

The band will be touring with fellow Brazilians CSS across North America next month.

"CSS came out of the same situation as us," says Marina.

"Playing crappy places for no money and people who don't respect your work, thinking that you are only a stupid band.

They don't consider it like a job but you have to pay the rent."

Where Bonde Do Role differ from their countrymen is that they don't sing in English, preferring to perform in their mother tongue.

"It is a natural process to sing in Portuguese for us," says Marina. "It's natural and it is easier you know, you should sing in your mother tongue."

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