Banging toons: why bands such as Bis are making soundtracks for kids' TV

The Scottish pop-punkers aren’t the only ones making the jump from 6 Music to Nickelodeon pre-school cartoons

An architect cranks a lever, and suddenly Mr Salmonelli’s Leaning Tower of Pizza restaurant lurches to an angle. As pots and pans fly, a band slide into view, looking and sounding distinctly like 90s Scots disco-punks Bis. “We just can’t understand it / It’s not the way we planned it,” they trill, their colourful cartoon selves shrieking like a tartrazine-addled Dead Kennedys. Weird, yet it has become increasingly common for moderately hip acts to make the jump from Marc Riley on 6 Music to Nickelodeon pre school.

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