My band needs a name

Subject: My band needs a name
From: GUEST,Frank
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 08:06 AM

My band nees a neam - we play mostly Irish and some mountain/American folk
any ideas?

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 08:21 AM

As you play some American stuff go to the Mandolin Cafe, they have a ' Random bad bluegrass band namer, ' it will pick a name for you.

Dave H

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 09:05 AM

How about: "The Band They Couldn't Name" or "A Band too Dangerous to Name"

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 09:17 AM

Either of the US entrepreneurs who raped the Irish subsidy system -

Don Bluth Enterprises
John DeLorean

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 09:17 AM

Mountain Celts

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: topical tom
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 09:22 AM

or Celtic Mountain?

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 09:35 AM

I can see where this is going:

Cunning Celts?

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: gnu
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 09:35 AM

Type "Band name" into the filter... been a few threads like this.

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: IanC
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 10:01 AM

You could have one of ours. We've been variously
      Wet Cement
      The Anciant Mariners
      Flash Company
      Rough Music
      The Combine Harvesters
      Nobby's Nuts
amongst others.

Take your pick!

:-)

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Rasener
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 10:05 AM

Yankee Panky

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Ythanside
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 10:19 AM

Irish Lightnin'

Hill Folk

Greenhill

Ameriky

Ould Country

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 10:34 AM

Black Mountain

Six Jolly Soldiers [NB won't work if band membership < 6]

the Rambling Royals

Hoops of Flame*

Frank, Frank, Frank and Frank [NB adjust according to number in band; may require some negotiation with fellow band-members]

*Jon Langford reference

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 10:42 AM

How about 'Brian' or 'Cyril'?

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: BobKnight
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 10:55 AM

Lee Cooper and the Wranglers.

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 10:56 AM

Id say Cyril with out a doubt

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 11:13 AM

I recently went to a bluegrass concert, and I realized that the purpose of bluegrass is to showcase fine stringed-instrument playing. (The band had guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo and string bass.)

I suggest you think of a local feature such as a mountain, river or creek and name your band The [Local Feature] String Band.

This will convey where you are from and how you sound, but it will not limit you to any particular kind of music. If you want to leaven the mix with a Greek tune or Czech polka, nobody can complain of false advertising.

In my opinion, 'Celt' and 'Celtic' are getting worn out. The world seems to be dividing among those who have no idea what you're talking about and those who sneer.

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: GUEST,jeff
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 11:18 AM

Always thought my cousin had a great name for a band: Jimmy Jackson

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Rasener
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 11:20 AM

The Vest String Band

The Cheese String Band

The Shoe String Band

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 11:24 AM

'G' String band?

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 11:36 AM

The Universal String Theory Band, relatively unknown as yet

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Megan L
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 11:40 AM

Ooops

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: GUEST,MV
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 11:45 AM

Country Craic
Mountain Craic
Mountain Gael
The Feckin Good Country Band


MV

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: GLoux
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 12:12 PM

Kerry Mountain Boys
Kilarney Colonels
Peat and the Bogtrotters

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Rasener
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 12:15 PM

Yankee Frankie

The Tampon String Band

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: gnu
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 12:21 PM

Well... this has nothing to do with this thread.... never stopped me before, eh....

I just heard a heavy metal/rock tune on the radio... "Whiskey In The Jar".

Seriously... I swear. I swore, too.

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: breezy
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 12:24 PM

The Tickoes

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Bernard
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 12:39 PM

Efac Tacdum

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 12:41 PM

Sons of the 40 Shades

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Rasener
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 12:51 PM

Frankie Vaughan

Frankie Went To Hollywood

Frankie And The Hankies

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: GUEST,jeff
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 01:13 PM

My alltime favorite name for a band was a bluegrass band from Pittsburgh. It was an all female Bluegrass band called 'The Bush Wackers'.

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 01:21 PM

The Green Mountain Boys

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: HipflaskAndy
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 01:26 PM

I'm quite taken with the band name... The Duncan McFarlane Band
...no complaints from any other band members in seven years...
only from the wife of one of the other band members!!
But when she tries to interfere with the band business
too much, we all usually riposte with the
word 'Dobly' (due reference to Spinal Tap)

Go for it, Frank! (but what's your surname?)
All the best - Duncan (in full jesting mode)

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: ClaireBear
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 01:29 PM

Claude and the Hoppers
The Bumpkin Band
The Pondhopping Stringband

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Piers Plowman
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 01:57 PM

You Call That Folk?

(That's my suggestion for a band name, in case it was unclear.)

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Piers Plowman
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 02:04 PM

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: GUEST,leeneia - PM
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 11:13 AM

"I suggest you think of a local feature such as a mountain, river or creek and name your band The [Local Feature] String Band."

I'm orginally from Evanston, Illinois, so I could call my band "The Chicago Sanitary Canal Boys" (if I had a band and it was all-men).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Sanitary_and_Ship_Canal


"In my opinion, 'Celt' and 'Celtic' are getting worn out. The world seems to be dividing among those who have no idea what you're talking about and those who sneer."

How about "The Worn-Out Celts"?

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Piers Plowman
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 02:13 PM

McCoolplay

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 02:14 PM

"Malawi International Airways String Quartet?"
"Mickey Finns"
"Shaughnasteigh" (Pronounced 'Shawnessy' or 'Shag-nasty')
"Haddaway & Scheidt" (Named after a North-East of England Law Firm)

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Rasener
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 02:18 PM

The String Bean Band

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 02:38 PM

So long as it's not The Beech Bouys" for obvious reasons!

L in C

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 02:41 PM

Hope Frank reappears to tell us his choice! and will there be a prize....? :)

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 03:02 PM

I believe my daughter used to sing (on occasion) with a group called Piper Doon (as in piper down - the bagpipes were broken or the piper was out of commission - I don't know which) at a pub called WB Yeats in Chapel Hill North Carolina.

Somewhere in that little story of performing trad Irish Folk in an Irish pub in the middle of the Appalachain mountains there has to be a name for a band.

Appalachian go bragh?

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Jas
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 03:16 PM

The Terrific Eejits?

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 03:44 PM

It was an all female Bluegrass band called 'The Bush Wackers'.

When I first saw the planxty Fanny Power I thought, what a great name for an all-female band...

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 03:46 PM

Kate informs me that it is also known as Summer, Summer


Les

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Fortunato
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 04:05 PM

CUCKOLD HENS(/B)

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Fortunato
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 04:08 PM

Oops, slight error, should have been:

                   CUCKOLD HENS

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Neil D
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 04:36 PM

Foggy Mountain Dew

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 04:40 PM

Frank and the Cold Mountain (or some other mountain...) Assassins

or substitute a holler for mountain... Frank and the Foggy Holler Assassins.

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Bob Hitchcock
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 09:17 PM

Lets see, Irish Bluegrass, there's a concept.......

What about something like "The Dublin Mountain Boy's"

Just a thought.

Subject: RE: My band needs a name
From: Barbara
Date: 21 Feb 09 - 12:10 AM

Pip Radish
When I first saw the planxty Fanny Power I thought, what a great name for an all-female band...
That only works on the European side of the pond, friend. Over here it has a different name.
Blessings,
Barbara

I think I recall from the top of the thread that Frank was in North America, but maybe not...