Best band name ever?

Subject: Best band name ever?
From: Faye Roche
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:30 AM

I nominate Telephone Bill and the Smooth Operators and Patti o'Doores and the Sunloungers.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: davyr
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:37 AM

Edward II and the Red Hot Polkas.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:38 AM

Machine Gun Fellatio

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Acorn4
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:40 AM

I went to one of our local folk clubs last night, where the landlady puts on a range of music. The band on next Saturday are called "Simply Crap".

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Mark Ross
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:54 AM

When I was in a jug band in high school we called ourselves

PRENDERGAST FARGANSWALLER AND HIS MERRY MARCHING SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF INSIGNIFICANT CAUSES!

There wasn't an MC in the world(or at least around New York City)who could get it right.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: pdq
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:05 AM

Butch Whacks & the Glass Packs

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:13 AM

Does it have to be a real band?

There's a local group here that's pretty good: Patty Good & The Bads.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Sleepy Rosie
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:13 AM

My Dad and his buddy form the aptly nomenclatured:

'The Booze Bland'

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: pdq
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:18 AM

Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Bobert
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:22 AM

I have always been partial to "Bloodwyn Pig" as my favorite...

BTW, when I play with a backup band I call myself "Sidewalk Bob and the Pedestrians" which I kinda like, too...

B~

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Martin Harwood
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:23 AM

The evocatively named "Johnny and the Prison Didn't Help Boys" from Sheffield.

Tribute bands throw up lots of punning potential. I always wanted to form a Marrilion tribute band called "Pish" and am currently working on "the Credible String Band"

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: pdq
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:28 AM

Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:30 AM

I was (extremely briefly) in a band called "The Nicaraguan Over Eighties Nudist Leapfrog Troupe"

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:34 AM

My mate Alan, rest his soul, was in Snotty Stones and the Turdbenders.

DeG

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:41 AM

The Cheap Suit Serenaders.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Mooh
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:41 AM

The Penetrators.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:43 AM

The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:51 AM

the Fugs

Government Mule

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 12:19 PM

Free Beer

The Can't Hardly Playboys

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Acorn4
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 12:20 PM

Skid Marks

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Chris Green
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 12:25 PM

A mate of mine was in a Birmingham-based outfit called the Balsall Heath Nihilist Spasm Band. And I myself was once the bass player for curiously-overlooked Coventry funk-rockers Rockin' Phunkapotamus!

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Spleen Cringe
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 12:29 PM

There used to be a band in Manchester called "Right Band Wrong Planet".

A personal favourite was my mate Gerry's old band "Macho Men Crack Under Pressure"

Right now Manchester boasts the wonderfully named "Starless and Bible Black" and virtual folk-rock band "The Woodbine And Ivy Band"

I always wanted to have a band called "Meat Soup Enema".

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: MC Fat
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 12:44 PM

I'll second Johnny and the Prison Disd't Help Boys (they're fab) but add my own combo(s) The McKamikazie Highlanders, Vince Wretch and the Puke..ettes and my latest project The Shit Creek Paddle Owners Club

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Dave P
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 01:02 PM

I was in a duo called "Two Blokes with Guitars"! You couldn't really argue with that

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Dave P
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 01:05 PM

Oh yes , and I was in a rock band called 'Edna Bucket'. It lasted 4 years despite the stupid name.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Dave Hunt
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 01:06 PM

Copied from a poster for a music night in Brum -

'Phat Boy Singh'

There are 'The Titanic Sycopators' - (they always go down well!) They really should do a CD called 'A band on Ship'

I have called with a band from South Wales called Llandaff Hope, and a band from mid-Wales called Cwm Dancing (great names)

I have also worked with Alf Alfa and the Wild Oats, The Carbolic Smokeball Company. Brown Boots and No Breakfast, the Electropathic Battery Band, Expanding Waist Band, Happy Daze, Melons for Ecstacy, Syphon the Python, the Top Tup Band and 'May Contain Nuts' (very appropriate given the lineup of Flos Headford, Rees Wesson and Chris 'Yorkie' Bartram)

For anyone vaguely interested there is a full list at
http://www.redowa.co.uk/sunshinearts/bands.htm

I'm to to 188, must make it 200 before I retire!

A friend was in a band called 'Les Miserables and the Proper Pissers' (and Les Miserables was the English pronunciation!)

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 01:09 PM

Always been fond of "Cheap Suit Serenaders" -- and a local band no longer around, "Jiggle the Handle".

Not a real band name, but I'd bet it would be a good draw -- "Free Pizza".

In sea music circles I like "Starboard List" and "Three Sheets to the Wind".

Linn

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: bubblyrat
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 01:31 PM

When living in Dorset a few years back,I was very fond of both "Woman Wants Tall Man " ( and he WAS ! ) and the incomparable "Hard Core Fluff ".I myself was in a band called "Hay Fever " (because we got up peoples' noses, as lead-singer Martin Horan put it ).

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: MARINER
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 01:36 PM

How about the latest Irish band Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys ?

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 01:57 PM

Fiddlin' Ginger Billy and The Black & White Pudding Benders.
A real band featuring fiddler Clive Collins, back in the '60's.

Seamus

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: wordfella
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 02:02 PM

Players to be Named Later

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 02:18 PM

I was once in a very short-lived band (one night only, which ended in us getting paid NOT to play any more) named "The Neon Wrestling Sneaker."

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Melissa
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 02:33 PM

the best imaginary band I belong to is called Arrogant Horseshit

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 02:37 PM

When aah was on an aircraft carrier (in the days of Phantom & Buccaneer jets) we had a band called 'Jett Blast & The Deflectors'

Theor was aalso a band of stewards caalled 'Bob Morley (the skipper's steward) and The Waiters'

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Peter the Squeezer
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 02:45 PM

Betty Swallock's Blues Band

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Surreysinger
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 02:50 PM

Always liked "The Lost Teeshirts of Atlantis" - never heard them, no idea what they sound like, but just like the name!

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Mark Ross
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 03:08 PM

There was a punk band around here in Eugene for a while called "Fuck God in the Face".

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: oldhippie
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 05:12 PM

The Beat Farmers.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Richie
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 05:17 PM

Name That Band

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Bainbo
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 05:26 PM

Bands I see advertised around here include the Grumpy Old Men, the Four Kinnells, and (this is in the North East of England) the Reet Hot Chilli Peppers.

But I think Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling keep coming up with the best name yet for a band -Fiscal Stimulus.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: masha
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 05:38 PM

the WhoreShoes
Blo Na Gael
Orange Possum Special

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Dave MacKenzie
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 06:22 PM

Among the names I've been involved in are the duos

Rasputtin and his Filthy Habit
and
The Kingston and Twickenham Economy Sized Big Band.

I still have ambitions for "The Tartan Bolshies"

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Fliss
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 08:14 PM

Hoover the Dog

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: olddude
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 09:16 PM

the kick shickers

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Padre
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 09:23 PM

Three that I played in:

None of the Above ('cause we could never agree on a name)
Harper's Ferry Porcupine
Doctor Kilmer's Jug Band, Medicine Show, and Storm Door Company

Padre

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Arkie
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:13 PM

Vince Vance and the Valients. Best known songs "All I Want for Christmas Is You" and "Bomb Iran".

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Jim P
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:40 PM

Connie and the Rhythm Method

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:03 PM

Since I am currently playing "Battle of The Bands" on Facebook, I get to see lots of name for bands - mostly forgettable, apart from the the unprintable, but I can honestly say that "The Fooles Troupe" is coming up the rating charts very nicely: we just need a few more bands to join our tour so we can get higher benefits and better gigs - they don't seem to want to hire nobodies...

Join thru our Facebook profile page.

Thank yew!

[exit stage left]

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,30_button
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:15 PM

Whiskers Before Breakfast, a defunct Washington area contra dance band.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 01:16 AM

There are a couple of bands whose names might not mean much to you if you haven't studied advanced mathematics: Axiom of Choice, and Aleph Null. Curiously enough, both play Iranian music.

Martin Pearson (note the initials) has put together a trio (note the quantity) called the MP3.

Klezmer bands like to come up with clever ways to get klezmer in their names. There's The Klez Dispensers, and an all-female group called Isle of Klezbos.

There was a couple who performed under the name Us Not Them (there was a reason, but it's a bit of a long story).