Subject: What not to call a band From: Mo the caller Date: 03 Oct 09 - 06:57 AM I've just been looking at the Water Aid website and clicked on the Manchester Ceilidh. There was very little detail but it said Gay Gordons. I wondered if this was the name of a band, but Google really is no help. They are almost as unfindable as a Smith in a phone book. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Declan Date: 03 Oct 09 - 06:59 AM I always fancied calling a band Many More. You would get lots of Fesival gigs, but always be bottom of the bill. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Mo the caller Date: 03 Oct 09 - 07:04 AM I sometimes call with Full House, but was told that by a dancer that people might not go to the dances, thinking they were sold out. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Steve Shaw Date: 03 Oct 09 - 07:09 AM The story goes that, in Patrick Street's early days, the band had booked into an hotel, to find when they arrived that just a single room had been booked in the name of Mr P. Street. :-) |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: SteveMansfield Date: 03 Oct 09 - 07:10 AM I used to be part of a band called Trebuchet, and indeed they've carried on without me. We thought we'd be beaten in the search engines by the medieval seige engine - but it certainly didn't strike me that we'd also be fighting for Goggleability against every mention of the font .... Other things not to call yourself probably include Free Bar And Buffet Late License Don't Expect Paying etc. and I can't imagine anyone would want to call themselves after certain tunes - Jack's Maggot springs to mind ... |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine Date: 03 Oct 09 - 08:56 AM "Many More" certainly get about, but not as much as "TBC" or my favourite act "Plus Local Support" Names that are easily mis-pronounced or misspelt are always a bad move. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: wysiwyg Date: 03 Oct 09 - 09:17 AM "All-Request All-Stars" NOT! ~S~ |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST,AndyJames Date: 03 Oct 09 - 09:50 AM How about: Please Observe Dress Code Mensa Members Only Featuring Extended Tin Whistle Improv (ducks flying tin whistles) |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: John MacKenzie Date: 03 Oct 09 - 10:18 AM Mike Hunt and the Beavers Wayne Kerr, and Full Supporting Cast |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Geoff the Duck Date: 03 Oct 09 - 10:33 AM I'd like to see Ducks flying tin whistles... Quack! GtD. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: oldhippie Date: 03 Oct 09 - 10:43 AM Free Beer Tomorrow |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST,Tunesmith Date: 03 Oct 09 - 10:51 AM The rock band Free had trouble in their early days with venues saying that audiences thought that the performance was free. But some names I think are just stupid; for example, why would a Scotish band want to call themselves Texas? |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Alice Date: 03 Oct 09 - 10:58 AM The Out of Tuners |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 03 Oct 09 - 11:01 AM avoid anything that's smells bad or seems dirty. (I haven't picked up an issue of 'Dirty Linen' yet.) I agree that 'Patrick Street' is not a good name for a band. People who have never heard of the band think it's just a solo gig. Are they still in business, by the way? |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Little Hawk Date: 03 Oct 09 - 11:02 AM The Major Losers George Bush Jock Itch The Acne of Success The Rolling Scones Really, the possibilities are endless... |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST, topsie Date: 03 Oct 09 - 11:07 AM There's one near here called Saxon Drain, possibly after the place they practice? I find the name so off-putting that I've yet to go and hear them. [apologies to any members of the band who might be reading this] |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: BobKnight Date: 03 Oct 09 - 11:09 AM A good way of avoiding the tax man - "Private Function," which is a wee bit suggestive as well. :) |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Leadfingers Date: 03 Oct 09 - 02:22 PM All the bands I have been in NEVER wanted to be called Too late to get a drink ! |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Dave MacKenzie Date: 03 Oct 09 - 05:31 PM When I was with "Tripe and Onions" we ended up calling ourseves the "Tripe and Onions Band" |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: John MacKenzie Date: 03 Oct 09 - 05:54 PM I blame Paddy Marchant. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Acorn4 Date: 03 Oct 09 - 06:23 PM In the days of cassette tapes "Head Cleaner" might have been quite successful! |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Barbara Date: 03 Oct 09 - 06:33 PM No Cover or maybe things like Dueling Accordians Cat Fight Bagpipe Band 2 Stoned 2 Play Blessings, Barbara |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 03 Oct 09 - 06:43 PM "Time Gentlemen Please" "Gastric Band" "Five Fingered Widow" "Jason and the Arguments" Don T. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Bat Goddess Date: 03 Oct 09 - 06:43 PM Free Pizza Clod & Brisket Always loved the named Starboard List. Linn |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Ross Campbell Date: 03 Oct 09 - 07:24 PM Upcoming Shows at Fleetwood Folk Club, Thursday nights at the Steamer, Dock Street, Fleetwood, Lancashire 8 Oct 2009 20:30 Former Residents of Fleetwood Folk Club 15 Oct 2009 20:30 Party Night - 40 years of Fleetwood Folk Club 22 Oct 2009 20:30 Bonded Boots 29 Oct 2009 20:30 Free Sandwiches Sadly, we were unable to book Free Beer (Tomorrow or any other day). Check http://www.myspace.com/fleetwoodfolkclub if you don't believe me! Ross |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Jack Campin Date: 03 Oct 09 - 08:00 PM Right now in Edinburgh, you wouldn't get many bookings if your band was called "Tram Works". |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST,Nick E Date: 03 Oct 09 - 08:27 PM To Be Announced |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Artful Codger Date: 03 Oct 09 - 08:55 PM "The (your-name-here) Experience": well, I guess disappointment is an experience. "The Newbies" "Ocarinas and Bagpipes" "Second Door on the Left" "Great Expectorations" "Last Minute Replacements" |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Little Robyn Date: 03 Oct 09 - 08:57 PM My husband is in a band called Last ones out - because by the time they've taken down the sound system they usually are. Robyn |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: M.Ted Date: 04 Oct 09 - 02:53 AM I could make up funny names, but they'd just be made up names. Here are names that people really used(including links to their music, when possible), though God only knows why--The Worst Band Names of 2007 |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST Date: 04 Oct 09 - 02:59 AM Blood Bourne Pathogenes - aka - BBP |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Nick Date: 04 Oct 09 - 05:10 AM Cancelled Due to Illness |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: catspaw49 Date: 04 Oct 09 - 05:55 AM We Suck Can't Play for Shit Navel Gazers Pickin Boogers Happy Blues Band Actually its hard to think of dumbass band names as so many are real........... Toad, the Wet Sprocket Alice in Chains Dropkick Murphys Cradle of Filth Hoobastank Death Cab for Cutie....a personal favorite Spaw |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Dave Hanson Date: 04 Oct 09 - 06:09 AM Hitler Youth Band. Dave H |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Tradsinger Date: 04 Oct 09 - 11:32 AM I liked the name of the band from Hampshire - The Itchen Scratch Band. There is an ageing rock group in Gloucestershire called The Shy Teds (think about it). I would like to call a band Porky Pie and the Flying Pigs. Tradsinger |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Tim Leaning Date: 04 Oct 09 - 12:09 PM Band in Scarbro area Shy TalK |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: meself Date: 04 Oct 09 - 12:25 PM There was a band in my neck of the woods some years back that had named themselves after the Blue Rodeo hit, "Bad Timing". I guess they just didn't think it through .... |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Nicholas Waller Date: 04 Oct 09 - 12:31 PM On the Googleability front - which wouldn't have been a consideration when the bands were formed - you'd think "Muse", "Yes" and especially "The The" would be terrible band names but it turns out they all come up first or second choice when I google for them. Even "Free" comes up fourth. I should think calling your pub/folk-circuit band by some popular pub name - Queen's Head, White Hart, Royal Oak - would cause confusion. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Steve Shaw Date: 04 Oct 09 - 03:25 PM To take a cue from the Kipper Family, hows about "Norfolk 'n' Good?" |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Richard Bridge Date: 04 Oct 09 - 06:33 PM I think that one's been done Steve. "Drunk on Stage" "Suffer little Children" "Paedophile" "The BNP" "Give it up for Jesus" "The Conservative Party" "Braille Beauty Contest" "Howler Monkey" |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Steve Shaw Date: 04 Oct 09 - 07:01 PM Well I can't find it on this thread, Richard. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Bat Goddess Date: 04 Oct 09 - 07:09 PM There used to be a local (Portsmouth, NH, USA) rock band called "Jiggle the Handle". And there used to be a local pipe band called "FTITCTAJ" (pronounced "fa-tit-ca-tage"). The initials stood for "Fxxk Them If They Can't Take a Joke". Linn |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Vic Smith Date: 04 Oct 09 - 07:46 PM Tradsinger wrote I liked the name of the band from Hampshire - The Itchen Scratch Band. To be honest, that was a one-off pick-up band for a dance in Southampton and I just happened to be the caller. Fortunately, the band I normally work with has a much more sensible name. Vic Smith (member of The Sussex Pistols) |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Fidjit Date: 05 Oct 09 - 12:28 AM I have friends who call themselves "Still no Bagpipes" I've often said that I am a one man ceilidh band called "Left Leg Over". It's a chauvinistic reference to when friends ask "How are you getting on?". The sexist reply is ,"Left leg over". The groups I am actually in are "Halmstråket" which is Swedish and translates to "Straw Bow". The other group is called "Fidjits" Hence my Mudcat name. Chas |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Peace Date: 05 Oct 09 - 12:38 AM RE: What not to call a band The Elastic The Rubber The Head |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Barbara Date: 05 Oct 09 - 12:54 AM The Gastric ..to follow Peace's lead. Blessings, Barbara |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Richard Bridge Date: 05 Oct 09 - 04:23 AM No, what I meant, Steve, was that after the Trunch input on the topic I think there actually was a band of that name. I ahve thought of another "THe Gary Glitter reunion tour" |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: bubblyrat Date: 05 Oct 09 - 04:36 AM Don MacKenzie (Glasgow,but now Gosport ) and I were sometimes known as " Aha !Don!" , and we were both in bands aboard carrier HMS Eagle,he in "Sounds Fayre" and me in "The Guinness Grenadiers" ; later,we teamed up with Martin Horan and others in Gosport as "Hay Fever" so called because we got up peoples' noses . |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Vic Smith Date: 05 Oct 09 - 05:05 AM How about Canny Play which would have totally different meanings in Glasgow and Newcastle? |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST, topsie Date: 05 Oct 09 - 05:32 AM "Hay Fever" - How about Hey Fever? |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST,Dave hunt Date: 05 Oct 09 - 07:17 AM I have called with these bands Syphon the Python Les Miserables and the Proper Pissers Cwm Dancing (love that one - some members from Wales) May Contain Nuts |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Mr Happy Date: 05 Oct 09 - 09:08 AM 'Names that are easily mis-pronounced or misspelt are always a bad move. ' ....recalling some time back at Chester FF, a local folkie acting as MC in a marquee concert, announcing a band called 'Sileas' as ' Silly Arse'!! |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Charley Noble Date: 05 Oct 09 - 09:34 AM One of my favorite suggested names for our dance band was "Further Ado." I figured no one could plan a special event without giving us a call. The worst suggested name was "Down the Loo." We settled for "The Sea Slugs." Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Doktor Doktor Date: 05 Oct 09 - 09:45 AM For a while we had "Earem & Greive" on singers nights & the ever popular "Come All Ye" |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Mark Ross Date: 05 Oct 09 - 09:59 AM There was a duo back in the day in Greenwich Village that called themselves "Free Beer". And then, there was "Breakfast Special" which had as members Kenny Kosek, Andy Statman, Tony Trischka, and Stacy Phillips. But the worst band name I've ever run across was here in Eugene OR; a punk band that called itself FUCK GOD IN THE FACE! Mark Ross |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: John MacKenzie Date: 05 Oct 09 - 10:00 AM The Shy Torques |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Sailor Ron Date: 05 Oct 09 - 10:15 AM I was once in a group called "Skidmarks", we didn't get any bookings [mainly because we were crap]. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine Date: 05 Oct 09 - 10:29 AM I have to admit there was a certain naive honesty about the band that called themselves "Bob's little brother's mate's band" |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: theleveller Date: 05 Oct 09 - 10:39 AM Whatever you do, don't call yourself Whipstaff because that's our name. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Charley Noble Date: 05 Oct 09 - 10:45 AM One of my best names for a sea music band has to be "Roll & Go." We get product placement in many traditional sea shanties. The only downside has been the persistent attempts by portable toilet vendors to purchase our name. We would never sell out for money! Cheerily, Charley Noble Roll & Go, Inc. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: frogprince Date: 05 Oct 09 - 10:46 AM I guess it was Saturday Night Live, years ago, that did a take off on the Smucker's "With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good" slogan. A co-worker's husband came up with something at the time that could be just as "good" for a band: "Dead Rats In A Drain Pipe". Then again, it just occured to me that "Weird Smell in Corner" has a certain ring to it... |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: banjoman Date: 05 Oct 09 - 11:14 AM I once played in a band called "The British standard Brown Ale & Black Pudding Band" Didn't get many gigs as they couldn't fit our name on their posters. We later changed the the name to "Dis Band" which later evolved into The Old Trout Band which is still very active in Hampshire and the Southern counties |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: HuwG Date: 05 Oct 09 - 01:56 PM I knew some Chemistry students who formed a punk band named "Hoffman Degredation". It's a chemical process by which an organic amide is converted to an amine, and involves the loss of a carbon molecule from the alliphatic carbon chain. <yawn> By the time they had explained the origin of their name, for all I know with chalk and overhead projectors (no PowerPoint presentations in those days, thankfully), the gig was almost over. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Anne Lister Date: 05 Oct 09 - 05:02 PM I always wanted to be in a band called Lemming Moran and the Tarts. It didn't happen. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: bubblyrat Date: 05 Oct 09 - 05:07 PM Many years ago ,"Private Eye" magazine kept going on about a group called "Spiggy Topes and the Turds".... I rather liked that. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: DPF Date: 05 Oct 09 - 09:26 PM I recently came across a heavy metal band in western Massachusetts calling themselves "Skillet". Unfortunately, they looked serious. Very Serious. I'm sorely tempted to let them in on the joke. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Bryn Pugh Date: 06 Oct 09 - 07:35 AM Farquanelle ? |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Gedi Date: 06 Oct 09 - 08:15 AM how about "The Fold Arts Band" Ged |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Mooh Date: 06 Oct 09 - 08:53 AM Once, for a year and countless gigs, I played with a singer who chose to switch from his own name to a "band" name, in an effort to appear more democratic to the band. He was a tyrant either way. He named the band "By Special Appointment". Folks would approach us and ask what our name was and why the gig was by special appointment. Stupid name. Some years later there was the band "...and the Penetrators", not related I believe to the many current bands with a similar name. All we got were drunken house parties and the like. Figures. I couldn't keep up to the level of partying anyway. Peace, Mooh. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Steve Shaw Date: 06 Oct 09 - 09:10 AM I suppose The Nipple Erectors would be, at least, er, eye-catching on a poster. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST Date: 06 Oct 09 - 11:57 AM The Glitter Band |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: John MacKenzie Date: 08 Oct 09 - 05:36 AM Prick up Your Ears! |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Mr Red Date: 08 Oct 09 - 11:47 AM There is a shanty duo in Gloucestershire called the "Two Anchors". |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Jim Dixon Date: 08 Oct 09 - 01:05 PM Some Minnesota Bands: Front Porch Swingin' Liquor Pigs Trampled by Turtles Two Many Banjos Pert Near Sandstone (Sandstone is a town in Minnesota) Not from Minnesota, but I once met a busker who said he was a member of Shoot the Hostages. Oddly enough, the guy played good Irish fiddle, but you don't hear that in the band. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Rasener Date: 08 Oct 09 - 01:31 PM Too many posts to go and read at the moment. has anybody done R Souls Dicky and the Condoms |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Richard Bridge Date: 08 Oct 09 - 02:35 PM Karaoke Old Skool Disco Under 18 night. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Rasener Date: 08 Oct 09 - 02:41 PM Vin Garbutt |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Willie-O Date: 08 Oct 09 - 02:50 PM If you're not in Canada, you probably don't know about the Polaris Prize, and that this year it went to veteran punk band Fucked Up. Should have heard all the perorations of that name on the radio the next day...many (as in the case of mentions of another prominent Cdn band, Holy Fuck), called it "effed up". The CBC decided their announcers wouldn't say "Fucked Up" but that it was okay to run the sound clip "the award goes to...Fucked Up." There's also another long-running outfit in Toronto "Bunchafuckingoofs". BFG if you like. Makes me sound pretty tame, which is how I like it. I used to be in the Seldom Heard, after which I swore off self-fulfilling prophecy in band names. I like The Media Darlings better. W-O |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Richard Bridge Date: 08 Oct 09 - 06:27 PM Vin Garbutt is not a band, it's a speech writer. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Mooh Date: 08 Oct 09 - 09:12 PM There sure are a lot of singers named Kara Oke, or one that gets around like VD, so I wouldn't choose that name. Peace, Mooh. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: John MacKenzie Date: 09 Oct 09 - 05:09 AM Juan Kerr and the Seamen |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST,Ian Gill Date: 14 Oct 09 - 02:25 PM I was a member of 'Les Mis and the PP.S' for a while.We weren't that bad actually! Very sadly in the 70's I was also a member of a band called 'Plughole' - who lived up to their name in terms of career progression...what not to call a band, indeed. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: MikeofNorthumbria Date: 14 Oct 09 - 06:47 PM HuwG >>I knew some Chemistry students who formed a punk band named "Hoffman Degredation"<< Nice one Huw. When I was a guitar-playing chemistry student many years ago, some friends and I talked about forming a band called "Al D. Hyde and the Ketones". Never got around to doing it, but I believe somebody else eventually used the name and achieved a modest success. Ah well, another career opportunity missed! Other possible names for chemistry student bands might be "Bunsen and the Burners", "The Harvard Synthesis" , "Hell, Volhard and Zilinsky", or "The Green Yard Reagents". Or possibly not! Wassail! |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: scouse Date: 15 Oct 09 - 04:23 AM I well remember in Southampton years ago there was a bunch of guys who called themselves the "Stinkin' Prongful." Sang with a few of them!! As Aye, Phil. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Bryn Pugh Date: 15 Oct 09 - 05:17 AM Since there is a thread about the Manchester Sports Guild folk club currently, who could forget Big John MacAtee's Baekelite Nipple Band ? |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Date: 15 Oct 09 - 07:43 AM We did think of renaming "Blind Panic" to "Bland picnic" for a vegetarian gig. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST,Malcolm Storey Date: 15 Oct 09 - 09:24 PM There used to be a band called Blue Anchor up Middlesborough way and of course one of Vin Garbutt's early albums was called King Gooden! and the Watersons performed alongside the Rubber Band. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: JesseW Date: 18 Oct 09 - 02:38 PM There's a filk group called Roadkill out there -- I'd be sort of afraid to hear them if they were on tour... Excellent thread, BTW -- lots of guffaws reading it. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: frogprince Date: 18 Oct 09 - 09:46 PM The wife and I spent a while yesterday at a nearby cider mill listening to "The Porta Potty Pickers". No lie. While I don't expect to see them on national television any time soon, they were more than good enough to put on a really enjoyable country-style show; respectable picking, respectable singing and harmonizing, and very diverse and well chosen repertoire spanning everything from stuff at least 80 years old to Guy Clark, Tom Paxton, and Garth Brookes. Just 4 guys from 50ish to 70ish having a lot of fun. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Luthier2b Date: 18 Oct 09 - 11:43 PM The band names that cam immediately to my mind were: * Stage Dark * Spot O'pot * Mike Recker * Barry Manillow * Just Paroled * Klezmer King Krimson * Aunty Semite * DOA * Wrong Date * Closed For Renovation |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST Date: 19 Oct 09 - 05:02 AM One of these days, I'm going to form a bluesy pub-rock band full of fat, balding middle-aged men. We will be called Prostate. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Bryn Pugh Date: 20 Oct 09 - 04:49 AM A name like mine lends itself to parody. My former flatmate, Greame, suggested Grim Spew and the Come Stains. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Jack Campin Date: 20 Oct 09 - 07:37 AM A young traditional band would be well advised not call themselves The Kiddie Fiddlers. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST Date: 20 Oct 09 - 08:50 AM "We've All Slept With The Banjo Players New Wife" |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST Date: 25 Oct 09 - 07:04 PM anyone remember Pete Ness and the Four Skins? |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST Date: 11 Feb 17 - 10:05 AM From Southampton JABB (just another bloody band) Bruce Roberts had a band called Fester and the Vomits. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: JHW Date: 11 Feb 17 - 10:51 AM 'one of Vin Garbutt's early albums was called King Gooden' and there was Shy Tot Pommie |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Richard Mellish Date: 11 Feb 17 - 03:37 PM I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned The Otterby Band, so called because they "oughta be banned". |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST,Tom Mycock Date: 12 Feb 17 - 05:52 AM I play in a ska band, we used to gig quite regularly with Catch-It Kebabs, also a local ska punk band called Special Guests. My own pet hate is bands with numbers and / or punctuation marks in their names, don't know why but it gets on my wick. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: ced2 Date: 12 Feb 17 - 07:20 AM Snotty and the Nose Pickers |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST Date: 12 Feb 17 - 09:05 AM My mate Arthur & me are both getting on a bit & became Arthur Itis and the Plastic Hips |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 12 Feb 17 - 10:18 AM In the current US political climate, it probably wouldn't be a good idea to name a band "Truck Fump". It's not a bad name, but you'd be risking bodily harm if one of the more rabid supporters of a certain future ex-president should get the joke. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Bonzo3legs Date: 12 Feb 17 - 01:38 PM Ugly Abbotts!!! |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Gallus Moll Date: 12 Feb 17 - 07:48 PM There was (maybe still is?) a band in the Glasgow area called 'Willie and the Hand Jive'. I used to be amazed when I saw posters /adverts for them in pubs and other venues -- must be my impure mind! |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: llareggyb Date: 12 Feb 17 - 07:59 PM With a nod to the Two Ronnies, *don't* call your band "What's yours" My brother played in a group called "Sound of Silence" Now that's not so much bad as lame, lame, lame. He wanted the name to be "Brick Window" - now there's a *good* name! |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: eftifino Date: 12 Feb 17 - 11:00 PM There was a Melbourne group in the '80s called: Farmers Union Creole Kings But they had to change it when the folk saw the bass drum! I personally like Peter Sellars' satirical: Turk Thrust and the Y-Fronts. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST,DeanofRochester Date: 13 Feb 17 - 01:02 AM I loved Giles Smith's book Lost in Music, when he played in a band in Essex called 'Pony'. They got loads of gigs in Essex, but whenever they tried to get a gig in London, were just laughed at. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST,Tom Mycock Date: 13 Feb 17 - 03:05 AM I play guitar and sing, and I've a friend who does likewise, whose surname is Balls. We have often joked about doing a musical collaboration, Mycock & Balls. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: BobL Date: 13 Feb 17 - 03:18 AM Local duo Novak & Goode briefly contemplated becoming a trio, Steele Novak & Goode. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: TheSnail Date: 13 Feb 17 - 08:49 AM The Omega 3 Excellent band but impossible to Google for. Following the chemistry references, there used to be a band here in Sussex called Maxwell's Demon which is a thermodynamics reference but a good name without knowing that. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Mo the caller Date: 13 Feb 17 - 09:43 AM A Google friendly name is important. So it needs to be obvious how you spell it, and not bring lots of unrelated results. Friends had a group called after an old song "Mirie it is " They had someone ring up and ask for Merryitis - like some illness where you can't stop laughing I suppose. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Howard Jones Date: 13 Feb 17 - 10:48 AM To answer Mo's original question, there is a Scottish country dance group for the LGBT+ community in Manchester called the Gay Gordons, so it could be them. Seems like a good name to me. Not too hard to Google if you give it a few more clues - "gay gordons folk dance manchester" finds them top of the list. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Dave the Gnome Date: 13 Feb 17 - 10:54 AM A friend of mine started a band called Snotty Stones and the Turdbenders. This was in the late 60s - Well before punk :-) DtG |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: BrooklynJay Date: 13 Feb 17 - 05:13 PM Back in the early 1980's, I tried to get a musician friend of mine to start a mock-punk band that would feature the lead singer disemboweling himself onstage. (I do theatrical and special effects makeup.) The band's name? Captain Colitis and the Running Sores. Sadly, the band never got off the ground, but I still occasionally find myself thinking back to "Oh, what might have been..." Definitely a concept that was before its time! Jay |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Mrrzy Date: 13 Feb 17 - 10:32 PM On the other hand... |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 14 Feb 17 - 05:17 AM Australian folkie Martin Pearson formed a trio called The MP3. Try finding them on Google! |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST,Mark Bluemel Date: 14 Feb 17 - 08:03 AM Suffering from a complete lack of inspiration, we were called BWNN (the Band With No Name)... |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Hagman Date: 15 Feb 17 - 04:34 AM A very succesful long-running band down here in Oz was/is Weddings, Parties, Anything... |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST,Eddie1 (Cookie lost forever) Date: 15 Feb 17 - 06:30 AM Back in the 60s there was a band in the Edinburgh area called "Late Licence" cause they reckoned their name on a poster ensured a good -sized audience. I used to sing with a guy called Bill under the name "Edible Pear"! |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Will Fly Date: 15 Feb 17 - 06:52 AM My favourite (real band) name is Robert Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders. A friend of mine once played in a jug band called King Edward's Easy Scrapers. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Jack Campin Date: 15 Feb 17 - 09:17 AM Not an obvious choice of name given that "The band's first performance was in 1988 at Putnam's mother's house in front of some family members, namely his mother, his two little brothers and his grandmother, as well as some of his mother's friends"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_Cunt |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST,Mark Bluemel Date: 15 Feb 17 - 10:12 AM There seem to be quite a few functions bands called "Got It Covered" - hard to know if you're booking the one you thought. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST Date: 15 Feb 17 - 10:15 AM Some more real names: A band in Falkirk that call themselves "The Lazy Boys of Banknock" (Banknock being a place near Falkirk). A band that used to play at Loanhead Festival - The Betty Swallocks band (think about it!) And "Celtic Corrections". And in tribute to "The Silly Sisters" my friend and I call ourselves "The Crazy Cousins". |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Tradsinger Date: 15 Feb 17 - 07:47 PM There's a group of aging rockers in this area called "The Shy Teds". |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 16 Feb 17 - 11:02 AM A band's name should tell you that it's a band. Shy Teds, Crazy Cousins, Cheap Serenaders are all okay names, because they let us know that humans are involved. It's bad when you can't tell whether the name denotes a band, a song, an album or a venue. Mirie it is, MP3, Weddings Parties Anything - those names are too precious and don't help get gigs and make money. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: sleepyjon Date: 17 Feb 17 - 05:10 AM Tried to get some friends to go out as "Perry Stolsis and the Motions" but for some reason they didn't go for it - ? SJ |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Stanron Date: 19 Feb 17 - 07:24 AM The Well Oiled Machine? |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Merritt Date: 16 Mar 17 - 04:52 PM Well, I've pitched Day-Old Donuts as a band name any number of times and so far never had anyone agree with me that it's just an awesome name. So, based on that experience, I guess it's what not to call a band. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST Date: 17 Mar 17 - 07:16 AM "Gig cancelled" |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Severn Date: 18 Mar 17 - 07:05 AM Then there was our old Bluegrass band, named The Sheep Mountain Boys after a country boy's first love affair...... And I was part of a Gospel Quartet down in Georgia that, somehow, nobody ever took seriously..... And there was a holiday caroling group from India called the Mhari Krishmas that used to sing at airports before 911....... |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Severn Date: 18 Mar 17 - 07:08 AM Whoops! That aforementioned Gospel Group from Georgia was called The Macon Believers...... |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Mr Red Date: 19 Mar 17 - 06:36 AM I am surprised no-one has suggested: the Trump Pets The Orange-a-Tans the White Hearse I see a theme arising............ |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Sarah the flute Date: 19 Mar 17 - 08:23 AM I play and call in the Aqueduct Ceilidh Band. On our big bass drum we have written The Adequate Ceilidh Band and have a picture of a rather well known viaduct. It creates a talking point at gigs - check out our website to see a pic. We also went through a band name choosing with a kind of South London theme and came up with Eltham John, Catford Stevens, Jonah Lewisham and Deptford Leopard |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Snuffy Date: 19 Mar 17 - 12:28 PM The Hackney Martians has to be one of the best names ever actually used. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST,Biffo Date: 19 Mar 17 - 05:34 PM My album was goan to be "See inlay card for details" |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Mr Red Date: 20 Mar 17 - 05:17 AM Hackney Martians LOL what about the "Pinner 4"? "Bow & Harrow Brigade" ? "Waltham Stoics" "Harringay Gordons" "Theydon Boys" "Wool Itch Jumpers" "Epsom Psalters" "Feltham Hall" "Shirley Knot" And avoid, at all costs, any mention of Cockfosters |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: GUEST, Paul Slade Date: 20 Mar 17 - 10:51 AM There was a bit of craze for cowpunk and pub bluegrass here in North London a few years back. One of the bands this spawned was called Banjovi. Genius! I also have very fond memories of Psycho Ceilidh, who used to play a Finsbury Park pub every Sunday afternoon. They did a great version of Lou Reed's Vicious, which went like this: You're savage, You hit me with a cabbage, Three times a week on average! Baby, you're so savage. |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Bat Goddess Date: 20 Mar 17 - 06:28 PM There used to be a band around Portsmouth, NH called Jiggle The Handle. Linn |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Tattie Bogle Date: 20 Mar 17 - 08:45 PM We play in Edinburgh about 6 times a year, and rebelled against being called a band, as it seemed too exclusive, so came to a mathematical solution - we are the Cafe Ceilidh X-tet (where X = any number), so anyone can come along and join in! |
Subject: RE: What not to call a band From: Mo the caller Date: 21 Mar 17 - 09:26 AM I like that one. Not a "what not to call" at all. |
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