Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: mandotim Date: 17 Nov 10 - 05:57 AM My first ever band at school had a name culled from a random opening of a science textbook; the name? De Broglie Wavelength. The bass player went on to better things. He was (name drop) Maartin Allcock. Jethro Tull and Fairport Convention don't have the same cachet though, do they? |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: MGM·Lion Date: 17 Nov 10 - 05:40 AM Mattkeen ~~ Love that one. Out of interest ~ a. Did you actually have a George Herbert; or a George &/or a Herbert? or any real rationale beyond the merely delightfully referential? b. What sort of music did you play? ♥♫❤Michael❤♫♥ |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: mattkeen Date: 17 Nov 10 - 05:31 AM I once once in a band called George Herbert and the Metaphysical Poets |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: mandotim Date: 17 Nov 10 - 04:59 AM Simon Mayor used to play in a band called 'Slim Panatella and the Mellow Virginians'. |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Ernest Date: 16 Nov 10 - 03:48 PM Ialways liked that name of a western swing trio: "The Hot Club of Cowtown" |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: GUEST Date: 16 Nov 10 - 03:09 PM In his pub rock days, James Hunter used to bill himself as "Howlin' Wilf". I once saw a hand-written sign in a North London pub window for a country/bluegrass act called "Banjovi". "Norfolk & Chance" was actually a racehorse, but the name would suit a slightly second-rate folk duo even better. |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: raymond greenoaken Date: 16 Nov 10 - 12:42 PM Dr Strangely Strange The Pasadena Roof Orchestra The Faulties |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Leadfingers Date: 16 Nov 10 - 09:14 AM Very Good R&B band from High Wycombe back in thbe early seventies - 'Brewers Droop' - and the Uxbridge Ceilidh Band -'The A40 Improvement scheme' ! Duo I was in post 'Fools Gold' was 'No Turn Unstoned' . aka 'The Psychodilly Banjo Beards From Hell' |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Splott Man Date: 16 Nov 10 - 05:58 AM Red Molly is a character in the Richard Thompson song Vincent Black Lightning 1952. |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: lefthanded guitar Date: 15 Nov 10 - 06:26 PM Red Molly... still don't know what it means, is it some sorta mutant tropical fish? great name, great band You know, I hadn't thought about it for years, but when I was young I always thought "The Beatles" was a brilliant name. I guess they hit the mark. |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: maple_leaf_boy Date: 15 Nov 10 - 05:46 PM I almost forgot "Alert The Medic". These are local bands. They tend to have interesting names. |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: oldhippie Date: 15 Nov 10 - 04:17 PM Beat Farmers Cocktail Slippers |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: maple_leaf_boy Date: 15 Nov 10 - 12:54 PM "The Divorcees" and "The Whisky Kisses" are cool band names. |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: MGM·Lion Date: 15 Nov 10 - 12:38 PM I think my UN-favourite has to be Edward II and the Red Hot Polkas. Think of its horrible implications! Ugh! ~Michael~ |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 13 Mar 10 - 09:47 AM There's a San Francisco band called Belle Monroe and Her Brewglass Boys; for years I've been trying to get my jam group to adopt the name Once Born Gospel Singers (the first name attached to us was Point Isabel Poodle Players since the two original members met at the Point Isabel dog park while walking their poodles. I, the third member was never comfortable with that since it disrespected my dogs, Labradors. I tried to get a couple of other names adopted as well, Charlie Bond and the Bail Jumpers and Monday Night at Sally's (time and location of our regular jam). When I record with some of the members we are Kratz&Jammers. Of course I've always liked The Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service...oh, and Dire Straits. And, in old timey/bluegrass The Dry Branch Fire Squad. Another great name and great band, The Austin Lounge Lizards. Charles |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Jayto Date: 12 Mar 10 - 06:21 PM The Bad Seeds. That has been my favorite for years now. |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Rowan Date: 12 Mar 10 - 06:02 PM I remember a group entered in the Chorus Cup at Wagga Folk Festival in about 1978 that was called "Guru Murrumbidgee and the Stock Routers". That was when many folkies (and others) in Oz had become adherents of the Maharishi, not long after many others had become members of the Divine Blight, which became another short-lived group. On an earlier thread I can't now find I mentioned that the first all-female rock band in Oz was called "Hens' Teeth" (from Canberra?) and a later, better-known one from Sydney was "Ovarian Sisters". While playing with "Flying Pieman" I occasionally guested with the Melbourne bush band "Rum, Buggery and the Lash"; both groups were known to make reference to flashing pink privates while assembling sets for the Dashing White Sergeant. "Cockies' Joy" and "Messmates" are both names I've liked and used when playing specific repertoires to relevant contexts. And there's a group of Sydneysiders with a maritime repertoire who, when past their thirties, formed a group called "The Roaring Forties". Great names, all of them. Cheers, Rowan |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: GUEST,CupOfTea Date: 12 Mar 10 - 10:24 AM Imagine if Monty Python named an all-male a cappella ensemble specializing in choral music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance - they couldn't do any better than Suspicious Cheese Lords It almost takes some of the fun away to know it's based on a mondegreen of a Latin lyric, but it is my favorite early music group name. Joanne in Cleveland |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Date: 12 Mar 10 - 02:21 AM PS: Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart (as well as having a good name, deserve a mention as when I first started realising that these old songs existed, I learned my second traditional song off 'em! The Blacksmith ) |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Date: 12 Mar 10 - 02:04 AM Megadeth (funny, tho' not intended to be) Ultra Vivid Scene Momus (Roman god of debauchery) Ozrics Tentacles Alice Cooper (when contrasted with Kate Rusby?) The Hot Club of France The Mothers of Invention They Might be Giants Butthole Surfers Echo and the Bunnymen Peter, Bjorn & John (for hip retro styling) A Tribe Called Quest The Cat Empire Captain Beefheart Siouxsie and the Banshees Soil & "Pimp" Sessions (for the quotation marks..) L.F.O. (Low-frequency ocsillation) Bebop Deluxe Cocteau Twins Ian Dury & the Blockheads Groove Armada House of Love think I aughta quit there.. |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: alanabit Date: 12 Mar 10 - 12:52 AM Ivor Biggun and the Red Nosed Burglers, with their classic "The Winker's Song". Now that could be a good one for Little Hawk's recent thread! |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Matt_R Date: 11 Mar 10 - 10:55 PM Whoops ... their full name is Wild Billy Childish & The Friends of the Buff Medway Fanciers Association. |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Matt_R Date: 11 Mar 10 - 10:44 PM Wild Billy Childish & The Buff Medways |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Allen in Oz Date: 11 Mar 10 - 10:33 PM There was an all-girl band playing in Tamworth , New South Wales, Australia known as: Doris Dazed (their leader was Doris) AD |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Tattie Bogle Date: 11 Mar 10 - 08:00 PM Slight thread drift here, but the talk of Gay Gordons reminds me that at Stonehaven Festival they have an aqua ceilidh every year in the town's outdoor (but warmly heated!) swimming pool. Dance list: The Spray Gordons The Splashing white sergeant Slip the Willow The Naval Two step Aquarian Barn Dance Highland Splattische The Flyfishing Scotsman The Spraysome Reel etc, etc |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Folknacious Date: 11 Mar 10 - 12:23 PM But never have a band name that's better than the band. Ceilidh Minogue spring to mind |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: frogprince Date: 11 Mar 10 - 10:51 AM I still think that, for names that were really "right", and so well chosen as to be a real career asset, the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead are both hard to beat. |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Arnie Date: 11 Mar 10 - 09:43 AM I always liked The Dead Sea Surfers as a band name. Saw them once in High Wycombe and they all wore Hawaian shirts and shorts and brought a bit of sunshine to the club - they were as funny as the name suggests. At a bar in the same town, I also met Morris, from Morris and the Minors which is another great name. I think he told me that he wrote The Deserter that Simon Nicol and Fairport now perform. |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: topical tom Date: 10 Mar 10 - 09:52 AM The Mother Folkers The Four Bitchin' Babes |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Splott Man Date: 10 Mar 10 - 09:32 AM Bobert... Blodwyn is a Welsh girl's name. It means white flower. |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: glueman Date: 10 Mar 10 - 08:31 AM Butt Hole Surfers, Half Man Half Biscuit, The Pork Dukes, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, The Upsetters, Thirteenth Floor Elevators. |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: mikesamwild Date: 10 Mar 10 - 08:18 AM The Dashing White Privates were a short lived dance band ( maybe a Kippers title?) The late great Tony Capstick would conclude a moving piece with 'Not a dry seat in the house' |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Dave Hunt Date: 09 Mar 10 - 09:13 PM Three friends had a band doing 30s/40s songs - Trio con Brio - great name! Still very active - The Titanic Syncopators (A band on ship!) Some of the bands I have worked with as a caller :- From above - 'Les Miserables and the Proper Pissers' - that's got to be you Ian! or is it Baz??(and it was Les as in Dawson and Miserables as in English miserable) Llandaff Hope(A band from South Wales), Syphon the Python, The Expanding Waist Band, Bass Insincts, Alf Alfa and the Wild Oats, Ceilidhography, Desperate Measures, Metric Foot, Cwm Dancing, Melons for Ecstacy, Hoover the Dog, Wall Star Village Band, Top Tup Band,(from Derbyshire), Used Notes, May Contain Nuts (another great name - and very appropriate!). Miss Trunt |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Bounty Hound Date: 09 Mar 10 - 07:18 PM Several years ago, when ther trend was for a band to be 'Someone and the.......' there was a barn dance band called 'Gay Gordon and the Dashing White Sergeants' and equally brave, a rock band called 'Buster Hymen and the Penetrators' |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Tattie Bogle Date: 09 Mar 10 - 07:13 PM Yes, definitely heard THEM! You must be from near where I live P the S, where there is also a band called DISBAND. |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Peter the Squeezer Date: 09 Mar 10 - 04:56 PM How about "The Betty Swallocks Band"? |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: MGM·Lion Date: 09 Mar 10 - 11:53 AM Another I remember was Telephone Bill and the Smooth Operators, run in his youth by Cambridge singer Nick Barraclough who went on to be a BBC Radio 2 presenter. (For furriners ~ a telephone bill here is the account for payment sent quarterly by the telephone company.) In a different field, I always found Barenaked Ladies intriguing, as its members were neither. |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: alanabit Date: 09 Mar 10 - 09:32 AM Ken Wood and the Mixers were a UK R&B band in the eighties. I always liked the name "The Temperance Seven." There were actually nine of them, because, as they explained, "We are one over the eight!" |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: GUEST,band Date: 09 Mar 10 - 09:12 AM I saw a flyer for a band in Copenhagen called 'throbbing gristle'. |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Bobert Date: 09 Mar 10 - 07:41 AM My all-time favorite name was the band, "Bloodwyn Pig"... Not too sure why... Maybe if I knew more about the word Bloodwyn it might be a different story... My second favorite was a short lived country-rock band that I was in in the 70s... We called ourselves, "Doctor Rupert and the Wiggly Digits"... Just say "no to drugs"... lol... B~ |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: A Wandering Minstrel Date: 09 Mar 10 - 07:33 AM I once had the (very brief) pleasure of being one of the line-up of the a capella trio - Flatt, Capp and Muffler |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: mikesamwild Date: 09 Mar 10 - 07:26 AM The Stunt Kites played round Sheffield I always liked a name in Annie Proulx's Shipping News - Bleak Joe Cove sounded a bit Billy Bragg on a pessimistic day away from Dorset |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: kendall Date: 22 Feb 10 - 04:18 PM Generic |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Tattie Bogle Date: 21 Feb 10 - 06:38 PM My son's new band, "The Escort Knights": guess they get a few strange requests! |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Jack Campin Date: 20 Feb 10 - 06:30 PM In early music: The Callipygian Players |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: GUEST,Guest Date: 20 Feb 10 - 04:59 PM Les Miserables and the Proper Pissers. |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: fat B****rd Date: 20 Feb 10 - 03:56 PM Achilles and his Heels, Machine Gun Fellatio, Howlin' Wilf (sorry not a band, but still a great name) |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: folkypaul Date: 20 Feb 10 - 09:58 AM How about "Me First & The Gimme Gimme's" a great band who only do covers. Differently. PaulO |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Splott Man Date: 20 Feb 10 - 06:16 AM Beat me to it Boston Bass. They still occasionally reassemble for a laugh. They have the honour of being name-checked by Peter Kay on Phenix Nights. |
Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre] From: Boston Bass Date: 20 Feb 10 - 03:22 AM I believe there is/was a band in Wales called "Cliff Rescue and the Helicopters" Wish I'd thought of that one. |
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