The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #10012   Message #2221403
Posted By: Mikefule
23-Dec-07 - 01:04 PM
Thread Name: Wonderful Performer's Names-
Subject: RE: Wonderful Performer's Names-
Six Hands in Tempo did a 25th anniversary reunion gig recently at Carrington Folk Club, and were still good.

The Red Hot Chilli Pipers are good too.

I recently bought an album by Deaf Shepherd, mainly on the basis of the name - a reference to Def Leppard, in turn a reference to Led Zeppelin). There is also a Tone Deaf Leppard, I think.

Rocky Sharpe and the Replays had a female singer called Helen Highwater. And she was very good indeed.

Reading some sleeve notes yesterday, I came across a reference to someone called Monika Pramstaller.

I have a rockabilly album by Johnny Legend and his Rockabilly Bastards.

There's a very good anarcho-punk band called the Rudimentary Peni.

Someone else mentioned the skinhead musical quartet, The Four Skins.

Then there's the plainly descriptive "Screeching Weasel".

A friend uses the nom de plume of Quince Cheese. I have sometimes toyed with the idea of building a "punk" Morris Fool's persona around the name "Dreadful Tosh".