The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #139563   Message #3621066
Posted By: Musket
22-Apr-14 - 04:26 AM
Thread Name: Best Band Names
Subject: RE: Best Band Names
Years ago at a festival, a band I was in followed The Hot Pot Belly Band on stage at a festival. I thought they had a cool name.

When I was playing punk, we changed the name of bands all the time, mainly to get repeat bookings at a venue that wanted to give priority to first timers, (The Ship in Worksop.)

We went through everything from The Raving Gingers to the "I'm not putting that on a poster!" Masturbating Malcolm and the Arsehole Lubricators.

In folk, a duo using our own names, we got a booking and they asked us what we called ourselves.   Trying to be a smartarse, I said Norfolk and Goode. An old joke but one he obviously hadn't heard, as we saw on the posters when we got there....... I don't know how many expected comedy but we played jigs, reels etc interspersed with Scottish ballads where everybody gets massacred.