Subject: Name our band From: Pete Date: 26 Feb 99 - 02:40 PM A few friends and I have just formed a folk/trad band and need a name!! Any suggestions? Pete |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Liam's Brother Date: 26 Feb 99 - 03:30 PM Hi Pete! Years ago, a group of people I knew in New York were forming a band. Margaret Barry, the Irish traveler who had supported herself all her life busking at fairs and markets, selling broadsides and having the "rare ould craic" in pubs from London to New York, was staying in my home at the time and the guys asked her their opinion on the band name they were considering. The name was in Gaelic and, while I don't remember the exact translation it was probably along the lines of "The Poets of the Night Who Fly Through Our Frosted Windowpanes with Musical Gifts" or similar. Margaret, who spoke no Gaelic and understood only slightly more, was at an uncharacteristic loss for words while the band members focused on every wrinkle of her furrowed brow. "Why don't ye call yerselves The Rigamaroulds," was her reply. This could be a lot of fun. Tell us where you're from, how many in the group, instrumentation, whether you want a serious or humorous name, more about your music and everyone will have a suggestion, I bet. All the best, Dan |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Lonesome EJ Date: 26 Feb 99 - 04:00 PM Here are some winners discarded by my band : The Swinging Richards Viagra Jones American Standard Rick Slick and the Tortion Bars
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Subject: RE: Name our band From: SeanM Date: 26 Feb 99 - 04:19 PM I'd just like to state that one of your names, 'American Standard', is taken. Specifically, by one of the more virulent White Power bands out there. Considering the original AS company manufactures toilets, I can't think of a more appropriate match... M |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: MMario Date: 26 Feb 99 - 04:23 PM when my singing group decided on a name, we spent eight weeks proposing and discussing names... the one we finally ended up using (and loving)came from an off the cuff e-mail discussion 10 minutes before the printing deadline that required a name for the group..... MMario |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Pete Date: 26 Feb 99 - 05:41 PM Well we are from Ireland, and there are 5 of us. One guitar player/singer, 1 bouzouki,fiddle, guitar & 5 string banjo player, 1 whistle player/singer, 1 tenor banjo player and 1 bodhran player/singer. We will play all the standard ballads Dubliners/Christie Moore stuff and mix in a few jigs and reels. Open to bookings for St Paddy's night!!! looking forward to all suggestions!! Pete |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: catspaw49 Date: 26 Feb 99 - 06:55 PM Have you considered the "Irish Massengils"??? I've always thought those 2 companies should get together on both product and advertising. I mean you could have the vacuous bimbo say her line: "I just LOVE the new Shape."......followed by the Irish stud saying: "And what a fine, fresh scent." See, if you could sell the companies, you could probably get the commercial music contract which would get your new band off to a flying start. Just a thought....... catspaw |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Alice Date: 26 Feb 99 - 07:30 PM I just refreshed the thread called "Help Name an Irish Band", and although the band is in Australia, you may find it interesting to read. alice |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: jo77 Date: 26 Feb 99 - 08:27 PM How bout 'Cant keep her sober' :) |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Den Date: 26 Feb 99 - 08:52 PM I always thought, since I play the whistle myself, if there were more than one whistle player you could call yourselves, "The Whistling Mothers", or how about Duncan Disorderly, The preening Accountants, Tog Mor, Ash plant, Christie Mor, Murphy's Law, Comeallya I think I need to lie down now, |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Cap't Bob Date: 26 Feb 99 - 09:49 PM Our band is called the POSEY LAKE AKADEMY STRING BAND. Before you fall off you chair laughing, I would like to point out that there several advantages in calling your self either an Academy or Conservatory, ~ such as Randall Street Conservatory, etc. If you have a good story teller in your group there are all kinds of tales that you can make up about things going on at your institution, reaserch projects,etc. This comes in handy especially when a string breaks or the band just needs a rest. We have even been known to give out computer generated diplomas. We play Irish, folk, sailing songs using about the same instruments that you fellows have |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: katlaughing Date: 26 Feb 99 - 11:07 PM How 'bout A Fifth of Forth, oops, wrong country, eh? Celtic Quintus? Quintus Maximus? QuinMax? Eno'! ***grin*** This IS fun! katlaughing |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Big Mick Date: 26 Feb 99 - 11:16 PM How about "I'm Not White, I'm Irish"? All the best, Big Mick |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Mary K Date: 26 Feb 99 - 11:27 PM what about "Nila" (just a name I've heard- no meaning)
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Subject: RE: Name our band From: The Shambles Date: 27 Feb 99 - 06:47 AM The Black Stuff? |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Paulied Date: 27 Feb 99 - 10:45 AM Aon Fhocail Eile One other word |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Lonesome EJ Date: 27 Feb 99 - 11:49 AM I was devastated to hear that the name"American Standard", a name that has stood for years for the highest quality in bathroom fixtures, has been adopted by a white supremacist band. Is nothing sacred? |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Alice Date: 27 Feb 99 - 02:02 PM Pete, give us a little more about the character of the group. Are you all from a particular town or county? Did you have a previous name you have dropped? Is there a word or idea with which you identify? |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Date: 28 Feb 99 - 12:10 PM I have always thought that "Eyrie" would be a good name for an Irish band, since it looks sort of Irish, and it would stick in a mind that was trying to work out of it was an acrostic, misspelled (should it be eerie or Eire or airy or Erie?) and means something completely different. Yours, Peter T. |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Scotty Rotten Date: 28 Feb 99 - 01:10 PM How 'bout...Five Leaping Leprechauns...Mud Pie Five...Green Beer Quintet...Cosmic Space Motor Club...Five -Leaf Clover...The Folkin' Five....these are _SO BAD_! ...No wonder I've never named a band in my life!...one more...Pink Chicken Good Luck, Scotty |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Date: 28 Feb 99 - 07:59 PM hot socks! |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: alison Date: 28 Feb 99 - 08:38 PM Hi, What about a literary slant on it...... Enid Blyton.... Five go mad in.........(insert name of town) Slainte alison |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Will (inactive) Date: 28 Feb 99 - 08:51 PM oooh ... I really like the "Enid Blyton" suggestion. continuing in that vein, you might consider "E. Nesbit" (Five children and it) |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Lonesome EJ Date: 01 Mar 99 - 12:23 AM How about "The Fenian Five"...maybe too political..."The Hibernian Union"?...You guys said you are from Ireland, that mean you are in America now? How about "Paddy West"? |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Barbara Date: 01 Mar 99 - 01:03 AM Paddy Far West? Bold Fenian Five? Gael Gaol
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Subject: RE: Name our band From: Cuilionn Date: 01 Mar 99 - 11:48 AM I reca' bein' verra proud o' masel' when I figgerit oot th' TRUE meanin' o' th' waird "Thingamajig:" 'Tis th' male equivelent o' a Sheena-na-gig. Dinnae ken how ye cuid mak a band name oot o' that, tho'... Gael-Gotha / Gae directly tae Gael / S쳌-Beg For M•r / th' ForMORians / Shameless Seamus / Ce•l Heat... Or ye cuid allus fall back on "Th' Pleasant Mother Pheasant Pluckers..." *ahem.* Sori! --Cuilionn, whae rilly ocht tae be wrichtin' her term paper insteid.
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Subject: RE: Name our band From: Cuilionn Date: 01 Mar 99 - 11:51 AM Ummm.... Peat an' th' Bogmen? Sori! --Cuilionn agin
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Subject: RE: Name our band From: Margo Date: 01 Mar 99 - 11:57 AM How about "the Bonnie Green ________________". You choose the last word. It could be comical, filling in with an object that isn't normally green except that you're Irish. It could be serious, as you could choose something that is representative of Irish national pride. Or as the title of the song about Napolean, you could call yourselves "the Bonnie Bunch of Roses" and all dress up like the little General. I know, it's pretty far fetched, but that's the way I think; eccentric and obtuse. Margarita |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: finch Date: 01 Mar 99 - 12:18 PM "Dr. Erin and her Gaelic Archipelagic Antipodeans" ArchipelaGaelic ? "Dr. Emu's...... "
As I play Hawaiian, was thinking of the geographically appropriate "Moose Sandwich Island Nordiques " |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Allan C. Date: 01 Mar 99 - 12:40 PM IRE! (Perhaps you do an angry protest song or two?) |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: The Shambles Date: 01 Mar 99 - 12:43 PM Resevoir Fish? |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Mippy Date: 01 Mar 99 - 03:49 PM Real Ugly Dudes Possum Face Wobbly Dog Rutting Pigs The Beatles |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Mippy Date: 01 Mar 99 - 03:50 PM Real Ugly Dudes Possum Face Wobbly Dog Rutting Pigs The Beatles |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Barbara Date: 01 Mar 99 - 03:56 PM Gaelbirds Spend the Nightingael FarthingGael Gaelly On We Go Lace Curtain Paddy O'Furniture
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Subject: RE: Name our band From: Liam's Brother Date: 01 Mar 99 - 08:19 PM Hi Pete!
When you mention The Dubliners, I think...
Ha'penny Bridge Tunes, as you know, have some very evocative names. Why don't you run down the list of tunes you have and see if there's a name in there for you?
All the best, P.S. Then, there always The Rigamaroulds. as far as I know, it's not taken. They went with the long Gaelic name.
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Subject: RE: Name our band From: Alice Date: 01 Mar 99 - 08:51 PM Irish Setters I feel like we're not taking you seriously enough. (sorry) |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Big Mick Date: 01 Mar 99 - 09:05 PM Chucky R. Law and the Republicans ****Grin*** You have to be an Irish speaker to get it. All the best, Mick |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Alice Date: 01 Mar 99 - 10:45 PM Here we often eat garlic bread along with pasta or pizza garlic bread causes garlic breath my two offerings
Gaelic Bread |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 02 Mar 99 - 01:00 AM "Moo Cow Down Along the Road," "Fein-again's Wake" (or "In Finnegan's Wake"), or with a nod to last year's Irish song themes thread, "Love, Death, and America." I suppose "Kiss Me: I'm Irish" is taken. --seed |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Craig Date: 02 Mar 99 - 10:12 PM How about; The Whiskeymen or, if you all have beards, The Whisker(s)men The Sly Dogs It's Good To Be The Kings-men |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Craig Date: 02 Mar 99 - 10:13 PM Sorry, couldn't help myself. |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Elizabeth Date: 02 Mar 99 - 10:37 PM What about: Black Water (we all like a drop now and then and I understand this is a translation of the gaelic for Dublin) Eires 'n' Graces (bad pun) Perfect Fifth Kevin (sorry, but a friend of mine has always wanted to have a band called Kevin!)
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Subject: RE: Name our band From: Mike Billo Date: 02 Mar 99 - 10:42 PM How about "The Surreal McCoys". |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: Date: 02 Mar 99 - 11:54 PM Sloe Eire... Rambling Irishmen Galway Bay Band Suo Gan Stand in the Light Ballyhooley Kings The Rollicking Boys of Tandaragee Over the Waterfall Molly's Fancy Last Night's Joy...( I just love band names) harpgirl |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: gargoyle Date: 03 Mar 99 - 11:23 PM |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: katlaughing Date: 04 Mar 99 - 03:26 AM Picks O'(or, "of")Eire/Picks O'Erin or, reversed: Eire's Picks/Erin's Picks
Gimme A Fifth!
Pete, kat
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Subject: RE: Name our band From: Pete Date: 04 Mar 99 - 03:06 PM Thanks for all the great suggestions. I'm surprised there are still so many good names left. I liked 'Duncan Disorderly' but we are going to go for a slant on a previous suggestion and call ourselves "Get the 'folk' out" So keep a look out for us. Thanks again Pete |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: alison Date: 04 Mar 99 - 06:08 PM Hi Pete, Same sort of Idea.. saw a pop band the other night who advertised themselves as "What the funk?" Slainte alison |
Subject: RE: Name our band From: A Celtic Harper Date: 07 Mar 99 - 08:54 PM Well, there is a successful band here who call themselves "The Mother Folkers," and refer to it as the "most carefully pronounced name in show business....." (They sell lots of T-shirts) But, I don't know guys - that can get a little old after a while, and you may lose some potential fans who'd be put off by it. Other bright ideas below: F'Eire Maiden Slime (from a Dylan Thomas poem, I disremember which) The Cloak, The Boat, and the Shoes (Yeats) All Souls' Night Nuns and Mothers Nuns & Roses All Kindly Toes (a band in the De Lint fantasy novel, "Drink Down the Moon") Midnight Oil Blood & the Moon (Yeats again) Crazy Jane and the Bishop (""")
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Subject: RE: Name our band From: Peter Fisher Date: 07 Mar 99 - 10:09 PM A friend of mine claims to have been in a band called FREE BEER. The pubs they were to play in would advertise all week: Friday night: FREE BEER. They played to large, but somewhat unruly, crowds. How about The Potato Beetles? |
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