Best band name ever?

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,John C
Date: 28 Jan 09 - 11:08 AM

has to be Mercury Zoot and The Raspberry Nipples- based around Hertfordshire last saw them about 35 years ago near Stevenage

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Gin Crewe
Date: 28 Jan 09 - 03:33 PM

Called ourselves "Frolicking Pete and the Fumbling Fingers Concertina Ceilidh Band" one cheerful, wine-drinking evening 25 years ago and been trying to pretty the name up ever since.
"The Fingers?" Perhaps not.
"Pete and the Fingers?" No....
"Frolicking Pete Ceildh Band?"
"Fumbling Fingers?" Oh dear!

You should hear the phone calls... "May I speak to ...errr... could I talk to... um- do you have a dance band?"

My current favourite is "Irascible Badgers". Even the band can't explain what it means!

Whilst I'm carrying on: we called ourselves "Wenchall" from "When shall we three meet again," being a little long in the tooth and three in number. That's not the meaning that Internet searches throw up....

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Guest, H
Date: 28 Jan 09 - 07:14 PM

The Four Skins

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: van lingle
Date: 28 Jan 09 - 07:30 PM

The Chicken Chokers
The Mad Ayatollahs From Hell
The Rambling Drifters aka The Drifting Ramblers
Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys
...and yeah The Wailin' Jennys. Great name for a great group.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: ClaireBear
Date: 28 Jan 09 - 07:54 PM

Saxon Violins

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 28 Jan 09 - 08:08 PM

One Union Groves say 1974 I was so busy selling Pottery that one of the other guys from My band went up to sign us up .. So as we were getting ready to get up in front of say 60,000. I hear over the PA ... " so give a North Carolina welcome to "Clay Wolff and his Ugly Mugs ".. Not the best name ever but one I will never forget !!! We played "Hickery Wind" and had a standing ovation ...   Nice people .. Bruce Canavaro came up with the name if anyone lives around Port Townsend Washington state . Hes a great fiddle and piano and bass player. All the best , Guy

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 06:23 AM

Bryan (The Snail) Creer and I occasionally go out as Drooling Concertinas.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Raggytash
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 07:20 AM

I've just recalled a salford band from the sixties

"Albertos il les trios paranoas"

there also Cliff Rescue and the Helicopters

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 08:34 AM

there was band round here called Letsby Avenue - I never saw them.

I was in a duo called 'idlevice', and I once toyed with the idea of an alter ego called Salvador Diddley - surrealist r and b, but I turned it down in favour of Boy Scout and the Woggles.

I was in a jugband called Juggerlugs - the bass drum had two big pink ears made of hardboard on the front.

i had a record coming out in a duo called Men in Kilts - but luckily the company went bust before it was released - so i never had to get a kilt.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: ClaireBear
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 01:36 PM

Once, when we were competing against groups called "the Slips" and "the Teddies" in an acapella singing contest, I suggested that we change our name (Cyderman's Fancy) to "Long Jon and the Underdinks."

Jon is about 5 foot 6 on a good day, by the way.

C

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: RTim
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 02:21 PM

I suggested to some friends recently that we call our group
Quissett Crossing - because we sometime practice near a set of
traffic lights at a crossroads near the village of Quissett in MA. USA

They said NO - It sounds like a A Shopping Mall!

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Midchuck
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 03:05 PM

"Oedipus and the Mothers?"

Peter

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: RTim
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 10:34 PM

My wife came up with a new one tonight

Miss Heard and the Mondegreens

Tim

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,baz parkes
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 06:44 AM

Ryburn dance band Hooke's Law

Why...their favourite tune was Return of the Spring...

Ask a friendly physicist...I had to!

And just to make Ralphie feel wanted, the Hackney Martians, or have we done that one??

Baz

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Green Wellies
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 07:08 AM

From the 80's there was a punk band named 'Buster Hymen and the Penitrators' Yuk !

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Zen
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 08:47 AM

My two occasional bands go out under the names:

The Sheet Crick Ramblers (still room for MCFat's clearly closely-related outfit!)

The Stocious Brothers

Zen

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,steve
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 09:11 AM

Well there's alway the "Shy Teds" and not to be outdone our shanty group is called "The Two Anchors". There's four of us, but you've got to work out who are the two...

Steve.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Gavin Atkin
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 09:37 AM

Or Melons for Ecstasy?

Thought about calling a band the Cambridge Heathens, but decided against it as only inner East Londoners would have understood.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Gurney
Date: 30 Jan 09 - 10:41 PM

I wish 'The New Modern Idiot Grunt Band' would re-form. They were great. I wondered if there was a previous incarnation.

'Previous Incarnation' wouldn't be a bad name, though. 'Treacle Parkin' for a northern band?

I was in a band called 'Tiddly-Pom-Pom-Pom' while it lasted. The name only makes sense in the antipodes.