Best band name ever?

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Musket
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 09:53 AM

Always one step ahead of the authorities when a teenager in punk and rock bands, I recall getting on stage to the MC announcing all the ones below and maybe many more;

Best Left Dead
Raving Gingers
Pinstripe Safety Pins
Bare Knuckle Pugilists

I always wanted to do a spoof turn in folk clubs with a parody blues set, but couldn't decide whether I had made the name up or had heard it somewhere else instead. Perhaps if anybody knows, they can help?

Steamin' Willie Hardonn

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 09:48 AM

Captain Paralytic and the Brown Ale Cowboys gets my vote, or my current
sometime band ' Play For Ale ' actually we'll play for anything.

eric

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 09:32 AM

When I lived in Bristol, my mate Steve Payne used to have a band called Brent Ford and the Nylons*

When I lived in Bedford, my mate Vinnie used to have a band called Los Marbles. From time to time it was resurrected as Los The Plot.

Pete

* for non-Uk-catters: Back in the seventies there was a company which sold curtains, etc, called Brentford Nylons and they had a really irritating TV ad/jingle which seemed to be on every 5 minutes.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Dave Rowlands
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 08:54 AM

Once went out in a band called Spandex Jihad. Just once, mind....

Dave

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,The black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 07:55 AM

I have occasionaly appeared with the Calvadossers in Lancaster.

Our folk-rock band in Somerset was Blind Panic, but when we were asked about doing an outdoor gig for a tea party I suggested we should change the name to Bland Picnic.
We performed at the opening of a shopping Mall once. We could have been Brand Clinic.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Bob L
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 07:53 AM

Reputed: Us & Him, Dickie Hart & the Pacemakers, Wit of a Banker, and somewhat similar to the previous post, duo Novak & Goode who expanded to become Steele Novak & Goode...

Actual: Dr. Bowser's Brown Bowel Oil Band, Mechanical Horsetrough, and Milton Keynes bluegrass outfit the Concrete Cowboys.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Howard Jones
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 07:42 AM

One of Simon Mayor and Hilary James's bands was called "Slim Panatella and the Mild Viginians"

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 06:56 AM

I liked "Norfolk & Good" as a name.

Nick Pallett (later to join Principal Edward's Magic Theatre) had a band at university called "the Nathaniel Clackthorne all-rubber Band"

But one of the very best names has to be "Deadly Lampshade".

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: davyr
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 06:16 AM

Just remembered a mate of mine was in a band called Wallaby Chinstrap...

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: banjoman
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 06:11 AM

The Old Trout Band originally started life as "The British Standard Brown Ale and Black Pudding Band" but the name was too big to fit on any advertising posters so we changed it 'cos we wern't getting any work. We seemed to pick up a lot more gigs afterwards - wonder why?
Pete

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Trevor Thomas
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 05:42 AM

I was in a sort of Irish 'Theme;'Band for a while that did the working men's clubs and so on. We were called the Sham Rockers.

Other favourites, I think I have mentioned before are the Jimmy Shandrix Experience, and the Red Hot Chili Pipers.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: ced2
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 05:20 AM

The School at which I once taught was trying to raise money to buy a hostel. The staff put on a series of variety shows. I formed band, initially with two more teachers. One suggestion for a name was "Snotty and the Nose Pickers". That got vetoed! Not entirely a surprise.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: mandotim
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 05:16 AM

Nanci Griffith used to refer to her backing singers (including Iris DeMent) as the Oestrogen Choir.
I was in a band at school called DeBroglie Wavelength. (the name came from a random opening of a physics textbook. The bass player was one Maartin Allcock, who's done ok since.)
Tim

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 05:16 AM

Possibly a pun on my name : I play in a "band" - Grim Spew.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 04:42 AM

Dan Quinn and myself had a short lived liaison known as the No Ronnies. Mainly because neither of us were called Ronnie. I blame John Tams!

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 04:36 AM

theres also a band called 'The Above Average Weight Band' and also the solo 'curry-oke' singer 'Gerupta Singh'

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Terry McDonald
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 04:32 AM

My brother's rock band in Swanage was called the Deckchairs, because they were difficult to assemble, frayed around the edges and liable to collapse at any time.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Chris Green
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 04:20 AM

There used to be a trio of blokes in Birmngham who were all called Pat and went out as Pat Trick.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Splott Man
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 04:08 AM

I've played with The Kitchen Syncopators.

I also had a trio called The Good, the Bald and the Ugly (Guess which one I was!). We soon changed our name, because the ugly bloke objected.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 01:16 AM

There are a couple of bands whose names might not mean much to you if you haven't studied advanced mathematics: Axiom of Choice, and Aleph Null. Curiously enough, both play Iranian music.

Martin Pearson (note the initials) has put together a trio (note the quantity) called the MP3.

Klezmer bands like to come up with clever ways to get klezmer in their names. There's The Klez Dispensers, and an all-female group called Isle of Klezbos.

There was a couple who performed under the name Us Not Them (there was a reason, but it's a bit of a long story).

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,30_button
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:15 PM

Whiskers Before Breakfast, a defunct Washington area contra dance band.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:03 PM

Since I am currently playing "Battle of The Bands" on Facebook, I get to see lots of name for bands - mostly forgettable, apart from the the unprintable, but I can honestly say that "The Fooles Troupe" is coming up the rating charts very nicely: we just need a few more bands to join our tour so we can get higher benefits and better gigs - they don't seem to want to hire nobodies...

Join thru our Facebook profile page.

Thank yew!

[exit stage left]

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Jim P
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:40 PM

Connie and the Rhythm Method

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Arkie
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:13 PM

Vince Vance and the Valients. Best known songs "All I Want for Christmas Is You" and "Bomb Iran".

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Padre
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 09:23 PM

Three that I played in:

None of the Above ('cause we could never agree on a name)
Harper's Ferry Porcupine
Doctor Kilmer's Jug Band, Medicine Show, and Storm Door Company

Padre

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: olddude
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 09:16 PM

the kick shickers

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Fliss
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 08:14 PM

Hoover the Dog

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Dave MacKenzie
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 06:22 PM

Among the names I've been involved in are the duos

Rasputtin and his Filthy Habit
and
The Kingston and Twickenham Economy Sized Big Band.

I still have ambitions for "The Tartan Bolshies"

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: masha
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 05:38 PM

the WhoreShoes
Blo Na Gael
Orange Possum Special

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Bainbo
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 05:26 PM

Bands I see advertised around here include the Grumpy Old Men, the Four Kinnells, and (this is in the North East of England) the Reet Hot Chilli Peppers.

But I think Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling keep coming up with the best name yet for a band -Fiscal Stimulus.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Richie
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 05:17 PM

Name That Band

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: oldhippie
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 05:12 PM

The Beat Farmers.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Mark Ross
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 03:08 PM

There was a punk band around here in Eugene for a while called "Fuck God in the Face".

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Surreysinger
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 02:50 PM

Always liked "The Lost Teeshirts of Atlantis" - never heard them, no idea what they sound like, but just like the name!

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Peter the Squeezer
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 02:45 PM

Betty Swallock's Blues Band

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 02:37 PM

When aah was on an aircraft carrier (in the days of Phantom & Buccaneer jets) we had a band called 'Jett Blast & The Deflectors'

Theor was aalso a band of stewards caalled 'Bob Morley (the skipper's steward) and The Waiters'

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Melissa
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 02:33 PM

the best imaginary band I belong to is called Arrogant Horseshit

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 02:18 PM

I was once in a very short-lived band (one night only, which ended in us getting paid NOT to play any more) named "The Neon Wrestling Sneaker."

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: wordfella
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 02:02 PM

Players to be Named Later

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 01:57 PM

Fiddlin' Ginger Billy and The Black & White Pudding Benders.
A real band featuring fiddler Clive Collins, back in the '60's.

Seamus

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: MARINER
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 01:36 PM

How about the latest Irish band Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys ?

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: bubblyrat
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 01:31 PM

When living in Dorset a few years back,I was very fond of both "Woman Wants Tall Man " ( and he WAS ! ) and the incomparable "Hard Core Fluff ".I myself was in a band called "Hay Fever " (because we got up peoples' noses, as lead-singer Martin Horan put it ).

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 01:09 PM

Always been fond of "Cheap Suit Serenaders" -- and a local band no longer around, "Jiggle the Handle".

Not a real band name, but I'd bet it would be a good draw -- "Free Pizza".

In sea music circles I like "Starboard List" and "Three Sheets to the Wind".

Linn

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Dave Hunt
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 01:06 PM

Copied from a poster for a music night in Brum -

'Phat Boy Singh'

There are 'The Titanic Sycopators' - (they always go down well!) They really should do a CD called 'A band on Ship'

I have called with a band from South Wales called Llandaff Hope, and a band from mid-Wales called Cwm Dancing (great names)

I have also worked with Alf Alfa and the Wild Oats, The Carbolic Smokeball Company. Brown Boots and No Breakfast, the Electropathic Battery Band, Expanding Waist Band, Happy Daze, Melons for Ecstacy, Syphon the Python, the Top Tup Band and 'May Contain Nuts' (very appropriate given the lineup of Flos Headford, Rees Wesson and Chris 'Yorkie' Bartram)

For anyone vaguely interested there is a full list at
http://www.redowa.co.uk/sunshinearts/bands.htm

I'm to to 188, must make it 200 before I retire!

A friend was in a band called 'Les Miserables and the Proper Pissers' (and Les Miserables was the English pronunciation!)

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Dave P
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 01:05 PM

Oh yes , and I was in a rock band called 'Edna Bucket'. It lasted 4 years despite the stupid name.

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: GUEST,Dave P
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 01:02 PM

I was in a duo called "Two Blokes with Guitars"! You couldn't really argue with that

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: MC Fat
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 12:44 PM

I'll second Johnny and the Prison Disd't Help Boys (they're fab) but add my own combo(s) The McKamikazie Highlanders, Vince Wretch and the Puke..ettes and my latest project The Shit Creek Paddle Owners Club

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Spleen Cringe
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 12:29 PM

There used to be a band in Manchester called "Right Band Wrong Planet".

A personal favourite was my mate Gerry's old band "Macho Men Crack Under Pressure"

Right now Manchester boasts the wonderfully named "Starless and Bible Black" and virtual folk-rock band "The Woodbine And Ivy Band"

I always wanted to have a band called "Meat Soup Enema".

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Chris Green
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 12:25 PM

A mate of mine was in a Birmingham-based outfit called the Balsall Heath Nihilist Spasm Band. And I myself was once the bass player for curiously-overlooked Coventry funk-rockers Rockin' Phunkapotamus!

Subject: RE: Best band name ever?
From: Acorn4
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 12:20 PM

Skid Marks