That's a good name for a band

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: The Walrus
Date: 31 May 07 - 10:16 AM

I've been know to get involved in the odd 'Sod's Opera' with some scratch groups with equally inpromptu names, so Ican claim to have appeared with "Norfolk & Goode"; "Pondlife" (I'm sure that's been used before), "Nelson, Kepple and Beatty" and "Motorheadache" - we used the name because there had been a particularly noisy generator near us at one show - I've since seen it as the name of a Motorhead tribute band.

Speaking of tribute bands, I've sometimes thought that "Sissaphous" (or "Sissaphous's Burden") would have been a good name for a Rolling Stones tribute band.

W

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: TheSnail
Date: 31 May 07 - 05:01 AM

When I was a student in Brighton, the boarding houses where we lived had ancient cast iron toilet cisterns with the name Burlington moulded into the front. A classical group I knew called themselves. The Burlington Chamber Orchestra.

On the folk scene I've come across an Ozzie led band called A Band Like Alice and a filk group called The Nearly Music Consort.

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 31 May 07 - 04:57 AM

As reported previously at Favourite Swing tune?

"A still (somewhat) active mostly Western Swing band in the Texas Panhandle used to be called by the leader "The ExLax Symphony - music to make you move." Kind of a western version of what swing was about."

Additional: Frankie McWhorter apparently plays currently with a group called the "Ranch Dance." He's seemingly still playing at least locally/regionally after a career with Bob Wills and others, so a person could ask if the tag was ever ® or ©.

[disclaimer: the "Cooper Ranch" mentioned in the bio is backdoor kin of Lin In Kansas.]

A band called "Viagra" would be one to "get you up."

Or maybe "The Emetics" - playing "whatever comes up."

Or "The Paregorics" playing "tighter music."

John

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 31 May 07 - 04:23 AM

My university band - Wandering Hands and the Jailbait.

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Gurney
Date: 31 May 07 - 03:50 AM

I was once a member of a trio called 'Tiddly-Pom-Pom-Pom.'

Makes sense in Godzone and Oz.

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: GUEST,green girls drummer
Date: 30 May 07 - 07:34 PM

HEY peeps whas up well i have a band named the green girls and do u approve are name plz post me back dawg

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Rowan
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 08:17 PM

After some years with Flying Pieman, a Melbourne 'bush' band named after a traditional Australian dance with a certain amount of 'galloping around repidly' and thus named after a Sydney character famous in the 1840s, I moved to New England (the Australian one) and, when playing formally, did so as "Cockies' Joy". This is the bush nickname for "Golden Syrup" a product of the refining of sugar that is not as thick or as dark as treacle (and an essential ingredient of Anzac biscuits). At least two other bands in NSW have subsequently used their version of the name ("Cocky's Joy") to good effect.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Schantieman
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 01:34 PM

Geordie Peorgie......when you were on the old Ark, did you know a Chief Aircradft handler by the name of Bob Temple?   He was famous, apparently, for falling off the deck at sea.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: GUEST,English Jon
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 12:56 PM

One of my current projects is called Medieval Knieval...don't ask.

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: GUEST,Sue A
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 09:00 AM

A friend of mine used to play in the Shudby Band. (I don't think I made that up - unless he did!)And another friend who played crumhorn and assorted early reed instruments, has always wanted to get together a band with sax, concertina and melodeon players and call it Vibrating Tongues. Unfortunately he no one has yet been persuaded to join him in that.

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Gulliver
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 08:51 AM

Skid Row, popular in Dublin in the 60's, later was used by an American(?) band.

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Scrump
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 06:03 AM

Reading that old thread, I realise there have been several bands including my own, called Free Beer.

What amazes me is how you very rarely seem to get band names used by more than one band.

I can think of an example where it has: Nirvana (1960s 'psych' band and more famous 1980s/90s band with Kurt Cobain).

I'm sure I know more but I can't remember them for the mo'. Can anyone else think of examples of 'reused' band names?

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: GUEST,banjoman
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 05:43 AM

How about the ultimate band name "Dis Band"
Would promote some sort of quip such as "Dis Band Should Dis Band"

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: GUEST,cmt49
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:03 PM

One that amused me in Birmingham in the 70's - "Brent Ford and the Nylons". Damn good band too.

How about the Country & Western / Punk band called Johnny Clash? (That one courtesy of Badger).

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 06:41 PM

This topic has been explored before. See Great band names.

One of the band names you'll find there is The Testostertones. After reading it there, I suggested it to a friend of mine who actually used it, for an all-male band.

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Rowan
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 06:05 PM

In my town tomorrow night, I'm told, there'll be a dance played by "Paterson's Curse". I suspect none of its members knows that the name was used by a red hot band from Albury in the late 70s, and I know that band didn't know of another, earlier, band that made effective play on the name.

I forget the species name but Paterson's Curse is the common name given in NSW to a plant that covers the Murrumbidgee floodplain with its purple flowers; in NSW it is regarded as a noxious weed. In South Australia, where they have less choice about grazing, the same plant is commonly known as Salvation Jane, as stock have used it to get through severe droughts.

In Kyneton (Victoria) in the mid 70s, there was a band formed by a group of teachers at the local schools; when the males in the band outnumbered the females, they played as "Paterson's Curse" and when the females outnumbered the males, they played as "Salvation Jane".

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Padre
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 09:52 PM

Once played in an old-time band which kept changing its name between tunes [Harpers Ferry Porcupine was our first name] - at the end of the gig, we settled on "None of the Above"

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: GUEST,ib48
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 04:28 PM

THE BEEF CURTAINS,OR THE MORE CLASSIER LE DRAPIER BOEUF

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: GUEST,pattyClink
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 03:14 PM

I just read of a (marching?) group in a Mardi Gras parade. Only New Orleans women could appear (with weapons, in nuns' habits) as "The Angry Little Sisters of the Apocalypse". What a great name!

We have two quartets going to competition this year, one is called "In the Mood". The other was formed later and is called "Note Tonight".

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Dave Hunt
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 02:20 PM

Always fancied 'The Titanic Band' (Always goes down well) whose first CD could be 'A Band On Ship'
I was once in bands called 'Ducks on a Wall' and 'Happy Daze'
Friends of mine play in the wonderfully , and aptly, named band
'May Contain Nuts'

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: GUEST,Frug
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 02:15 PM

Amongst the bands I played with were Dickie Drippin and the Drops and my personal favourite............... Sarah Bernhardt's Wooden Leg. Have also appeared on bills with the Four Mustgetbeers !!

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 02:10 PM

And when aah wez on HMS Ark Royal (Aircraft Carrier with Phantoms, Buccaneers & tested the first ever Harrier) we put a rock 'n' roll band together caalled 'Jet Blast & Te Deflectors'

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 01:51 PM

Scratch band at Cmbridge Fest some time back was Larry driver and the Truckers !!

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Little Robyn
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 01:35 PM

Back in the 70s at a Wellington Folk Festival concert, the MC introduced a small group of shanty singers as Mike Stanley and the 4 Skins!

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: open mike
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 01:09 PM

"string theory"
has this one been used..
it seems it might have
been...dozens of times...

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Scoville
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 01:08 PM

Oh, I forgot the String Beings (from North Carolina), No Strings Attached, Jes' Playin' Folk, and a local semi-club called Bread-N-Jam (they do music and potluck suppers).

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Fidjit
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 12:47 PM

I have also be known to go by the name as, 'a one man celidh band' called, "Left Leg Over"

Well people kept asking me how I was getting on.

Chas

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 11:52 AM

I once went out in a duo called the Armitage Shankers.

When we got on stage and introduced ourselves, the guitar player said, "And yes, it is rhyming slang..."

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: JulieF
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 11:48 AM

Always fancied calling a band - junction diode and the semi coductors ( see it as a sort of skiffle band)

Know people who have gigged as - 'the old foggy duo'

J

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 11:42 AM

Beech Nut

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 11:38 AM

3 more

Full Flavour
Don't Ask
Under the Seats

These 3 were inspired by a Garfield joke!

Garfield, Jon and Odie were in the cinema.
Odie was chewing.
Jon (knowing that they didn't have anything to eat with them) asked "What's Odie chewing?".
Garfield replied "Don't ask, and don't look under the seats".

It reminds me about a teacher I knew who had a group of difficult year 11 pupils. The desks in the room had loads of chewing gum stuck underneath. One of the lads used to come into lessons and take a piece of the gum from under the desk, pop it into his mouth and then say something like "Hmmmm beech nut".

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 10:09 AM

I'm in the process of putiing a band together. I'm going to call it "Wild Mountain Thymeshare".

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Fidjit
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 10:08 AM

There's a gang going the rounds in Norway as the "Belfast Moslems."
Play Irish celtic of course.
Our gang is called would you believe !

Now there is a rock group in Chicargo with the same name.

Chas

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 09:21 AM

Ower the years aah've played in loads of bands (mainly due to the RN moving me on rather that 'musical differences' among them have been...

Take The Shilling
Still, Novak & Goode
Loose Stools (Punk band who only ever did one gig - we thought punk meant playing crap all of the time - never got booked anywhere ever again)
Shaughnessy (Pronounced Shagnasty)

and currently
Phatt-B'Stards (We have a tribute band caaled 'The Dapht-B'Stards')
Nettlies & Lief
Nine Mile Ride
Blo na Gael

If yez think some of these are daft - HAve a look at the Phatts website at some of the pearls of wisdom in the various biographies

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: jiva
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 09:20 AM

Performed in a duo many years ago - for a bet we told the club organiser at one venue we were...

Norfolk and Good

And yes, he did introduce us with that name!

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 09:19 AM

Hatfield and The North were a very good London Pub rock band , and I recall meeting an interesting cross over R&B / Irish band who were called 'Bo Diddley Diddley'!

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 08:43 AM

Alec (o8.o8am),

Did 'Midlife Crisis' play at The Boar's Head in Middlewich?
I ask because the name used to appear on the 'What's On' board outside the pub when the Salt Town poets still existed, and everyobe kept asking if it was us!

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: RTim
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 08:26 AM

I've always wanted an Irish Trio so I can call it the - "Tree Fellers",

And one late night at Pinewoods I came up with the band name of "Phil the Void"

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 08:06 AM

I think 'Frisky' would be a good name.

S

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: GUEST,JeremyRs
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 07:54 AM

Two I've always liked, from opposite ends of the spectrum, are Jerry Garcia's bluegrass band, Old And In the Way, and a covers band from Oxfordshire consisting of men of a certain age who call themselves the Sad Dads.

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: GUEST,Valmai Goodyear
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:45 AM

Bryan Creer and I have been known to cause mild annoyance in Sussex under the name Drooling Concertinas.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Scrump
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 05:49 AM

I used to know a folk duo (around 1970-71) who called themselves Folk Off. Does anyone remember them, or know what happened to them? One guy played guitar, and the other played tenor banjo.

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: treewind
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 05:45 AM

The Hosepipe Band exists (not sure if it's the same one as mentioned earlier)

Years ago I was in a band that didn't dare call itself "Four Play" but it's been done recently (and many times, for all I know). We were actually called Cobblers Last which I still think is a good name, especially for a mainly dance (ceilidh) band. One of them also liked the idea of a lineup that we could call "Sax and Violins"

Anahata

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 05:28 AM

Leatherback

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Scrump
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 05:23 AM

Jim Lad, a bunch of us at uni once formed a band during rag week, called "Free Beer" for the very reason you suggest, i.e. it got people into the bar to see us (and raise money for charity).

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Declan
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 03:41 AM

If it was pregnant comma girl, it might lead to a pregnant pause.

I always fancied a band name of "Many More" as it would get a lot of work at festivlas, although it would be unlikely to get top billing.

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 03:28 AM

Back when I were a wife and my husband worked on a regional tabloid newspaper, one of his colleagues formed a post-punk/gothy band. This occurred while they were working on a very long-running story for the paper. In a moment of inspiration, the journalist named his new band after the headline that consistently apeared with the story: Pregnant Coma Girl.

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: GUEST,DrWord
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 03:06 AM

weelittledrummer LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 02:28 AM

"Sweet Violets"

... and you have yer theme song - right there...

Subject: RE: BS: That's a good name for a band......
From: Little Robyn
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 01:44 AM

I wanted a band called Black Velvet.
And her eyes they shone like ......
Robyn