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Name our band

26 Feb 99 - 02:40 PM (#60447)
Subject: Name our band
From: Pete

A few friends and I have just formed a folk/trad band and need a name!! Any suggestions?

Pete

26 Feb 99 - 03:30 PM (#60455)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Liam's Brother

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

26 Feb 99 - 04:00 PM (#60459)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Lonesome EJ

Here are some winners discarded by my band :

The Swinging Richards

Viagra Jones

American Standard

Rick Slick and the Tortion Bars

26 Feb 99 - 04:19 PM (#60465)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: SeanM

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

26 Feb 99 - 04:23 PM (#60466)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: MMario

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

26 Feb 99 - 05:41 PM (#60482)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Pete

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

26 Feb 99 - 06:55 PM (#60495)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: catspaw49

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

26 Feb 99 - 07:30 PM (#60501)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Alice

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

26 Feb 99 - 08:27 PM (#60514)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: jo77

How bout 'Cant keep her sober'

:)

26 Feb 99 - 08:52 PM (#60523)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Den

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,

26 Feb 99 - 09:49 PM (#60533)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Cap't Bob

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

26 Feb 99 - 11:07 PM (#60542)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: katlaughing

How 'bout A Fifth of Forth, oops, wrong country, eh?

Celtic Quintus? Quintus Maximus? QuinMax? Eno'!

***grin*** This IS fun!

katlaughing

26 Feb 99 - 11:16 PM (#60543)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Big Mick

How about "I'm Not White, I'm Irish"?

All the best,

Big Mick

26 Feb 99 - 11:27 PM (#60547)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Mary K

what about "Nila" (just a name I've heard- no meaning)

27 Feb 99 - 06:47 AM (#60570)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: The Shambles

The Black Stuff?

27 Feb 99 - 10:45 AM (#60587)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Paulied

Aon Fhocail Eile

One other word

27 Feb 99 - 11:49 AM (#60590)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Lonesome EJ

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?

27 Feb 99 - 02:02 PM (#60604)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Alice

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?

28 Feb 99 - 12:10 PM (#60708)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From:

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.

28 Feb 99 - 01:10 PM (#60720)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Scotty Rotten

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

28 Feb 99 - 07:59 PM (#60786)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From:

hot socks!

28 Feb 99 - 08:38 PM (#60792)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: alison

Hi,

What about a literary slant on it...... Enid Blyton....

Five go mad in.........(insert name of town)

Slainte

alison

28 Feb 99 - 08:51 PM (#60794)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Will (inactive)

oooh ... I really like the "Enid Blyton" suggestion.

continuing in that vein, you might consider "E. Nesbit" (Five children and it)

01 Mar 99 - 12:23 AM (#60826)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Lonesome EJ

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"?

01 Mar 99 - 01:03 AM (#60835)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Barbara

Paddy Far West?
Bold Fenian Five?
Gael Gaol

01 Mar 99 - 11:48 AM (#60873)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Cuilionn

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.

01 Mar 99 - 11:51 AM (#60874)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Cuilionn

Ummm.... Peat an' th' Bogmen?

Sori!

--Cuilionn agin

01 Mar 99 - 11:57 AM (#60875)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Margo

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

01 Mar 99 - 12:18 PM (#60876)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: finch

"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 "

01 Mar 99 - 12:40 PM (#60878)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Allan C.

IRE! (Perhaps you do an angry protest song or two?)

01 Mar 99 - 12:43 PM (#60879)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: The Shambles

Resevoir Fish?

01 Mar 99 - 03:49 PM (#60893)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Mippy

Real Ugly Dudes

Possum Face

Wobbly Dog

Rutting Pigs

The Beatles

01 Mar 99 - 03:50 PM (#60894)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Mippy

Real Ugly Dudes

Possum Face

Wobbly Dog

Rutting Pigs

The Beatles

01 Mar 99 - 03:56 PM (#60895)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Barbara

Gaelbirds
Spend the Nightingael
FarthingGael
Gaelly On We Go
Lace Curtain
Paddy O'Furniture

01 Mar 99 - 08:19 PM (#60933)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Liam's Brother

Hi Pete!

When you mention The Dubliners, I think...

Ha'penny Bridge
or
O'Connell Street Irregulars.

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,
Dan Milner

P.S. Then, there always The Rigamaroulds. as far as I know, it's not taken. They went with the long Gaelic name.

01 Mar 99 - 08:51 PM (#60937)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Alice

Irish Setters

I feel like we're not taking you seriously enough. (sorry)

01 Mar 99 - 09:05 PM (#60940)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Big Mick

Chucky R. Law and the Republicans ****Grin*** You have to be an Irish speaker to get it.

All the best,

Mick

01 Mar 99 - 10:45 PM (#60950)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Alice

Here we often eat garlic bread along with pasta or pizza
garlic bread causes garlic breath

my two offerings

Gaelic Bread
or
Gaelic Breath

02 Mar 99 - 01:00 AM (#60969)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: bseed(charleskratz)

"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

02 Mar 99 - 10:12 PM (#61102)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Craig

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

02 Mar 99 - 10:13 PM (#61103)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Craig

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

02 Mar 99 - 10:37 PM (#61108)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Elizabeth

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!)

02 Mar 99 - 10:42 PM (#61109)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Mike Billo

How about "The Surreal McCoys".

02 Mar 99 - 11:54 PM (#61121)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From:

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

03 Mar 99 - 11:23 PM (#61216)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: gargoyle

Pete's Dragoons

04 Mar 99 - 03:26 AM (#61227)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: katlaughing

Picks O'(or, "of")Eire/Picks O'Erin
or, reversed:
Eire's Picks/Erin's Picks

Gimme A Fifth!
Erin O'Raugh(Raw)
Sure'n Tis Us!
The Stomp Time Five
The Fifth Estate (as in print journalism)

Pete,
Have any of us gotten close to something you all like? Thanks for the fun!

kat

04 Mar 99 - 03:06 PM (#61276)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Pete

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

04 Mar 99 - 06:08 PM (#61306)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: alison

Hi Pete,

Same sort of Idea.. saw a pop band the other night who advertised themselves as "What the funk?"

Slainte

alison

07 Mar 99 - 08:54 PM (#61813)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: A Celtic Harper

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 (""")

07 Mar 99 - 10:09 PM (#61826)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Peter Fisher

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?

07 Mar 99 - 11:43 PM (#61840)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: katlaughing

Celtic Harper,

Delighted to see the reference to De Lint's novels! I love his books!

kat

08 Mar 99 - 06:22 AM (#61872)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Frank in the swamps

I'm thinking of changing MY name to Duncan Disorderly.

Frank i.t.s.

12 Apr 02 - 01:03 AM (#688350)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Alice

12 Apr 02 - 02:38 PM (#688691)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Mr Red

I am about to post to the other similar thread but Max does not allow soe HTML (probably tables) have a look at my list (i was bored this afternoon and it shows).

12 Apr 02 - 02:41 PM (#688692)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Alice

mr. red, this thread is 2 years old. I just refreshed it for the benefit of the other person looking now for band name ideas.

12 Apr 02 - 02:48 PM (#688695)
Subject: RE: Name our band
From: Steve in Idaho

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Steve