Entertainment For Lively Minds
Band/Artist nicknames
Posted by Mr Fade on 1 February 2010 - 1:31pm.
Ok, so we're all au fait with The HJH Hitmakers, better known as the Fab Four, and The Strolling Bones. What other band nicknames are there, especially ones where the general public would know who you meant? One more...Old Blue Eyes
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The Fannies
The Fannies
A few...
The King
Wacko
Madge
The Dame
The Slits
The Slits
And...
Rod the Mod
The Modfather
Slowhand
Miserable bastard...
Morrissey.
Only joking.
'ver Quo
.
Or, Teh Quo!
(See b3ta for details)
The Thin White Duke
As usual...
The curmudgeonly
Van....
Van The Man
The Cosmic Cabbie.
...and his friend
Brian Kennedy, The Human Echo Chamber
King Crimson
Seem to always have been nicknamed...
Crim
Crimso
The Mighty Crim
etc.
Here's some
The Cosmic Elf...Marc Bolan
Da Brudders...Ramones
Concorde...Barry Manilow
Quoasis...Oasis
The Boss...Springsteen
The 'Orrible....
'Oo
and......maybe 20 years ago but not today.....
"The Leader......"
One quarter of the HJH
... the Thumbs-Aloft One
You mean Macca?
.
I think Ringo's nickname
is Ringo.
George was The Quiet One. Not sure about John.
0-0
speccy
....or to give him his full
....or to give him his full Smash Hits title:
Fabbamaccawhackythumbsaloft.
Bands with 'Pink' in their name
generally aren't known by a nickname that includes the word 'Pink':
The Floyd, The Fairies, The Frijids.
Pink
So what should we call Pink?
Easy
The.
What about...
His Bobness
Plonk
Sting
Bono
The Edge
When does a nickname become a stage name?
The Velvet Fog: Mel Torme
The Singer's Singer: Matt Monro
The Queen of Soul: Aretha Franklin
The King: Elvis
The...
human riff.
Introducing
Soul Brother Number One, Sex Machine, Mr. Dynamite, The Hardest Working Man in Show Business, The King of Funk, Minister of The New New Super Heavy Funk, Mr. Please Please Please Please Her, The Boss and foremost the Godfather of Soul.......JAMES BROWN!!!!!!!
The Wets.
I read it somewhere else on The Word Blog, so it must be true.
Also, from BBC TV - "The Actor Who Loves to Fish".
Or Robson Green, as you probably know him.
A mate of mine calls the Wets
"Triple Drip". Always makes me chuckle.
Canada´s finest
Laughing Len
My nickname
for Coldpatrol is Snowplay
Did Abba
have a nickname?
The Swedes
Altho in Scotland they were known as the Neeps
Mozzer
Mac the Mouth (Ian McCulloch of EatB)
The Godfather of Punk (must I?)
Large Oilrig (drummist and gobshite out of Metallica)
Mr. E (Andrew Eldritch out of The Sisters Of Mercy via from Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, I refuse to refer to him as Von his chosen nomenclature)
Balaam & the Trousers (Balaam & the Angel, NME article)
Byron Ferrari (out of that Roxy Music)
Droolian Code (Julian Cope)
Coldplough
The Six Patels
that's enough Ed.
The Nabob of Sob...
The Cry Guy, the Prince of Wails.
Poor old Johnnie Ray.
Scorps..
Priest, Sabs, BÖC, Purple, Zep, Maiden, Lizzy..
Not wildly imaginative as nicknames go, but we understood who they meant in Sounds and Kerrang.
Percy, Bonzo, JPJ
not sure if James Patrick has a nickname. Any suggestions?
From the late '80's / early
From the late '80's / early '90's:
The Mondays
The Roses
The Stuffies
The Neds
MBV
The Sheds
The Manics
Inspirals (note lack of definite article)
The Weddoes
The Primals
Mozzer
Hmm, not very original in them days, were we.