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Come Name The Band...
Posted by CiaranB on 21 January 2009 - 10:26am.
Right... here's the thing. I've been playing in a covers band for a couple of months (The Beatles, The Pretenders, Jet, that sort of thing) and, while we can generally get past our many musical differences, we can't find any common ground when it comes to picking a name. I'm trying to find something with a little wit attached; my suggestions so far have included...
Newspaper Taxi
Area Man
The Forest Kelly
Strangely, none of these have received a warm reception.
So, knowing what a witty and insightful lot you are, I thought I'd ask you to come up with some suggestions and see if they can make the grade.
Anyone?
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I quite like...
...the Newspaper Taxi reference. How about 'The Newspaper Taxi Drivers'?
You could always try the random dic trick
Two words:
Flounder Lesson
Predatory Flashgun
Potbelly Oilskin
Owl Putty
Three words:
Mesozoic Pronto Mesh
Mature Furlong Fatality
Dreaded Korean Minim
Offshore Hunk Credit
Was it Backwards who came up with
Sperm Toast Excursion on a different thread. It's a bit prog though.
Owl Putty...
...I believe, was a type of mortar made in Tudor times from boiled owl bones.
Its common usage in the architecture of this period eventually resulted in the extinction of the Pine Owl. A few dark green feathers, used to decorate one of Henry VII's giant hats, are all that remains of these magnificent birds.
These Magnificent Birds
Is a great name.
Not only milliners
but also drapers in Tudor times were very partial to the use of the racing-green plumage of the pine owl for decorative purposes.
Indeed, the original lyrics of one the madrigals recently revisted by Sting on the album Songs from the Labyrinth are believed by musicologists to have featured the line "For now/The ende is near/And thus we face/The pine owle curtayne".
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Pun of the year!
Well done sir!
Shakespeare makes an oblique reference to Owl Putty...
...in his play - Twelfth Night.
In the second act, Olivia mentions that her house is founded upon the bones of wisdom. This prompts Feste to pass comment on the nocturnal hoots of Olivia’s uncle (the perennially drunk - Sir Toby Belch) heard echoing about the courtyard.
When Sting reworked the madrigals of John Dowland, he was probably unaware that King James I had expressly forbidden the amendment of any of the Lutist’s compositions, which he regarded as perfect and beyond improvement. The punishment for those caught breaking this Royal edict was “scorching about the privy parts by tongs and branding iron”.
Following the release of Songs from the Labyrinth a delighted NME discovered that this law had yet to be repealed and campaigned vigorously for Sting’s genital mutilation, even going so far as to print a draft letter that readers were supposed to send to their local MP.
I've found a rather exciting reference to owl putty. . .
in F.W. Jorgensen's Researches into the Derivation of Idiomatic Lexical Items in Contemporary English (Cambridge, 1995):
"potty mouth (n. & adj.) - This expression is not, as is popularly believed, derived from the scatological associations of 'talking dirty', but rather is almost certainly a corruption of the original Elizabethan and Jacobean 'putty-mouthed'. In many parts of England from the 15th century until the Civil War (see below), a kind of putty made from the boiled bones of the now-extinct pine owl (Bubo pinnensis) was commonly used as a building material. Owing to its tendency to oxidise and dry out rapidly in contact with the air, it needed to be kept moist in an anaerobic environment in order to make it more workable. The most practical way of achieving this, particularly when working at great heights where no water supply was readily available, was for the mason to keep a ball of owl putty in his mouth until it was needed. An unfortunate side-effect of this custom was that, in the acidic medium of human spittle, a chemical reaction sometimes occurred that turned the putty into a highly explosive substance within a matter of minutes. Owl-putty chewers were therefore at considerable risk of an outcome as lethal as it was, no doubt, spectacular. Although the architectural use of owl putty would eventually be condemned by the Puritans as frivolous and profligate (two centuries of uncontrolled pine-owl culling had by then reduced populations of the species to the point of extinction), the expression 'putty-mouthed' continued to be used metaphorically until the mid-19th century, in reference to those whose words were notoriously explosive, incendiary or, by extension, profane. The transformation of the first vowel into its current form has been attributed to a widespread mishearing of the late chat-show host Russell Harty's peculiar pronuciation of the letter "u", when he used the expression during an interview with the playwright John Osborne."
But isn't saliva
alkaline? (Writes a pedant.)
Prof. Jorgensen responds
"That article was bowdlerised by an incompetent editor at my publishers (subsequently dismissed at my urging). My original manuscript included the explanation that although saliva is generally slightly alkaline in healthy persons, with an average pH value of 7.4, it is often found to be slightly acidic in those exposed to airborne pathogens such as masonry dust. HTH." (E-mail communication, 21 January 2009).
Meh.
(Writes a sceptical pedant, who enjoys The Simpsons.)
By the way, I'm glad to see that the good Prof's no longer responding to my objection a year before I made it, Archie. Revisionist I can accept, but revisionist *and* psychic?
Yes, he bends time in his spare time
Have you noticed when Backwards posted his response?
Depends what you've been sucking.....
Apparently.
See?
Prof. Onionsen knows his jorgens.
The death of...
...the Elizabethan philanthropist - Sir Maurice Claypole Burchfield was most likely spontaneous combustion, resulting from the ingestion of Owl Putty. Records state that Burchfield burned from the inside with no external signs of scorching visible upon his person. In the wake of his death, his spirit made numerous visitations to people trapped inside burning buildings, always leading them to safety. He was canonized Saint Claypole, by Pope Pius VI in 1798.
Interestingly Burchfield has a lineage traceable to modern times. The most recent addition to this line is Matthew Burchfield – a former bass player in The Briarknots, who is currently listed in the Vatican’s guide to living descendants of Saints.
Burchfield’s status was the root of some friction within the band, particularly during live performances when he was often the subject of fervent attention from the audience, many of whom were completely uninterested in the band’s music and had turned up at the gigs in the hope that the bass player would lay hands upon them and cure their ailments. His eventual sacking from the group was, according to lead singer Keith Perker, due to religious and spiritual differences.
Oh You Putty Things
The recalled promotional pressings of David Bowie's Low - which now exchange hands for upwards of £500 on eBay - are generally believed to differ from the release version by no more than a simple typographical error, but could there be a deeper meaning that has eluded Bowie scholars for three decades?
In an interview published in this month's issue of the Westphalian entertainment magazine Das Wort, the Dame mentions in passing that the enigmatic instrumental track "Weeping Walls" was "something to do with exploding stonemasons, I think - it was a long time ago so my memory's a little hazy, I'm afraid."
At the time the album was recorded Bowie was battling with his own substance issues, and he no doubt would have identified strongly with Renaissance craftsmen who risked blowing their heads off for their art.
The Impossible Bird
It had never occurred to me before reading the above posts but is this then another example of Nick Lowe's oblique hat-doffing to the Dame, that began with his E.P. 'Bowi'?
One assumes (from the feet) that he may have used chicken bones to create the green, if you will faux-owl putty on the wall - the album title itself being a reference to the current non-availability of Pine Owl.
During his exile in Berlin...
...Bowie would have no doubt come into contact with the cabaret act of Berta and Wendell Gerber. For their cover version of Fever (the song made famous by Peggy Lee) Berta would appear on stage semi-naked and made-up in a thin layer of owl putty. Wendell meanwhile would coat his palm with an acidic catalyst. During the song’s fractured chorus he would strike his wife with an open hand, in time with the drum beats, causing fiery palm-prints to flare up on her skin where he had made contact. The song ended with Berta crumpled in a smouldering heap centre stage, while her husband stood menacingly over her.
Ironically, in 1997, Wendell was shot and killed by Berta in a domestic dispute. She was jailed, only to be released two months later. In 2004 she returned to prison when evidence emerged that she had conspired with her lover – the actor Bertil Jonasson - to murder her former husband. She died behind bars the following year.
An non-ornathologist writes ...
Does the pine owl still flourish unprotected in Germany then, for the making of the owl putty?
It's actually reclaimed...
...from old buildings undergoing restoration work. The flammability of the material means that insurance firms are reluctant to provide cover for properties that incorporate it into their structure.
There are a few modern-day equivalents on the market. In China where owl putty is a common ingredient in fireworks, the product is made from chicken bones, harvested from specially-reared hens.
Ah!
Chickens - 'faux-owl putty'.
Strange events at Pine Owl Grove
Back in the Fifties, long before the Gerbers’ heyday, the late Eartha Kitt (whose adopted surname means "putty" in German, incidentally) was the entertainer of choice at gatherings of the Puttyfoot Club - an ultra-secretive cult-like organisation patronised by the more outré members of America’s great and good - held at Pine Owl Grove, a secluded compound in the woods of Vermont.
Although details of the rites and ceremonies practised by the members of the cabal are still disputed, it is generally accepted that they included the ritual smearing of owl putty on the feet and ankles of all the acolytes.
During a violent storm one night in 1952, a tanker truck carrying a cargo of vinegar skidded and overturned on the highway above the compound, its contents spilling down the hill and settling on the central patio around which the guests’ pine-log cabins were located.
The following morning, as dozens of still-sleepy Puttyfooters sploshed barefoot across the patio to breakfast, little did they suspect that a chemical timebomb had started ticking. No sooner had they settled down to enjoy their grapefruit and waffles than their lower extremities began to smoulder, rapidly escalating into a human firework display of sparks, fireballs and flames. Pine Owl Grove was razed to the ground within minutes. The incident was hushed up and never reported in the press.
Miraculously, Miss Kitt escaped injury - she had overslept - although she remained emotionally scarred by the experience to the end of her days. Being bound by a confidentiality clause, she was unable to discuss her dalliance with the Puttyfoot Club openly, but throughout her career she made oblique references to that morning of horror in such songs as "I'd Rather Be Burnt As A Witch", "Les Feuilles Mortes", "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" and "Too Close For Comfort".
(For further reading on this subject, cf. the 1908 Tunguska Event.)
Wasted
You fellows, Archie and Backwards, whatever you do in *real* life, are utterly wasted there. I would buy a book of this kind of intelligent piffle. You have made a very rubbish day much better, even if you haven't helped Ciaran choose a name for the band. I thank you.
*Loud noises of agreement from the gallery*
There is a subtext,
languishing somewhere at the bottom of the mountain of piffle, that says that we think Owl Putty would be a stonkingly good name for a band. I think - it was so long ago now, I can't quite remember.
Anyway, it's good to know that there's a market that appreciates hardnosed, frill-free scholarship in these frivolous times. Thank you.
Surely
you have the basis of a Wikipedia entry here?
The charred human bone...
...left in the aftermath of the Pine Owl Grove Conflagration was coated in residue traces of owl putty and as such remained a tangible fire hazard. This was made apparent a few weeks after the incident, when a forest ranger witnessed a crow setting fire to a human rib by regurgitating stomach acid onto one end. He watched as the bird carried the flaming torch into the air, before dropping it onto the nest of a rival.
Meanwhile, some of the more intact skeletal remains recovered in the aftermath of the blaze had surreptitiously made their way out of the coroner’s office and into the hands of private owners. Eventually these came into the possession of the firebrand preacher, Noah Arnall, who was apparently well aware of their flammable properties.
A favourite illustrative device of Arnall’s was to parade the reassembled skeletons in front of his congregation, where he would set them alight using a crucifix that he had secretly doused in vinegar. The delicate tongues of flame lapping at the remains of these unfortunate sinners were, he informed his flock, the earthly manifestation of the tortures they were now suffering 666 feet underground in the fiery depths of hell. The audience would then be invited to douse the flaming skeletons with holy water from the font, or, if that failed, with buckets of ordinary water which Arnall had lined up against the wall of the church as a precautionary measure.
A frequent spectator to these sermons was the young Ethan Perry who later decamped to L.A. where he formed the hair metal band The Red Hot Saints with guitarist Sean Ford. The Saint’s stage show fluctuates in scale according to the band's fortunes, but fundamentally has changed very little since their early performances, and still incorporates many of the church theatrics that Perry witnessed as a teenager.
Bad science at Bad Hönningen
One of the extinct species that scientists have high hopes of being able to bring back to life - together with the woolly mammoth, the sabre-toothed tiger and the dodo - is the common pine owl (Bubo pinnensis). But researchers at the Karl-Heinz Pflitzer Institute of Reconstructive Molecular Biology in Bad Hönningen, Germany, beset as ever by funding difficulties, were forced to turn to the burgeoning international black market in zoological relics in order to obtain the high-quality DNA samples that they needed. It was a risk, but a risk worth taking.
One can only imagine the research team’s crushing disappointment when, after months of painstaking effort, they discovered that their coveted sample contained not the anxiously awaited genome sequence of B. pinnensis but that of Thurman G. “Dinky” Eulenvogel III, a notoriously louche ne’er-do-well and secret habitué of the Puttyfoot Club. (The Eulenvogel family had always maintained the cover story that he had been killed in a whitewater-rafting accident on the river Orinoco, his remains presumably having been devoured by feral capibaras.)
The embarrassment caused to the Eulenvogel name by the revelation of the true circumstances of Dinky’s demise was such that Wall Street investors immediately withdrew their confidence in the family merchant bank, directly triggering the 2008 credit crunch, which would in turn quickly snowball into a world recession that would mean years of hardship and misery for billions of people.
Perhaps the best-known member of the Eulenvogel clan today is the much-lauded nu-folk singer Hankee Vogue (née Henrietta Eulenvogel), whose debut album Feral Capibaras featured the song “Putty Tat” - a paean not, as many believe, to Mel “Man Of A Thousand Voices” Blanc, but to the racing-green pine-owl tattoo that she sports on her left breast and occasionally exposes to delighted audiences.
Don't suppose
you've got a picture you could post, Archie?
Of course
Try here (possibly NSFW).
Phwoarr!
Archie, you're a star. What lovely pair.
Hankee Vogue is listed as a...
...registered genome courier for the European Pine Owl. The sampled DNA from this species is packaged with her own, having previously been partitioned-off to prevent auto-immune reactions.
The long-term goal of the GC program is to create a generation of living Noah’s Arks who will carry the genetic blueprints of species that may become extinct in the future, and pass them on to their descendants. The money that Vogue receives for her participation (which can be ended by a six month drug treatment) effectively supports her music career.
Those for whom the song No Lovelier Ghoul and its parent album - Runelette - represent a kind of aural torture, will be happy to learn that the singer is currently banned from entering Australia, where she is subject to the strict laws preventing the importation of alien plants and animals across the nation’s borders. Apparently there is concern in the Antipodes as to the effect that her altered DNA might have upon native wildlife, were she to unwittingly enter the food chain.
How's about...
No We Don't Do The Lady In Red
You should be called
Play Some Old!
Genius!
but Do Some Old!
Yeah
That's what I meant... what he said.
That's gotta be the one!
Tonight
8:30
DO SOME OLD
That's that sorted then...
NEXT!
Ok
Taking what you asked for literally, how about -
Witless
Witchcraft
Witchetty Grub
Within/Without
Wither
Witness - (Oh, no, maybe not)
or
Witter
All have a little Wit attached.
Sorry.
(Actually, I do like Witchetty Grub)
already used, sadly
Malcolm Vicks and the Witchety Grubs.
Powerpop in late 60s Basingstoke.
Vocalist had the gimmick of wearing a monocle, cravat and silk dressing gown. Uncertain what happened to Malc, but the drummer latter made a name for himself in the Spam Ferrets
This one
has 2 't's
Oh well, might just get away with it.
I recall that the Rollling stones had a problem with their consonants, but then we are talking about the notoriously litigious nature of their near namesakes.
If DO SOME OLD doesn;t make the grade...
...here's some suggestions from Eric Idle, courtesy of Python's 'Rock Notes'
"Dead Monkeys are to split up again, according to their manager, Lefty Goldblatt. They've been in the business now ten years, nine as other groups.
Originally the Dead Salmon, they became for a while, Trout. Then Fried Trout, then Poached Trout In A White Wine Sauce, and finally, Herring. Splitting up for nearly a month, the re-formed as Red Herring, which became Dead Herring for a while, and then Dead Loss, which reflected the current state of the group. Splitting up again to get their heads together, they reformed a fortnight later as Heads Together, a tight little name which lasted them through a difficult period when their drummer was suspected of suffering from death.
It turned out to be only a rumor and they became Dead Together, then Dead Gear, which lead to Dead Donkeys, Lead Donkeys, and the inevitable split up. After nearly ten days, they reformed again as Sole Murnier, then Dead Sole, Rock Cod, Turbot, Haddock, White Bait, the Plaices, Fish, Bream, Mackerel, Salmon, Poached Salmon, Poached Salmon In A White Wine Sauce, Salmon-monia, and Helen Shapiro. This last name, their favorite, had to be dropped following an injunction and they split up again.
When they reformed after a recordbreaking two days, they ditched the fishy references and became Dead Monkeys, a name which they stuck with for the rest of their careers. Now, a fortnight later, they've finally split up."
West Wing Reference
Single-celled paramecium?
Topical Application
You can then cover a whole host of blemishes..........
The Sound of Young Islington
You might need to get it cleared from Mr Hepworth first though.
Good So Far
I knew you'd be up to the task.
So far I'm very happy with 'Do Some Old' and 'The Sound Of Young Islington'. Keep 'em coming...
Maybe the Word team won't notice
and get some T-Shirts made up of their famous slogans - giving your band free publicity and your own merchandise!
Ask nicely...
...and 'The' Word might even sponsor you with some free shirts :-P
"Closed For Renovations"
I'd just like to see it on a board outside. "Tonight Closed For Renovations"
Wasn't there a reasonably successful band. . .
called Private Function?
Must have been...
...as I've seen them playing in pubs all over the country.
Must have been popular as well as I could never get in to see them when they were playing
Special Guests
seem to get an awful lot of support gigs, but I've never seen them headlining anywhere.
Free Beer
Would bring in the punters. Could get messy though.
Here's a few names from a year ago.
You might need to clear it with the original owners, tho':
"More great band names
Vulpes Vulpes, Archie Valparaiso, (the) Backwards 7, Adze Thuggery, Oeufman, Twangothan; o the list is endless
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Retropath2 | 29 February 2008 - 2:43pm"
and:
"Aren't they all here anyway?
Vulpes Vulpes: commercial end of prog, singer plays occasional oboe.
(The)Backwards7: synthesizer duo.
Archie Valparaiso: popular in his day, the spanish Presley, selling more than any other spanish artist, even tho' all his songs are in hideously pronounced american.
Twangothan: slightly country, bespectacled pub rock four piece.
Dolly: tuneful end of indie, always top of the 2nd stage at Guilfest.
Oeufman: techno from the outer hebrides.
Marmiteboy: Dancehall rasta perennial
Loudspeaker: Lots of feedback drenched spectoresque beach boys harmonies
Frazer Lewry (and the Legends):Very tall and droll baritone crooner of maudlin misanthropy
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Retropath2 | 30 June 2008 - 8:56am
How did you know?
Got me in one!
What about ...
'The Cusp of Tet'? (see earlier prog related thread)
Or simply 'Not Keane'?
Or...
Crumpet Wagon. It's a little bit rock 'n' roll.
A friend of mine wants to call his band
'David Bowie and the Beatles'. If he doesn't want it anymore, I'll ask him if you can have it.
Alternatives:
The Bootleg Bootleg Beatles
Camp Oboe
Free Recovery Service
Woolworths
The Duckworths
The Little Chefs
Personally, I'd go with Do Some Old.
how about
Victoria & the Crosses
Way In
our new cd out this week
Ciaran & the Coverlets
which bit of NO
The Versions...
The Versions
Covered in Glory
All Covered Up
Covered Love (also a condom and sextoy website - and no, I didn't know about it before I started googling for ideas for this thread)
That Just About Covers It
On Top of the Covers
Cover Me Beautiful
Cover Me, I'm Going In
All The Covers of The Rainbow (although you might be mistaken for a Ritchie Blackmore tribute act)
Album Cover
Covered Market
or...
...Under The Covers
(I still prefer Do Some Old, though)
Books
I'm losing confidence in this as I type it but what about 'The Hardcovers'?
Being a big fan of Mel Brooks's The Producers, I always being in a band called 'Zero and the Mostels'. But that's just me.
How about
ground zero and the mostels...
I was once in a band called...
The Ten Legged Planet Shagging Rock Collossai!!!!
We split up over spelling differences as no one was sure how to spell the plural of colossus. As we never actually left the house and the name was the best thing about us I hereby pass it on to be used as you see fit.
You can't have The Ganglesprockets. Sorry.
Public Service Announcement:
Colossi. (Or Colossuses, which I find a little over-sibilant for euphony,)
Maybe a bit obscure...
... but Cover Me Badd in honour of this lot?
Maybe not
Beat that!
Ganglesprocket... I think we may have a winner. Cover Me Badd is not only a good name, it's also a pretty accurate description.
They could have the strapline...
"We wanna sex you up" on the t-shirts
Maybe not
The CopyCat Murderers
first cd copycat murder spree
The Pretenders
What? Ah, right. As you were.
Best band name ever...
...is of course Billy and the Bollocks, from 'The Commitments'
Or, if you want to tribute 'Uriah Heep' try 'Urinal Cake'
No, you can have that one on me. No need to thank me.
Or...
... 'The Plastic Sleeves'
Because you use them to cover records. You see?
I really don't feel well. Do Some Old. Go with that...
We have a winner!
It's all over bar the shouting. Somehow inspired by your offerings, the band have started to email one another and we've come up with...
The Duckworth Lewis Experience
I expect we'll be called in to play whenever the local cricket team's games are affected by the weather.
A very heartfelt thanks to you all.
Ciaran
Where did that come from?
Where did that come from? Can't say its a name that would grab my attention or tempt me out on a cold Tuesday night.
Hey!
'The Tuesday Night Tempters' would work for me though!
Where that came from...
Someone further up the chain suggested 'The Duckworths' which led to one member of the band suggesting 'Duckworth Lewis', then another suggesting 'The Duckworth Lewis Experience'. A classic brainstorming chain of thought really. I do appreciate that 'Do Some Old', 'The Sound of Young Islington' and 'Cover Me Badd' are all better names, but TDLE struck a chord with us and so it's here to stay (for a while at least). I thought we'd never find a name that we'd all agree on, but now we have.
My sincerest thanks to y'all. We couldn't have done it without you.
Curses!
I was convinced that the joint effort between Patrick and myself of "Do Some Old" was going to be taken up. I had visions of the band hitting it big and then me suing for image rights and retiring on the compensation. Ah well, the DL Experience it is.
It doesn't do it for me I'm afraid
Do Some Old is much better.
Sorry! :-)
How about
See You Next Monday?
Monday?
You mean Thursday surely?
Nah, Monday.
When you're signing off for the final encore, you can say, "We've been 'See You Next Monday', you've been great, and goodnight!", and if any lippy little git offers a heckle, you can stare at him and say, "OK then, make it Tuesday.".
One in every four covers band
is called Flashback apparently.
The Coveralls
.....?
Best covers/tribute band name
I've ever seen was Fisted Sister.
Opening Shakespeare at random
a few years back came up with "Bastard Edmund". Always thought it would actually be quite a good name - but you would have to be a particular type of band.
More a logo than a name
But I always fancied NYGB - in the spirit & style of the "I heart New York" logo.
Stay pretty schtum about the meaning of the letters, let people think it stands for "New York Great Britain" if they want, but once pissed you can tell them it stands for "Not Young, Gifted or Black"
Of course it only works if you're not young, gifted or black.
Why stop there?
The Ductwork Lewis Experience
Heatin'& Ventilatin' & Rock & Roll
Through The Covers For Four
Continental Quilt
Duck And Cover
Four Leaf Cover
Homage And The Affectionate Tributes
William Shatners' Pants...
..thangyew.
The Duckworth Lewis Experience
Excellent name. At the end of the gig, the audience can spend time using a formula to work out whether they enjoyed it. Once the calculations are done, they may ask for an encore.
How about calling yourselves:
'The Beatles, The Pretenders, Jet, That Sort Of Thing'
Does exactly what it says on the tin.
Jet?
Still wondering who they?
Jet?
Whoo-hooo ooo ooooo ooo oooo oooooo ooo ooo
How about...
MT Bottles
Woolworths ( the name is free now)
The Hedge Fund
The Word ( get free advertising )
The Moe Sislak Experience feat. Homer Simpson
The Fancy Cheese People
If I had a band, that's what I'd call it
No Band Here Tonight
...was the rather self-defeating name of a Sussex based band a few years back. Time to try again surely!
Songs for The Fancy Cheese People to cover
Gouda rockin' tonight
Edam, I wish I was your lover
Alex Stilton (the Replacements song, in a blue vein)
Danish blue suede shoes
Cheddar days (Brooooce!)
Caerphilly love songs
Okay, I'm starting to struggle now...
From My Experience...
1) It's helpful to have a band name which everyone will spell correctly. Then they can find you on the web.
2) If they've rejected all your suggestions so far, will they accept anything you come up with as a result of this discussion? What you might need is a better method rather than a better suggestion. One band I was in agreed to put a lot of names into a hat and then choose the worst one of the lot. That worked in gaining consensus, because having your suggestion chosen didn't look like you had 'won'. The downside was that we ended up being called The Launderettes
3) Contrary to all of the foregoing:
Come name the band
I've always wanted to called a band Support - free advertising in every listing! A friend of mine long maintained that Massive Golf Sale would be a good one - free advertising the length and breadth of Oxford Street!
Is the protein is evil sandwichboard man still alive in Oxford
street? Or indeed anywhere. If it weren't for the use of the phrase by another, Meat is Murder would be good name?
Who remembers that old fella? (The sandwichboard man, not Stephen M.)
RIP Stanley Green
He died in 1993, sadly. A complete scan of his booklet has been put up on a fansite, starting here. And his extensive Wikipedia entry - a must read - is here.
Isn't the Innernet wunnerful?
AND SITTING.
That's the one!
Thanks, Arch!
The Duckworth Lewis Experience?
The Duct-tape Tardis Experience is much better.
Or how about
Fanny Bonjour
Band Name.....
I've always liked.....'Kylies Arse'
Ar*e !! Drink!!
Well yes Baz, but what about the band name?
you really came to the right place
The Australian (insert content) Show
Does My Bum Sound Good In This?
Clap Please
Busted Xerox
Mona Lisa Moustache
Own Brand
Generic X
Here's Another One We Didn't Write
Couldn't Be Arsed
We Could Be Here All Night
If you think all you do is cover a load of old balls...
...call yourselves Scrotum. Or Perineum if you want something close, though might have rather proggy overtones if you're not keen on that sort of thing.
I do remember going to see a crap band in the upstairs room of the Empire in Middlesbrough about 20 years ago. They were a right load of luvvies, having an ironing board on stage as well as making toast and distributing during the set. You get the picture.
There were two good things about them:
1. They were called 'The David Icke Movement'
2. They did the most ridiculous Teesside-styled cover of Hey Joe. For those with an an apprecation of the Teesside accent, you can possibly imagine...
band names...
If you're old enough...Stairlift to Heaven
have we done
Alan Cleft and the Gobirons?
see what I did there...
going to join in
Black Plastic Socks
Plugged
Sky Brings You
Milk Wood
Minky Lick Rice
Essential Kalki
Not really Band Name stuff just IMPORTANT
Absolutely nothing to do with any thread at all ever but being a music mag an that I have an absolutely overwhelming urge to let every member of the massive know that I have just been genuinely moved by the finest tune I've heard in ages. Sorry to get heavy on everybody's ass an that but I think its what we're all in "it" for!
'I will possess your heart' by Death Cab for Cutie. Please trust me.
Sorry for the distraction - please get back to whatever you were talking about.
The album 8 minute version is best.
French Beatles Covers Band
I once had the misfortune to hear a French Beatles covers band. They were called Rabeats. They were every bit as as bad as the name.
I always liked...
Free Beer!
Think of the crowd you'd pull.
Supporting Barenaked Ladies
Triple Live Album
you can have that, I'll be in touch about my cut
Have this one on me
ODD GOBLET
or
THE ODD GOBLETS
(seen outside a pottery shop on a rejects table)
MY BAND
After 40 years of looking for the right level of musicianship for my band; I am still building a multi CD package of brilliant material that one day will fill a stadium or a graveyard near you.
Perhaps nobody wants to be in 'The Tossers'?
Trousers
yeah, I'd go and see them over some tossers...
sorry.