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Naming indie bands after traffic black spots
Posted by David Hepworth on 24 November 2009 - 7:46am.
I don't pay much attention to the traffic news. It's just a distant burbling noise from the radio. Emerging occasionally from the burble are the names of certain black spots. It often strikes me that these places would make good names for indie bands.
"Tonight in session The Hanger Lane Gyratory System and The Clacket Lane Services..."
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And tomorrow…
… The Sun In The Sands Roundabout
And coming up next week,
The Armley Gyratory.
Polish War Memorial (no definitive article)
Hogarth's Magic Roundabout, Shap, Sheer weight of Traffic (lp title), and of course hot from New Cross "Shed Load".
Here for a residency are
The Army and Navy Flyover
supported by
Sadler's Farm Roundabout
I once spent about an hour in the very early morning
going over, back over and over again the Army and Navy flyover. I was with a pal and we were really bored.
Yo Yo Chelmsford boyz.........?
No doubt......
And one more later
from The Southend Arterial
"...and from the Peel session archives...
...Hatfield and the North"
And their northern counterparts:
Sheffield and The South
Parking Lot
Not a traffic hotspot, but who remembers the band Diesel Park West?
DPW
Just to veer off topic for a moment, you can catch up on the latest from DPW in this month's "Bucketfull of Brains".
The Watford Gap
Always struck me as a Scaffold-type late sixties band
Good evening
We are Burst Watermain.
That was the latest single from...
Contra-flow in Force
And from the M20 southbound
Operation Stack
Old School influences would have to be
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express, Autobahn
John Foxx - Underpass
Although I'm sure there are more...
Spaghetti Junction
Italian jazz-rock combo
Road Block
"Good evening Glasgow, we are The Cul De Sacs!"
The Red Rover Junction
An Irish Marxist band.
The north Yorkshire bluesman...
Snake Pass
The north Yorkshire bluesman...
Snake Pass
sad real ale rock band
covers bandfrom the peak district "Winnets Pass"
The North London Blues Legend...
Staples Korner
And his brother
Scotch Korner
and not forgetting
Amen Corner
And
Top Prog band Gypsy Corner
And from SW London
Apex Corner
The Thelwall Viaducts
The Thelwall Viaducts
The Cornish Riot Grrrl outfit...
Indian Queens
Sadley deceased legendary bluesman in session
with three from Black Walt Unnel. Cone but not forgotten
The 23rd Turn Off
Brilliant scouse psychedlic band of the sixties with a suitably turned on name. Less spaced out is the fact they're named after the slip road for Merseyside on the East Lancs Road.
The Cone Czars
The Familly von Speed Trap, the must be a dance act called "NCP"
And all the way from County Cork...
The Dunkettle Interchange
'The' Heston Services
'The' Heston Services
Please Welcome...
From Glasgow...
Townhead Interchange
Another Two
The Blind Corners
Gridlock (Metal Sounding band)
The A52's?
UK?
...and from Dublin:
Red Cow Roundabout
Low Bridge
caution Horse (oh we've had that one already....)
The Speed Humps, Mini & the Roundabouts,
The Hogarth Roundabout...
Prog tendencies - heavily influenced by Crimson and Hillage.
Treaclemine - Goldfrapp/Little Boots esque synthy duo. (Large roundabout in South Ockendon - the newbie locals try and call it Chafford Hundred in a vain attempt at glamour)
Tonight from Birmingam
we are showcasing Spaghetti Junction and Aston Expressway 2 very angry young bands!
Not forgetting Brummie Boyband sensations....
Fiveways!
Live from Leeds, progressive rockers......
The Sheepscar Interchangers
This is a wonderful thread!
And once again shows the clear cultural difference that will always remain between us and our colonial cousins across the Atlantic.
The romance of these names will always be in a completely different universe from "42nd Street", "4th & Broadway", "Route 66" etc.
Thinking about it
I'm now going to make a dubstep record just so I can call myself South Circular!
And give a warm welcome to...
The Healey Tidal Flow System (somewhere in Sheffield I seem to recall)
"ThePeople who live on the farm in the middle of M62"
complicated NU-pholk group "Services 1 Mile" debut lp
Think we need a word sampler
"Gingsters Paradise: B-roads and overtakes vol 1."
And an update
on the roads. The AA advise that if you're heading towards Shoeburyness, , take the A Road, the Ok Road that the best - the A13 as it bypasses Dagenham.
Is that the one that goes
"straight through wapping"?
A pedant writes
It starts down in Wapping.
but then, there ain't no stopping, apparently
a pedant types surely...
Good point Chris...
but *maybe* I write my comments with pen & paper and have an amanuensis who transcribes them into the blog :-)
Hang on
Wasn't Amanuensis a Womble ?
Harold,
You now owe me one (1) replacement keyboard.
How does my ignorance
break your keyboard ? Just curious.
After the news
at the top of the hour we have a session from Clockhouse Interchange.
Why Aye!
All the way from North Shields, Tyneside's latest jazz sensation -
Billy Mill's Roundabout
A12
Indie MC Hammer fusion shit from Chelmsford.
One of their line-up, MnM1, moved to Luton, went solo and experienced huge worldwide chart success.
A name from days gone by
"The Flying Eye"
And propping up the bill
it's Crooked Billet Roundabout.
Whatever happened to...
Duckett's Corner?
musical differences
West of Ireland boy band
influenced by the disparate influences of the Saw Doctors and Tony Mortimer: N17
Or Belfast-based, Louis Walsh-managed and abrupt late key change loving non-hitmakers Westlink?
Two later from
Manchester's top Yes tribute act, now based near Shepherds Bush - Northern Roundabout. And follwing on from that we have a major jam with Entering Westfield
How about
The 23rd Turnoff?
German motorways
Anyone familiar with German Radio must have heard Geisterfahrer*(Ghost Driver), a heavy rock combo.
* There seems to be at least 1 driver a night who either due to drunkeness or bad visibility ends up driving the wrong way.
At the bottom of next year's
Glastonbury bill, ladies and germs, make a lot of noise for Bassett's Pole Roundabout
How's about
Junction 7. Sounds like a real band. Only trouble is the gag it's attached to, as in "he's known as Junction 7, the Birmingham turn off".
Or the Blackwall Approach perhaps.
Almost is a real band...
Steve Winwood did an album called Junction Seven - for exactly the same reason as you suggest!
Appropriations
I can only admit to stealing that gag from Custom Car magazine in the 70s, but I would assume they nicked it from Winwood.
Top of the London travel news charts recently
One Woolwich ferry
Per the Hep's original post, I can only assume...
...that the actual band Hangar Lane dropped the 'Gyratory System' from their name early on.... http://www.myspace.com/hangerlane
And since they appear to claim kinship with The Killers and Third Eye Blind they're aiming at the indie space. Spooky.
Up here in Scotland
You can see...
The Kingston Bridges in Glasgow
The Sheriffhall Roundabouts in Edinburgh
The Castlecary Arches in Cumbernauld
Tramworks in Edinburgh
St.James Interchange are always a big draw in Paisley
Maryville in Glasgow
Great Western Road in Glasgow
Shawhead Flyovers in Coatbridge
Corstorphine in Edinburgh
The Average Speed Cameras
Delays (sorry, that ones taken already)
This lot are always on tour no matter the time of year!
Most motorway junction names could be used as well really.
A bit further north
The Haudigan (For anyone who has ever driven through Aberdeen)
The Inveramsy Bridge
both will be playing "The Lemon Tree" soon.
The Peartree Interchange
Lead single - What Did Tony Blair Ever Do For Us?
Debut album - The Fruits of Our Labour
Sophomore album released post General Election - The Cameron Effect
The band splits in late 2010 due to overwhelming disinterest.