Must be Brinsley Schwarz. My mate Wicky Peter he say:
Brinsley Schwarz signed a contract with manager Dave Robinson, who developed a plan to earn the band some publicity. They were to open for Van Morrison at the Fillmore East in New York City, and Robinson would fly all the leading British rock critics to the show so they could review it. Though the band had planned on leaving a few days early so they could rehearse, visa problems prevented this and they arrived in New York right before they were to begin. The critics' plane was delayed for four hours, and they arrived at the show either drunk or hung over. The show did not go over well, and the band received a flood of negative reviews over the course of the next few weeks.

Where to start ?

- Statements in music press instead of interviews;

- No singles from follow-up album to multi-million seller;

- And much later, appearing dressed in suspenders!

by a bunch of blues chancers, or more accurately their rottweiler of a manager, not to issue any UK singles AT ALL.

Tossers.

Hang on, I'll remember their name in a mo'....

Use of hells angels as security at pop festival, not the best move - the consequences of all that satanic dabbling coming home to roost?

In the liner notes ('liner notes'!? what am I thinking?) to the reissued Faiport Live Convention CD Jerry Donahue relates how the band's backline was booked onto the flights to Australia as hand luggage, resulting in a £25,000 excess baggage charge greeting the band when they got home - considerably more than they'd earned for the tour in the first place. Almost more unbelievably, they didn't fire him.

I'm sure he wasn't the only one that did it, but Prince's decision to issue Lovesexy as one track, denying the ability of the listener to pick out the odd great ditties and leave the rest, was exceptionally dumb.

And the Fabulous Poodles once put out a record in a fifteen inch sleeve. Funny for about a nano-second.

Terence Trent D'Arby refused to release any singles from Neither Fish Nor Flesh, his (abosulutely dreadful) follow up to the trillion-selling Introducing The Hardline. Instead, he released a surprisingly good single under the pseudonym of The Incredible E.G. O'Reilly in an attempt to promote his new LP. This secret single, "The Birth Of Maudie" did not appear on any album. It was issued as a 7" only at a time when punters were gagging for different formats. Nowhere on the record did it even hint at the real identity of Mr O'Reilly. The record received no promotion and precious little airplay. In the week of its release, Terence Trent D'Arby appeared on the Simon Bates radio show and claimed to have had a meeting with Marvin Gaye (who by that time had been dead for seven years) the day before. Simon Bates claimed to believe him.

Bargain bins groaned under the weight of millions of unsold copies of Neither Fish Nor Flesh well into the nineties.

Didn't they end up having to call themselves "Freur" or something?

Following on from Dr Robert's "Led Zep in translation" post, here's the 1st verse of a well-known song, after passing through the Babel Fish mincer (English to Japanese and back). Shouldn't be too difficult to get it:

As for me when the photograph his him is from the house of the main thing, before no one really is secure, the light/write changed the crowd of A of the people who stand, being scrutinized, that surface being seen, today when but it made the class of news Ohio state, with news it was somewhat sad if the boy to be good concerning the fortunate person, me it could not amuse me who do not become exactly, you looked at that you blow that heart of the car where he does not become aware especially you read,

Yes. Terrible idea.

Although if they'd been successful, two of them would never have gone on to form Underworld, so they might consider the career-defeating name a blessing/valuable lesson.

Other examples of naming stupidity:

1) The The - impossible to Google, but formed pre-www, so we can forgive Matt Johnson
2) A - ditto, but no excuse
3) !!! - yes, we know you're pronounced chk chk chk, but whereabouts are your CDs filed?

If you haven't seen it, go to the BBC iPlayer, watch 'Factory : From Joy Division to The Happy Mondays', re-shown on Saturday and marvel at how an entire record company could survive as long as Factory did while taking so many wrong turns, all of which were funded by New Order, the most stupendously gullible band of all time. One can only surmise how rich Hooky et al would now be if they'd run away from Tony Wilson after he managed to lose money on 'Blue Monday', a debacle which paled in comparison to Tone's later anti-profit efforts.

- I think Alan McGee advising Hurricane #1 that it was ok for the Sun to use their song 'Only The Strongest Will Survive' in an advert was the death knell for Creation Records.

- It's easy to forget how big Kula Shaker were before Crispian Mills started going on about flaming swastikas. New album's good though.

- Matty from Blaggers punching Melody Maker journalist Dave Simpson wasn't a good idea - no more music press and loads of gig cancellations was the swift result.

Didn't Grace Jones have a total nightmare of a gig somewhere where everything that could go wrong did?
If I recall correctly the whole thing lasted about 15 mins with her miming all the wrong songs and flouncing off, no doubt looking for someone to belt round the head and watch her career hit the skids big time.
You're not in her league Amy.

I remember when in the 90s Roger Waters tried to sue the rest of the members of Pink Floyd over their inflatable pig.

He lost due to the fact that the pig the members used was a sow and the original one was a boar.