Good names for bands

by **David Flower** » Mon May 26, 2008 8:01 pm

Dominic wrote :

"Stubble. I always thought it would be a good name for a band"

I thought the same about : "Inverted Comas". Any more?

by **Jamie Renton** » Mon May 26, 2008 8:41 pm

If I had a band (which given that I have no musical talent whatsoever, seems unlikely), I'd call it:

Jamie Renton & his Personal Demons

by **Des** » Mon May 26, 2008 9:25 pm

'Doppler Shift' for an avant-garde rock band.

by **Chris P** » Mon May 26, 2008 9:29 pm

The Prolapsed Wrecked 'Ems - for a chamber string quartet

by **Hugh Weldon** » Tue May 27, 2008 9:51 pm

My two 'bands which never were': The Contradictions and The Naked Flames. Never will be now (with me involved anyway) as both names appear to have been used by others and are on myspace.

Still just about my favourite name ever is one mentioned by Peel many years ago. Can't say I ever heard them (or whether this is just a figment of my imagination) but what a name: Stark Naked and the Car Thieves.

by **Des** » Tue May 27, 2008 10:20 pm

There's a band called Fuck Off Batman - always makes me smile.

by **Quintin** » Wed May 28, 2008 9:20 pm

I was always taken by one of my chum's bands which he named 'The Famous Belgians'.....quite

by **kevin** » Wed May 28, 2008 11:52 pm

The Frank Capras

by **Dayna** » Sat May 31, 2008 2:36 pm

I was doing a little reading online & found out there used to be a Punk band from Cleveland called Electric Eels.

I have no idea what it sounded like. I've never heard of them.

by **Dominic** » Sat May 31, 2008 4:31 pm

Dayna wrote:I was doing a little reading online & found out there used to be a Punk band from Cleveland called Electric Eels.

I have no idea what it sounded like. I've never heard of them.

Real noisy proto-punk. There was a great single on Rough Trade called Agitated - you can hear it on their MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/xelectriceelsx - but don't go there if you're not keen on bad language and general childish nihilism.

Not to be confused with Japanese power trio Electric Eel Shock.

by **Dayna** » Sat May 31, 2008 4:50 pm

Thanks. I looked it up on your link.

Of course my favorite & the one I've always known the best, from Ohio was Devo.

by **Tom McPhillips** » Sat May 31, 2008 7:33 pm

My friend Steve, in the days when such a thing was appropriate, fancied the idea of calling his art school band "Seamus O'Shaugnessy and the Shamrock Showband" which seemed about as alliteratively archetypal as you could ever achieve....

by **Des** » Sat May 31, 2008 10:49 pm

Tom McPhillips wrote:My friend Steve, in the days when such a thing was appropriate, fancied the idea of calling his art school band "Seamus O'Shaugnessy and the Shamrock Showband" which seemed about as alliteratively archetypal as you could ever achieve....

I expect they'd be shite though.

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