Band names wot u have been in..

equalsql

Looking back over my less than glittering musical 'career' I was thinking about some of the names of bands that I have been in...which brought a smile to my face...so I thought, for amusement, I'd list them here with their musical genres.. some names might bring a smile...
I can't say I was happy with most of them..but naming bands is usually a collective decision unless you walk into an existing 'unit'

so here comes my embarrassing history

Loaded Dice - classic rock
Gestalt  pop-rock (the rhythm guitarist was German..hence the name)
Paradox - 70s rock meets new wave
Nell's Little Oranges - jazzy-funk
Sample & Hold - another jazzy adventure
Mac & White - new wave/avant-garde
Soul Trader - serious soul/funk
Chillin' Out - acid jazz
Trenchfoot and Thrush - manic punk metal.. not a serious venture I hasten to add
SweetPea - a collective music project - soul/jazz/funk
Masquerade - very pro function band. good earner but I was selling my soul..

Anyone else care to share?

dindude

Ha, nice idea for a thread, in order.

Total Disater (school band)

Thriving Contour (essentially the same school band)

Plastic (the Uni, take it a bit seriously indie days)

Square Foot (the cover band days)

The Tonic (ammended covers band)

And the last (but no longer) and my personal fav name, an REM tribute band named....

aRe wE theM

 

viz

Ha - Dindude, aRe wE theM is great!

 

These are mine:

 

The Epileptic Spoons and the Toasters from Hell

Rich Clifford

Slut

The Bastard Babies

Double Whammy

Freddie or Not

Relish

Jonathan Stanford

The Monstarz of rock

Laugh out Lounge.

equalsql

Love "Thriving Contour" reminds me, strangely' of 'Throbbing Gristle.

equalsql

A mate of mine was so inspired by the band 'Gay Bikers On Acid' that he called his own venture:
'Lesbian dope-heads on mopeds" .. inspired!

Deadman

Speaking with Ralph
Probability zero
Trap 6
Turtle Z
......that was quickly changed to.....
Anne's room

PolarityMan

Only counting stuff that got gigging:

Blind Old Men - grunge/metal/industrial

Damnosa - grunge

Another Volt - prog metal

Blackfire Well - prog metal

Prion Son - prog metal

Creators Mastertape - post-rock

Here's my favourite band names that were shot down:

Lt. Skytree's Bacon Soliloquy

The MGT (pronounced The midget)

Distant Sandwich

John_P

Good idea for a thread...

Xanthophyll Yellow  (original prog)
Stevie and the legs (R&B covers)
Naya Dhost (bangra covers)
A thousand Days (original u2/simple minds style rock)
Joe & Sid  (house parties/covers)
Nosey Neighbour (original thrash metal)
Sweet Justice (original rock)
Freaky Tree (original proggy rock)
Pleasure Council (club/covers)
Siren (original ambient prog)
Lemon grass (pub rock covers)
Diesel (pubrock covers)
The Faith (jovi tribute)
Shadow thieves (original prog)
Soul Nation (soul/R&B function)
Nitro (80's rock covers)
Awesome (rock covers)

and probably a few more.... with even dodgier names

Phil_aka_Pip

• Crankshaft (my idea) - blues/rock & prog rock
  
• B/euro/cratic WASTE (my idea, with the anarchist circle around the A in waste) - Crankshaft re-formed for a couple of gigs
  
• Nightshade (someone else's idea) - medium weight folk-influenced prog rock
  
• Strange Brew (band decision) - blues/rock much of which had been written or popularised by Eric Clapton. Great fun, and still my best gig
  
• Timeshare (someone else's idea) - naff pop covers in social clubs
• Top Notch Boogie Band/Midnight Hour/Universal Vibe - various names for the "function band" that I quit because they couldn't be Rsed to play any gigs. The first name was my suggestion, thrown out after 3 months in favour of the 2nd, which I went along with quite happily. It got replaced when we discovered another band using the same title in a similar part of the market. The last I couldn't really be bothered with, but I left soon after.

IanSavage

Only the ones that make me cringe/chuckle now:

Foutini - named after what the Jawas in Star Wars shout when they ambush R2D2.

Vinegar Stroke - 'hard rock' covers bands at University. We were dreadful. 

Large Bread / Saucy Jack - the names me and my tattooist go out under for 'incognito' shows. 

I genuinely can't remember any of the embarrassing covers bands' names...

Oh actually, edit - a couple which I think were actually pretty good, both indie-ish bands - Chaos Parade and Nightworker Revival.

DiscoStu

Toxic Death - thrash metal band I joined in school (short lived, couple of gigs)

Mort - thrash metal, post-school (short lived)

Septimus - grunge covers and some originals (filled in on bass for one gig)

The Firewatchers - my 'main' band, mostly originals in a hardcore/skate/metal vein. Bloody loved that band. (recorded and gigged over several years)

over a decade hiatus...

Cunning Stunts - terrible done-to-death name but not too shabby a covers band. (short lived, didn't get as far as gigging due to the singer being a dick and it being 'his' band)

The Speyside Sessions - one off album to raise money for Save the Children. Rather successful too 

Lixarto

Gav's Dad & The No-Legs Five Zappa covers. We thought we were great. Hmm.

Black Vömit originals, "food metal".

Roadhouse (ho hum) rock covers. Competant, but soul destroying.

Angelic Afterbirth a pal's metal band I helped out in for a few months. A rehearsal brought the immortal comment "Can you play so it doesn't sound like Keith Richards?"

Lixarto originals, hugely entertaining for me, mainly as I wrote all the stuff. More line-up changes than Rainbow.

(some solo stuff here, usually billed as The Amazing All-Elastic Zap The Lizard Floorshow)

8 More Days original duo. One of us was a dick. Hmm.

Kebabkid

Well, here's 33 year's worth!

Mind FX (First band. Originals and a bit Policey)
Hot Wire (Pub band handling pop to rock e.g. Spandau to Bon Jovi)
The Dog's Bollox (Raucous pub rock band- Thin Lizzy, Dave Lee Roth, Y&T, Bryan Adams, Jovi etc)
Crowded Fish (Crowded House/Jellyfish tribute)
The Vapor Corporation/TVC (The second generation of The Vapors of "Turning Japanese" fame and my one and only serious/pro band)
Band With No Name (Great band with 3 guitarists - West Coast/AOR band - Eagles, Steely Dan, Doobies, Toto etc)
*Jason & the Argonauts (Top Greek function band and longest stint - 14 yrs)
Rhubarb & Costas for one gig and quickly changed to Good Times ( My own funk function band)
Mirrorball (Function band)
*Jumped Up Madam (acoustic trio featuring Mrs.K on vocals)
Kentfunky-Fied Chickens/KFC (Funky covers band)
*Squeezed (Squeeze tribute band)
*PRS House band (work band/annual stint)

* = Current or occasional

Grunfeld

The Crap

Moles from Hell

Ten Days Trash

Slow Invasion

Fat Nurse

SPOOFTWAT

Naked Apes

IanSavage

Lixarto said:

8 More Days original duo. One of us was a dick. Hmm.

Is the guy who wasn't still playing?

 

monquixote

Great Idea for a thread. I have loads

Death by Milk - Name inspired by Zappa's "Ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch" My first band when I was 14. Original rock/metal band.

Withnail - The same band when I was 15 now rock covers.

The Strange Kings - Abortive attempt at a blues band at uni. Hated the name (everyone called us the pretentious kings)

The Soul Penguins - Soul/Funk covers at uni

The Angry Badgers - Piss about covers band with people from work based around a story about badger attacks in the local news.

Grow - Indie originals band REM/Pixies influenced. Played around Camden tried to get signed.

Black Assassin - Rock originals again around Camden 

Austin - Country rock originals. Fell to bits when the drummer pissed off to be the producer of Dr Who Confidential!

The Bedroom Hour - Indie rock originals. Left because they were much more serious about it that me (I'd given up on getting signed by that point). They are still going and getting BBC airplay.

Dark Energy - Rock covers. My main band from 2008 to the start of this year. 

Sister E and The Filthy Lounge Band - My current band. Soul/Funk covers.

RobDavies

Toxxic Waste - Metal covers when I was about 14.  We used to use lines from The Young Ones for lyrics for our original songs.

Berseka - Thrash/punk band who later became Salem Orchid and subsequently Akercocke.

Blind Blonde - My indie period. Recorded some good stuff with a girl singer.

Snug - More indie stuff - played a few gigs supporting Gene in the 90's.

Throat: Slashed - A death metal band which lasted fone pub meeting and four rehearsals.

1888 - A solo metal project which as with most things I do, I lost enthusiasm for quite quickly.

 

Lixarto

IanSavage said:

Lixarto said:

8 More Days original duo. One of us was a dick. Hmm.

Is the guy who wasn't still playing?

 

No. Somebody broke all his fingers.

RobDavies

equalsql said:

A mate of mine was so inspired by the band 'Gay Bikers On Acid' that he called his own venture:
'Lesbian dope-heads on mopeds" .. inspired!

I've heard of them.   Uxbridge area, possibly?

ICBM

I think this is all of them. Playing guitar unless otherwise mentioned.

The Raygunz - first band at school, punk/slightly goth.

Negative Earth - trippy gothy blues, never gigged.

Smokestack Lightning - 50s/60s rock'n'roll/blues.

Io (not iiO, unfortunately) - bedsit pop.

Turquoise - dreampop. (Bass)

The Manhattan Project (also unfortunately not the one with Stanley Clarke!) - prog/soft-rock.

Wild Honey - acoustic-electric pop 6-piece girl band

Splinter - club/functions.

Unquiet - alt-rock.

Kirsty Baird - pop/weddings.

The Dagmars - 50s pastiche rock'n'roll.

The Angel Conversations* - alt/acoustic rock.

Kurtz* - garage/grunge. (Bass)

The Omega Suite - art rock. (Bass)

Man And Superman - some sort of rock. (Bass)

Caroline Gilmour - singer-songwriter pop. (Guitar and bass at different times.)

*Still in latter-day versions of these.

aRe wE theM - best tribute band name ever .

equalsql

Grunfeld said:

The Crap

Oh that's brilliant!  The punters can never complain that they didn't know what they were getting! 
>:D<