How important is the band name for you?

[Ricky 4000]

10 hours ago, uk_lefty said:

Friends of Dorothy.

That explains a lot... 🤨

[super al]

12 hours ago, uk_lefty said:

I was about to audition for a band over ten years ago. I'd seen an ad on party sounds, I think. They talked a good game and said they'd done European tours, went on about welcoming people in and being open minded and accepting and so on... So I'm thinking that's great, they aren't expecting a session pro. So I look up the band name to try and find evidence of this European tour.... The only musically related online article I found was a blog by a musician. Long story short and unbeknownst to me, the band name was a coded way of asking a man you don't know if he is a homosexual. Being a younger and less open minded chap I politely declined the audition saying I don't think I'm the right fit for them. When they asked why I revealed I had just found out what the band name meant and I don't think I'd be comfortable being in that band and made some joke about being from a northern backwater town. I received back a lecture on my small mindedness and how places don't make people.... The whole thing was a very bizzare experience and left me feeling puzzled and slightly ashamed, though I was only ever polite to the person I interacted with.

During the mid 90s I lived with a girl who was a music student at Surrey Uni and MDing for a musical theatre company in her spare time. The term "friends of Dorothy" came up a lot among the cast and crew.

10 years on and I'm in a new band and we're all sitting around brainstorming ideas for the band name. The singer suggests we do something Wizard of Oz related, I said friends of D and everyone said great, that's it. I then explained the term, sudden drop off in interest in the room!

We went with Fly Monkeys, Fly! in the end and Friends of Dorothy became the name of one of our tunes. Sounds like the name was taken anyway 😁

[uk_lefty]

1 hour ago, super al said:

We went with Fly Monkeys, Fly!

That's a pretty awesome band name.

[super al]

7 minutes ago, uk_lefty said:

That's a pretty awesome band name.

I know.

We were a pretty awesome band with some awesome tunes but if you find our MySpace page (if that still exists?!) You'll see we all dressed like accountants on holiday, not a good look.

A lot of Southampton bands from 10 years ago had great names so you needed one to be on the 'scene'

[super al]

D'oh! I just realised if you click on my name you'll see a pic of 4 accountants on holiday (I'm far right!)

[BassTractor]

12 hours ago, Stylon Pilson said:

The main motivator, in my opinion, to having a unique band name, is searchability.

Aye. A pet peeve of mine ever since I worked hard trying to find promising rock band Pope, and before I'd found them online they'd changed their name to that of a Doors album title (don't remember which one right now).

Start searching for "pope" or Doors album titles!
I shake my head in disbelief.

Edited December 12, 2018 by BassTractor

[uk_lefty]

9 hours ago, BassTractor said:

Aye. A pet peeve of mine ever since I worked hard trying to find promising rock band Pope, and before I'd found them online they'd changed their name to that of a Doors album title (don't remember which one right now).

Start searching for "pope" or Doors album titles!
I shake my head in disbelief.

I remember trying to buy an album by "the music" back in the early 2000s. Their single "take the long road and walk it" was great, I thought at the time, but there was no way in heck to find their album

[josie]

Five years ago (maybe more) if you'd put "The Cadillac Three" in a search engine you'd have struggled to find the band. Now you can't find anything else. 

[Ricky 4000]

4 hours ago, josie said:

Five years ago (maybe more) if you'd put "The Cadillac Three" in a search engine you'd have struggled to find the band. Now you can't find anything else. 

I've heard of "The Cadillac Three" from somewhere.

[BassTractor]

Weird thing is our band's totally unique and google-friendly name Quaars-Liebrechts doesn't come up in searches.

Weird. Very weird...

😉

[tonyquipment]

Not important at all. Don’t judge a band by its name lol 

 

[Ricky 4000]

20 minutes ago, tonyquipment said:

Not important at all. Don’t judge a band by its name lol 

 

Oh it is. And yes we do. I still remember when "All Day Breakfast" supported "All You Can Eat For £3.50". There was nearly a riot of hungry pensioners.

That's a good band name actually - "Riot of Hungry Pensioners" 👍

[Paul S]

At a gig last week a poster at the pub was advertising future bands including one called 'topless barmaids'.  I can imagine a lot of disappointed punters.

[dmccombe7]

Yep i could see me going to that gig whoever the band might have been 

[EliasMooseblaster]

16 hours ago, Ricky 4000 said:

Oh it is. And yes we do. I still remember when "All Day Breakfast" supported "All You Can Eat For £3.50". There was nearly a riot of hungry pensioners.

That's a good band name actually - "Riot of Hungry Pensioners" 👍

I have never looked up the lyric to the Kaiser Chiefs' I Predict A Riot, but I can only assume that this is what they were singing about.

[Mykesbass]

Not a band name, but I'm sure someone on here had the tag line "your dad would like us"  - anyone own up to this classic?

[tonyquipment]

17 hours ago, Ricky 4000 said:

Oh it is. And yes we do. I still remember when "All Day Breakfast" supported "All You Can Eat For £3.50". There was nearly a riot of hungry pensioners.

That's a good band name actually - "Riot of Hungry Pensioners" 👍

Sad Mondays

but with Shaun Ryder on a massive comedown 

[Nicko]

1 hour ago, Mykesbass said:

Not a band name, but I'm sure someone on here had the tag line "your dad would like us"  - anyone own up to this classic?

Nearly, we used "songs you mum might not know"

[Newfoundfreedom]

2 hours ago, tonyquipment said:

Sad Mondays

but with Shaun Ryder on a massive comedown 

Ironically Happy Mondays would be the perfect name for us, if it hadn't already been taken by a band I'm not very keen on from Manchester.

Another tenuous link is that in Bulgarian "Bez" means without. 

The perfect name for a man without any discernible talent. 

Edited December 14, 2018 by Newfoundfreedom
Self moderation

[Ricky 4000]

Crappy Mondays? 😁

[tonyquipment]

4 hours ago, Ricky 4000 said:

Crappy Mondays? 😁

The perfect ruse.😬

[Newfoundfreedom]

Well we've finally agreed on a name, and after all that it has absolutely nothing to do with Monday. 😂

Edited December 14, 2018 by Newfoundfreedom

[Paul S]

Appearing tonight

'absolutely nothing to do with Monday'

I like it.  Catchy.

[musicbassman]

Many years ago I came across an Irish heavy metal band called 'Third Effect'

...Oh, go on, say it....

[Guest oZZma]

So important we've playing together for a year now and we still don't have a name.