Another band with the same name?

[MacDaddy]

13 hours ago, Norris said:

There's another band called Cubic Nipple?! 😮

 

 

There is now

[bass_dinger]

15 hours ago, tauzero said:

six gigs in nine days in six different states).

Or, perhaps, 6 identically-namec bands each with one gig, one in each of the 6 States. 

[bertbass]

If you want to protect your name, this is the route to go down.

 

https://nationalbusinessregister.co.uk/services/business-name-registration/

 

and also,

 

https://companieshouse.blog.gov.uk/2019/02/12/choosing-a-company-name-trading-name-or-trade-mark/

[BigAlonBass]

I was the Lead Vocalis/Bassist for a Working Men's Club Band, playing nothing but 'sing-along' Covers. After five and a half years, we had a good following, playing to Full Houses five nights a week, with Agents falling over each other to Book us. 

Along came Paul Carrick (sp?) with his one-off rendition of "How Long". 

Guess who had to change their Band Name? The Band without expensive Solicitors, that's who.  🙄

[tauzero]

10 hours ago, bass_dinger said:

Or, perhaps, 6 identically-namec bands each with one gig, one in each of the 6 States. 

 

10 gigs on their tour in April, so ten identically named bands sharing a website and each with a set of four identically named members who all look like each of the other nine members who share their name? Probably simpler just to move one band of four members around.

[Norris]

9 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

10 gigs on their tour in April, so ten identically named bands sharing a website and each with a set of four identically named members who all look like each of the other nine members who share their name?

The lengths some people will go to, eh?!

[Richard R]

On 21/02/2025 at 09:46, SH73 said:

Iron Maiden one from 60's then Iron Maiden established in 1975

 

I have always wanted to play in a cr@p HM tribute band called Iron Midden.

 

 

 

[Dan Dare]

In answer to the original question, you could get creative with the spelling ("Kult" instead of "Cult", etc) if you like the name you have and don't want to lose it.

Edited February 23 by Dan Dare

[TrevorR]

Some chums of mine are in the prog metal band Threshold. They’ve been going for 35 years or so, have a back catalogue of 20 albums on Spotify but still there are loads of folks who never even think of googling “[my genius, unique band name idea] music” before settling on a moniker… it’s pretty unavoidable even with the power of the interweb at our fingertips. 🙄

 

 

…they are the ones at the top!

[Happy Jack]

18 years ago we wanted to call ourselves The Junkyard Dogs but careful searches revealed that there was already a Junkyard Dogs playing in the NorthEast so we ditched the idea.

 

Two years later following some changes in personnel we wanted a new name and - to my complete astonishment - the Junkyard Dogs near Newcastle at that moment posted that the band was folding, it had been a great xxx years, thanks to everybody who had come to their shows, blah blah blah. Righty-ho then, we'll have that thank you very much and The Junkyard Dogs we immediately became.

 

Around the same time a band in the West Country started calling themselves Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs but we never noticed a problem. On a couple of occasions pubs in Devizes and Marlborough tried to book us, presumably Hobo Jones received enquiries from pubs in Ealing, who knows?

 

Fast forward 12 years and - lo and behold - the original band near Newcastle decided to reform, still using the same name. By this time of course we were so well established on social media that we were the first hit on any search for a band called The Junkyard Dogs in Britain, so within a year or so they changed their name to The Junkyard Dogz. 

 

But still we weren't in the clear, because quite recently Hobo Jones has presumably decided his band's name is too much of a mouthful, and they seem to have started calling themselves ... wait for it ... wait for it ... The Junkyard Dogs.

 

So where's all this going, I pretend to hear you ask? Well, we were booked (by phone, through someone I've met face to face) for a West London gig at a new venue last week. The booker said he'd do his own poster, which was nice. Then he sent us the poster.

 

The band details were all for Hobo Jones' band down in the West Country while the photo of the band showed the original Newcastle band. I'm still trying to work out if this is wind-up or just an example of Irish humour.

 

[Stub Mandrel]

We agonised for ages and eventually went for a local landmark, Bendricks Rock.

 

Not long after we got a presence, my brother tells me his next door neighbour (the 20-ish son) has called his new band... Bendricks.

 

They are originals, we are covers and the names are different. But we come up first on google

[Mickeyboro]

9 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

The band details were all for Hobo Jones' band down in the West Country while the photo of the band showed the original Newcastle band. I'm still trying to work out if this is wind-up or just an example of Irish humour.

 

A real Dog’s dinner, Jack… 🐶 

[Dom in Dorset]

14 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

18 years ago we wanted to call ourselves The Junkyard Dogs but careful searches revealed that there was already a Junkyard Dogs playing in the NorthEast so we ditched the idea.

 

Two years later following some changes in personnel we wanted a new name and - to my complete astonishment - the Junkyard Dogs near Newcastle at that moment posted that the band was folding, it had been a great xxx years, thanks to everybody who had come to their shows, blah blah blah. Righty-ho then, we'll have that thank you very much and The Junkyard Dogs we immediately became.

 

Around the same time a band in the West Country started calling themselves Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs but we never noticed a problem. On a couple of occasions pubs in Devizes and Marlborough tried to book us, presumably Hobo Jones received enquiries from pubs in Ealing, who knows?

 

Fast forward 12 years and - lo and behold - the original band near Newcastle decided to reform, still using the same name. By this time of course we were so well established on social media that we were the first hit on any search for a band called The Junkyard Dogs in Britain, so within a year or so they changed their name to The Junkyard Dogz. 

 

But still we weren't in the clear, because quite recently Hobo Jones has presumably decided his band's name is too much of a mouthful, and they seem to have started calling themselves ... wait for it ... wait for it ... The Junkyard Dogs.

 

So where's all this going, I pretend to hear you ask? Well, we were booked (by phone, through someone I've met face to face) for a West London gig at a new venue last week. The booker said he'd do his own poster, which was nice. Then he sent us the poster.

 

The band details were all for Hobo Jones' band down in the West Country while the photo of the band showed the original Newcastle band. I'm still trying to work out if this is wind-up or just an example of Irish humour.

 

I know another band in age south West called Junkyard Dogs , no "the" and no connection with Hobo Jones. 

[Happy Jack]

Just now, Dom in Dorset said:

I know another band in age south West called Junkyard Dogs , no "the" and no connection with Hobo Jones. 

 

Is 'Age South West' a Care Home? 😉

[Stub Mandrel]

Apparently there's a US band called the Junkyard Doges...

[Dom in Dorset]

23 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

 

Is 'Age South West' a Care Home? 😉

Predictive text or  senility not sure which 🤔

[Bassassin]

On 23/02/2025 at 22:57, Happy Jack said:

18 years ago we wanted to call ourselves The Junkyard Dogs but careful searches revealed that there was already a Junkyard Dogs playing in the NorthEast so we ditched the idea.

 

Two years later following some changes in personnel we wanted a new name and - to my complete astonishment - the Junkyard Dogs near Newcastle at that moment posted that the band was folding, it had been a great xxx years, thanks to everybody who had come to their shows, blah blah blah. Righty-ho then, we'll have that thank you very much and The Junkyard Dogs we immediately became.

 

Around the same time a band in the West Country started calling themselves Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs but we never noticed a problem. On a couple of occasions pubs in Devizes and Marlborough tried to book us, presumably Hobo Jones received enquiries from pubs in Ealing, who knows?

 

Fast forward 12 years and - lo and behold - the original band near Newcastle decided to reform, still using the same name. By this time of course we were so well established on social media that we were the first hit on any search for a band called The Junkyard Dogs in Britain, so within a year or so they changed their name to The Junkyard Dogz. 

 

But still we weren't in the clear, because quite recently Hobo Jones has presumably decided his band's name is too much of a mouthful, and they seem to have started calling themselves ... wait for it ... wait for it ... The Junkyard Dogs.

 

So where's all this going, I pretend to hear you ask? Well, we were booked (by phone, through someone I've met face to face) for a West London gig at a new venue last week. The booker said he'd do his own poster, which was nice. Then he sent us the poster.

 

The band details were all for Hobo Jones' band down in the West Country while the photo of the band showed the original Newcastle band. I'm still trying to work out if this is wind-up or just an example of Irish humour.

 

 

Back in the mid-90s I had a massive (and tragically unrequited) crush on the gorgeous & talented singer who fronted a Glasgow band called - well, see if you can guess!

 

In fairness they split a loooong time ago!

[Russ]

My band was called Earthbound - there's at least a dozen other Earthbounds out there, so we rather unimaginatively renamed ourselves Earthbound AD. It was either that or The Earthbound Four, but we decided against it in case we decided to go back to being a five-piece.  

[tauzero]

7 hours ago, Russ said:

My band was called Earthbound - there's at least a dozen other Earthbounds out there, so we rather unimaginatively renamed ourselves Earthbound AD. It was either that or The Earthbound Four, but we decided against it in case we decided to go back to being a five-piece.  

 

That doesn't seem to have bothered U2 or Level 42.

[geoham]

I wonder if I've ever been in a band with a unique name.
 

I was in an originals band in the early 2000s - Underwood. We was named after Underwood Lane in Paisley, where one of the band members lived. We reconvened to start recording again during Covid and discovered that there's a Crimean band of the same name. Our stuff gets bundled together on streaming services, which is a bit annoying. There's now a local covers band calling themselves Underwood Lane too... must be something inspiring about that street!

A quite funny example - I was in a covers band called Loose Cannon. I'm sure there's plenty of bands with that name. We received an angry Facebook message from an American guy complaining we played too loud in the garage next to his elderly mother... aggressively suggested we keep in down or find somewhere else to practice.

 

I think when it comes to it, that if none of the bands have any kind of trademarks, aren't especially well known and don't cross paths, then there's nothing to stop you both working with the same name.

[mikebass456]

I was in a band that we abbreviated to FFS.  After a few years, Franz Ferdinand and Sparks combined for a while, calling themselves.....FFS! 

There was no misunderstanding as to which version you were getting when we struck up on a Saturday night.

However, our keyboard player did have to shave their moustache just in case (she really wasn't happy about it though.......)

[Rich]

I was looking for a band name quite a while back, and a quick google search revealed two others with that name. One was a UK band that had folded in 2012, the other was an active US band that are very much local to their area and do not appear to ever have left their home state, never mind toured. To be on the safe side and to avoid confusion, we modified it slightly so where their name is 'Name Of Band', ours was 'nameofband'. 

[Crusoe]

14 minutes ago, geoham said:

A quite funny example - I was in a covers band called Loose Cannon. I'm sure there's plenty of bands with that name. We received an angry Facebook message from an American guy complaining we played too loud in the garage next to his elderly mother... aggressively suggested we keep in down or find somewhere else to practice.

 

You could have been really mischievous and caused all sorts of trouble for them by telling him to f**k off and slag his mum off. 😆

[Rich]

Ooh you evil man.

 

Brilliant  

[Crusoe]

On 20/02/2025 at 21:14, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

For the last six months or so (might be longer) I have been using a band name for one of my ongoing projects which is fairly obscure reference to something that will probably be meaningless to anyone who didn't grow up in the 70s in the UK.

 

 

Is your band name "White Dog Poo"? 😁