Another band with the same name?

[Cat Burrito]

I lean towards not worrying about it too much. My first band in my adult life was SkinTrade and we had a marginally more successful Skin Trade around at the same time. We had the name first but nobody bandied around cease and desist letters. I then formed The Ex-Boyfriends, only to learn a band in the 70s put out a couple of records using the same name. For a while in the 2000s I was in the Driver Brothers, which was also the name of some DJs and then went on to Case Hardin, who had a country singer in the US who was actually called Case Hardin - nice chap, he bought one of our albums! At the moment, my band has a similarish name to another older act from the same genre. There's nothing original in rock n roll! Until the lawyers get involved, I wouldn't stress it too much. 

[Dom in Dorset]

I'm in band called Sock. We started in 1990 and apart from a  brief twenty year hiatus have been going ever since. 

 A few years ago another much younger band started up with the same name. People occasionally tag us in Facebook posts intended to be about them.  

We find it funny and if they were based nearer to us we'd love to do a gig together. 

[mikebass456]

Just now, Dom in Dorset said:

if they were based nearer to us we'd love to do a gig together. 

A pair of socks! 😆😆😆

[Dom in Dorset]

1 minute ago, mikebass456 said:

A pair of socks! 😆😆😆

We're quite different in style, Odd Socks might be more accurate. 

[Richard R]

8 hours ago, Crusoe said:

Is your band name "White Dog Poo"? 😁

Good grief - that takes me back!

Where I lived as a youngster there were two parallel roads Alexander Road and Douglas Road, named after the builder's sons. There was dog poo on both of them (as everywhere else on the 70s), but Douglas Road had a lot more white dog poo than Alexander and I never knew why. Just avoid them both!

 

 

 

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

9 hours ago, Crusoe said:

Is your band name "White Dog Poo"? 😁

Nah! The band name is/was "Amber Gambler"

 

 

[urbanx]

Our preferred name was already taken, by a fairly small band, totally different genre, and across the pond... 

 

However, we were still so paranoid of people Googling / Spotifying and getting them; that we went with something totally unique. We had nightmare visions of telling people to "Google us, but not that one, or that one" 

 

It's getting harder by the day to create unique names. 

[Crusoe]

I might start a band called "The Unique Names"...

[BigRedX]

9 minutes ago, Crusoe said:

I might start a band called "The Unique Names"...

 

It's probably already been taken...

[bass_dinger]

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.

 

Three Day Week

The Spangles.

Whizzer and Chips

Tracey Island 

My Little Nest of Vipers

Raleigh Chopper 

Vinyl car seats.

 

Am I getting warm?

 

 

[Dom in Dorset]

7 minutes ago, bass_dinger said:

 

Three Day Week

The Spangles.

Whizzer and Chips

Tracey Island 

My Little Nest of Vipers

Raleigh Chopper 

Vinyl car seats.

 

Am I getting warm?

 

 

"Clunk Click" and"Age of the train" aren't in use.

[bass_dinger]

21 hours ago, Dom in Dorset said:

in band called Sock

 

That works, as a band name. Simple, familiar, quirky without being weird.  And a brilliant band name when it comes to naming your albums!

 

Sock it to me - the funk album. 

 

Pop Sock - an album of chart-friendly tunes.

 

Sock for Christmas - the inevitable Christmas album.

 

Lost Sock - the collection of rare B sides, demo tracks and live versions. 

 

[Dom in Dorset]

7 minutes ago, bass_dinger said:

 

That works, as a band name. Simple, familiar, quirky without being weird.  And a brilliant band name when it comes to naming your albums!

 

Sock it to me - the funk album. 

 

Pop Sock - an album of chart-friendly tunes.

 

Sock for Christmas - the inevitable Christmas album.

 

Lost Sock - the collection of rare B sides, demo tracks and live versions. 

 

Back in the day we made a posterwith the dictionary definition of sock on it including all of the examples of uses of the word 

Edited Wednesday at 11:08 by Dom in Dorset
It was an abomination

[Crusoe]

7 minutes ago, bass_dinger said:

 

That works, as a band name. Simple, familiar, quirky without being weird.  And a brilliant band name when it comes to naming your albums!

 

Sock it to me - the funk album. 

 

Pop Sock - an album of chart-friendly tunes.

 

Sock for Christmas - the inevitable Christmas album.

 

Lost Sock - the collection of rare B sides, demo tracks and live versions. 

 

Sock 'n' Soul

[tauzero]

2 hours ago, Dom in Dorset said:

"Clunk Click" and"Age of the train" aren't in use.

 

Nor "Can you see what it is yet?"

[mikebass456]

1 minute ago, tauzero said:

 

Nor "Can you see what it is yet?"

"The Yew-tree Operators?"

[LeftyP]

A local country music act was called Ken and Doug but they were a trio!  I'm still trying to work out which one was called And.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

My old band had a punter looking for the fifth band member while we were packing up after a gig, so she could have a complete set of autographs on a gig poster.

 

All four of us in the band 'obviously 5 believers' had already signed it, and she had watched the whole gig with a drummer, a bass player and two guitarists.

 

We told her the elusive fifth member was in the bog.

[Stub Mandrel]

On 25/02/2025 at 11:24, Crusoe said:

Is your band name "White Dog Poo"? 😁

Or 'The Party Seven'

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I used to know a band called Party Seven. There weren't seven people in the band though.

[pete.young]

Interesting twist - following an audition last night it looks as though I'm going to be in two different bands, each of which has a member with the same name, but they are not the same person.

[Stub Mandrel]

3 minutes ago, pete.young said:

Interesting twist - following an audition last night it looks as though I'm going to be in two different bands, each of which has a member with the same name, but they are not the same person.

 

I once shared a house with two, unrelated, people with the asme first and middle names and the initials APB.

 

I read a book at the time, and one character was a baby called 'All Points Bulletin' or APB for short.

[tauzero]

46 minutes ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

I used to know a band called Party Seven. There weren't seven people in the band though.

 

I have occasionally cited the examples of U2 and Level 42.

 

My old band Spiral Six did indeed start with six members, but we were down to four by the second gig, and remained four until we disbanded a few years later.

[Doctor J]

A downward spiral from the off, one might say.

[chrisba]

6 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

I used to know a band called Party Seven. There weren't seven people in the band though.

I hope they made an album called "What Knees ?"