If you were ever in a band what was it called?
Posted by Normal-Internal164@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 218 comments
When I was around 19 or 20 I was in a punk band called Pest. We played maybe 3 gigs and supported an incarnation of the UK punk band Snuff.
odkfn@reddit
I was in a band who did okay - we got on Scuzz and had a few songs in their top ten, we recorded with a pretty famous producer and gigged a bit, but really struggled to build much traction other than that! It was tough trying to gig as you often got paid based on how many people you brought, but when trying to play a new city you didn’t have any dedicated fans there!
Even locally, you’re expected to turn up a few hours early for sound check but then you have hours to burn at the venue so spend more on food or drink than you made gigging!
Coldblood_1@reddit
I loved Scuzz! Care to tell us the name of the band? I promise I won't stalk you.
alaughatyourdriving@reddit
I still miss Scuzz
RajSchwenk@reddit
I was in a band called Nile. That's one of the bigger ones.
alaughatyourdriving@reddit
Nile the Death Metal band?
Jonestown89@reddit
You guys were awesome
Crayon_Casserole@reddit
Sounds like you're in denial.
TelephoneOrnery1394@reddit
How was this comment on -1, come on Redditm denial, the-Nile…
APiousCultist@reddit
The internet is a mercurial place full of sheep-brained behaviour (that we ALL unconsciously do) where the likelihood of an upvote or downvote is shaped heavily by the comments score. Which is why "I also choose this guy's dead wife" is one of the most upvoted comments instead of one of the most downvoted. Luckily if it's only at -1 it can swing the other way.
Crayon_Casserole@reddit
Thank you!
Asuperniceguy2@reddit
What, like Nile Nile? Really? That's so cool lol
Mark1912@reddit
Great band - loved the "In Their Darkened Shrines" record!
Radiant_Office6445@reddit
As is "be drowned, be drowned! BE VOMITED UPOOOOON!" - band NILE?
If so then good for you, they rule. I swear I found like Karl Sanders wife on reddit one time. She was in like an Egyptian sub, or guitars or something, can't remember haha
ImportantMortgage1@reddit
Great show at K Fest in the early 2000s
Ill_Tonight_2069@reddit
Did you win the tickets from a tinpot radio station?
bodjac89@reddit
Supported by Lanners?
Ill_Tonight_2069@reddit
Who is Lannegan?
WarSuspicious8164@reddit
Saucer drinker
Caltra@reddit
Ladies and Gentleman, please welcome to the stage…Lanners
WiMc55@reddit
Not Lanners?
Kadoomed@reddit
The metal band?
Jesisawesome@reddit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_(band) - this Nile??? Huge
spokenwealth@reddit
Whaaaaaattttt!!!??!!? I loved that band
CalligrapherExtreme8@reddit
Holy shit! I saw you play at WOA
PeppercornWizard@reddit
I saw Nile a couple of times maybe around 2001? Great band!
Slight-Picture-8307@reddit
The Dawn. Red Casino. Chestnut Barrow and the Barrow Boys.
thread-peruser@reddit
I saw Snuff in Camden '88, kwik fit fitter, shake n vac & think we're alone now was the set, great night!
OneUsed6198@reddit
Johan of the orchard
The Union
Exact-End-4130@reddit
sons of costanza, coach riley.
Jonestown89@reddit
Gullet. We were so underground that we never released anything and our only gig never went ahead
Jimithejive@reddit
The wicker shoes, then gravity, then davey bobo and the cannibal hobos, then the bad accents
Lazy-Objective-1630@reddit
I wanted to start a punk band called captain cunt and the piss flaps. No one wanted to be a piss flap though.
Dapper-Cauliflower35@reddit
TBC. Thought it would be clever to be on loads of line ups...
Then changed to Easily Confused in tribute to (i think) the singer's (maybe the drummer's) lack of awareness of what was going on.
TrappedUnderIceSpice@reddit
Foregone Conclusion
Training_Original456@reddit
Mechanical Beetles Never Quite Warm
RajSchwenk@reddit
Were you successful?
ResponsibilityWise74@reddit
They only supported a little act called TEXAS
RajSchwenk@reddit
Yeah, but could they run a successful paper merchants?
ResponsibilityWise74@reddit
No, but he couldn’t do what they do either… actually he could… and I think they knew that.
Christian-Metal@reddit
Could you imagine the OP in a band? Bald git-erm, no, it's the Reddit posts, because it would probably - so what's the vibe in the second half, cause.....
BrexitVoter@reddit
I say toob
Liber8r69@reddit
El Vino did flow
WorhummerWoy@reddit
Please welcome to the stage....Loose Change
BrexitVoter@reddit
Restless Diesel!
Appropriate-Ant3257@reddit
Pocket Fluff
Icy_Distribution3467@reddit
Brentmeister general
thebigfil@reddit
That's hilarious, my band name was the same in the 90s
Recognition_Content@reddit
Juxtaposition Records?
PartTimeLegend@reddit
Illya Kuryakin
We were big ATDI fans and they had a song called Napoleon Solo.
Ambitious_Bet2920@reddit
Curse these metal hands
zamoflo@reddit
Drunk on a Detour. We were all 15-16 years old so not old enough to legally drink or drive, let alone both (not that doing both actions together is either legal or advisable to be fair)
paulyhopey@reddit
Knew a guy wanted to call his thrash metal band Cot Death but his mum wouldnt let him.
_StuckInTheMud_@reddit
Some of the lads at school named their band Necrophilia Incest. Gotta love edgy teens.
Icy_Distribution3467@reddit
Settled on dying fetus instead
Jesisawesome@reddit
Snuff are amazing.
councilsoda@reddit
Duncan Redmonds has just released an album of Northern Soul covers. It's decent, captures a bit of the peak Snuff magic.
Jesisawesome@reddit
OH! Great will try and find it
councilsoda@reddit
https://youtu.be/Dg5oc738QI0?si=xz8q3W_i79i08iXh
Heres a track ☝️
All the streaming links here 👇
https://ditto.fm/keep-the-faith-snuff
🍻
Normal-Internal164@reddit (OP)
They were great live. We played with their second incarnation called ‘Your Mum’
plotloss@reddit
Guns N Wankers were good too
Jesisawesome@reddit
Goober Patrol
Final_Anybody_3862@reddit
I see your Goober Patrol and raise you a Vanilla Pod.
Fucking hell, I haven't thought of Goober Patrol for years.
Andrew_Culture@reddit
Hello fellow East Anglian :)
Jesisawesome@reddit
I think about them every day.
(Never heard Vanilla Pod - will give them a spin)
Jesisawesome@reddit
When I was about 17 they played the LA2, I think the Dropkick Murphys played too. My mate's band - Area Effect - were the opening act and we got to go backstage and it was one of the best nights of my younger life.
There was this guy in the crowd who was huge, just this massive black guy and he was from america and I think he might have been the first american I had ever met properly and he was so so chilled out and cool and he looked after us in the pit.
Great times.
Intelligent_Bug_9456@reddit
Area Effect mentioned!
Jesisawesome@reddit
hahah yes! Peak era - saw Knuckledust played a sold out gig a few months ago too was gutted I couldn't get tickets.
It was actually more a mates mates band - guy called Nathan (also published Berzerker Mean Zine) but they were a great bunch.
Great times.
xpca1@reddit
demmamusabebonk is an awesome album
Jesisawesome@reddit
https://youtu.be/Vg1yGH1EeNg?si=6Bnktlq-dOgEbb4s
srm79@reddit
3 Girls Called Sue, it was me 16yo m at the time and my two f friends, none of us were called Sue lol, it just seemed a cool name at the time
Jasboh@reddit
In ref to the Jonny cash song?
srm79@reddit
No idea where it came from, wasn't all that into Johnny Cash back then - liked him more as I got older
theartshole@reddit
The Burt Reynolds Experience
alinalovescrisps@reddit
I love some of these 😂.
Was never in a band because I have no musical ability but me and one of my best girl mates wanted to start a shit punk band called Menstrual Deranged, lifted from a list of reasons women got admitted to asylums back in the day
BigDsLittleD@reddit
Sounds ideal. You only need, like, 3 chords anyway, just use easy ones.
BrexitVoter@reddit
Power chords at that
BrexitVoter@reddit
The Backstreet Abortions.
We were 13. The first lesson of the day was music. We were told we were making bands.
The lesson after that, was Religion - where we had just learned about back street abortions.
thirdratehero@reddit
Various bands.
DeathPigeon
Disappointing Colin
Colin and the Cosmonauts
The Echo Fault Line
Hypnotoad
The Ever End
Fighting Cucks
This Week Tomorrow
PBW
J’nais sais what?
All terrible names, all terrible bands.
Hamking7@reddit
School bands from 1989 - 1993: Poetic Justice The Wishing Palace Fuctifano Puddle Monster Dead Cat Bounce Creel
All the same band, just couldn't settle on a name.
Historical_Project86@reddit
Sort of, we rehearsed a bit when I was at Uni. I thought we were bad, but I heard a tape of us rehearsing, many years later, and it sounded good enough to get a short gig at the Uni I think. We had a couple of suggestions for names:
Persephone's Throbbing Consequences
Theodore Sturgeon
JedAndWhite@reddit
Punk band called Lunchbox. We had Daley Thompson in tight shorts on all our flyers.
Emo band called Silo Zane. Got demo of the month in Metal Hammer. Left when I had my first kid. They did alright in a low key kinda way.
fizzyrhythm@reddit
From the Aldershot vicinity? I remember Silo Zane! Might’ve seen you at The Westy or The Tumbledown Dick.
JedAndWhite@reddit
Maybe both. I was in really early on when Wil just sang rather than played guitar and sang.
OverPaper3573@reddit
This post reminds me of the story about how the first Velvet Underground album sold poorly when first released but everyone who heard it wanted to start a band. Its good to know people still want to make music.
NovaCorpse@reddit
Used to be in a stoner metal band called Primitive Screwheads, named after the line in Army of Darkness
OverPaper3573@reddit
Did you have a song or album called, hail he who has come from the sky, to deliver us from the terror of the deadites. lol
BasualdoTheTiny@reddit
Was never in a band. If I ever was to be in a band, I would call it "Ünnëcëssäry Ümläüt".
RelationshipLife6739@reddit
I was genuinely angry about the amount of umlauts until I read the full name there 😅
OverPaper3573@reddit
Also Angry Umlauts as a band name?
Emotional-Ad-2571@reddit
Do you post on FF?
BasualdoTheTiny@reddit
I do not. What is that?
Normal-Internal164@reddit (OP)
Heheh brilliant
TheCloudGate@reddit
Most recent mates and family band is Alan Partridge Project.
Lots of dramatic dodgy goth bands in the past too. And once had a singer who left the band cos we got a gig!
AgeingMuso65@reddit
Briefly in, and nearly as briefly, named Danelaw. It was to pounding metal what He-Man was to the Terminator….. A couple of sixth-form party gigs then A levels! Classic example of “the drummer is the one who bought the drum kit…”, who was soon replaced by an actual drummer… The era of home-built gear, so if you’ve never heard an acoustic piano experimentally mic’d through a Practical Electronics guitar tremolo unit (sounding like it was under water) I can assure you, you’ve never lived!
Icy_Distribution3467@reddit
Danny dyers chocolate homunculus
DaveBeBad@reddit
I wanted to be in a band. It would have been called “Aardvarks anonymous” working on the principle that you always remember the first and last reviews or gig listings you saw…
Fortunately for the world, I have the musical talent of a particularly unmusical yak.
(BTW OP, snuff are one of my favourite bands)
rabinosa@reddit
Played trumpet in a ska band called Squid Hunter - we gigged loads within the UK ska scene of the early 2000's and played with some awesome bands (lightyear, howards alias, sonic boom 6, capdown, adequate 7 to name a few)
Asuperniceguy2@reddit
Lucifers Stepdad, baybeee
Substantial_Cat2@reddit
The Yaya, indie-punk type band that recorded an EP that was never released.
Then Glass Nerve more recently. Pop-punk that did release music and play some shows but ultimately fizzled out.
WaterSmooth8773@reddit
I was in a Green Day tribute band called Green Daze 😆
craigus17@reddit
The Gaze
At age 13 that seemed hilarious
Jesisawesome@reddit
Made me laugh and im 45
Regthedog2021@reddit
I was in a New Romantics band mid 80s called the melting moments - oh we were so shit- but you should have seen our HAIR!!!!
EasyCheesecake1@reddit
Gaderene Swine.
CodingRaver@reddit
Diarrhea Transfusion.
To be clear it's supposed to be pumping liquid shit into somebody's veins instead of blood. Not replacing their Diarrhea with yours; that would be pointless.
Jasboh@reddit
Thanks for the clarity . I had imagined two people ring to ring
Jesisawesome@reddit
AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA
BigDsLittleD@reddit
Brutal.
Also Brutal.
I assume this was a Pop-Punk 3 piece? /s
WrongExplanation1065@reddit
*poop punk
Appropriate-Ant3257@reddit
When I was a kid my first band was called Toxic Pizza. I would have been about 11. Then in my teen years we were called Next to Zero - I have no idea where that name came from. In college I had a band called Manic Blackout, but then these bikers started harassing us because their band was called the same name. So we changed it to This Vacant State. I've given up naming bands I'm in now, I figured the next one I'm in will be called Various Artists
Real_Salamander_2022@reddit
Third Lung
nopeitsadog@reddit
Played a few gigs called “free beer and crisps” had loads turn up it was awesome shithousery
BarryTownCouncil@reddit
In order...
Autojoy Manhattan Project The Richard Pryor Jazz Players
FiendishPup@reddit
Anal Travesty is incredible. I need an anal travesty band shirt.
thebigfil@reddit
My friends were in a band called DethleheM.
https://youtu.be/AiZKuAjulWw?si=315GEXr5-HWBgVwZ
VeryCool99@reddit
Simple Crisis. Started a band in year 10 when we got bored over summer, it lasted 3 rehearsals in my mates living room
NinjaGrows@reddit
The Hair Blair Bunch Curse These Metal Hands Danny Dyer's Chocolate Homunculus Man Feelings Various Artists
dustyfaxman@reddit
i remember various artists, they were really prolific, mostly albums of covers though.
MikeSizemore@reddit
Metal Hell. I only remember one song but it was called WE’RE GONNA EAT YOU 🤘
Jesisawesome@reddit
That's a really good song name
MikeSizemore@reddit
Ha. Thanks. I’ve actually done some work as a lyricist but I think I peaked early with that one.
domsp79@reddit
In order
Arctic Spaceman (this was way before Arctic Monkeys before anyone says anything)
Flannel
Chunk
I did want to call Chunk BA Baracus and the Michel Knights but got vetoed.
oscarx-ray@reddit
My mate and I have a mock metal band called Dragon Piss. We've written one song. It's excellent.
Liber8r69@reddit
😀
TelephoneOrnery1394@reddit
So arrogant these days
oscarx-ray@reddit
Rock musicians in the 70s were so subtle and humble. Changed times, my friend. Changed times.
TelephoneOrnery1394@reddit
My granddad was born in the early 70’s
oscarx-ray@reddit
Then I hope he liked kick-ass metal in the 80s!
NaaNaaRitRit@reddit
100% strike rate so far. Write more songs.
notthedoodaa@reddit
This was my old band. Good times!! I was certain we'd make it big, but it didn't happen.
Temporary-Leek5045@reddit
Xenolith
Hitler's other nut
rtrs_bastiat@reddit
Was technically in a joke band called Burning Tractor that just turned weird/mildly odd sentences people in my friendship group said into songs or members' pseudonyms. Only posting because we recorded at least 3 songs between us so I think it technically counts.
Jesisawesome@reddit
I'm in a black metal band called 'A Mist of Golden Sorrow.' It's me and my daughters aged 7 and 9 on the keyboard, I can't play the guitar yet but I've got a logo and some merch coming.
Top of the Pops 2027
Jesisawesome@reddit
Also at school I was in a band called Ubiquitous but we were shit
CaptMelonfish@reddit
All school bands are aren't they? We were called "Exist"
Jesisawesome@reddit
SHUT UP MUM
Lilliths-pain@reddit
I want to make a heavy metal band along the lines of meshuggah crossed with Tool crossed with nine inch nails called seed but it's been 20 years since I played bass and I hate female vocals (I'm female and can't sing anyway)
Maynard distorts his voice though right?
nickgardia@reddit
The Blue Teas
plotloss@reddit
Alcoholic Embryos. Early 90's
WorhummerWoy@reddit
I was in a black metal band called Premature Birth for a bit, we would probably have gone well together on tour if not for the fact that we were knocking around in the late 00's.
We played a church once for some kind of charity gig and the vicar said we were the best band of the night.
TelephoneOrnery1394@reddit
Aborted yet?
skinnygrave@reddit
skinny grave. Never got past demos but I'm proud of my 82 views on YouTube whooo!
Ok-Tour5687@reddit
The Rolling Stones.
Intelligent_Bug_9456@reddit
Buried in an Ass Grave.
Star Jump.
Heterophobe.
Spyware.
XPaula YatesX.
Chip Shop.
blushaudio@reddit
I’m a bit of a music ‘lifer’, so I’ve had a good few over the years:
The Fuzz (teenagers covering Pixies and Elastica and few others)
Panzer Attack (landfill indie originals)
Breezersletjes (slightly better indie originals, still shite though)
Negative School (Hüsker Dü influenced fast stuff, average)
Quality Time (post hardcore with lots of time signature changes)
Friction Tape (fairly fun post-punk)
RainbowStreetfood@reddit
We were called We Ate Them Off The Floor and played instrumental grunge.
DoftheD@reddit
That’s a phenomenal name
RainbowStreetfood@reddit
We got a little AirPlay and did alright locally but we were all too tied up in real life to take it anywhere.
https://on.soundcloud.com/UZeq1abSeVD5zbDZNv
Few_Total_919@reddit
I was the drummer for Fetid Anchovie
PinkIsMyOxygen@reddit
Catch-22
Constant_Lie_1888@reddit
Nocturnal Silence (not the current more successful and likely better known band of the same name) - we played maybe 5 gigs as a Doom Metal outfit but thought it would be fun to cover Sugar High by Coyote Shivers at every gig. This was the early 2000’s of course.
Monkeyboogaloo@reddit
Fungus - plink rock, it was accustic guitars and tupper wear drum kits, evolving into real instruments. We fused rap and rock before Run DMC with a version of Batman. Ploi - a battle between poodle rock and more indie stuff. I played fretless bass and wore a sleave less tshirt...it was the 80s. Cryin' shame - kind of then jerico type stuff, all musos except me. Hal Lewis and the Geniks - my favourite, 60s garage punk. We all had drug related names I was Lars Gactil, keyboardist was Alice Dee. A lot of fun and we were pretty good.
Depped for a blue grass combo Chelmer Valley Spring Band, and a kind of punk folk thing called a Mouth Full of Ashtrays.
Derbadian@reddit
Redanalcunteye
Electrical_Business2@reddit
Cobalt 60, heard it in school about 30 years ago and never got over that fact thay it would be a great name for an east coast hardcore punk band.
Hungry_B4I8@reddit
Heroin
devster75@reddit
Currently in 2 bands:
Which is nice. ☕️
Open-Trip@reddit
We were a new wave outfit Slough. Foregone Conclusion.
davbob11@reddit
Same band as the other bloke that posted that band name?
TelephoneOrnery1394@reddit
Is your name David too?
Christian-Metal@reddit
Where you successful?
leobeer@reddit
Pub band made up of teachers: The Ritalin Kids.
Alert_Cover_6148@reddit
Harmful Effects, and I believe we still have a few tracks on SoundCloud
TelephoneOrnery1394@reddit
It’s Not a Micropenis
WrongExplanation1065@reddit
The Demijohns
praggersChef@reddit
Disabled Gangsters
bedrock_BEWD@reddit
Played drums in a band called Angry Kung-fu Kitty. Yeah, we never went anywhere lol
Optimal-Room-8586@reddit
Cold Sphincter
Berookes@reddit
Poison Grail - deathcore while 20 odd at uni in the 2010s
radrian1994@reddit
Woo! An opportunity to shamelessly plug my music. My music project is called 'joyrobber'.
If you like the idea of Britpop and pop-punk being blended together, you might enjoy my stuff!
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0B0pL0WlzaAfyb2ZfrtofM?si=ouiycVajTzGc0VSA0T3tng
LeChuck_Threepwood32@reddit
David
DeschainSWNC@reddit
Redefine
Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit
me and a few friends got together with the intention of making chiptune/rock fusion. I wanted to call it solar society, they thought solar academy sounded cooler. Didn't go any further than that cause I wouldn't budge on the name
RelationshipLife6739@reddit
Solar society is a thousand times better than solar academy.
Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit
i know right? This was at the height of "we live in a society" memes so I think the other guys were associating it with that but I always meant it as in like a secret club
RelationshipLife6739@reddit
I didn’t think about either I just liked the alliteration lmao
confusing_roundabout@reddit
Solar academy sounds like a school. Awful name.
Normal-Internal164@reddit (OP)
Maybe it wasn’t written in the stars
BigDsLittleD@reddit
We were called Pharmaceutical Stimulant. A name fished from a book of Cocktail recipes.
I think we were aiming for Punk, but fell more into i guess Garage Rock.
We also never managed to have a Drummer who could play, the one and only gig we had booked we had to pull out of because our lead guitarist fucked up at work and sliced deep into two of his fingers about a week before.
Also, our lyrics were shit and I couldnt sing, no one else wanted to do it.
Briefly also "in" a Hardcore band called The Cuntfucks, the primary purpose of which was to flyer and sticker the shit out of things and see if we could get "famous" without ever actually playing a song.
We did not.
DemonicFrog@reddit
Metallica haven't had a drummer who can play for years. Its not an impediment.
BigDsLittleD@reddit
Lars Ulric is hands down one of the drummers of all time.
He might even be the best drummer in Metallica
simpmeister92@reddit
Aztec Temples
Minky_Dave_the_Giant@reddit
The Knutsens. It was an obscure reference from The Big Lebowski. Unfortunately another group also calling themselves that have added themselves to Spotify so it's confusing. We did rock, they do dance.
"Who the fuck are the Knutsens, man?!"
Anyway, maybe a poor choice of name as everyone pronounced it the nut-sens rather than the Cnut-sens.
Agitated_Strain_6260@reddit
I was an edgy 14 year old girl and we were called the fuck offs
Bashmore83@reddit
I was in a band called Tea Democracy at school.
Inspired by sitting in a coffee republic cafe
farglegarble@reddit
Flaming peaches
covonia@reddit
My friends and I started a band when we were about 14/15. We were called Chosen For Defiance, and my dad still likes to rib me about it to this day. We played one cover (overkill by Motörhead) moderately well, and would spend the rest of the time playing Star Wars Battlefront 2 - the OG.
Funnily enough, we never achieved commercial fame as a group - but our vocalist went on to be a successful opera singer and has actually won BBC’s young singer of the year recently.
JarJarBinksSucks@reddit
Blinking Sphincter
vinnyconno@reddit
The Flying Muslims
MKAndroidGamer@reddit
Love Explosives. We were an Ayrton Senna tribute band.
AtariJaguarGuy@reddit
How does that work? 🤔😅
MKAndroidGamer@reddit
When he died we were really sad so we formed a group to write songs about him.
jilljd38@reddit
Sadly no because my musical ability only goes as far as the recorder
Lammyrider@reddit
king penguin
our only talented member left and we knew no other drummers, so we just accepted we were shit and gave up.
love snuff, great fun live and some brilliant tracks.
fatboynomates@reddit
We were called Tyro. Pretty active in 2009-2012. Played in a national battle of the bands and got to the final at the O2 in London. Lost to a band called The Lottery Winners who are doing very well (had a number 1 album I believe).
nomiselrease@reddit
I was in a band called Supertrix. Named after some shit Dutch lager that we bought about 100 cans from an offie for about 30p a can. From 1997 to about 2003ish with a couple of 'last gigs'.
I recently put all our stuff on Spotify and YouTube.
Loved being in the band. Great times. Old and fat now! :)
Toastinho@reddit
We called ourselves Sonnet. I think it went through various names with different people coming and going but that's the one I remember being part of. We were for the most part, awful.
SuperBiggles@reddit
My first band at the age of 13 or so was with my best friend and two other classmates we persuaded to embarrass themselves with us.
We were called Laughing Morris and the Chuckle Daddies.
The joke being we introduce ourselves as the Chuckle Daddies, we’re just waiting for Laughing Morris to rock up. We weren’t a comedy band.
We did one gig. It was awful.
The next band with some other friends at the age of 16 was called Mystery Machine.
We were less embarrassing, but still shit.
I then attempted to start another band at uni, aged 20. It didn’t last long
I wanted to call us The Susan Boyle Experience. Nobody else liked the name. This may have contributed to our not carrying on.
What a ride.
Salt-Trade-5210@reddit
I was in a student covers band called Chocolate Starfish.
We weren't too bad but we mostly played at a local biker bar full of pissed middle-aged men in grubby denim.
Broken_Woman20@reddit
I was in 2 bands, one called Gallica and one called Cactus but most people just called us cack.
mrgonuts@reddit
And many more we got a lot of free advertising
Late-Champion8678@reddit
Catholic school orchestra called Maranatha
HotelPuzzleheaded654@reddit
Yes we were called the Photofaces, a dreadful name for a truly dreadful band.
Had fun though.
Hollyhop_Drive@reddit
Soup. We were not good.
TroublesZoo@reddit
Electronic act called Judicial Review
fizzyrhythm@reddit
I was in a band as a teenager and although we weren’t metal, we had a metalhead bass player. He wanted the band to be called Miasma because it sounded metal, so instead we named the band The Pink Elephant Rhino Teacups (much to his dismay).
mackerel_slapper@reddit
Bands I’ve been in:
Orcus - heavy metal covers
Fragrant Vagrants - punk
Lemming Effect - punk and blues
Bear Witch Project - rock standards
Dead Dog’s Eye - acoustic punk covers band
paulyhopey@reddit
DAMP Stands for Damien Adam Martin Paul 4 schoolmates Yes Beatles wannabees recorded 2 crap instrumentals Adam n Marting dead now but I still got the tapes
ConsciouslyIncomplet@reddit
‘Gerald Sprockett and the Sea Shepherds’
mcbeef89@reddit
Electric Head Funk. We were a psychedelic funk jam band. Late 80s. And we were fucking dreadful
neukStari@reddit
Lead paint protects children from harmful radiation.
greytidalwave@reddit
I was in a band called the Glitter Babes. We were 11 and recorded one shit song. It never saw the light of day. Thus ends my foray into music.
Spiritual_Smell4744@reddit
That name has aged badly.
greytidalwave@reddit
OMG my innocent childhood memory is forever ruined.
tmbyfc@reddit
Inside Alice
Enough-Ad3818@reddit
If I listed them all here, not only would be a very long post, but I'd probably dox myself too. The dafter ones were stuff I did with mates from the pub. We'd make up stupid shit and write a song about it, then perform for a single gig at the local. It became a bit of a semi-annual tradition for a while. It stopped when I started touring and recording with my proper band.
Just some of the lesser known ones:
Blue Lizard
The Affectionate Punch
Big Wheel
Billy Bonkers and the Bull Buggerers (one night only and mainly singing rock covers of Wurzels tunes)
Ember
Side A
Side B
Side C
Caramel Wafer Capers (songs about Tunnocks and Tunnocks products)
Jaffa Cake Biscuits? (I recall the question mark being important)
fizzyrhythm@reddit
Is this Cliff Richard?
duke_of_germany_5@reddit
Loaded diaper
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