Feeling angry today (just paid Customs best part of 100 quid), so, just
to start:

Snow Patrol
The Postal Service
Elbow
Ting Tings
Prefab Sprout
Test Icicles
The Posies
Modest Mouse
The Cardigans
Mr Mister
Shakespear's Sister

And Fuck: "That was 'Fuck', clearly a band who never expect to get
           beyond my show." -- John Peel

-- 
one afternoon, long ago

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:31:27 +0100, August West wrote:

<snip>
> 
> And Fuck: "That was 'Fuck', clearly a band who never expect to get
>            beyond my show." -- John Peel

Peely (IIRC) "The name of this band is a large letter Q with the letters ik
inside it, so I'll call them Squirrel Nutkin".

The Thrashing Doves
And Also The Trees


how about some good band names...

Those Helicopters
Attempted Moustache
Nurse With Wound
Wire
Desperate Bicycles
Lemon Kittens

Remembered another Peel quote - "This record appears to have been pressed
on Ryvita".

Mate of mine worked with JP for a while - he organised exhibitions for the
British Council. I think it was in Brazil. Apparently Peel is every bit as
good as one would imagine.


-- 
Don't call me scarface

Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:

> Mate of mine worked with JP for a while - he organised exhibitions for the
> British Council. I think it was in Brazil. Apparently Peel is every bit as
> good as one would imagine.

Never met the man myself, although I did see him bimbling around
Glastonbury[0], but everyone I know that did, concurred.

0] Glad I decided against it this year, as I'd have missed it anyway,
   what with being ill, and all.
-- 
and that's a pain I can do without

Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:

> how about some good band names...
> 
> Those Helicopters
> Attempted Moustache

Thassa good one.

Man with Bun
Rancid Polecat
Ferret Bomb
Twice Nightly

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:23:44 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke
 wrote:

>Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
>
>> how about some good band names...
>> 
>> Those Helicopters
>> Attempted Moustache
>
>Thassa good one.
>
>Man with Bun
>Rancid Polecat
>Ferret Bomb
>Twice Nightly

Madjik Allotment
Duck in Fog
Duckwind
The Breakfast of Champions
-- 
JAF anarchatntlworldfullstopcom
     Sapere Aude

Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:

> Apparently Peel is every bit as
> good as one would imagine.

I ain't dead yet.

August West  wrote:

> Feeling angry today (just paid Customs best part of 100 quid)

Jings you got off light. I pay them many thousands per quarter, robbing
bastards.

Good to see the Ting Tings on your list, a group for whom napalm was
invented.


Dee-Lite
Flock of Seagulls

%steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) writes:

> August West  wrote:
>
>> Feeling angry today (just paid Customs best part of 100 quid)
>
> Jings you got off light. I pay them many thousands per quarter,
> robbing bastards.

Ha! This was on a personally imported (from Australia) tonearm; one that
is something like 20 years old, and only worth about 300-400 quid. Oh,
and also 10 quid on top to the Royal Mail for collecting it. Robbing
bastards.

> Good to see the Ting Tings on your list, a group for whom napalm was
> invented.

That's a bit kind, really. However, I was just listing moronic names,
not moronic bands, as such. Though they'd be on both lists.

-- 
out of the river all ugly and green

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:31:27 +0100, August West wrote:

> Feeling angry today (just paid Customs best part of 100 quid), so, just
> to start:

Angry?  Cos you had to pay import duty on something you were, err, 
importing?

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

Fevric J Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> writes:

> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:31:27 +0100, August West wrote:
>
>> Feeling angry today (just paid Customs best part of 100 quid), so, just
>> to start:
>
> Angry?  Cos you had to pay import duty on something you were, err,
> importing?

Since when do I have to be rational? Really, I'm most pissed about
*their* valuation, which is what the duty & VAT are based on, and which
I disagree with, but can't argue about (until I've paid) despite it
being 200 quid different from my valuation, and the insured cost. Oh,
and paying VAT on the money I had to pay to Royal Mail for taking the
Customs money off me.

-- 
And so begins the task I have dreaded the coming of for so long

"August West"  wrote in message 
news:87wsjmmaz4.fsf@news2.kororaa.com...
>
> Feeling angry today (just paid Customs best part of 100 quid), so, just
> to start:
>
> Snow Patrol
> The Postal Service
> Elbow
> Ting Tings
> Prefab Sprout
> Test Icicles
> The Posies
> Modest Mouse
> The Cardigans
> Mr Mister
> Shakespear's Sister


http://www.amiright.com/names/real-or-fake-band/

August West formulated on Wednesday :
> Feeling angry today (just paid Customs best part of 100 quid), so, just
> to start:
>
> Snow Patrol
> The Postal Service
> Elbow
> Ting Tings
> Prefab Sprout
> Test Icicles
> The Posies
> Modest Mouse
> The Cardigans
> Mr Mister
> Shakespear's Sister
>
> And Fuck: "That was 'Fuck', clearly a band who never expect to get
>            beyond my show." -- John Peel

The Ting Tings has grown on me.

The Traffic seemed a bit odd and The Police

-- 
Count Baldoni

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:38:46 +0100, Baldoni wrote:

> The Ting Tings has grown on me.

I'd advise Dettol, and a bread knife.


-- 
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with
ideas twenty years later.

Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:

> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:38:46 +0100, Baldoni wrote:
>
>> The Ting Tings has grown on me.
>
> I'd advise Dettol, and a bread knife.

No wire brush?

-- 
Only a fool in here would think he's got anything to prove

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:49:15 +0100, August West wrote:

> Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:
> 
>> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:38:46 +0100, Baldoni wrote:
>>
>>> The Ting Tings has grown on me.
>>
>> I'd advise Dettol, and a bread knife.
> 
> No wire brush?

Less efficient. Go with the Vienna Actionists.


-- 
One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.

August West  wrote:

> Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:38:46 +0100, Baldoni wrote:
> >
> >> The Ting Tings has grown on me.
> >
> > I'd advise Dettol, and a bread knife.
> 
> No wire brush?

Quite. I'd use Tabasco instead of Dettol, too.

-- 
^Ï^                               Sn!pe  

 <:>---[   Please do not verbally abuse the petty official.   ]---<:>

Sn!pe brought next idea :
> August West  wrote:
>
>> Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:38:46 +0100, Baldoni wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The Ting Tings has grown on me.
>>> 
>>> I'd advise Dettol, and a bread knife.
>> 
>> No wire brush?
>
> Quite. I'd use Tabasco instead of Dettol, too.

I saw this nutter in a bar on Jermyn St drink a bottle of tabasco.  
Must be 20 years ago now.  Do women get impressed by that sort of thing 
?

-- 
Count Baldoni

After serious thinking August West wrote :
> Feeling angry today (just paid Customs best part of 100 quid), so, just
> to start:
>
> Snow Patrol
> The Postal Service
> Elbow
> Ting Tings
> Prefab Sprout
> Test Icicles
> The Posies
> Modest Mouse
> The Cardigans
> Mr Mister
> Shakespear's Sister
>
> And Fuck: "That was 'Fuck', clearly a band who never expect to get
>            beyond my show." -- John Peel

George Jones although I heard he is a complete headcase when he has had 
a few.  That could be the papers talking bollocks though.  He might be 
a very bice guy.

-- 
Count Baldoni

Baldoni  wrote:

> > Quite. I'd use Tabasco instead of Dettol, too.
> 
> I saw this nutter in a bar on Jermyn St drink a bottle of tabasco.  
> Must be 20 years ago now.  Do women get impressed by that sort of thing
> ?

Possibly the piquancy is expressed in semen.

-- 
^Ï^                               Sn!pe  

 <:>---[   Please do not verbally abuse the petty official.   ]---<:>

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:38:46 +0100, Baldoni 
wrote:

>The Ting Tings has grown on me.

Shoulders with baldoni.  They're not bad, at all.

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:51:42 +0100, Baldoni wrote:

> I saw this nutter in a bar on Jermyn St drink a bottle of tabasco.  
> Must be 20 years ago now.  Do women get impressed by that sort of thing 
> ?

One hopes not.

Znlor gur OQFZ glcrf ubcvat sbe n ovg bs fcvpl sbercynl...

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

And "Nine Cuts"  was like:

> http://www.amiright.com/names/real-or-fake-band/

Coo. Atomic Rooster - a name I never expected to hear again. Or indeed
the first time.

Top tip: if you feel the need to snort amusedly while drinking vodka,
try to avoid actually spraying it back out of the glass and onto your
eyeballs. If you do, it will hurt.

-- 
| Patrick Hardlentil -  patrick@dogslobber.demon.co.uk

Oxford comma <malone@invalid.really.invalid.invalid> writes:

> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:38:46 +0100, Baldoni 
> wrote:
>
>>The Ting Tings has grown on me.
>
> Shoulders with baldoni.  They're not bad, at all. 

The quality of the band is not the question, but the crapness of the
name.

-- 
Once I had mountains in the palm of my hand

On 2008-07-16, August West  wrote:
>
> Feeling angry today (just paid Customs best part of 100 quid), so, just
> to start:
>
> Snow Patrol
> The Postal Service
> Elbow
> Ting Tings
> Prefab Sprout
> Test Icicles
> The Posies
> Modest Mouse
> The Cardigans
> Mr Mister
> Shakespear's Sister
>
> And Fuck: "That was 'Fuck', clearly a band who never expect to get
>            beyond my show." -- John Peel

British Sea Power.

What's that all about, then?


-- 
          "Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain
                 and presumptuous desire for a second one."
               [email me at huge {at} huge (dot) org <dot> uk]

In article , august@kororaa.com says...
> 
> Feeling angry today (just paid Customs best part of 100 quid), so, just
> to start:
> 
> Snow Patrol
> Prefab Sprout
> Test Icicles
> The Cardigans
> 
> And Fuck: "That was 'Fuck', clearly a band who never expect to get
>            beyond my show." -- John Peel
> 

I like all of those.

Then again, I'm planning on using the name Bing Trotsky when I get around 
to doing some recording again, so what do I know?

-- 
eric
"live fast, die only if strictly necessary"

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:14:11 +0100, Eric Jarvis wrote:

> Then again, I'm planning on using the name Bing Trotsky when I get around 
> to doing some recording again, so what do I know?

I hope to use Rhinoceros TBA.

My favourite from the past is Bicycle Volunteers.


-- 
There's no such thing as a free willy.

August West wrote:

>
>Feeling angry today (just paid Customs best part of 100 quid), so, just
>to start:
>
>Snow Patrol
>The Cardigans

I like those two band names.

I don't like the names:

The Pigeon Detectives
Scouting For Girls
Binocular
Vampire Weekend

I also don't like (not bands but artistes who should change their
names):

Duffy
Amy Winehouse
Bing Trotsky

In uk.misc,  (Ariel) wrote in
::

>I don't like the names:
>
>The Pigeon Detectives
>Scouting For Girls

That's a hobby, not a band name.
-- 
Marc

The desire to become a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one. (Billy Connolly)

Marc Wilson  writes:

> In uk.misc,  (Ariel) wrote in
> ::
>
>>Scouting For Girls
>
> That's a hobby, not a band name.

It's not a hobby, it's a calling.
Drinking, now *that's* a hobby.

-- 
Only a fool in here would think he's got anything to prove

August West  writes:

> Drinking, now *that's* a hobby.

You're just not trying hard enough!

Matthew

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