Unusual band/artist names

[IDM]

Was listening to some old music the other day which reminded me I heard much of it on John Peel originally.  I remember he played an eclectic mix of stuff, with plenty of weird and wonderful band/artist names.

Which ones can you remember?  I’ll kick off with two:

Eek, a mouse!

and

Billy Bremner...

[BillyStubbsTears]

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.

[IDM]

The Frank Chickens..

[Glyn_Wigley]

Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Dumpy's Rusty Nuts

[wilts rover]

You want me to list my entire record collection!

Grobschnitt
The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Baby Jesus
Ozric Tentacles
The Amazing Blondel
Premiata Forneria Marconi
Barclay James Harvest

fortunately The Cleaners from Venus don't trouble my collection but I did always like the name if not the music

[Not Now Kato]

Hapshash and the Coloured Coat.  I still have their Western Flyer album from 1969!  Crazy music.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Just been looking through my music collection and most of my bands have very dull names.

Oddest one is The Wolfgang Press. And they were mostly shite anyroad.

[IDM]

I had a vague memory of “Scraping Foetus off the Wheel” being an actual name of a band, but I can’t remember any of their stuff..

[MachoMadness]

Any band with punctuation in tends to be a bit out there. Sunn O))) is my personal favourite (not a typo).

[Dutch Uncle]

Splodgenessabounds?

[turnbull for england]

Peter and the test tube babies

[wilts rover]

Here's a few more for you:

A Formal Horse
Absolue Elsewhere
Atomic Rooser
Box of Frogs
Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
Damnation of Adam Blessing
Gentle Giant
Pierre Moerlen's Gong
The Guo Brothers & Shung Tian
Half Man Half Biscuit
Hatfield and the North
The Incredible String Band
Matching Mole
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Nodens Ictus
New Riders of the Purple Sage
The Oyster Band (or Oysterband)
Penguin Café Orchestra
Popol Vuh
Quicksilver Messenger Service
String Driven Thing
Trembling Bells
Triumvirat
The Utopia Strong
Van der Graaf Generator
Stomu Yamashata's Red Buddha Theatre
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention

and of course The Mahavishnu Orchestra - led by Doncaster's finest musician John McLaughlin.

I dont have anything by Dr Strangley Strange or the Third Ear Band - but they are on the wants list!

[tommy toes]

I've got- or had- several of yours Wilts
Incredible string band
Gentle giant
Atomic rooster
Amazing Blondel
Zappa...natch.

One that always amused me was Cradle of Filth who I'm assured are a modern beat combo m'lord.

[wilts rover]

Well you picked some of the better ones tommy...

Lawnmower Deth anyone? Nah me neither (although I do have a horible feeling I did once see them at a club in London)

[BillyStubbsTears]

Butthole Surfers.
Kurt Cobain's favourite band.

They have a decent stab at the weirdest album title of all time.

Locust Abortion Technician.

[knockers]

Nah that goes to sparklehorse for
Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot

[roversdude]

Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Dumpy's Rusty Nuts

Dumpys Rusty Nuts - I’ve still got a copy of Somewhere in England in the loft

[bahrain rover]

Porno for Pyros,

Chumbawamba.

[Glyn_Wigley]

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
The Electric Prunes
Caine Mutiny And The Kallisti Apples Of Nonsense
? and the Mysterians

[Donnywolf]

Hedgehoppers anonymous

Bonzo dog doodah band

Lieutenant Pigeon

Locally I remember seeing Wolf J Flywheel many a time - and my nephew was in a Group on a bill with The Perverted Stags (which made me smile)

[Not Now Kato]

Went to see Adge Cutler and the Wurzels back in the early 70's.  Adge didn't turn up and the Wurzels were awful!
 
Also went to see Steeleye Span who were very good.

[tommy toes]

Saw Steeleye Span at the Dome when they were supporting Tull.
Maddy Prior has a great voice.

[wilts rover]

The latest (first actually although they have been together for while) album from A Formal Horse is entitled: Here Comes A Man From the Council With A Flamethrower.

And it sounds just like you think it would sound with that title

[Glyn_Wigley]

The Snivelling Shits

[Swifty62]

From the 1980's a local Band were called the Blue Transparent polyurethane folders

[idler]

From the 1980's a local Band were called the Blue Transparent polyurethane folders

Did they do many covers?😉

[Mike_F]

Saw Steeleye Span at the Dome when they were supporting Tull.
Maddy Prior has a great voice.

Agreed. She's been on at Cast fairly recently too; my mum went to see her.

[turnbull for england]

From the 1980's a local Band were called the Blue Transparent polyurethane folders

Did they do many covers?😉

you can just slip into the music

[tyke1962]

The Dead Kennedy's was a great name for a Punk Band I thought .

[bahrain rover]

Tyke, Or the girl punk band, The Slits.