Comedy High School Band Names

[operator]

You've all been there... don't be shy...
I was in a neurosis style death metal band when I was 15. We didn't have a name but the singer started hassling the boy from the scotsman news paper at a gig asking him if he'd heard any of 'our shit'.
The review of the gig listed us as 'Euro-Shin'.
A leither's accent of the highest order...

[Loz]

I wasn't popular enough in school to be in a band

but if I was, it'd have a shit name, I'm sure

[operator]

You could have played the violin?

Actually were you not the violin player in 'the cure'?

[joe pinapples]

i was in a rockin' beat combo back in the day.

Channeling the ancient spirits of excess the band was called 'Dionysus'. I was convinced to join on bass duties aged 15 after hearing a demo tape at a mate of a mates in the high flats in Renfrew. The lyrics went "Look at that ned with a grin an a swagger, Look at him, thinks he looks like Mick Jagger".

I played one gig with them in a church in Paisley on Valentines day, followed by the 'Move Closer Disco'. Our best song was a cover of Octopuses Garden. I was sacked for a guy at school in the Scripture Union.

[thembuzz]

I wasn't popular enough in school to be in a band

but if I was, it'd have a shit name, I'm sure

i always thought you had to be unpopular to be in a band

shit names, though... where to begin..?

gastric reverb... the nancies... cheeses of nazareth... fred the shed...

[operator]

cheeses of nazareth!

[AVX23]

:) awesome, our band never had a name, but my fave band name ever was :

zeus rides his moose, they demo'd future music, and I couldn't stop laughing for days :) Pish dolls are a great name for a band too, I seen them at the fringe the other week, fucking awesome, lots of puppets doing heavy metal :)

[thembuzz]

yeah...

actually, one of our drummer's mates rang him up one night, dead excited because he'd heard us on the radio. but no, it was another cheeses of nazareth. so we only actually changed the name because of that

[Loz]

I saw a band called That Fucking Tank recently. For some reason, and I can't work out why, I think that name is brilliant.

[thembuzz]

one of my favourite band names of all time has to be little arse on the prairie. i just googled (sorry, "conducted a google search") to see what happened to them, but all i got was "did you mean little house on the prairie"

[garew]

My college bands name was Lime.
Pretty bad.

[gen-eral]

There was a band at my school called "Eh?". Guess what? They were muthafuckinshitearse!

[Yer_Maw]

i was in a rocking band called paradox. we changed this to passive - which really highlighted our strength. Our singer had a lisp and no ability to differenciate tone whatsover. the drummer left to join 'fretted harmony' and it was never the same again.

fast forward a few years, and i had discovered hash and (talking to) girls. Out comes DEMI! Supposedly named after 'demi god,' the local newspaper thought we meant demi moore and put up a headline stating "the moore the merrier."

This band appeared on john peels sounds of the suburbs tv series on the episode that featured east kilbride. such a nice bloke, hilarious as an entire youth centre of kids chanted his name. someone met him years later and it stil cheered him up.

after reaching those heady heights, i played drums in dave fireball and the outlaws. 40 min improv set with no breaks and lots of madness. i dont know how i did it.

kinda gave up after that, fuck practicing shit songs, that noone plays right anyway, to play to noone likes. plus pills arrived in my life.

far better to make shit songs on your own.

[Daddys Girl]

our 'group' didn't ger very far at all - we had about 3 group sessions together and it all just crumbled - we were called "The Bonnells" (after our secondary school - urgh)

Marilu was keyboard, Muslimah was backing vocals, Kate was on guitar and I was the lead singer.

It was rubbish, but we probably thought we were gonna be the dogs bollocks :)

[emef]

I wasn't popular enough in school to be in a band

but if I was, it'd have a shit name, I'm sure

aw c'mon loz, you woulda been a shoe in for the school band surely... i see you playing the bassoon ;)

[big raff]

There was a band at my school called "Eh?". Guess what? They were muthafuckinshitearse!

is this them?
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.view profile&friendid=24694113

ps
the best college band i heard was 'call me irresponsible with a chemistry set'

[Mui]

The Zit Remedy:

Formed in 1987, by Joey, Snake, and Wheels, the Zit remedy was one of the biggest bands at Degrassi (ok the only band). Led by lead keyboardist and vocalist Joey Jeremiah, lead guitarist Snake,and bassist Wheels. Their first and only single "Everybody wants something" went straight to number one ....in Joeys head.

The track "Everybody wants something" was the only single ever produced by the Zit remedy, found on the debut 1988 casette: "The Zit Remedy..live". Following the tragic death of Derek "Wheels" Wheeler's parents in the fall of 1988, the Zit remedy took an extended hiatus, and almost broke up. Archie "Snake" Simpons emotional problems with Wheels also caused confict in the band. Joey made copies of the demo tape, and gave them to Wheels in hopes of rasing his spirits. At first, Wheels broke the tape and said "I dont want to be in your stupid band" Joey didnt take this to heart like he should have... he then allowed himself to be beaten up by the disgruntled Zit remedy Bassist.. nad soon after Wheels accepted the demo tape, and joined the band again. However, during Wheels' time off from the band, Joey and Snake brielfy hired promising bassist Simon.. who at the tender age of 13 was showing some real promise on the 4 string beast. With Wheels quiting and re-joining the band every week, the Zit Remedy was seriously thinking of asking Simon to join the band full time. Who could forget when the Zits partied at Snakes house (while his parents were out of town).. took out Snakes parents car, broke the light on the car.. then got grounded (all 3 of them got grounded). Joeys parents even went as far as taking away his keyboard... leaving the Zit Remedy DEAD for a period. The final straw came as Wheels sold his bass in favour of playing videogames and the local arcade and eating french fries. "You sold your bass?" Joey said sadly. "Its not like we were going anywhere Joey" Wheels replied. That was the final straw, and the Zit Remedy would not be heard from for a long time.

[Tec]

I played Bass in 'Devastation and Disgust'

Rooooooooooooaaaaarrrrr

[grobelaar]

When I started secondary school my best mate Ben Davis announced he was going to apply to play an instrument in teh school orchestra - him being my bessie mate I had to follow suit - although I had no real desire to play.

A few weeks later and we are both accepted - he gets the Trombone and I get...

...a fucking French Horn.

Stupid thing was they clearly saw Ben as more enthusiastic and musically talented - so they game him the trombone - this despite the French Horn actually being harder to play (I think - the mouthpiece is a bitch - the smallest of the brass instruments).

Any way I kept up the lesson, had to hit a few kids cos they took the piss out of my funny shapped suitcase I had to carry around and did a few orchestral performances - which I pretended to play in... (no use fucking it up for everyone else...)

Then I got teethbraces and had to end my illustrious music career (that bloody mouthpiece again...)

[emef]

haha you talk about it as if the trombone was a cool instrument... trombone/french horn... both geek ;)

[JE:5]

Genetic Quirk :)

[Patrick]

aw c'mon loz, you woulda been a shoe in for the school band surely... i see you playing the bassoon ;)

Loz and the Losers has a nice catchy ring to it.
You can have that one for free, Loz, just give me a credit on your first album.

[Sheridan]

I wasn't in a band. I talked about doing it with friends, but I don't play an instrument. my high school did have a few bands 'make it'. frodus was a hard punk band and on wikipedia are listed under the topic for 'math rock'. they released a few albums and had some success. I used to go to elementary school with the drummer's younger brother.

darkest hour are a hardcore band, travel a lot and have released several albums. I took photography class with the lead singer john henry.
http://www.darkesthour.cc/

[kams]

My friends we're in the 'Alcoholic Embryos'. Also on the scene we're the 'Independent Spirits' (aarg) and 'Area 51'. I wanted to start a shoegaze band called 'Pants Off, Legs Open' and another called 'SuperWeeWee' - but no one took any notice.

I never made it into anyone else's band for more than a week at a time - due to being very shit at playing instruments and thus discovering sequencers.

One day - many of us will wear Fender bomber jackets and have thinning ponytails and play in bad blues bands in pubs full of people wishing we'd shut the fuck up. Its inevitable. Just learn jimi's Red House and get on with it. It is your destiny.