Comments on: Good Name for a Band

By: RECEIVINGEND

RECEIVINGEND — Fri, 18 May 2007 22:21:38 +0000

hey. so i’m Googling myself, and find this. interesting idea. thanks for giving me credit. my band just played with one called “The Jolts”… coincidence?

By: Donal

Donal — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:59:27 +0000

Ha! That’s excellent, and an awesome name for a band. Good luck with it.

By: johnny

johnny — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:19:46 +0000

….we had to boot Nigel out, but we actually did end up calling ourselves thee Electric Bastards…. http://www.theeelectricbastards.com

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:33:37 +0000

See, this is exactly the sort of situation that my blog was created for. My dream is for a band to use a name from the site and then mention me in the liner notes. It will happen.

By: Donal

Donal — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:11:13 +0000

Yeah, I think so. I scoured the net but couldn’t find a picture. I did find this though.

By: Elimare

Elimare — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:09:39 +0000

When you mentioned ‘Jocks’ as Scottish folk the Dandy was the first thing that came to mind.

the Jocks wore the tams and Geordies wore scarfs wannit?

By: Donal

Donal — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:12:44 +0000

I learned about the Jocks and indeed the existence of Tam O’Shanters from The Dandy, via their strip ‘The Jocks and The Geordies’ where each week the Scottish and Newcastle inhabitants of the village of Crosspatch would beat the tar out of each other.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:30:46 +0000

“Getâ€™s you laid by them birds what wear black and read books Frank.” — I agree with Is–best line!

As a person of Scots heritage I liked this one, and never knew that bit about being called “Jocks”, which is about as close as I’ll ever come to being called that.

By: TadMack

TadMack — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:26:33 +0000

Oh my goodness, this sounds dead on like conversational exchanges out of King Dork, which indeed contained the requisite “spotty 15-year-olds.” They’re terrifyingly well wrought.

And by the way, ‘ironical’ is SO often wrongly used that it’s in some dictionaries. I heard the principal at the school where I taught use it. . .

By: Elimare

Elimare — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:02:16 +0000

Heheh, nice one. Love the subtle variations on the band names as the conversation progresses. You can picture three spotty 15 year olds sitting in a cold shed, plotting their rise to musical fame and fortune.