I would really like your help with this little issue.
I just started a new project with some friends and things are going really good, this coming saturday we have our first gig and the only thing that we are missing its a name (important isn't it)
We have consider "A long roll" as a name, please let me know what you thing and if you have a better option just put it over here.
The kind of name you have to explain over and over again.... but if you like to do just that, no problem.
I once had a boat with a name no one understood, got pretty tired of explaining it......
If you think you are going to be around for a bit, my tip is find something people can spell and therefore search for online, to find where your gigs are or watch your vids on YouTube etc - something which is not too obscure in other words.
I second Mark's and Henk's comments.
The coolest celtic sounding name in the world won't do any good if nobody can spell or pronounce it.
Trust me on this, my bands' name is "Cairde na Gael" and we are constantly spelling and pronouncing it for people.
If you all wore black you could be called "The Black Velvet Band" but you would have to wear black velvet shirts and that might not work out. Especially, in tough neighborhoods
I like the suggestion of a tune name as the basis.
I heard of a band once called "Free Whiski". That always tickled me. Imagine the pub advertised "Free Whiskey Saturday night at 7pm" . . . imagine the crowd!
Cthulhu was an unspeakable abyssal monster in the works of H.P.Lovecraft, an early horror writer.
I don't think it's an Irish word or name. But if the language can accommodate names like O'Murchu, then why not Cthulhu? It's more or less the same, innit?
Nicholas -- I've always wanted to have a band named The Miskatonics. We'd probably play New England contra dance music and the like. Old New England tunes such as The White Ship, The Silver Key, The Moon Bog and Rats in the Walls, as well as some Irish ones like The Festival, The Very Old Folk, and The Strange High House in the Mist ( this one has a Gaelic name, but I can't remember it). And a few old songs such as Two Black Bottles and Till a' the Seas.
Name for a "Celtic" Band
Name for a "Celtic" Band
Hello,
I would really like your help with this little issue.
I just started a new project with some friends and things are going really good, this coming saturday we have our first gig and the only thing that we are missing its a name (important isn't it)
We have consider "A long roll" as a name, please let me know what you thing and if you have a better option just put it over here.
Thanks!
# Posted on July 10th 2009 by holywhistler
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
PD
We play mostly irish music, but also a little scottish and galician.
# Posted on July 10th 2009 by holywhistler
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
The kind of name you have to explain over and over again.... but if you like to do just that, no problem.
I once had a boat with a name no one understood, got pretty tired of explaining it......
# Posted on July 10th 2009 by Henk Bos
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
The Pink Tradillacs, Trad As Hell, Trad the Impaler, Trad and True, The Sad Lads o' Trad
Or, something with "Trad" in the name.
# Posted on July 10th 2009 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
If you think you are going to be around for a bit, my tip is find something people can spell and therefore search for online, to find where your gigs are or watch your vids on YouTube etc - something which is not too obscure in other words.
# Posted on July 10th 2009 by Mark Harmer
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
I second Mark's and Henk's comments.
The coolest celtic sounding name in the world won't do any good if nobody can spell or pronounce it.
Trust me on this, my bands' name is "Cairde na Gael" and we are constantly spelling and pronouncing it for people.
# Posted on July 10th 2009 by CleverName
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
Pick a tune title that appeals-and that folks can spell and pronounce.
# Posted on July 10th 2009 by flutefry
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
I've found that band names that require footnotes and pronunciation guides tend to generate marketing problems.
# Posted on July 10th 2009 by Steve L
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
Close your eyes and randomly point into an Irish telephone book.
Repeat this process and combine the two names, then divide by four.
* Must be performed in front of a lit candle under a full moon on any given Sunday.
# Posted on July 10th 2009 by Lint - upon - Tweed
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
Just pick the name of a tune you all like.
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by justwhistle
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
I appreciate your suggestions, one of the main things I have in mind is to find a name that its easy for the people as you said.
We all like The Last Pint but is taken hehe...
More suggestions are more than welcome!!
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by holywhistler
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
If you all wore black you could be called "The Black Velvet Band" but you would have to wear black velvet shirts and that might not work out. Especially, in tough neighborhoods
I like the suggestion of a tune name as the basis.
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by Cape Cod Struggler
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
How about, "Jig Reel and the Slow Aires"
Just kidding!
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by Cape Cod Struggler
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
I heard of a band once called "Free Whiski". That always tickled me. Imagine the pub advertised "Free Whiskey Saturday night at 7pm" . . . imagine the crowd!
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by justwhistle
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
I always like the band names
"To be announced"
and
"Performance Cancelled"
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by Eliot
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
The Munsters
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by Stuporman
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
What about 'The Celtic Grandslam'?
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by Sinocal
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
I've got two more: "Pints and the Punters" or better yet "Punter's Pints".
And one last one "Fish & Chips". The pub ad would read "Irish music session tonight at half nine featuring Fish & Chips.
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by Cape Cod Struggler
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
The Drop
Celticklish
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by fidkid
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
The name should fit the personality of the band. Here's a few tune names you may want to try:
Shoe the Donkey
The Rambling Pitchforks
Over the Moor
Touzle your Kurchy
Drowsy Maggie
The Blarney Pilgrims
The Bucks of Oranmore
The list goes on and on.
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by CleverName
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
Ceoltoiri Cthulhu.
Ceoltoiri means "musicians" - I assume.
Cthulhu was an unspeakable abyssal monster in the works of H.P.Lovecraft, an early horror writer.
I don't think it's an Irish word or name. But if the language can accommodate names like O'Murchu, then why not Cthulhu? It's more or less the same, innit?
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by nicholas
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
Here Today.
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by drone
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
Along the lines of "TBA" try "Call For Latest Info".
Peace,
Ed
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by ejsant
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
Nothing wrong with O´Murchu, Nicholas !
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by murfbox
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
Gillian's Nipples.
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by nicholas
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
"National Health"
Either that, or
"Naked Coeds and Free Chicken Wings Tonight Only"
And there's always
"Elvis Presley"
# Posted on July 12th 2009 by Jmbu
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
Nicholas -- I've always wanted to have a band named The Miskatonics. We'd probably play New England contra dance music and the like. Old New England tunes such as The White Ship, The Silver Key, The Moon Bog and Rats in the Walls, as well as some Irish ones like The Festival, The Very Old Folk, and The Strange High House in the Mist ( this one has a Gaelic name, but I can't remember it). And a few old songs such as Two Black Bottles and Till a' the Seas.
# Posted on July 13th 2009 by Tracie
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
hotwhistler i've a few ideas, but to get an angle on it, what's your line-up?
and, in considering a local / regional name, where roughly based?
# Posted on July 14th 2009 by lisaniska
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
How about: Tit for Tat or Biddy's Revenge
# Posted on July 14th 2009 by Leendah
Re: Name for a "Celtic" Band
Keep it simple, you will get sick of a name that is too clever, cute, hard to pronounce, or requiring explaination.
# Posted on July 15th 2009 by AlBrown