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help me!!

help me!!

hi, i need everyones help! i need a name for a band really soon for a gig. the line up is two fiddles and guitar and whistle, and we just cant think of anything! any catchy, original....or just any suggestions really gratefully accepted!
thanks!
;)

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by laura nesbit

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What's your favorite tune?

No harm in another Banish Misfortune, Scatter the Mud, Calliopie house, or such.

Think of places, things, etc.

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by flyinfiddler

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Lessen of course there is already a band by that name in your neck of the woods. Than that could be a problem.

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by flyinfiddler

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Yeah, your favorite and/or best tune is always good. Our band name by default is "Ask My Father", which fits, because I'm of Chinese ancestry, George is Hispanic/English, Dirk is German/Welsh, and Janet is Swiss/German/Scottish. Or pick a word in Irish or Scottish or whatever that means something meaningful, like Todd Denman's band Aniar, which means West, since he's from California, or Danu, named after a goddess, or after a place like Altan, or like Seven Nations, after a concept.

If you want something jokey or something obviously temporary, try something goofy like Shenanigans, or The Mighty Tartans, or a phrase like Skean Dubh that mean something Celtic-ish. Or try something like Gan Ainm (no name) although you'll continually have to explain how to pronounce it. There've been bands like An Cuigear (the five of them) and Seachtar (seven) named for the number of players.

Zina
God, please, not another Last Night's Fun. *grin*

Zina

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by Zina Lee

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I was in a band called "Corn Crake's Cry" after a Pogues song lyric. First prize for the stupidest band name ever, if you ask me. Not my idea. Then two of us got kicked out and formed our own band. Our first show we were wrongly billed as "Corn Crake's Cry" for which we both got a vicious tongue-lashing from the woman who came up with the name and wanted to keep using it to draw her billions of fans to the tiny coffee shop where she played for free every other Saturday. So we made a point of being very clear about the fact we were NOT Corn Crake's Cry and had a contest, offering a free pint to whoever scribbled the best name on a cocktail napkin and floated it up to the stage. Because my mom and aunt were there, bless their fun-loving hearts, nine tenths of the names we got were things that RHYMED with Corn Crake's Cry. Like Morn's Great Sky, Porn Stakes High, and Corn Flakes Dry. We had great fun reading them out between songs. Not really a suggestion. More of an anecdote.

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by Kerri Brown

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Howzabout TANTRUM ?

Don't know why, it just came out.

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by ragaman

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I really liked Porn Stakes High. Heh. What the heck is a Corn Crake, anyway?

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by Zina Lee

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I know what a corn cake is... you can always go with the naming yourself after a town or local geologic feature too. The Centennial Jug Band. The Elk Mountain String Band. Two Forks Cieli. Or your favorite drink, like Gin Blossoms or Manhattans. Good luck!
Birgit

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by burek

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Hey there, how about Gan Ainm ? For anybody who doesnt know what it means, it sounds irishy and for anybody that does know, at least be a bit of a laugh !

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by martin t

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"Gan Ainm" has already been done , and we have a "Banish Misfortune" here in Aberdeen...sorry !

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by Kenny

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Dan ti dan, The Hairy Goldfish, Hullabaloo, The Reeds, Free Beer Tonight, The Cheap Tins, The Rattleknee Band, etc. etc.

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by Backer

By the way a Corn Crake is a bird, very rare and special, which lives in Ireland and UK.

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by Backer

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Ayahtola Ceili Band, then...*grin* Just because it's been done doesn't mean you can't do it again. Look at how many "Last Night's Fun" s there have been! So long as there isn't a local one and you don't plan on doing any recordings, what the heck.

Zina

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by Zina Lee

Will Jig For Beer, Reel Hullabaloo, what other silliness is there?

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by Zina Lee

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How about *Danced On Top of Her* (which, of course, to those in the know is short for I Burried my Wife and ...)

Or: Hag at the Churn? Ok, forget that one.

Some more suggestions:
Ballyhoolie
Bang Your Frog *grin*
Lord Ketchup (ok, that might be too cute)
Katie's Rambles
The Rocky Road
The One-More Lassies (particularly good if you are all-girl)
Lizzy Lindsay
Cragie Hills
Mother Kelly's
Keep Your Water Weak (or maybe just Water Weak)
Whiskey For Breakfast
Skint (or Skinned... Brit-slang for broke)
The D Minors

Better stop now... but this is more fun than work. *sigh*

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by Bloomfield

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I should be an expert in overused names - the aforementioned band became "Tir na n'Og". One of at least twenty that we found on the internet. Nobody really seemed to mind.

How about "Bjorn Hates Rye"?

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by Kerri Brown

Band names

How about The Reel Jig?

Or

Erin Go Brag
Jig This!
Do-Jiggers
W.N.I. (= We're Not Irish)
Not The Titanic Band
Better One Pint In The Hand

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by glauber

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Well you got the:
14 strings and a pipe, (Assuming it's a 6 string guitar)
Fried Pies,
Happy Strings,
Ricky Runny nose and the Ring Tail Roosters,

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by flyinfiddler

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Here are a couple that I enjoyed but they got voted down. (Barely)
"Dashboard Buffet" "Frozen in the Headlights" "The Green Bearded Catawompus."

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by Mark Cordova

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Hmmm, Kerri, maybe it's time we did the synth-industrial-goth-ITM thing we talked about -- we could call it Bjorn Hates Rye (what a good idea), or maybe Sean Loves Mairead or something....hehehe

Zina

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by Zina Lee

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Dogs Among The Bushes
Steampacket
The Connaught Heifers (if you're all female)

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by ragaman

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thanks for all your suggestions! lots of good ones there (and a few erm.....bad ones) but cheers all the same!
x;)

# Posted on May 31st 2002 by laura nesbit

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Hey Lauren

I can't help you re band names.
My band is called Ceol Gaire whcih means Happy Music . There are only two of us left though so now we are really a duo .

Who's in your band ? Come do some gigs in Oban.....!!

# Posted on June 1st 2002 by Anna Helga

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Two fiddles guitar & whistle "Ar nos na gaoithe"

# Posted on June 1st 2002 by Northcregg

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Soooooo.... what's the name??? You gotta let us know on what you decided! =)

# Posted on June 3rd 2002 by Bloomfield

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Why not go for a pun?

We've got a contra band in the DC area, three very hirsute guys, who go as "Whiskers before Breakfast."

Marguerite

# Posted on June 3rd 2002 by mvhplank

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You could call yourselves 'Rosin the Bow'. My brother had a band in the Faroe Islands called this but once they were advertised as 'Rosin the Boys'.
Perhaps you had better go for something else...
Gordon Johnston

# Posted on June 3rd 2002 by jambo123

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check out
http://fianna.f2g.net/cgi-bin/Generator/bandGeneratorResult.cgi
just did this up... to get more band names from this page just hit refresh on the top & if it asks you any questions say 'ok'. There's no links to this as of yet - bit of a hidden page.

Have Fun!!

# Posted on June 4th 2002 by searai

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ok... just tried this out & these were some of the ones the generator spat out:
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The Drunken Banshees
Our Kind Boys
The Wise Fathers
Ask my Hill
The Lovely Jiggers
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Sadly, I could amuse myself for hours with this thing. it is quite cool...

# Posted on June 4th 2002 by searai

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Just gotta get my two cents in. About 20 years ago I was working in a mandolin making shop affiliated with a little music store called the Backporch Pickin' Parlor. The rather portly store owner played banjo in a bluegrass band called the Backporch Pickers.

A bunch of us working in the mando shop formed our own little band, and when we got hired for our first gig we realized we needed a name. We argued about it for a week, and finally our fiddler (not me, I swear) suggested a great name. We made up posters with the name in big letters and pasted them all over town.

Well, we did the gig, and then nearly lost our jobs at the mando shop. See, the rolly-polly banjo playing shop owner didn't take too kindly to a band calling itself the Badpitch Porkers.

(Backporch Pickers....Badpitch Porkers, heh, heh, heh.)

More recently, our Irish band here in Helena, MT was called Sa Cheo, from "Sean Sa Cheo," meaning "in the fog." Our name explained away our tendency to lose our musical way....

But we struggled with how to pronounce it, finally settling on the all-too accurate "SUCK-ee-oh."

# Posted on June 4th 2002 by will harmon

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I got "Some Angry Hill", "Some Killarney Kids" and "Ask my Fathers".

Kerri

# Posted on June 4th 2002 by Kerri Brown

also "Banish Your Window" "Last Night's Misfortune" and "My Blue Mighty Pub Dwellers" before the link conked out on me. There must be some limit to the number of times I can refresh a page. Nice work seari. you're a star. Everything you do is golden.

# Posted on June 4th 2002 by Kerri Brown

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Scatter the Tartans.

I have to say I love that one. Kerri - if we were a bit more scottish and a bit more male, that'd be class for us.

Think the server's trollied. Too much traffic on our site... mmm... Anyway, if you're reading this you must give that link a try later on when it's working again.

# Posted on June 4th 2002 by searai

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That's the trouble with posting something on here, my dears...everyone has to go try it out then. :)

Badpitch Porkers. *snort*

zls

# Posted on June 4th 2002 by Zina Lee

Re: help me!! - Amaragh means tomorrow

Hey Zina, "Ask my father" is a great name – our bandname points a bit in the same direction:

As a non-bavarian (ancient tribal heritage is somehow very important in Germany) I moved to bavarian town Landsberg (got a job as an editor here) four years ago and still feel as a stranger here. I met Maureen from Ireland and some other people who moved here (Henk from the Netherlands for example) and we started playing music together first with no clear style preferences but the more we worked on Maureens favourite ballads the more we grew into irish music. We choose "Crannóg" (gaelic; means "artificial island") as a bandname – the band broke twice so I forgot it for a while (that time I took crannog as my personal username but it is not really my nickname - it was just to keep the musical project crannóg alive in my mind) Last year Maureen and me met Dirk from Berlin (who just had moved here) and after a couple of good sessions we restarted the band Crannóg – three non bavarians in the middle of a remote bavarian countryside playing ITM – the name fits perfect, I think.

Before we restarted Crannóg I had another not very sucessful band experience. We named it "Amaragh" what is gaelic as well and means tomorrow. You can use it if you want. It is quite similiar to the spanish mañana – but there is still a big difference. There is I nice joke about it – I try to tell it in the shortest possible version: A BBC-Radio show had Julio Iglesias as a guest and he was asked what "mañana" means. "Well that could mean tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or even maybe next year..." the spanish singer said. Another guest at the show was Paddy from Ireland and he was asked what he thinks about mañana and he said "Sorry, I´m afraid we don´t have a word or expression in the Irish language with such a precision in time."

Another idea for a name is "Ceili Minogue" (if you have a sexy singer or maybe even if definitely not)......

# Posted on June 4th 2002 by crannog

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Ceili Minogue - thats a good one!!! :-))

# Posted on June 5th 2002 by shoddy fiddle player

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I used to play in an irish/celtic :0) band in New Zealand - we called ourselves Crannog as well ( i was quite young at the time - but think you can still look up the name on mp3.com and check it out! Also a band from inverness called Crannog!
Jamie

# Posted on June 5th 2002 by jamiedj

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Hi Jamie, when I searched for Crannog at google I got almost 5000 hits:

a lot of restaurants, a scottish fish farm, an irish software company, poems, still existing crannogs in ireland and scotland and a lot stuff about history and archeology .... and an entry about that New Zealand Crannog saying that the band doesn´t exist anymore. It is great to meet someone who played in that band (One more time proved that TheSession is a great site&community).

Never heard about Inverness Crannog - do you know more? In the filebox of my favourite pub i found a flyer from 1993 saying that a band called Crannog played there on st. pattricks day .... it was singer Helen Slattery from Tipperary and two acompaniing musicians with german sounding names. I tried to find out what happened to that band and what´s up with Helen right now - (with no success) ......

bye, Volker

# Posted on June 5th 2002 by crannog

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Hi Volker!
Don't know what happened to inverness crannog, apparently they played music that was similar to the Corrs... thats all i know, except their manager got in touch with us to see if we could meet up if ever we came to scotland, unfortunately the band wplit up, and we all went our separate ways. (as you do!)
Jamie

# Posted on June 5th 2002 by jamiedj

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... you mean as we did twice in the 4 year history of Landsberg Crannóg - but right now the band is existing as a trio. And we are willing to go on....maybe we find a box player who joins us .....

# Posted on June 6th 2002 by crannog

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Thought you might enjoy the story of how a band I usd to play in, The Samsonelles, got their name. Prior to playing on radio in Belfast, Marcas O'Murchú who was hosting the show, asked the name of the band. We were called something really stupid at the time, which I can't remember, and when we told Marcas the name, one of the guys in the group (Vicente Morales, a Spaniard) said "Naw naw samsin' els!" (something else). Anyway, the name stuck!

# Posted on June 6th 2002 by Conán McDonnell

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hehehe...that's GREAT...heehee

zls

# Posted on June 6th 2002 by Zina Lee

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Maybe you might consider the The celtic taliband

# Posted on June 6th 2002 by Northcregg

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The site's back up :)
http://fianna.f2g.net/cgi-bin/Generator/bandGeneratorResult.cgi

enjoy!!

# Posted on June 11th 2002 by searai

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Is weescottishfiddler ever going to let us know what name they picked? The suspense is killing me....

# Posted on June 11th 2002 by Bloomfield

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My Drunken Banshees
The Well-Bred Priests
Wicked Fun
Drink some Larks
Our Kind Boys
Drink my Maids
The Corn Crake's Band
Cork Misfortune
Your Salty Sparrows
(from the now up & running band name generator.... it's amazing how I can amuse myself)

# Posted on June 11th 2002 by searai

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"The Pub Dwellers"
"Banish Some Fun"
"Scatter Our Boys"
"Some Mighty Wicked Cry"
"My Foolish Cheeky Cows"

And last but not least, specially for me,
"The Corn Crake's Corn Crake Band"

# Posted on June 12th 2002 by Kerri Brown

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"My Foolish Cheeky Cows"?!? hehehehehe.....

zls

# Posted on June 12th 2002 by Zina Lee

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Ask My Priest
Your Salty Dusty Tartans
The Corn Crake's Roaring Larks

# Posted on June 14th 2002 by searai

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Fondle our Cows

# Posted on June 21st 2002 by searai

Here is some more help.....

hey weescottishfiddler - yet have no idea how your band is called??? Here some more suggestions:
"MacJigger and the Stuttering Rolls"
"Stout´n Stew" .....

# Posted on September 9th 2002 by crannog

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