And this one is the fault of Danny McKay, me passing the buck.
We have a couple of names already for such groups ~
CANADA ~ West
Vancouver, British Columbia ~ "Celtic Guerillas"
CANADA ~ East
Montreal, Quebec ~ "Commando Trad"
Are there any more? But more important, what names can you imagine for such a group? This should be easier than contributing band names, as in this case it is a 'mob' rather than a band, an organized mob rather than a few friends who practice and perform regularly. If more cred is desired I guess we could call it an orchestra, or a rally, or ~ ???
How about "a bunch of mad feckers descending on a public place to play a few tunes before melting back into the crowd, leaving behind them a puzzled but pleased crowd of shoppers, one or two of whom will take this as a spur to finally sit down and learn to play some musical instrument like they've always meant to instead of wasting their lives in front of the bloody tube"
Okay, it's a bit long, but maybe the acronym would work...
ABOMFDOAPPTPAFT... okay, maybe not.
Now to go away and see if something can be drummed up in Irish... I can't seem to shake "Militia" from my mind. Maybe it's the half litre of strawberry daiquiri having its effect...
You don't need a name. I don't like either Commando Trad or Celtic Guerillas. Just do it. Sounds like a bunch of would-be invaders sitting around having a cup of tea, trying to come up with a menacing name instead of getting down to the business of looting and pillaging...
No penn, we don't want 'menace' but 'promise', and no looting and pillaging, more like Robin Hood and taking the music back to the people, and the street...
"Live Beat Ninjas"
Would that mean we'd have to dress up in black and leap across the roofs of buildings? The mind is willing but the body is unable...
Naming labeling and packaging will destroy this movement.
The anonymous mystery is what makes this gift of spontaneous tunes so cool.
Naming it would be like when Toto pulled the curtain back on the great and powerful Oz. He wasn't cool anymore.
There is no name that can do something this cool justice.
"Gan Ainm" ~ in spirit, yeah, I like it... It goes along with many secret societies, or the 'name that cannot be named'. I'd also been considering tune names. A name does help to give people some focus, but my general sense of it has that lean that Boatpiper has given words to... In a sense, naming it helps to also pull it out of that secret society namelessness. Yes, it is promotional in a sense, commercial even, and has had great effect and results for promoting music in Vancouver and Montreal, even if they use a military term in the mix. Their adoption of such language is a kind of demilitarization...
YES! It's just too damned bad that those expressing a willingness are so widely dispersed. I can think of little with more potential kick in it than to do something mad like this with folks from this site including the grumblers and nay-sayers... And there would have to be an after party...
This thread is part of the temptation I'm feeling...
OK ceol, Liverpool , Saturday July 18th, in a busy market area. 5pm A nice loopy tune like Lucy Campbell that goes around and around. Anybody in ? Phone, e-mail , text, twitter, everybody welcome. It gives you 3 weeks to practise. Party afterwards. I can't make it myself, of course, but I'll bet you can find a good 20 people to do it...
OK, great names, great enthusiasm, get out and do it!
Yes, ceolachan, dancers are great. All of our local ones seemed to be otherwise engaged, but next time!
And yes, must promise a party/session afterwards, as a few minutes of playing can be a bit of an anti-climax. (We actually played Dingle Regatta for 20 minutes). The session afterwards was well attended.
Also correct, you don't need a name, but if the object is to show the fruits of your labour, some identification may be useful.
Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names? :-/
Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
This is a sucker shoot from the base of this tree:
Discussion: Celtic Guerrillas Vancouver
# Posted on June 18th 2010 by oldstrings
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/24875
And this one is the fault of Danny McKay, me passing the buck.
We have a couple of names already for such groups ~
CANADA ~ West
Vancouver, British Columbia ~ "Celtic Guerillas"
CANADA ~ East
Montreal, Quebec ~ "Commando Trad"
Are there any more? But more important, what names can you imagine for such a group? This should be easier than contributing band names, as in this case it is a 'mob' rather than a band, an organized mob rather than a few friends who practice and perform regularly. If more cred is desired I guess we could call it an orchestra, or a rally, or ~ ???
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by ceolachan
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Really Mean Bad Trad,,, lol
or RMBT for short,,
jim,,
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by FIDDLE4
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Missionaries. Or better still, evangelists.
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by gam
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Tune-ami
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by nicholas
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Tune-Ami That's a good one!
Surprise/Enterprise ? Mission Surprise/Enterprise ? Enterprise/Surprise ? Mission Surprise/Enterprise ?
I 'googled' these possibilities and some are already taken.You'd need the hyphen.
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by JNW
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Sorry, (spelling) Tune-ami
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by JNW
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
.... Mission Enterprise/Surprise ..... whew!
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by JNW
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
It's Mackay, not McKay.
Unless that was meant to be one of your promised wind-ups.......
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by Rudall the time
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Suddenly Trad
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by soft black stars
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Bring-tunes (sort of a play on ring-tones)
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by Mark Harmer
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Yes Danny!
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by ceolachan
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
How about "a bunch of mad feckers descending on a public place to play a few tunes before melting back into the crowd, leaving behind them a puzzled but pleased crowd of shoppers, one or two of whom will take this as a spur to finally sit down and learn to play some musical instrument like they've always meant to instead of wasting their lives in front of the bloody tube"
Okay, it's a bit long, but maybe the acronym would work...
ABOMFDOAPPTPAFT... okay, maybe not.
Back to the drawing board...
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by Jon Kiparsky
But, me missin' an 'a' is nothing new...
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by ceolachan
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Or Jon ~ MFs ("Mad F*ckers")
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by ceolachan
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
For London ~ "The Thames Alligators"
Now to go away and see if something can be drummed up in Irish... I can't seem to shake "Militia" from my mind. Maybe it's the half litre of strawberry daiquiri having its effect...
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by ceolachan
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
"Sessionistas"
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by ceolachan
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
How about calling it a flash performance?
I don't like the military allusions either although I admit the names do have a certain edginess to them.
Los Angeles, you're next ...
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by SunnySoCal
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Go for it L.A.!!!
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by ceolachan
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Taking a cue from ceolachan, incorporating 'militia', how about:
The Merry Militia
The Trad Police
The Groove Guerillas
The Nyah Nazis
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by fiddlerdan
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
c, You said it in your title, how about TradFlash, or FlashTrad.
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by AlBrown
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
"Dandelion Greens" ~ you know, the weeds that pop up everywhere and just can't be gotten completely under control...
I suspect that whatever name someone comes up with someone else will find a reason not to trash it?
"The Blow Ins"
"The Irish Volunteers"
"The Rowsome Roustabouts"
"The Ceili Corps"
"The Jammy Dodgers"
"The Rolling Wave"
"The Tilted Kilt"
"The Pluck-it Brigade"
"Clever Clogs"
"Good Company"
"Uninvited Company"
"The Ugly Bug Ball"
"Thud Whackers"
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by ceolachan
Flash Trad
"Diddly & Co."
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by ceolachan
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
The Decoys
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by nicholas
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
What about some kind of 'guild', or 'interns', or 'association', a "company of ~" ~ or an acronym?
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by ceolachan
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
"The Reel Conspiracy"
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by ceolachan
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
How 'bout "The Sessionati?"
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by The David Dude
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Isn't there a football supporters' club called the Tune-ami? (haha)
Clever Clogs is a great name for a dance group though!
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by gam
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
"The Slam Bam Gang"
"The Association of Itinerant Tunesters"
"The Corporate Choristers"
"DRONE" ~ "Distractions for the Release of Nervous Energy"
# Posted on June 20th 2010 by ceolachan
"GOTHS" ~ "Guild of Tune Hustlers"
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by ceolachan
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
The Talitrad, Al Traddya
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by Hup
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Goatbusters. Fun Police.
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by gam
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Gwan gwan gwan
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by bc_box_player
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Reel sudden
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by bc_box_player
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Diddly deluge
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by bc_box_player
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
LOL at "Goatbusters"
The Trad Inquisition
NOBODY EXPECTS THE TRAD INQUISITION!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gldlyTjXk9A
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by Joe CSS
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Jericho Here We Go
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by nicholas
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
You don't need a name. I don't like either Commando Trad or Celtic Guerillas. Just do it. Sounds like a bunch of would-be invaders sitting around having a cup of tea, trying to come up with a menacing name instead of getting down to the business of looting and pillaging...
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by pennhorse
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Reel Evolution
Reel Devolution ...
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by chscott
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
"Bang the Frog"
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by ceolachan
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
No penn, we don't want 'menace' but 'promise', and no looting and pillaging, more like Robin Hood and taking the music back to the people, and the street...
"Live Beat Ninjas"
Would that mean we'd have to dress up in black and leap across the roofs of buildings? The mind is willing but the body is unable...
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by ceolachan
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Naming labeling and packaging will destroy this movement.
The anonymous mystery is what makes this gift of spontaneous tunes so cool.
Naming it would be like when Toto pulled the curtain back on the great and powerful Oz. He wasn't cool anymore.
There is no name that can do something this cool justice.
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by Gone to work
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Could just go ahead and use a tune name, like many Irish groups do.
I think Boatpiper's voting for Gan Aimn, though.
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by Jon Kiparsky
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
"Gan Ainm" ~ in spirit, yeah, I like it... It goes along with many secret societies, or the 'name that cannot be named'. I'd also been considering tune names. A name does help to give people some focus, but my general sense of it has that lean that Boatpiper has given words to... In a sense, naming it helps to also pull it out of that secret society namelessness. Yes, it is promotional in a sense, commercial even, and has had great effect and results for promoting music in Vancouver and Montreal, even if they use a military term in the mix. Their adoption of such language is a kind of demilitarization...
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by ceolachan
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
If this happened in Carrick-on-Suir they'd be robbed.......
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by premier
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Yeah, that's it! Brilliant!
"Gan Ainm"
Anonymous Trad, it's the name without a name. Gives the music its own mystery spirit.
Makes me shiver.
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by Gone to work
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Trad to Escape
Jig and Run
Reely Knot There
Who's Your Traddy?
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Fairtrad ...
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by ethical blend
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Not directly related to the topic at hand, but here is a link to an article about someone using music to do good works: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127926302&sc=fb&cc=fp.
# Posted on June 21st 2010 by AlBrown
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
"Fair Trad" ~ love it...
I was also impressed with how the Montreal group also incorporated dancers in their sharing, brilliant...
# Posted on June 22nd 2010 by ceolachan
http://hungryformusic.com/
# Posted on June 22nd 2010 by ceolachan
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Never mind the name. let's do it !
# Posted on June 23rd 2010 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Here To Annoy
# Posted on June 23rd 2010 by nicholas
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
YES! It's just too damned bad that those expressing a willingness are so widely dispersed. I can think of little with more potential kick in it than to do something mad like this with folks from this site including the grumblers and nay-sayers...
And there would have to be an after party...
This thread is part of the temptation I'm feeling...
# Posted on June 23rd 2010 by ceolachan
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
OK ceol, Liverpool , Saturday July 18th, in a busy market area. 5pm A nice loopy tune like Lucy Campbell that goes around and around. Anybody in ? Phone, e-mail , text, twitter, everybody welcome. It gives you 3 weeks to practise. Party afterwards. I can't make it myself, of course, but I'll bet you can find a good 20 people to do it...
# Posted on June 23rd 2010 by pennhorse
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Make that Saturday July 17th.
# Posted on June 23rd 2010 by pennhorse
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Brigadoon!
# Posted on June 24th 2010 by nicholas
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
No - JIGADOON!!
# Posted on June 25th 2010 by nicholas
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
OK, great names, great enthusiasm, get out and do it!
Yes, ceolachan, dancers are great. All of our local ones seemed to be otherwise engaged, but next time!
And yes, must promise a party/session afterwards, as a few minutes of playing can be a bit of an anti-climax. (We actually played Dingle Regatta for 20 minutes). The session afterwards was well attended.
Also correct, you don't need a name, but if the object is to show the fruits of your labour, some identification may be useful.
# Posted on June 27th 2010 by oldstrings
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
Okay, so where's a good spot in the Boston area?
# Posted on June 27th 2010 by Jon Kiparsky
Re: Trad Flash Mobs ~ possible names?
The Village Green Tune Knitting Circle
# Posted on June 28th 2010 by ceolachan