Band names: Origins and Meanings

[laserblue]

Back in the late 60s there was a band called Haphash And The Coloured Coat Featuring The Human Host And The Heavy Metal Kids. It wouldn't be a stretch to speculate that the name came out of a particularly heavy night on LSD.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

10cc.........the amount of semen in the average male ejaculation.

I'm LOL Creme myself

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Dancing at the disco, bumper to bumper, wait a minute, Where's me jumper, Where's me jumper. Classic

Play it at the Cork City matches

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Do Selfridges sell Fridges
or Boots sell boots.?

 

[blueish swede]

The Duckworth Lewis method (Neil Hannon, The Divine Comedy) are named after the Duckworth Lewis method(!), used to calculate the run target for the team batting second in a ODI if play is interrupted.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Stanford Prison Experiment were named after an experiment at Stanford Prison.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

I remember John Peel Playing "The 4 Skins" although I have no idea how they got there name........

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Slaughter and the Dogs...from Bowies album Diamond Dogs and Mick Ronsons album Slaughter on 10th ave.

That's Wythenshawe logic for you.

 

[Protein Junkie]

Hatfield and the North is/was a road sign .

 

[mcfcinprague]

The Duckworth Lewis method (Neil Hannon, The Divine Comedy) are named after the Duckworth Lewis method(!), used to calculate the run target for the team batting second in a ODI if play is interrupted.

Thomas Walsh of the excellent Pugwash is Hannon's batting and bowling partner.