People! I am throwing a contest. You can win a copy of Welcome to Bordertown, the awesome anthology that’s relaunching the beloved shared-world contemporary fantasy series.
My story “Our Stars, Our Selves” features a would-be rock star, and in recognition of that fact, here’s what you do to win:
Give me your best imaginary name for a band.
That’s it. Leave your ideal imaginary band name in the comments here, any time between now and midnight Pacific time on Friday, May 20th. I will choose my favorite (I dare not say “the best”), and the winner will be sent a copy of the anthology. One entry per commenter, please. (If I am utterly torn and unable to choose among the top contenders, I will apply some sort of randomization to determine the winner from that pool.) Do include an e-mail of some kind so I can contact you in case you win.
(Fake band names only, please. The point isn’t to promote your emocore shoegaze string quartet, no matter how cool your name is, though of course I wish you the best of luck.)
I mean, I assume everyone else is like me and my friends, in that every time you utter or encounter an unusual phrase, you immediately declare, “That’s going to be the name of my next band.” (I’ve named lots of fictional bands, from Allison Wonderland to Feral Sex Herd to Vicodin Love Confession — though I had to take that last one out of a novel when an actual band started using it as their name.) Now you can turn that band-naming impulse into sweet free book profit!
My band name:
The Borderland Express.
I am saddened to report that “St Vincent and the Grenadines” — which I’ve always thought was an awesome band name — is a real band with such hits as “Hee Hank ‘t Is Je Vrouw” (they’re Dutch).
So I guess that doesn’t count as my entry.
Ah, the heartbreak of reality stealing our good ideas! I know it well.
The name of the band is….
Capitan Crunch and the Cereal Killers!
Silly metal all the way!
“The Timey Wimey Cover Band”
OK, this thread is really bumming me out. I have a text file (‘bandnames.txt’) of lots of these. I hadn’t checkup on them before. Two more that I thought were genius but are real bands: “The Middle Eight” and “The Anchor Babies”.
I give up.
s/checkup/checked up/
Aw, man, and The Anchor Babies would have been a major contender! (You can post one without checking if it’s real. I’ll probably never know. I’m lazy.)
My next band will be named Thaumaturge.
Is It Organic
How about “Righteous Eggplant?”
In college my roommate and I put together a list of fictional band names. The ones I remember:
Fascist Bicycle
Uncle Farooq
13 1/2 MPH Curve
I know, shocking none of them ever came to fruition 😉
Wheezy Lumpkins would be my suggestion.
The best band name I’ve heard comes from a Dylan Moran stand-up show: Mongoloid Porn Inferno
“That sounds like such a busy evening.”
Judas and the Oppressors.
My band name would:
Flawed Dog Rising
The Spacey-Wasey Project
I cannot tell you how excited I am that they’re relaunching Bordertown! I REALLY WANT that book so I’m entering your contest.
How about Ophelia Dreaming
or Strangers in Strange Lands?
You see? I’m willing to embarrass myself for a chance to win this book!
I have a lot of potential band names (and no musical talent) but my latest:
The Split Infinitives.
Band name: A tribute to my sixth finger
first album title: Never there but always in thought
Band name thinking = you’ll never be bored again.
My suggestion would be, “Circus Specimen”
The Coffee-Fueled Straycats
“Edgy hedgehogs” imagine hedgehogs with mohawks. 🙂
Purple Kinkajous
Last Exit In Ohio!
saw it on a sign once.
Vampires with Amplifiers
screech of dissonant flowers
What about: “[insert awesome band name here]” as my entry.
Hmm, a band name…
I tease my roommate constantly that she’s going to front for a band called Demented Velociraptor. Then she usually roars at me. 😀
Okay, I had a few ideas, but since we’re limited to one, I’ll go with…Drumroll please…
Captain Termite and the Peg Legs
Kali and the Backup Smurfs
Cataclysmic Breakdown. 🙂
Big Dirty Limo.
High Chance of Gore
“Getting Dressed Out of the Dryer”
Black Heart Envy
“King Philip and the Sons of Morris”
mmm how about “twisted butterflies”?
“Temporary Burning Sensation”.
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“Matty and the Groves”, who would play traditional folk ballads with punk rock intensity.
One Last Minute
Savage Hippies
GroveMinders
Physic Dingo
My friend and I made up an imaginary hipster band in high school so we could tell people about it and say “you’ve never heard of it”. The band was Black & White Suicide Mission and our first single was called Rocking the Dunce Cap.
I’ve always wanted to name a band “Green on Thursday”.
Spastic Amoebae.
Oh, this is the first I’ve heard of the book. And it sounds like a great read! Thank you for the chance to win a copy. 🙂
Hmmm, band name… that is hard as I’m not sure what style of music, but I will try one for you. 🙂
Space Finns
Heads in the Sand.
Seven Chicken Nightmare.
Arthur Ian Legend and the Bubblebath Marching Band