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  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    LennyLowrent said:
    Contributions to this thread all invoke Donald Ramsfeld's: "known unknowns"

    (Great band name to never hear of...)
    Or, The Unknown Cases.
  • Gisappointed
    Gisappointed Posts: 990
    Q Tips, the 45's and Furniture.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,334
    edited July 2024
    Bilko said:
    Believe it or not, there was a band called The C##ts, look it up and make sure you put band in your search.
    I remember seeing Splodgenessabounds when the support band didn't turn up. The played as support to themselves under the name of the F… C… They played for about 20-odd minutes playing the wrong instruments and making as much noise as they could. People in the audience who didn’t know it was a spoof were a treat to see.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,034
    The Tourists, the first band of Annie Lennox.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,034
    edited July 2024
    thai malaysia addick said:
    Bilko said:
    Believe it or not, there was a band called The C##ts, look it up and make sure you put band in your search.
    I remember seeing Splodgenessabounds when the support band didn't turn up. The played as support to themselves under the name of the F… C… They played for about 20-odd minutes playing the wrong instruments and making as much noise as they could. People in the audience who didn’t know it was a spoof were a treat to see.

    I saw them support Bad Manners in Chatham around 20 years ago, Buster and gang turned up late and the audience of about 300 had to endure his noise for a bit longer whilst Buster got himself ready.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,023
    Max Splodge supported Bad Manners last year. Looked like he didn't have much of a band with him. From what I could see they were mainly members of Bad Manners (very tight though).
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,599
    Stig said:
    Max Splodge supported Bad Manners last year. Looked like he didn't have much of a band with him. From what I could see they were mainly members of Bad Manners (very tight though).
    I saw him at Brighton supporting them, he was brilliant.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783
    My time machine being conspicuous by its absence, I’m unable to travel in time to tell you of the bands I will have heard of in the future that I haven’t heard of yet. 
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    PopIcon said:
    cfgs said:
    I like a bit of New Zealand, newish, punk, The Datsuns and The D4s etc. 
    Harmonic Generator, i borrowed a bit of that for my own work.

    Certainly not new, they emerged around the same time as the Killers, Libertines, Kings of Leon, the Strokes.

    I actually forgot about the Datsuns until i saw your post. They broke through with a couple of other bands from that part of the world, Jet and a band i loved at the time called the Vines. Their debut album is great. 
    I only said new as they weren't from the 70s. :)
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,379
    saw a clip the other day that said that, in terms of top 40 hits , bands are dead. Only 3 number one hits from a band between 2020 and YTD ( and one of th was the Beatles!) Compare with 30 years ago for the same period and it was something like 146 or 346 or some such number. 

    Difficult to put a finger on why, but the commodification of music will be a big part of it. 

    So pretty the average young person on the street won’t have heard of any band!
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  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    The Insipids.
  • Bournesnr
    Bournesnr Posts: 295
    There was a band doing the pub scene a few years back called Free Beer,
    Venues they played put signs in the window ‘Free Beer here Saturday’.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,627
    Like Donald Rumsfeld said, there are the known unknowns & the unknown unknowns. If I've never heard of a band then I don't know them to list them. 
  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,705
    golfaddick said:
    Like Donald Rumsfeld said, there are the known unknowns & the unknown unknowns. If I've never heard of a band then I don't know them to list them. 
    It takes a bit of practice, but it's worth the effort.
    I started by rejecting offers I never received, and never looked back.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    Just made me chuckle that there was a Zappa album entitled The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life.  Jeez there's some weird stuff on that live album - like covers of Stairway to Heaven, Ravel's Bolero and the theme tune to the ancient western Bonanza.

    Anyway two contributions. An indie Rock band with Latin influences called Calexico from Arizona and Fila Brazillia from Hull.

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