Worst band name ever?

[Chris S]

I can't remember their name now but a fairly famous band started off using the name 'Cancelled'.
They changed it because hardly anybody turned up to their gigs, they'd see the name on the poster and think the gig had been cancelled.
It's like something out of Spinal Tapp!

 

[User16390]

Throbbing Gristle

 

[Venod]

Ken Dodd’s Dad’s Dog’s Dead

 

[PeteXXX]

Five Finger Death Punch

 

[Julia9054]

As biology students, we were going to call our (fictional) band Mucor and the Pinheads. (It's a type of mould!)
My son's band at school was called For Cuba. (Say it fast)

 

[FishFright]

Crispy Ambulance must be up there.

 

[Chris S]

Steve Strange and Chrissie Hynde started-off in a punk band called 'The Moors Murderers'. Steve Strange got beaten-up on Oxford Street and abandoned the project before the first single was released. If the acetate is still out there it must be worth a fortune.

 

[Dirk]

There was a band in South Birmingham, in 1970, called Krankuswamp.

 

[screenman]

The Band from County Hell, maybe they are not so keen on Lincolnshire.

 

[MontyVeda]

Five Seconds of Summer is a pretty dire name. I expect their music reflects this.

I once did a load of flyers for a local band called Carrot on the Floor. There was another band around the same time called Godburger... which always made me smile, as did Baby Judas.

RadMac on 6music did a worst band names thing a few years ago. I recall they settled on Wang Chun being thee worst.

 

[winjim]

!!!

 

[swee'pea99]

Rewatching old series of Parks & Recreation, featuring a band called Mouse Rat.

 

[Julia9054]

I used to play in the Golden Aspidistra Jazz Ensemble - named in homage to 1980s children's tv show The Adventure Game.

 

[Pale Rider]

An acquaintance of mine was half of a duo called Bicycle Thieves.

It rather annoyed me, trivialising something that happened to me around that time.

 

[PeteXXX]

Spooky Tooth.
Late 60's prog rock band.

One of the chaps in it ended up driving a forklift for Waitrose in Milton Keynes..