I was also 15. We spelt it wrong because we were cool.

were as Captain75.

Then later I went for One Sick Puppy.

Then I started using my own name. Then my first (and only) actual band is called Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences.

we had one song, called ice cream headache.

i have had so many bad bands with fucking shit names over the last year (14-16)
take your pick:
just bully people, yeah!
the like minded patriots
i shagged heratio nelson
dr seuss and the pom bears
spoilt victorian children

is the least embarrassing one i can remember.
mostly classic rock sort of stuff with a singer like meatloaf, only we were all only about 16.

yeaaaah!

we were fucking ace. we had matt cargill and someone who ended up in catsandcatsandcats.

we went on to become Big in Germany (it was our name)

HAHAHAHA. What a crock of shit.

On our first gig at a school battle of the bands we covered Mogwai's Xmas Steps.

I was 13 and we all liked rage against the machine. A lot.

i didn't realise a band already existed with that name (some 70s punk group from Manchester)

My second band was called Bad Beat Disco. I still think this name is pretty good.

I think we're on download.com somewhere still. Red Hot Chilli Peppers/RATM inspired rap rock didn't go down too well in rural Northumberland..

first gig MK band blitz round one, then second was second place in the final! (the competition cant have been up to much i guess) crikey that was time ago

We had some great songs:
- Champagne Socialist
- Heroin for the Masses
- How Children Fail

Angsty? Us? Never...

Postrock/emocore heroes who practised exactly three times. Singer, guitar/viola, piano, cello, drums. Classic.

Get in.

The other three all had/have huge egos and they kicked me out.

The name somehow related to I Am Kloot, don't remember how. Strange, since I never cared a jot for I Am Kloot.

www.myspace.com/theidentikit

we fucking ruled. one time this girl came to our gig and i'd tried to get off with her at a party and i made her a mixtape but she didnt make me a Funeral For A Friend cdr like she said she would, so i changed all the lyrics to one of our songs to be about her.

about fifteen years ago. We did a pretty not bad version of Sonic Youth's Dirty Boots and that was about it.

actually that's a lie, it was just a joke side project to our actual band, but i wanted to get that one out there as explanation for my username

formed during my sixth year at high school. we thought we sounded like mclusky, but we actually sounded like a bag of shit warmed up. we played one drunken gig at a girl's birthday party in her back garden. she was hoping for something like maroon 5 and started crying. then we split up over creative differences (wanting to sound shit vs. not wanting to sound shit).

i still might use that name for a future band.

later called 'Walk Walk Walk Walk Run'

and it was before we are scientists were 'on the scene' i'll have you know! although it only consisted of me and a mate spewing out post punk tomfoolery over a drum machine in his room. it seemed so fun at the time though.

and me and some other friends were going to make a band called six dead babies found in a caravan too, when we were idiotic 15 year olds

i miss being in a band. :(

we have the myspace url, which the other, more successful big sleep now want. we're not giving it up though, mainly because we're cunts and we got there first. and because every time i see their name a little part of my hearts leaps at the thought that my old band are being reviewed by Pitchfork or some shit.

and ZOMGZ we're listed as a band on DiS and our rating is 4/5! and we got reviewed! ZOMGZ!

www.myspace.com/thebigsleep

a name decided upon by our metaller frontman who'd developed an interest in Buddhist teachings!

We suffered from a serious identity crisis doing covers of Faith No More and RATM but also my own self penned emo numbers which were pretty cringeworthy. Fun times though, I have no regrets!

As in Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was for my Metalcore band. It'd been something I'd wanted to use since reading The Crucible at school when I was 16 and thought I knew about politics and was some sort of pseudo-socialist. I saw what I felt were parallels between McCarthyism and the world as it was then. Two years later I got the chance.

I intend to use it again.

it wasn't really a band.

my first actual gigging band was called rabid dog. it's a super furry animals b side. we sounded like a bad sfa.

i was about six. i played "drums", i.e. all the cushions i could find arranged in a circle.

Although, technically, we weren't really a band. We just got together to take the piss out of all the ridiculously pious 14 year olds forming metal bands seemingly at the same time, singing songs about bricks and gravy, and using coffee tins as drums.

were "The Quatermass Experiment" but when I was about 15 me and 2 other members of TQE wrote and recorded some truly shocking stuff, but I don't recall the name.

Edit: I have a sinking feeling it was "1000 Words For Nothing"

Two boys, one guitar, a programmable keyboard, flower pots for drums and songs about Elton John and Brian Deane. I still have the demo tapes. They're fucking incredible.

because my bandmates refused to let me call us This Is From Matilda. We were 14/15, and a name like that would have made us MASSIVE when emo hit the big time. Maybe.

i was against this name. i was right.

but i forget which one.

We were shit and i got kicked out because i wouldnt go out with the drummer

We had a great name:

GIRTH

We elongated the 'H' for the logo too, awesome times!

haha! i was 16.. or 17. we had two practices.

after the larkin book.

Then everyone else disagreed and made us change it to Converse after the trainers.

We had a song with lyrics derived from the scratchings on the run-out of a Lush 7". It was called 'Lick Me I'm A Chocolate Frog' and thinking about it makes me want to die.

THEN PROJEKT 27
THEN THE FRACAS......
THEN FISH CLOCK.

BIG UP THE TIME SHARK MASSIVE

We had a song about the teachers at school, including a verse about a PE teacher who had a hole in his heart, 'and now he's nearly dead'. And another about the music teacher who had a nervous breakdown.

Looking back, when we played at the school talent contest it probably wasn't the most sensitive song we could've played. But we were 15 and punk, man.

From the age of 16-20. How we lasted that long I don't know.

The Wooley Hats
I believe it was 1995.

a fictional Thrash Metal band called We Eat Babies. We were so rock and roll, we didnt even actually exist.

My first actual band was called the Camp Seagull Crusade - it was a great name if you went to my school, but otherwise... hmm...

We formed for a one off gig three weeks before a school "talent" show, I'd been playing bass for about a fortnight before that. We wrote an entire set of material in those three weeks, one of which inexplicably featured a sax solo that became the riff from Baker Street. The scary part was, we weren't even a ska band.

Ca$h

This was followed by Tarantella, which is now being used to better effect.

was called My Girlfriend. We made poppy rock. We were really fun. We had songs called Radio (my favourite), Caught In The Middle, Aeroplane (which was terrible and I hated playing and would always get told off because I pulled a face when we played it)and one called Glow. And some others I forget now.

I always enjoyed it, but the guitarist and I fell out because he liked this girl and he introduced us and we ended up being all loved up together and he only forgave me about two years ago. The singer left and tried to steal the bits of the band he liked, but then we regrouped. Then they all decided that they wanted to be a post-hardcore (pronounced At The Drive In rip off) band, and they kicked me out.

It always galled me that the two who wanted me out didn't have the balls to do it themselves and they got Chris the drummer who really didn't want me to leave to do it. Fucking cowards.

They know parade around as Action & Action. They're pretty poor

named after the beer that the charecter "Brick" drinks in Cat On A Tin Roof.

Those were the days.

Oi Seymour! When we getting Shakey Dave and the Gaylords of the ground? That's been on the back burner for like 4 years.

World Domination Awaits!

We used to play pots and pans along with tupperware boxes with elastic bands around them. The lyrics were often about how poor a service people like BT and Parcel Force offer.

From Attack! Attack! to Reginald Von Wiggleswoth The Man, to Sycamore to Forest of Fire (possibly loads more I can't remember).
Lasted a little while but we lost two members and decided to give up.
Think we had a purevolume page and still have loads of song lyrics etc.

because pandas moan when there's an earthquake

first band = the flaming marshmallows

we were 14 and had a "catalog" that consisted of 1 original song and a bunch of ramones covers...yikes.

But we might as well have just called ourselves Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

The first song we wrote was about an epsiode of Neighbours when Harold got electrocuted.

We also covered Come Together by Spiritualized.

we only played one gig. covered marilyn manson 'beautiful people', silverchair 'learn to hate' and a song by kittie. i fucked up one of the solos... despite it sounding perfect in rehearsals. i was 16... gimme a break.

we played as part of a school charity fundraiser thing. ahh, the summer of '99.

Beat The Weeds
Gregory Ate My Pudding
THe Fakrays

We didn't last very long...

joined them whilst at sixth form, invited as I apparantly 'knew loads of girls', which says a lot about my guitar skills. Their main influence was Dodgy, don't really need to expand on that. Nearly played a gig at the Hacienda once, on the Tuesday indie night until the bastarding place closed for good.

pretty rudimentary punk metal in the vein of amen. i was 16

Challenger had two rehearsals and then went on hiatus after a disagreement between lead and rhythm guitar. Rhthm wanted lead to play it the same way each time, lead wanted creative freedom and bemoaned rhythm's lack of it.

Challenger reformed as Plastic Crime Unit with an ad hoc membership including metal guitar, ukelele and a third on trumpet/hammond organ/whatever he refused to buy from Oxfam. There have been no rehearsals as yet.

haha, was about about 14. can't even remember how we came up with it.

We formed for the school X Factor and were the only band in it, and the only song we had was a cover of 500 Miles in the style of Spunge.

My second band was called No Space which was formed in a Rock School style summer school and we had one song and I hated everyone in the band.

we opened for The Unamericans

We were about 14/15, and never made it out of the school music room. Our talents included being able to press the DEMO button on the keyboard, whilst rapping over it.

We were Goldie Lookin Chain, whilst they were still in nappies.

Strawberry Jam

*Shamefully, it was my suggestion, but I never thought it would stick, just wanted to look like I was contributing to the decision...*

We went on to become Umlaut both awesome names I'm sure you'll agree.

After the scrap yard that The Dude picks his car up from in The Big Lebowski.

We were bloody hopeless.

Which has to be in with a shout for 'Most achingly pretentious band name ever'.

a year later, we changed the name to "uh na na na na," like the master p song. we were only 14!

still like that name

We were the shit.

Wait, I mean we were shit.

We wanted to play "The Kids Aren't Alright" and "Bombtrack" at the school talent show. Which we did, to rapturous indifference - but our band name, we were informed, wasn't appropriate. So we changed it to CENSORED.

We went through many, including:
Monkey Feet
Sketchy Jamie and the Snides
So You Think You Know Murdo? << My favourite

Although then they replaced me with another bassist and are now called The Driftwood... ha, we can see who lost out THERE!