Battle / Battles
(I heard Battle, then got confused when reading a description of Battles. At first I just put it down to overzealous journalism)
Q And Not U / Q Without U
(I might be alone in noticing this one)
Nelly Furtado / Nelly
(Once again I wondered where the familiarity was when first hearing Hot In Herre)
The Prodigy / Prodigy
(Not particularly surprising)
Subtle / Subtitle
(Close enough that ATP ended up inadvertantly booking Subtitle, pretty much)
Field / Field Music
(I assumed someone had missed an apostrophe-s. Thankfully never confused with Fieldy's Dreams)
GZA / RZA
(I'd like to know who was named first)
JJ Cale / John Cage
(This one's probably just me being stupid)
John Mayer / John Mayall
(John Mayer's Bluesbreakers?)
Any others?
kind of similar
a promoter in Glasgow once booked Envy and Other Sins, thinking they were getting two bands. Teehee.
all the wolf ones, obviously
Wolfmother, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Parade
all the black ones too
and the fuck ones.
Black fuck wolf would be the ultimate cool band name right now
Supertramp and Supergrass.
I always confuse the two.. :(
Did you see the supertramp bloke
at the Diana concert last year?
He was awful, at one point he muttered something like "you throw a great birthdya party here" - painful.
GoodBooks
GoodShoes
A few years ago
there was a Welsh power-pop band on the very slow rise called Cartoon, whose chances were pretty much wrecked by that Danish novelty group The Cartoons.
Cartoon!
Ha ha I remember them from uni!
my boyfriend
used to keep thinking I liked Blood Red Shoes because I like The Good Life
(The Good Life -> Good Shoes -> Blood Red Shoes)
^
Friendly Fires/Fear of Flying
Held By Hands/We All Have Hooks For Hands
Little Flames/Flaming Lips
Horse The Band/Band of Horses
There was a guy at the show the other night who thought he'd come to see Band of Horses, he was most surprised when they started playing!
urgh
Duke Spirit - Duke Special
Field - Fields - Field Music
Jawbreaker/Jawbox
Burning Airlines/Jets to Brazil
The Anniversary/The Wedding Present
...
Minutemen/Minuteman
Black Flag, Black Kids, Black Eyes, Big Black, Black Lips...
^
minutemen/minuteman definitely.
Not I: but when mentioning My Bloody Valentine
To individuals who have not heard of them...it occasionaly assumed they are on the lines of bullet for my valentine/my chemical romance disgusting really. Need more education
THIS
this exact thing happens to me on a regular basis, i actually was having an argument with somebody about them for about 5 minutes before i said "you know they're not some my chemical romance/bullet for my valentine type?"
"..oh"
yeh its odd how much this happends
its frustrating because no matter how much you justify their greatness and their sound, they still have quick emo power chords and gerrard way eque frontman in their head.
Surely you confuse
John Cale with John Cage
or
John Cale with JJ Cale
not John Cage with JJ Cale
that is exactly
what i was about to say.
It was inevitable
that I'd get something wrong typing it up.
Neils
Diamond & Young...
my bloody valentine
and my chemical romance. they're like the exact same names!
BARR/BARS
death can dance and
death cab for cutie
gets confusing on my ipod
The Tenderfoot and Tenderfoot
are two entirely different beasts.
Rats.......
Ratty Rat Rat and Ra Ra Riot I always get mixed up, which is embarrasssing when you say that to one of the bands .... "oh you're in Ratty Rat Rat, oh sorry Ra Ra Riot ... oops ... good gig yeah "
Oh and
Rose Kemp / Ross Kemp
(http://www.rosskemp.co.uk/)