Raconteurs sabotaged by Aussie jazz band
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The Raconteurs have been forced to change their name in Australia after another band stepped forward claiming they'd already nabbed the Jack White-featuring outfit's name.
Thus, the four-piece will adopt the name 'The Saboteurs' down under, so as to avoid any (unlikely) confusion.
A statement reads: "The Raconteurs name was already taken by a jazz band, to make things easier, and in the spirit of espionage and subversion, we have decided to become The Saboteurs in Australia only."
Gosh, all this and the band's debut long-player, Broken Boy Soldier, isn't even out yet. Tis on May 15th, mind.
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what are the best shite name changes?
the only ones i can think of are:
the london suede
the charlatans uk
saboteurs is better mind
Electric
Soft Parade
just thinking hard about this
Death from above 1979...is a good one although im not sure what the 1979 is all about
At a guess
it'll be the year of the singer's birth?
....
Tracer AMC from Northern Ireland had to change their name from Tracer so they added the AMC.
Damn good band too!
i thought it might be that but dunno
but for the sake of this...yeh
from Westside
to Westlife.
nearly on topic
i was always amused by eels having to change a song title to be able to sell albums in walmart. It's a motherfucker became it's a monster trucker. quietly genius.
liberty
liberty x
3/10 - lazy
manitoba
changed to caribou
Blink
Blink 182
Atmosphere-A Tribute To Joy Division
had to change their name to 'Editors', cos of the rapper in the US.
Jordan*
on a kinda similar note
I think the best forced name change is "Dinosaur" to "Dinosaur Jr".
think
it's the year of the members' birth
prince to
O(+>
DRUGLESS PETE.
had to change for artic monkeys. don't really know why though...
didnt Penthouse
become something like 50 tonnes of black terror in the states when they were made to change their name inna US...
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