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So I received some tickets to see Ladytron at Heaven yesterday. Ripping open the envelope in a drunken haze at 2 this morning, I sketchily comprehended the Stargreen gig list also enclosed. To see at the top of it an event involving this band:

http://www.disctronics.co.uk/itc/tomewings.htm

"Tom Ewings - A Little Love
West country trio of youngsters (average age seventeen) who claim to deliver 50,000 watts of power pop fuelled by the influence of The Smashing Pumpkins and Free."

Classic. Not to mention the fact that a company I used to work for use Disctronics (domain that site's in) to produce CDs occasionally. Coincidence but not serendipity.

Does anyone else have bands 'named after' them?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 1 November 2002 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

tragically, there's no 'Fabulous Greg Kitten Band'. that i know of.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 1 November 2002 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Tom is aware of these upstarts and has begun legal proceedings.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 1 November 2002 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

There is a rubbish American singer-songwriter-rocker bloke named after my real name (which is not Dirty Vicar).

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 1 November 2002 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

N. There's no point, they'll just come back as Tom EwingX....

― Plinky (Plinky), Friday, 1 November 2002 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it's telling that the picture on the site is broken. Is there something Tom's not telling us about his aspiration of becoming a West Country teenager delivering 50,000 watts of pop power?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 1 November 2002 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd never have had Kroeger down as a particularly Irish surname.

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 1 November 2002 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There used to be a band in Austin, TX called Hester as I found out back in 1997 when I was looking at websites about the music scene there. I emailed the band and met some of them when I visited. Apparently they took their name from the character Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel (Hester Prynne was a woman who committed adultery, under circumstances that gave even the Puritans a touch of sympathy, for they condemned her not to death, which was well within their legal power, but rather ruled that she would be forced to wear upon her breast the letter “A,” made of red cloth and large enough for all to clearly see).

And in Oxford there was a band called Hester Thrale (prior to that they were called The Full Monty), who saw sense and renamed themselves Psychid.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 1 November 2002 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't 50,000 watts of power-pop rather a dangerous thing to wield - especially in a tiny crowded venue with all that sweat? Can power-pop be classed as a renewable energy source?

― robster (robster), Friday, 1 November 2002 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Ever since the aeronaut's daemon in the Philip Pullman books was called Hester, I seem to think of Mark as a hare...

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 1 November 2002 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan Regan plays trombone in Reel Big Fish but he's not me.

― dan (dan), Friday, 1 November 2002 17:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Surprisingly enough, very few takers on "The Domenico Francesco Passantinos", for some reason.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 2 November 2002 10:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I have heard a song by the Tom Ewings. They are ghastly though naturally I wish them all the best. It's a terrible name for a band.

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 2 November 2002 10:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Hester Thrale are the worst band I've ever seen live.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 2 November 2002 10:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Where did you see them, out of interest? I don't think they were anything near the *worst* band I've seen live, but they were certainly dull. I felt like going up to them afterwards and saying "You share a name with me, c'mon, sort yourselves out!"

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 2 November 2002 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Evidently they realised they couldn't.

― Rebecca (reb), Saturday, 2 November 2002 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw them at the big Radiohead concert in Oxford last year. Actually talked to them a bit too as they got shunned from the backstage area and out onto the field with the rest of us proles.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 2 November 2002 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)

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