Presenting...the ILE girl/boy band!

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Inspired by NY Ally - and I hope she's not mad at me for nicking her idea - what member of a girl/boyband would you (or nominate other ILErs) be?

Bagsy Dec from Ant and Dec - not strictly a boy band but they have released a record or two...

I'm leaving work now, so I shall read this in the morning. Bye!

― Will, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Get ready, get steady, and rhumble. New answers!

― Will, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Somewhat dubiously declaring the Communards to be a boy/girl band (on many different levels), I have many times been compared to Jimmy Somerville, so I'd better be him.

― Mark C, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am not a member of a girlband. I am Britney Spears.

― Ally, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

suggested name: Cock Sure

― chris, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'll be the totty from s-club. rachel is it? i can dream CARNT I?

ILE synchronsied hand-jive karaoke band would be called HARDKORE

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

can i be indie powerpuff girl?

― katie, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can I be the Cute One?

― Sean, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll be the guy who sits the background of the situation, nods and smiles and taps his fingers together and lets the money come rolling in. The only thing he ever says is the A-Team quote "I love it when a good plan comes together." Our circle around here dreamed him up in the mid-nineties; we figured he'd be a pirate with one eye and a parrot on his shoulder, and his name is Mr. Pegleg.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm the evil one.

― james, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm the deep thoughtful brooding one. With a goatee.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd like to be the rockist one.

― Arthur, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I will be the short but sexy one with the goatee. I will also be the black one. (Take that, Nitsuh!)
― Dan Perry, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd be the fat one. Gary Barlow but less talented.
― ogden, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'll be the italicized one.

― jess, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did I also mention that I'd be completely brain-dead behind my pretty goateed face?

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why not just be completely altogether dead? Weekend At Bernie's, the boyband!

― Brian MacDonald, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(obviously not meant to be taken as a wish of death upon Dan by ANY MEANS!)

― Brian MacDonald, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Weekend At Bernies"-The boyband that spawned thousands of screaming necrophiles.

― Ronan, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd call them ladders.

― james, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Clearly, Dan, you and I will be teamed up as some sort of R&B duo. Genuine boy-bands never include both black and white members.

Would you rather be the thuggy one or the one whose half-buttoned shirt starts coming off halfway through the video?

― Nitsuh, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1) Surely any ILx band would be called "The Cockfarmers"?

2) I seem to remember a thread asking if it would be possible to break a skilled "non-pop" group (define non-pop as you will) by marketing the group in a boy band/teen tart manner. 2a) Anybody know where this thread is? 2b) Should the ILx band follow this strategy (eg., free jazz with a qawaali vocalist and a Tuvan throat-singer)?

3) Since I fit no currently popular definition of beautiful, does that mean I should be the drummer?

― j.lu, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On second thought, I'm probably too old to be in a boy-band. A supergroup, maybe? I could be like Robert Palmer in the Power Station!

― Sean, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If it's a rock super group...then I am CC DeVille!!

― james, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Speaking of girl/boy bands, has anyone seen the latest promo pics for the International Noise Conspiracy? My first thought was "Roxette From The Crypt"

I dunno what boy-band I'd be in. I'm just applying. I'm getting paid. I don't get to choose. That's YOUR job. Choose for me.

― Brian MacDonald, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Surely the ILE girl/boy band would feature only Graham?

(Sorry Graham!)

― Tom, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't think of a proper answer so I'll be Mo Tucker

― Maria, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nitsuh: I think the correct answer to your question is, "Yes." Although, as friends who have seen me try to be a thug can verify, I'm about as threatening as a marshmallow, so I'd probably be better off as eye-candy.

Brian: I've got my eye on you, mister. If/when we meet, I know not to accept any odd bubbling drinks from you. (At least I know that if the odd bubbling drink comes from Ned, he's just trying to seduce me.)

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd like to be the overaffectionate one, the one who stands in the middle pulling everyone together for a group hug, unaware that they're making everyone uncomfortable, while the others pull pained smiles.

― maryann, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i = ile birlgoy band haha HEY!

― mark s, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At least I know that if the odd bubbling drink comes from Ned, he's just trying to seduce me.

You bastard trollop, I don't have to *try* to seduce you anymore, I just snap my fingers and you come crawling like the crushed Miss Thing you are.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned, did you just call someone a trollop? I'm excited.

― Maria, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Which one of these fey nemeses is Ned currently portraying?

A : Benita Bizarre
B : Hoodoo The Magician
C : Witchie Poo
D : Gargamel
E : Princess Dragon Mom
F : Queen Bansheera
G : Krankor

― Brian MacDonald, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All of them at once? Ned is a woman of many moods.

I'd be the girl who wears far too much lipgloss and has a certain world weariness around the eyes despite claims of being "only 19". The soft porn photo shoots from the early 90's haven't been discovered by the News of the World or the National Enquirer yet.

― Nicole, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All of them at once? Ned is a woman of many moods.

*pouts* But I'll never be woman enough for Mark S. Or something like that. And thank you, Maria, I'll keep that in mind. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But you're furry! Surely that will count for something with Mark???

― Nicole, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Take a pumice stone to those clodhoppers of yours and yyou might get Kodanshi as part of the full package.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dan has made me happy, again.

But you're furry! Surely that will count for something with Mark

I'd leave to him to decide that one. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i want to be baby spice. she dresses well, white is my favourite colour, and shes human looking.

― di, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

but i guess i'll have to settle for being kathleen hanna since i look like her.

― di, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well I want tobe psycho spice, or maybe rainbow spite, and play the tambourine, somewhere up the back of the stage. Who wants to be the gogo dancers?

― Menelaus Darcy, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My band would only settle for caged women adorned in chains. Any volunteers? (Dan, you can't raise both hands... sorry)

― Brian MacDonald, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I will be the clowny one with the one-liners and the gleam of intelligence and irony. Bit like Ringo.

― Sam, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i always wanted to be portly spice

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dr. C = old spice?

― Dr. C, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've wanted to make a boyband with a one hit single out. And so good that people would rush to buy our album. They would then discover that one song plus torrents of ultraHarsh Japanoise on it. We would call ourselves "The Merzboyz". =:-D>

― Kodanshi, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dr. C = old spice?

Good grief - I haven't heard that joke since 1998.

― Nick, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If we're going to be a girl/boy band, don't we need to save a spot for Aphex Twin?

― Dan Perry, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tom, .

I would be the Seth Green one from Du Jour.

― Graham, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tom, see dave q's post, you meannie.

I would be the Seth Green one from Du Jour.

― Graham, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(I'll get the hang of this eventually)

Tom, see dave q's post.

― Graham, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fuck.

― Graham, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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