Northern post punk and the name Ian

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How come there were so many post punk bands with members called Ian?

― ridicule is nothing to be scared of, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

What, in the north, you mean?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

jethro tull were northern?

― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

So many? You mean two?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

I personally thought Janis Ian's work with Joy Division was among her best. Shame about that shabby tell-all book by that whiny wife of hers, though... Sheesh, honey, tell it to the Daily Mail.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

"Isolation at 17"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley actually weren't a post-punk electro duo

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

what about the stuff they did with Steve Strange?

― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

They gave Chrissie Hynde her first big break in music

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

Ian Brown is a monkey. Or a king. Not a postpunk.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley actually weren't a post-punk electro duo

... but in many ways a template for the Eurythmics: hard-faced bottle blonde paired with unsettling weirdo you'd cross the street to avoid

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

No, that's Rod Hull and Emu.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

paired with unsettling weirdo you'd cross the street to avoid

I'd cross the country to avoid ever hearing Dave Stewart and the Spiritual Cowboys again.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

I can't actually think of that many Ians: Curtis, McCullough... Broudie? McNabb?

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Marsh (Human League guy), Burden (later Human League guy)

Actually, there are quite a few of them

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

love removal machine!

― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you'd think it was the North Briton equivalent of "John" or something...

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

... but it isn't, is it?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Was Emu's first name Ian? In a kind of Preston->Sam, Morrissey->Stephen...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yes - yes, it was.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

Could be, lots of Scots settlers in New Zealand - Ian McEmu is a possibility

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

... Scots ancestry might help explain the bad temper and attitude problem

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Personally, I could never understand why he didn't ditch that Rod bloke and launch a solo career.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

I hear he's working the cruise ships now. On the bottle most of the time. Sad story.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

"He'll wrap around you, he'll wish he could..."

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

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