Unusual Kiwi Band Names

[Birchville Cat Motel]

Unusual & just plain strange band names litter rock music, and New Zealand is no different, producing over the decades its fair share of weird & wonderful monikers.

But before I start, it’s appropriate to give mention to group names,that simply ooze New Zealand.

One quick look at these band name’s, almost has you involuntarily humming a bar from ‘Counting the Beat’.

QUINTISENTIAL KIWI BAND NAMES……

Bulldogs Allstar Goodtime Band
Daggy & The Dickheads
Dusty Spittle & The Mountaineers
Hogsnort Ruperts Original Flagon Band
Johnny Velox & The Vauxhalls
Naughty Pakehas
Moana & The Moa Hunters
Op-Shop
Pakakura Post Office
Pioneer Pog ‘n’ Scroggin Bush Band
Ripper Bunch of Blokes
Upper Hutt Posse
T.A.B
Wheetbix Boys

Leading on from this it’s also necessary to create a separate (unkempt) ‘pigeon hole’ for those wondrous bands who have a ‘message’ in their name.

That message is: f*ck-you.

DAD THIS IS MY NEW BOYFRIEND, HE’S IN A BAND CALLED…..

Chainsaw Masochist
C.U.N.T
Dr Kevorkian and The Suicide Machine

The Fucking Am
Glory Fckn Sun
Let’s Get Naked
Love in a Gas Oven
Mothertrucker

Phallus
Proud Scum
Satan’s Pitbull
Scuzzbuckets
Shit All To Hell
Starlight Faggot Feast

The Mind Fuckers
Thee Strapons

Now you can see I’m painting a bit of a picture here and you’re getting the gist of where this is leading.

That’s the different, the strange.

The distinctive New Zealand band names that in most cases, outlived the respective bands musical output.

UNUSUAL NEW ZEALAND BAND NAMES

Birchville Cat Motel
Bressa Creeting Cake
Claires Unnatural Twin
Dillengers Brain
Dappled Cities Fly
Drugs vs. Grandchildren
Eight Living Legs
Fatal Jelly Space
Feast of Frogs
Flies Inside The Sun
Hi Revving Tongues
Life in The Fridge Exists
Lord Foultleroy the 4th & The Prohibition
Mainly Spaniards
My Deviant Daughter
Naked Spots Dance
Out of The Compost
Say Yes to Apes

SMACC Riflemen
Soluble Fish Ensemble
Soggy Porridge
Stark Naked & The Car Thieves
Sven Olsen’s Brutal Canadians Love Saga
Surplus Sons of a Factory Nation
Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Speakers
The Wide Mouthed Frogs

HONOURABLE MENTION (NO I DIDN’T MISS THESE)

Ballon D’Essai
All Fall Down
Bang! Bang! Eche!
Dog Tooth Violet
Exploding Budgies
Flaming Weirpigs
Future Stupid
Garbage and The Flowers
Hallelujah Picassos
Handful Of Dust
Jean Paul Sartre Experience
Look Blue Go Purple
Not Really Anything
Loves Ugly Children
Neoteric Tribesmen
Nocturnal Projections
Penknife Glides
Pop Art Toasters
Queen Meanie Puss
Sandoz Lab Technicians
School Of Meat
Semi Lemon Kola
Six Impossible Things
Squid Christmas
They Were Expendable
This Will Kill That

Now I can hear your howls of derision that I’ve forgotten ‘X’ (insert name of band)

Well if that’s the case shoot me a bloody e.mail or forever hold ya peace!

The criteria is simple: they must have been recorded.

Cheers.

Paul

Don't You Hate Other Peoples Top Tens?

['Die! Die! Die!']

Hello listeners,

I will forgo any verbose preamble, and in the tried & true Kiwi fashion, akin to a sledgehammer - get right into it!

Over the past five weeks over 500 songs have gone out over the net to a worldwide audience.

And when I say worldwide, I’m talking about regular listeners from Spain to Argentina.

So what it's worth, here's moi’s Top Ten Kiwi songs as broadcast on Pure N.Z Alt Radio.

In no particular order:

Subliminals - ‘Radience’
Trash – ‘Telecom South’
Drone – ‘Farmer’
Double Happys – ‘Needles & Plastic’
The Mint Chicks – ‘Ockhams Razor’
Olla – ‘Olla Putrido’
Thought Creature – ‘Your Telepathy’
Straitjacket Fits – ‘Dailing a Prayer’
Skeptics – ‘Sensible Shoes’
Beat Rhythm Fashion - ‘Art & Duty’

To further this unabrashed exercise in self-indulgence (no not that sort of self indulgence, but there are similarities I have to admit) I'm going to be playing MY 'Top Ten' in amongst the 11 hours of new programming on MY station.

So there!

Suffer little children.

Listen-out for the new stuff from......

The Spoutts
Batrider
The L.e.d.s
Shocking Pinks

And re-cycled stuff from the vaults by.......

Ape Management
King Loser
Loves Ugly Children
Sferic Experiment
The Terminals
Solid Gold Hell

Where do I stop?

Listen-up!