Last night during NowPlaying@6Music the fine blogger and friend of our show Andy Von Pip tweeted: “I saw Three Trapped Tigers live last week. I thought I was seeing Tigers That Talked & as such I was incredibly confused”. The band Tigers That Talked themselves weren’t surprised: “Haha” they tweeted back “we’ve had a silent name battle with them for ages. Never spoken to them about it though, wonder if they’re annoyed by it too?”.

Actually looking back at our playlists from BBC Introducing: Fresh On The Net over the past three and a half years, it seems there’s more scope for tiger-based confusion among band names than you might at first imagine. In chronological order of airplay we’ve heard:

EATEN BY TIGERS
http://www.myspace.com/eatenbytigers

TEN TIGERS
http://www.myspace.com/tentigers

TIGERSTYLE
http://www.tigerstyleonline.co.uk

PAPER TIGER
http://www.origamisounds.com

BURN PAPER TIGERS
http://www.myspace.com/burnpapertigers

THREE TRAPPED TIGERS
http://www.myspace.com/threetrappedtigers

TIGER SHADOW
http://www.myspace.com/jazzbongo

TIGERS THAT TALKED
http://www.myspace.com/tigersthattalked

MY TIGER, MY TIMING
http://www.myspace.com/mytigermytiming

TIGER PLEASE
http://www.myspace.com/tigerplease

WE CAME OUT LIKE TIGERS
http://www.myspace.com/wecameoutliketigers

TRUE TIGER feat P MONEY
http://www.myspace.com/truetigerrecordings

And there’s even Sean Lennon’s latest incarnation as a member of:
THE GHOST OF A SABER TOOTH TIGER
http://www.myspace.com/ghostofasabertoothtiger

What’s with all these tiger-named bands and artists ? Can you think of any others – apart from perhaps the Tygers Of Pan Tang? And what, I wonder, are the other words and names most overused by musicians when thinking up monikers for their latest projects? Answers – not on a postcard please – but by tweeting me @freshnet or posting a comment on the NowPlaying blog…