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…
we’re another such phenomenon, Inspiring ipswich is the parsley tiger, beloved pet of lead singer jay. Cajun player james, also known as the dirty drum, adopted the name and embellished it to create Twitter feed@TIGER_PAUSE
Check us out here .facebook.com/pages/Tiger-Pause/203952872965406