Band name!

So here as a group we discuss our finished band name, album title and track list.

Band name and Album title. (& our inspiration)

After a quick wiz on Microsoft Word we created the aesthetics of our Band name and album title. 

We've taken direct inspiration from the Kodaline themselves, I love the memorial trademark they leave on all of their vevo published music videos. Within the the opening shots they include their trademark band name, and underneath the title of the single being played. As a group we issued to adopt this technique as it would provide our music video with a professional embellishment as well as just being an aesthetically pleasing way of promoting our bands name.

'Pretty Gaelic words'

From noting down our inspirations Names and Band Titles we all agreed on using a translated word/ phrase. Using a word of foreign origin would create a unique and interesting ambience to our band.

Examples being MØ, who used her Danish origin initials as her stage name, and Bon Iver which directly translate to 'Good winter.'

As Kodaline is an Irish band, we felt using a Gaelic phrase/word would suit the track and our bands atmosphere.

After researching on Google we came across a website which gave 'Irelands 50 prettiest words.'

http://www.smartling.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Smartling_eBook_The50MostBeautifulWordsInTheIrishLanguage.pdf

After searching through all 50 we found a striking winner. 

Ceol, pronounced 'Ky-ol' with a direct translation into 'Music' and 'song' however with a much deeper meaning of 'the rhythm within us.' 

Bam. 

Band name and Album title material in one.  

Name inspiration

Currently the group is continuing to brainstorm some names, we did a task of collecting similar bands to our genre and noting down their Band names and Album Titles. From doing this we noted how we found translated words worked well, e.g. Bon Iver and MØ. 

Band names:

The 1975
Bon Iver (French translation of 'good winter')
The Neighbourhood
Amber Run
MØ (Icelandic translation)

Album Titles:
That's The Spirit (Bring Me The Horizon)
+ (Ed Sheeran)
Chaos And the Calm (James Bay)
Songs About Jane (Maroon 5)
Wilder Mind (Mumford and Sons)

Name Generator

In order to start naming our band, album and track list we played a 'name generator' game in order to give us some examples. In order to play we would each write down a noun, adjective or a verb, fold the paper over and then pass it on to another group member, the results were interesting...


1) The Fat Kitten Hits the Cow's Udder's Pie
2) The Lazy Eyebrow Twirls the Scrumptious Tree

3) The Destructive Ferret Suckles the Blue Bells

It's safe to say none of the sentences above will be the name of our band, however I found it a useful task as we were able to select specific phrases we liked, such as 'Destructive Ferret' and 'Blue Bells.' 

Many well known indie bands specialise in adopting strange and unique names, some being 'Arctic Monkeys', 'Cage the Elephant' and 'Vampire Weekend.'