I was also 15. We spelt it wrong because we were cool.

were as Captain75.

Then later I went for One Sick Puppy.

Then I started using my own name. Then my first (and only) actual band is called Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences.

we had one song, called ice cream headache.

i have had so many bad bands with fucking shit names over the last year (14-16)
take your pick:
just bully people, yeah!
the like minded patriots
i shagged heratio nelson
dr seuss and the pom bears
spoilt victorian children

is the least embarrassing one i can remember.
mostly classic rock sort of stuff with a singer like meatloaf, only we were all only about 16.

yeaaaah!

we were fucking ace. we had matt cargill and someone who ended up in catsandcatsandcats.

we went on to become Big in Germany (it was our name)

HAHAHAHA. What a crock of shit.

On our first gig at a school battle of the bands we covered Mogwai's Xmas Steps.

I was 13 and we all liked rage against the machine. A lot.

i didn't realise a band already existed with that name (some 70s punk group from Manchester)

My second band was called Bad Beat Disco. I still think this name is pretty good.

I think we're on download.com somewhere still. Red Hot Chilli Peppers/RATM inspired rap rock didn't go down too well in rural Northumberland..

first gig MK band blitz round one, then second was second place in the final! (the competition cant have been up to much i guess) crikey that was time ago

We had some great songs:
- Champagne Socialist
- Heroin for the Masses
- How Children Fail

Angsty? Us? Never...

Postrock/emocore heroes who practised exactly three times. Singer, guitar/viola, piano, cello, drums. Classic.

Get in.

The other three all had/have huge egos and they kicked me out.

The name somehow related to I Am Kloot, don't remember how. Strange, since I never cared a jot for I Am Kloot.

www.myspace.com/theidentikit

we fucking ruled. one time this girl came to our gig and i'd tried to get off with her at a party and i made her a mixtape but she didnt make me a Funeral For A Friend cdr like she said she would, so i changed all the lyrics to one of our songs to be about her.

about fifteen years ago. We did a pretty not bad version of Sonic Youth's Dirty Boots and that was about it.

actually that's a lie, it was just a joke side project to our actual band, but i wanted to get that one out there as explanation for my username

formed during my sixth year at high school. we thought we sounded like mclusky, but we actually sounded like a bag of shit warmed up. we played one drunken gig at a girl's birthday party in her back garden. she was hoping for something like maroon 5 and started crying. then we split up over creative differences (wanting to sound shit vs. not wanting to sound shit).

i still might use that name for a future band.

later called 'Walk Walk Walk Walk Run'

and it was before we are scientists were 'on the scene' i'll have you know! although it only consisted of me and a mate spewing out post punk tomfoolery over a drum machine in his room. it seemed so fun at the time though.

and me and some other friends were going to make a band called six dead babies found in a caravan too, when we were idiotic 15 year olds

i miss being in a band. :(

we have the myspace url, which the other, more successful big sleep now want. we're not giving it up though, mainly because we're cunts and we got there first. and because every time i see their name a little part of my hearts leaps at the thought that my old band are being reviewed by Pitchfork or some shit.

and ZOMGZ we're listed as a band on DiS and our rating is 4/5! and we got reviewed! ZOMGZ!

www.myspace.com/thebigsleep

a name decided upon by our metaller frontman who'd developed an interest in Buddhist teachings!

We suffered from a serious identity crisis doing covers of Faith No More and RATM but also my own self penned emo numbers which were pretty cringeworthy. Fun times though, I have no regrets!

As in Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was for my Metalcore band. It'd been something I'd wanted to use since reading The Crucible at school when I was 16 and thought I knew about politics and was some sort of pseudo-socialist. I saw what I felt were parallels between McCarthyism and the world as it was then. Two years later I got the chance.

I intend to use it again.

it wasn't really a band.

my first actual gigging band was called rabid dog. it's a super furry animals b side. we sounded like a bad sfa.

i was about six. i played "drums", i.e. all the cushions i could find arranged in a circle.

Although, technically, we weren't really a band. We just got together to take the piss out of all the ridiculously pious 14 year olds forming metal bands seemingly at the same time, singing songs about bricks and gravy, and using coffee tins as drums.

were "The Quatermass Experiment" but when I was about 15 me and 2 other members of TQE wrote and recorded some truly shocking stuff, but I don't recall the name.

Edit: I have a sinking feeling it was "1000 Words For Nothing"

Two boys, one guitar, a programmable keyboard, flower pots for drums and songs about Elton John and Brian Deane. I still have the demo tapes. They're fucking incredible.

because my bandmates refused to let me call us This Is From Matilda. We were 14/15, and a name like that would have made us MASSIVE when emo hit the big time. Maybe.

i was against this name. i was right.

but i forget which one.

We were shit and i got kicked out because i wouldnt go out with the drummer

We had a great name:

GIRTH

We elongated the 'H' for the logo too, awesome times!

haha! i was 16.. or 17. we had two practices.

after the larkin book.

Then everyone else disagreed and made us change it to Converse after the trainers.

We had a song with lyrics derived from the scratchings on the run-out of a Lush 7". It was called 'Lick Me I'm A Chocolate Frog' and thinking about it makes me want to die.

THEN PROJEKT 27
THEN THE FRACAS......
THEN FISH CLOCK.

BIG UP THE TIME SHARK MASSIVE

We had a song about the teachers at school, including a verse about a PE teacher who had a hole in his heart, 'and now he's nearly dead'. And another about the music teacher who had a nervous breakdown.

Looking back, when we played at the school talent contest it probably wasn't the most sensitive song we could've played. But we were 15 and punk, man.

From the age of 16-20. How we lasted that long I don't know.

The Wooley Hats
I believe it was 1995.

a fictional Thrash Metal band called We Eat Babies. We were so rock and roll, we didnt even actually exist.

My first actual band was called the Camp Seagull Crusade - it was a great name if you went to my school, but otherwise... hmm...

We formed for a one off gig three weeks before a school "talent" show, I'd been playing bass for about a fortnight before that. We wrote an entire set of material in those three weeks, one of which inexplicably featured a sax solo that became the riff from