Stage Names

[Mickeyboro]

7 hours ago, wolfninefingers said:

My favourite band member name would Big John Thomas who was in Budgie.

Probably his real name i would gather, being Welsh and all. But who wants to be a Slash or an Edge when you can be called that.

Don’t forget (John) Burke Shelley!

Edited October 6 by Mickeyboro

[Mykesbass]

17 hours ago, super al said:

 

@Mykesbass did you know there was a soul band called Rufus Stone? 

Yes, I did Google the name and found them. Had to be really, as it is such an appropriate name.

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

7 hours ago, wolfninefingers said:

My favourite band member name would Big John Thomas who was in Budgie.

Probably his real name i would gather, being Welsh and all. But who wants to be a Slash or an Edge when you can be called that.

I remember the gig they did at the Lyceum ( heaviest night of the year tour or something like that ) . We did have a chuckle when he was introduced 🙂

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

Myself and guitarist/ teacher were gonna form a band , the hamsters of death . We would have been Ray Bid and Bloa Ted . Life got in the way unfortunately.

Stage names I have considered in the past ; Philip Eno , Wayne Kossoff ( free tribute band?) and Phyllis Glass . They didn’t materialise either 🙂

[Steve Browning]

I saw a poster at a gig for a chap  going under the name Rodge Adultery.

[StickyDBRmf]

We were going through an identity crisis, writing new material and throwing out, and playing the same venue every weekend we started changing the name of the band every week.

By Week 4 we were The Normal Spoons I took it upon myself to rename everyone also.

Guitarist James - Sam Fingerhead

Keyboardist Robert - Guadalupe Machino

Drummer Tom - Fidolfo Cruz

Bassist Marty - Eli Tokyo

It was a local crowd, everyone was in on the joke.

[Thor]

I used to be in a band with a guitarist called Rory Lyons & a drummer name of Luke Warmbathe - my name was dull by comparison so I was known as Willy Stroker🙄

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 22:28 by Thor
Sausage fingers

[King Tut]

My mate plays sax and geetar in a Madness/Specials tribute. The fabulous Grayson White - named himself after a department store!

[LeftyJ]

On 05/10/2025 at 15:37, Roger2611 said:

Chris P Trousers!

 

That reminds me of a keyboardist I once played with who, with a dead serious look on his face, suggested we use the band name "Crusty Seamen" 

[joeystrange]

Yes for two reasons:

1. My name is fairly boring

2. I decided a long time ago that it’s probably not a good idea to have your name on the internet where possible

[dudewheresmybass]

I use Rex Thunderbolt for mine, as my 'normal name' is a bit.. you know.. lol

I am listed with PRS and associated entities as Rex and Chris, to cover each identity.

It has also been handy to deal with some of my natural shyness when on stage, as I feel more able to 'perform' better as Rex, as well as being able to separate my work and personal lives.

I have numbers of people that know me as either, but few as both 

[NancyJohnson]

At our guitarist's suggestion, in an early iteration of Nancy Johnson, we decided to drop our surnames and go with our first and middle names.  From his perspective, Pete James sounded so much more rock'n'roll than Peter Williams.

[SpondonBassed]

On 05/10/2025 at 14:07, Mickeyboro said:

Alvin Stardust once bought me a coffee. Amazingly, that was what appeared on his Mastercard rather than Bernard Jewry…

 

Coo Ca Choo baby.

[SpondonBassed]

My stage name is Bob Gerroff!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited Friday at 11:13 by SpondonBassed

[SpondonBassed]

On 06/10/2025 at 08:11, wolfninefingers said:

My favourite band member name would Big John Thomas who was in Budgie.

 

Somebody please tell me the band was originally called Big John Thomas and the Budgie Smugglers but was shortened so that the name would only take up one line on the label of a 45.

[BigRedX]

All the members of The Terrortones had stage names and we used them from the moment we arrived at venue until we left. Also all our songs were registered with the PRS using our stage names.

 

Mine was Wrex StClair

[dutchwife]

  I wasn’t familiar with the term “Dutchwife” until I moved to Japan 35-odd years ago. Turns out it’s a well known euphemism over here for an inflatable bedtime companion. Found this out the hard way; having had more than a few issues collecting fees from various questionable agencies back then, a long-term resident keyboard player told me that I’d been “f***ed more times than the drummer’s dutchwife”. Not exactly complimentary…

[mcnach]

On 05/10/2025 at 13:54, Lozz196 said:

I’ve just always used Lozz - with records/publishing etc that’s what I’m listed as for credits. 

 

But... what happened to the 195 ones before you?

[Lozz196]

1 hour ago, mcnach said:

 

But... what happened to the 195 ones before you?

They were the prototypes

[2pods]

I was dubbed "Val Hooligan" by our keyboard player cos I had a pair of Icelandic jumpers which I wore to our freezing practice hall

[SpondonBassed]

55 minutes ago, 2pods said:

I was dubbed "Val Hooligan" by our keyboard player cos I had a pair of Icelandic jumpers which I wore to our freezing practice hall

 

@Frank Blank has frequently been jumped upon by Icelandic air hostesses or so we're told...

[Inga]

my stage name is inga

[police squad]

On 05/10/2025 at 12:16, Mykesbass said:

Having inadvertently hijacked an earlier thread, and at @snorkie635's suggestion, has anyone given themselves a stage name? My original post suggested place names were a good source, and, had I been a lot funkier mine would have been Rufus Stone. Once my Americana band gets gigging I'm thinking of going with the local 'beauty spot' Clent Hills.

 

What's yours, and how did you come by it?

I drove past Rufus Stone last week and thought of this thread

[police squad]

double post oops

Edited 2 hours ago by police squad

[SpondonBassed]

We have the Enoch Stone.

 

It is a memorial to a disabled man of that name who was fatally attacked on his way home to Spondon from Derby in 1856.  They call these markers Murder Stones.  They are laid where the tragedies occurred.

 

I haven't used it as a stage name but I was going to write a song about him for a local producer before the deal fell through.  By then I had done some research about the 49 year old framework knitter and musician.  It is an interesting case that was never solved.

 

It would be nice as a respectful nod to a disabled family man who was a musician for someone to adopt it.  Maybe I will one day.  I'd just go by Enoch and my band would be called The Murder Stones.

 

 

The Murder of Enoch Stone.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 55 minutes ago by SpondonBassed