Ticket Giveaway: Belle & Sebastian @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
Belle & Sebastian are making their triumphant return to the States with a North American tour that will be stopping through the DC area at the Merriweather Post Pavilion on Friday, July 12th. We have a pair of tickets to give away before they go on sale to the public. What do you have to do to win?
Did you know Belle & Sebastian’s name comes from a children’s book (“Belle et Sébastien”)? We want you to pick out something from your childhood — a book, movie, toy, anything — that could double as a band name. You can touch it up a little if necessary. We’ll pick a winner by 10AM this Friday, February 22nd. Have at it!
STREAM: Belle & Sebastian – “Crash (The Primitives Cover)”
- Posted by ATG
- 34 Comments
The Berenstain Bears would be a great band name, given today’s obsession with having the word “bear” in the name of your band.
CBC show Mr. Dressup. He had a trunk filled with outrageous costumes called the Tickle Trunk.
I’d call the band Mr. Dressup and His Tickle Trunk.
Clown Attack
The Snowy Day.
It might not be the best band name ever, but Ezra Jack Keats was one of my favorite authors as a child and this was my favorite book.
I think “Fraggle Rock” would be a pretty good band name
Teddy Ruxpin! But maybe I’d change it to Teddy ROCKSpin. Or maybe not.
“My Cat Flossy”. Or I have about a million ideas inspired by Eloise, including but not limited to: “Eloise & The Tippy-Tops” and “Weenie & Skipperdee”
Talkboy/Talkgirl would make a great band name.
Thank you kevin macallister! Hours of fun, with just a click of a button. speed up or slow down your voice. record anything and everything. this was one of my personal favorites! “merry christmas ya filthy animal”
A Wrinkle In Time
Wilgy Bear
Verbot
Flight of the Navigator
The Westing Game
Sebastian the Crabcore
The Boxcar Children
I would go with one of the many Legend of Zelda games I played.(Wind Waker? Majora’s Mask?) The rich characters and characters are as evocative and colorful as many B&S songs too.
Baggy Pants and the Nitwits.
Charlotte Saves Wilbur
petersusanedmundlucy
My favorite book gtowing up was The Finches Fabulous Furnace, which could double as the name for a Fiery Furnaces cover band.
Bunnicula.
I always thought Monsieur Thibault would be a good band name.
mr. moose & the ping-pong balls! or the great space coaster. either sounds like some undiscovered indie band, no?
My mom use to mix up Sega and Nintendo all the time and just call all or video games Sego…. My sister always tell my nieces and nephews to ray off Faceyspace (Facebook/MySpace ) I think both are doable lol
Flower’s Kiss! It’s the name of a Japanese candy that my parents used to get for me and my sister.
“Dinkey Bird,” in reference to a dreamy children’s poem by Eugene Field, illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Field’s poetry epitomizes idyllic childhood.
Silverstein
Timon & Pumbaa ( the precursor to Tegan & Sara )
Carmen Sandiego and the Gumshoe Detectives
You Can’t Do That on the Radio
from Nickelodeon’s You Can’t Do That on Television
OR
The Mr. Wizards
Neville Rockbottom, vis a vis Krist Novoselic at Reading Festival 1991: see http://www.last.fm/music/Krist+Novoselic/+images/49061523
I’ve always thought Babar would be a sick band name.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156200/
Treasure Trolls
The Velveteen Rabbits strikes me as a good name. Or, possibly, The Story Girl, which was the name of a L.M. Montgomery book I loved as a kid.
20-Sided Die, as popularized by D&D.