Bands with geographically misleading names

[Fez909]

Freddie Mercury

Bruno Mars

 

[Fez909]

Fleetwood Mac

 

[Fez909]

Eric Clapton is only 30 miles out

 

[belboid]

Julie London

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan (he's from Wigan)

 

[SpookyFrank]

John Denver was actually born in Roswell, New Mexico

 

[High Voltage]

The Zutons can't be from Zuton as there isn't a planet Zuton. Sounds like a made up name to me

 

[SpookyFrank]

The Zutons can't be from Zuton as there isn't a planet Zuton.

If they were, they'd be The Zutonians surely?

 

[High Voltage]

If they were, they'd be The Zutonians surely?

Fair point, well made

Barely six thirty in the a. m. And this day is already going down the shitter

 

[kabbes]

Nirvana

 

[bluescreen]

Arctic Monkeys

And never given them a thought for a hundred years and never liked them even then: Bay City Rollers.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Mica Paris

 

[Steel Icarus]

The Venus Beads

 

[tim]

Yeah, he was from Venus.

He was from Bedfont, actually, like my granddad. His mum used to work in Marks & Spencer in Hounslow.

 

[mojo pixy]

Foreigner? Who the fuck are they when they're at home?

And of course St.Etienne

 

[starfish]

Aztec Camera.
China Crisis.
Big Country. Scotlands not really that big in the grand scheme of things.

 

[danny la rouge]

He's actually from Mull.

I always thought he was from Oban. Prompted by your post I checked his wiki and find I have been interviewed by his Dad, which again I hadn’t put together.

 

[danny la rouge]

Bruno Mars

Sun Ra.

 

[Maggot]

Just looked up London Boys. Turns out they were from Germany but were based in London. Was shocked to discover that they both died in an horrific car accident in the Austrian Alps in 1996.

Their music was awful mind.

 

[mojo pixy]

I'm tempted to add Spacemen 3, but as J pointed out later on, 'we are floating in space'

On the other hand, Hell, Richard Hell, Gehenna, Pandemonium and .. Underworld

 

[MBV]

Sandwell District​

 

[Idris2002]

Japan

Asia

The Indians (old Irish showband from my dad's time)

 

[hitmouse]

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan (he's from Wigan)

I feel like that's another only half misleading one, it's not the same level of stolen valour/appropriation as something like Black Country, New Road being from Cambridgeshire.

 

[Plumdaff]

Death in Vegas. Not even a minor injury in Nevada.

 

[A380]

Foreigner? Who the fuck are they when they're at home?

…

Yeah, coming over here wanting to know what love is. Bloody Foreigner.

 

[MickiQ]

Asia (from London)

Buffalo Springfield (Los Angeles)

China Crisis (Merseyside)

Little Texas (as opposed to Texas, come from Tennessee)

The Beautiful South (Hull)

America (does include Yanks but was formed in London)

The Irish Descendants (the name is accurate in that they are all of Irish emigre descent but they come from Canada)

Lonestar (named for Texas but also from Tennessee)

 

[hash tag]

Rammstein

 

[krtek a houby]

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

 

[DotCommunist]

The National. Narrow it down for me son, theres a lot of nations states.

 

[belboid]

The Beverley Sisters.

Fucking Londoners, not from the East Riding at all.

 

[maomao]

Heaven 17