Bands with geographically misleading names

[Dystopiary]

Utah Saints

 

[krtek a houby]

By Alphaville who weren't. Nor did they live in a gated community in Sao Paolo, so just massive liars all round.

Actually thinking of the Liverpool band, but, sure, can go with that.

 

[WouldBe]

Didn’t they actually live above a pet shop when they met?

No idea but not in a pet shop.

 

[planetgeli]

Detroit Emeralds.

From Little Rock, Arkansas

 

[Sweet FA]

Actually thinking of the Liverpool band, but, sure, can go with that.

Oh yeh, good shout - BiJ basically the next gen or 2 of scouse popsters.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

The Portugal Japan.
The Portugal bit is a bit misleading.

 

[surreybrowncap]

Monaco

 

[hitmouse]

Dresden Dolls

 

[surreybrowncap]

Leningrad Cowboys

 

[Elpenor]

Boston Manor are actually from Blackpool which isn't even on the Piccadilly Line

Wasn’t Blackpool on a now-closed branch of the Metropolitan line?

 

[andysays]

Sun Ra.

Yeah, everyone knows he was really from Saturn...

And @[62] got there ahead of me

 

[Dystopiary]

Southern Death Cult were from the North of England.

 

[hash tag]

Whitechapel are not even British, they are American.

 

[maomao]

There was an American early funk metal band called Kings X which I only worked out about thirty years after I was into them was probably meant to be pronounced kings cross.

 

[hitmouse]

Whitechapel are not even British, they are American.

But Whitehouse are British. You couldn't make it up.

 

[JimW]

....

Were Easterhouse from there? Seem to recall they were from another part of Glasgow.

Loved that album. Have a vague recall the brothers were Mancs of Scottish extraction?

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Loved that album. Have a vague recall the brothers were Mancs of Scottish extraction?

Probably should have googled myself, but you're right.

 

[Sweet FA]

There was an American early funk metal band called Kings X which I only worked out about thirty years after I was into them was probably meant to be pronounced kings cross.

No you're OK: "The first cheer of the night came when the PA announcer explained he had asked the band how to pronounce their name. “It’s Kings Ex, rather than Kings Cross” he explained to a British crowd who were more familiar with the train station."

(I knew them as Kings Ex and never thought it could be Kings Cross for some reason - tho I see Kings 10 was also mooted.)

 

[stavros]

Venetian Snares

He's in fact from Winnipeg.

 

[Elpenor]

Turin Brakes

 

[WouldBe]

Rainbow

 

[Bus Honeygun]

More of a query really.

A mate put some stuff on a mix tape years ago from somebody(s) called Hainault. Sort of quirky electro/techno with catchy tunes. Can't find any trace of them now, so no idea if they were actually from Hainault or not.

Anyone remember them?

 

[DaveCinzano]

I don't think queen's of the stone age came from the stone age.

But they we're born in a greengrocers

 

[Mattym]

Sandwell District​

Also Kerrier District- I once wore a KD T-shirt to a friend's party and one of the guests started asking me what it was like to work for the local Cornish government, which just made me burst into uncontrollable laughter, especially when I tried to explain to her what it actually is. Given Vibert's background, it's probably a geographically accurate bandname, but I just like to tell the story.

 

[hitmouse]

Venetian Snares

He's in fact from Winnipeg.

I hear it's a bit of a frozen shithole.

 

[Raheem]

Heaven 17
Bruno Mars

 

[mojo pixy]

Nile, from elsewhere
Mekong Delta, from elsewhere
Dimmu Borgir, from elsewhere
Sodom, from elsewhere

and Cirith Ungol and Amon Amarth can just piss off back there really

 

[Yossarian]

Future Sound of London - from Manchester (not Papua New Guinea)

 

[hitmouse]

In Numbers 13, Moses sends spies to the land of Canaan and they report seeing the Nephilim there. But Fields of the Nephilim were from Stevenage, which is fucking ages away from absolutely anywhere that's mentioned in the bible.

 

[WouldBe]

In Numbers 13, Moses sends spies to the land of Canaan and they report seeing the Nephilim there. But Fields of the Nephilim were from Stevenage, which is fucking ages away from absolutely anywhere that's mentioned in the bible.

Might have seen them there on a very early tour.