Names

I often come up with names for things. I just like naming things.

While I was at uni, I was at a club called Yum Yum, and I was day-dreaming about cute sounding club names, and I thought 'Wouldn't Jellybean be a good name for a club', and a year or so later I got it together to organise said club night, complete with Jellybeans on the tables.

I seem to come up with the name first and then the idea comes out of that. A bit of a backwards way of thinking if you ask me.

I always thought Massive Attack's 'Unfinished Sympathy' was a great play on words so I thought of the phrase 'Tea & Symphony'. 'Sounds like the name of a chill-out tent', I thought. Ah... one day.

Here's a list of my names. Steal any and you die!

Club names:
Jellybean
Traffic Jam
Whig-wham
Glisten (name for solar-powered shower and solar-powered sound system)
Tea & Symphony

Band names:
Superman Wallpaper

Boys names:
Otto
Herbie

Girls names:
Penny
Daisy
Ella
Poppy

Dog names:
Wanda
Mooch

Mouse names:
Fay Mouse ('famous')
Danger Mouse ('dangerous')
Fury Mouse ('furious')

And as a bonus, some real-life business names:
The Dogs Frolics - dog walking service
The Eleventh Flower - florist
Fat Boy Trims - Brighton barbers
Pestalozzi - creche
Right hair, right now - Brighton hairdressers

I imagine Tea & Symphony to be a chill-out tent at a festy with lots of flowing white everywhere; maybe some slow moving projections but nothing too hippyish, nothing too trippy and no day-glo paint on black backdrops. Just something quite cool, sparse and tranquil. Serving tea.

This name was inspired by the New Jersey Kings album 'Party At The Bus Stop'. 'What was so special about bus-stops that made people in the seventies want to party at them', I thought. 'Traffic Jam' seemed to sound like a cool place to have a party too. I originally thought it could be a night where different bands could be highlighted, it had that underground feel to it, and the word 'jam' in it.

I based my final uni project on this name. I came up with a set of visuals to be projected in a club which were basically photocopies of seventies graphic design books cut and pasted together and then coloured in with the three colours of traffic lights! Yes, I got my degree in colouring in!

I finally used the name for an ill-fated, regular night at Ali-Cats bar in Brighton where I DJed on Sunday nights when no-one could give a damn about music or DJing, least of all me.