Out of probably hundreds of great shows we could have gone to last night, we chose . . . to stay home. The last week of the month is like that. Very sorry to miss Shelby Earl at the Columbia City Theatre and hope to catch her next time around. (Your Mother Should Know included this tribute to Shelby on our new album, Rocks and Glass.)
I probably won't make it to any of these bands' shows, either, but that doesn't mean I can't celebrate their names:
Boom City
So many reasons to love this as a specifically Seattle band name: our history with supersonic jets; that long-lived fireworks stand; our growing reputation as the capital of LOUD. Appropriately, they are playing tomorrow, Super Bowl Sunday, and will, we hope, be celebrating the actions of our beloved Legion of Boom.
Cat Bomb
Always happy to celebrate a cat-related name. Rather than cats carrying explosives, I prefer of think of this as a stealth weapon that goes off and suddenly everybody everywhere has a cat on their lap and cat rock in their earbuds.
Pig Snout
Always happy to give a shout-out from one pig to another! Pig things make me happy, and there's something arresting about putting the spotlight on just one part, as in the folk song, "The Sow Took the Measles" (as performed by Train Case). Then I find out this band is young kids, and the little sister is the drummer!!! And she sings, too. It's like Your Mother Should Know if we'd started several decades earlier.
Radioactive Vomit
This seems really metal; or maybe, as my resident science adviser put it, it's what happens when you eat too many bananas, which are apparently mildly radioactive due to potassium ions. Learn something new every day.
Splatinum
I love the combination of a sloppy sound effect with a precious metal, achieved with the addition of only one letter.
My fiction and blogging projects collide in "St. Rage," now available as the 13th release in the Pankhearst Singles Club.
This story of an all-girl teenage garage band with superpowers is
short, it's funny, and it's only $ .99. If you like "St. Rage," please
like St. Rage on Facebook and go listen to their first demo, "Huge Guy in the Mosh Pit."
Naming a band is an act of concentrated creative expression. Square Pig in a Round Hole exists to reward five favorite band names each week. Winners are listed alphabetically. Selection is wholly unscientific and subject to whim, with a bias toward wordplay, humor, and local flavor. In most cases, I won't know anything about the bands at the time of selection. Thanks to the Seattle Times club listings for abundant source material!
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