Bands linked to Books

[Trufflehound]

oophs forgot to start 1!

Eyeless in Gaza

This prompted my nerdiest ever stalking-fan incident when I cornered EiG singer Martin Bates after his solo slot supporting Felt at the Escape in 1987(?). My ice-breaker was something along the lines of: "So, is your band named after the Aldous Huxley book, or after the line in John Milton's poem 'Samson Agonistes', from which Huxley got his title*?"

Yes, the answer was Huxley by the way.

*"Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves..." (or something like that)

 

[Jahooli]

The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club was in the film The Wild One which (probably?) was based on a book or short story.

 

[CoCoa]

Being anti Roger Dean you aint going to like this list, but hey it's a free world baby and that's all the matters to Kosh!

1= Fuschia (as in Lady Fuschia, Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake)
2= Titus Groan (as above)
3= Beggars Opera (John Gay, it's a play, but published nonetheless!)
4 = Magna Carta (Legal charter, but who cares!)

Four top prog bands, what else!

Kosh

I like Mervyn Peake

Are you Liquid?

 

[CoCoa]

The Fall. Novel by Albert Camus

Killing an Arab is lifted from The Stranger by Camu

 

[Jahooli]

There was a band called Bilbo Baggins - don't know what type of music they played.

 

[Jahooli]

A Taste of Honey most famous for boogie oogie oogie - play by Sheila Delany

 

[El Presidente]

Steely Dan took their name from a dildo in a William Burroughs book

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Depeche Mode...from a French fashion mag

 

[CoCoa]

Tear Drop Explodes - Marvel

 

[Trufflehound]

The Velvet Underground

 

[jakarta]

The Soft Machine - Novel by William Burroughs - well as much of a 'novel' as he was capable of writing.

The band were better than the book by the way....

 

[Jahooli]

Mungo Jerry one of T S Elliot's cats

 

[CoCoa]

helter skelter

beatles song with horrid link to Charles Manson?

 

[We're the Stripes]

Generation X - named after Jane Deverson's 1965 sociology book, a copy of which was owned by Billy Idol's mum

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Moby get's his name from his grandfather's book.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Belle & Sebastian is a children's book. In French.

 

[medicine man]

Soft Machine- Burroughs book

 

[1066familyman]

The Books.

 

[Gordon the Gopher]

Spear of Destiny - Clive barker book I think about some ultimate weapon hitler tried to get hold of. does Kirk brandon still live in Hove?