A long time ago (almost two years -- where has the time gone?) I was thinking about starting a webzine. Things being as they are, I couldn't be arsed. But, I did find an article for the first edition floating around my hard drive recently. It's an idea borrowed from one friend, and contributed to by several other friends: band names formed by taking the name of two (or more) bands and sticking them together. Perhaps the inspiration for this was from Quoasis, a short lived band that did cover versions of Oasis songs in the style of Status Quo (see also Dredd Zeppelin, a band which did reggae cover versions of Led Zep songs. Sung by an Elvis impersonator). So, here is our list of bands formed from other bands (fuxake, I feel like Clive Anderson introducing a game on Whose Line...).

Three Colours Simply Red
Al Green Day
The Vervana
Helen Love City Groove
U2Unlimited
Jackson Five Star
Shed S-Club Heaven Seventeen
Fatboy Domino
Curiousity killed the Catatonia
Everything but the girl thing
Rage against the Machinehead
Blondie, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch
Pink Floyd
Future sound of london beat
Tom Tom Lehrer
Madonna Summer
Radio Portishead
Burning Britney Spears
The Will Smiths
Captain Beef Heart
My Drugstorey
The Alarm Clock
The Other 2Unlimited
The Julianna Hatfield Three Johns
The Bobby Fuller Four Tops
The Dave Clark 5ive
Eurosmith
Hawkwind and Fire
Spear of Destiny's Child
The Joe Dolci Music Theatre of Hate
Peter, Paul and the Test Tube Babies
Hatfield and the Northside
Blodwyn Pigbag
Hot Chocolate Watch Band
The Pete Best Band of Susans
Blink 182 Lockdown
Little Richard Clayderman
Jerry Lee Lewis and the News
Miranda Soundgarden
The Grateful Dead Kennedys
Lonnie Donovan
Another Level 42
Brother Beyond and the Holding Company
Climie Fish
Kinks of Convenience
They Might Be Giant Sand
Five Guys Named Gerald (more of a Broadway show, that one)
Traffic Jam
Camper Van Morrison
Run TLC
10CC Peniston
Erasurehead
Gorky's Zygotic Monkees
The Talking Cure (...Talking Heads and the Cure, obviously)
Einstuerzende Neu! (and for that matter...)
Garbage Can
Stereophonic Youth
Frankie Goes To Portishead
A Tribe Called Westlife

I also have a plan for a tribute band to Strawberry Switchblade and the
Magnetic Fields, called (naturally): Magnetic Switchblade.

And my personal favourite, Half Man Half Limp Bizkit

Coming soon (if I remember) the Warwick University Slogan Competition.