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A band

A Band, a musical improvisation group, originally from Nottingham, England



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1000 Clowns

Kevi had rented the 1960s film, A Thousand Clowns, and it occurred to him that would be the perfect name for a band.

A Band Called Quinn

A Band Called Quinn appear on the soundtrack to films by Penny Woolcock, David MacKenzie and Ricardo de Montreuil.

A Band Called Quinn played The Refract Festival in Serbia in 2005 after their song The World Is Upside Down was played on Serbian radio station B92 by Slobodan Konjovic and went to number eight in the Serbian Diskomer Chart.

Back to School Mr. Bean

During his time at the open day he confuses a band of Army Cadets by coughing and causing them to respond by standing in unusual ceremonial stances, gets in other people's way, messes up a stamp album, distracts and frightens a calligrapher, and gets paper stuck to his body after using a Van de Graaff generator.

Barbara Morgenstern

In addition to having played in a band, she decided on a career in music in 1991 after completing her schooling at the Ernst Meister Gymnasium in Hagen-Haspe.

Bill Milbrodt

Bill Milbrodt is a composer and creator of the "Car Music Project", a band that plays music on instruments made from car parts.

Bitches Ain't Shit

Dr. Dre's verse reminisces about his former N.W.A band-mate Eazy-E (under his real name of "Eric Wright") and his manager Jerry Heller.

Bonnie Simmons

Audio director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, she is also a band manager, currently managing or having managed in the past Cake, Noe Venable and Etienne de Rocher.

Christian Wargo

Before joining Crystal Skulls in 2004, Wargo was in a band called Scientific, he released the album From the Nest of Idea in 2002 with the record label Burnt Toast Vinyl.

Direktori

During the spring of 1989, vocalist Nebojša Drakula, with the former Varšavski Geto member Miroslav Pilipović "Trta" on guitar, former Pogrebni Zavod member Srđan Marić on bass guitar and former Hogari member Dragan "Rale" Rašković on drums, formed a band performing cover versions of oi! punk acts such as Sham 69, Cockney Rejects and Skrewdriver.

Eric Patrick

Originally from Port Arthur, Texas, he played in a band throughout the southern United States before he studied art and film at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Fabio Pignatelli

Because of Pignatelli's operation of a band with the name, they were credited as Simonetti-Pignatelli-Morante for the film, Tenebrae, because the other band members (most importantly, Maurizio Guarini and Carlo Pennisi), most of whom had not worked with Simonetti or Morante, were not involved.

Fell in Love with a Band

Fell in love with a Band by Chris Handyside is a comprehensive biography about Jack White and Meg White, otherwise known as The White Stripes.

Halleck Tustenuggee

Halleck, with a band of seventy warriors, was finally defeated by Federal troops on April 19, 1842, near the settlement of Peliklakaha Hammock (in today's Lake County, Florida), the last battle of the Second Seminole War in Florida.

Harold Arlen

Between 1926 and about 1934, Arlen appeared occasionally as a band vocalist on records by The Buffalodians, Red Nichols, Joe Venuti, Leo Reisman and Eddie Duchin, usually singing his own compositions.

HotChaCha

HotChaCha formed in 2007 when Jovana Batkovic and Mandy Aramouni decided to start a band over coffee at the West Side Market, and later enlisted Lisa Paulovcin to play drums.

It's Never Too Late for Now

At TGS, Frank Rossitano (Judah Friedlander) discovers that Pete Hornberger (Scott Adsit) used to be in Loverboy, so the pair form a band and write a song entitled "It's Never Too Late for Now", but arguments soon erupt between them, particularly when Frank's girlfriend Yuki (an obvious Yoko Ono parallel) becomes involved.

It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown

In the second mall scene, Peppermint Patty, Marcie and Snoopy dance to a band quartet music box including an angel, a triplet band, and a spinning duck carousel, all which play Johann Sebastian Bach's "Menuet from the Anna Magdalena Notebook (BWV Anh. 116.)."

Jack in the green

On holiday in Tuscany he saw a band of local musicians gather with traditional Tuscan instruments in a small village square.

Jon Kessler

He also plays guitar for the X-Patsys, a band he started with artist Robert Longo and actress Barbara Sukowa.

Kacy Crowley

With her life back together, she started a band, Tragic Sam, and produced a few sessions with Billy Rush, the former guitarist for Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes.

Kieran Hanrahan

This Is My Father (Film soundtrack) (1998): In addition to performing on the soundtrack for this film, Hanrahan also appears onscreen as a band leader.

Le Pig-Al Patrol

The Inspector tries to stop a band of motorcyclists led by "Pig Al" from disturbing the peace.

Leon Rausch

Rausch made a memorable appearance as a band singer in the 1998 Stephen Frears film The Hi-Lo Country, in a scene featuring one of the film's highlights — Don Walser's rendition of "I'll Hold You in My Heart."

Linden, California

Pavement, a band hailing from nearby Stockton, immortalizes the town in "Feed 'Em To The (Linden) Lions," song three on their 1992 EP, Watery, Domestic.

Manyc Records

Igor Hansen-Love, the bass player in Milt Opus, was an early mentor to Nikolai Fraiture, who, together with Julian Casablancas, also attended the LFNY, and formed a band called The Strokes in 1998, shortly after Milt Opus played its first gig at The Spiral, an East Houston Street music venue in New York City.

Mats/Morgan Band

Mats/Morgan Band (formerly Hot Rats and Zappsteetoot) is a band that features Morgan Ågren and Mats Öberg.

Mickey O'Brien

Currently, she is also one half of Tragic Toys, a band formed with her boyfriend of ten years, actor and musician, Jim Sturgess.

Mikko Härkin

In 2003, Härkin started a band named Wingdom with vocalist Sami Asp, Alessandro Lotta (ex-Rhapsody), Markus, and guitarist Jukka (who had worked with Härkin since 1998).

Odd Even

The single was supposed to be the second of four singles from the Sing to God album with each cover dedicated to a band member, but only two were produced, the first being "Manhoo".

Okkervil River

Okkervil River's founding members became friends at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire, and after parting ways for college moved to Austin, Texas to live together and start a band.

Patty Smyth

They debuted their first single as a band ("Hard For You To Love Me", also referred to as "Make It Hard") in over 24 years on January 17, 2009 in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Piola Vago

Piola Vago is a band that was started in the slums of Villa de Los Andes (Fuerte Apache)

Quepano

The Quepano were a band of American Indians that lived in the region around Cerralvo, in northeastern Nuevo León, near the end of the seventeenth century; some were also known to be at the San Antonio de Valero Mission in San Antonio during the first half of the next century.

Robin Good and His Not-So-Merry Men

In the faraway town of Bethlingham, an obvious pun of the Biblical city of Bethlehem and the Robin Hood setting of Nottingham, roved a band of merry men led by Robin Good.

Russ North

After the demise of Monza, North was in the process of putting his next band together when he was asked to join Tredegar, (pronounced tradeegar) Tredegar was a band from the South Wales village of the same name, and was largely a reformation of the legendary Welsh rock band Budgie.

Sebastian Steinberg

Steinberg made a brief appearance in the film Funny People, as the bassist in a band that Adam Sandler's character, a movie star, hired to jam with him.

Sludgeworth

The band was formed in 1989 as a side project from Screeching Weasel, a band that Dan and Brian were in.

Spandau Ballet

Kemp and Norman were both attending Dame Alice Owen's School, Potters Bar, and were close friends, as they shared a similar interest in music and a common desire to form a band.

Steve Canyon Rangers

Steve Canyon Rangers is a mishearing of the Steep Canyon Rangers, a band sometimes accompanied by Steve Martin.

That Was Only Yesterday – The Last EP

In late 1983 Richard Manners (Blue Mountain Music) asked Richard "Digby" Smith (Rough Diamond, Free, Sammy Hagar, Mott the Hoople) to put together a band and cut some tracks with David.

The Adventures of Hajji Baba

The pair are overtaken by the Caliph's (Donald Randolph) guards sent to bring Fawzia back, but the guards are driven off by an invading army of Turcoman women, a band of fierce and beautiful women who prey on passing merchants.

The Balham Alligators

The Balham Alligators were a band from London that mixed rock 'n' roll, cajun, country and R&B.

The Last Drive

Alex Kalofolias and Thanos Amorginos created The Earthbound in 1998, a band with a completely different orientation around ethnic/Latin/desert rock.

The Murder City Devils

They also appeared as both individual actors as well as a band in David Larson's independent film The Edge of Quarrel.

The Rip Van Winkle Caper

To escape the law after stealing $1 million worth of gold bricks from a train on its way from Fort Knox to Los Angeles, a band of four gold thieves, led by foreign-accented scientist-mastermind Farwell (Oscar Beregi, Jr.), hide in a secret cave in Death Valley, California.

The Treasure of Pancho Villa

During the Mexican Civil War of 1913, mercenary Tom Bryan (Rory Calhoun) and his Lewis machine gun he names ("La Cucaracha") joins a band of revolutionaries headed by Colonel Juan Castro (Gilbert Roland).

Timex

Timex Social Club, a band from the 1980s with one major hit, Rumors

URB

United Remnant Band of the Shawnee Nation, a band of Native Americans who hold that they are descended from the Shawnee

Vincent Signorelli

He has recently joined a band called A Storm of Light with Josh Graham (Neurosis, ex Red Sparowes, Battle of Mice, Blood and Time) on guitar and vocals, Domenic Seita (ex Tombs and Asea) on bass, and Pete Angevine (Satanized) on additional drums and percussion.