Whats the worst mis-spelling/gross screw up of your band's name???

With our name we are pretty subject to mishaps with having a homophone in the name. Someone really did a number this time. I actually find it funny, maybe even cooler than our real name.

you ready???

The Attic Fan

Worst mispronunciation of Five Minute Sin:

Those Stupid Fucks


I don't know how that came about... on second thought maybe they were talking about another band.

WinterCock... that was put on a flyer featuring us once... I'll see if I can find it...

All the damn time. Most of the time, actually. That's one reason I wanted to change it. I've heard it wrong pretty much every single time it's on the radio for one, the most common being "Romeo Must Die." Also "Romeo in Hell," etc. They even get it wrong when they are clearly reading it out of the paper.

In other name-fuck news, I just went to court today to take care of a warrant issued for "Levi Flevin," which I got because I couldn't find my court date in the system and got failure to appear*. On my compliance forms? "Levi Elevin." I'm suprised how many people have to ask me to spell my name. "Like the jeans and like the number." then I see them look up as the wheels turn, trying in vain to remember a number over 10. When these are the people who send me to jail, I get a bit worried.

*they actually dismissed it and apologized for the mistake this time though!

Levi Eleven. It's just too cool of a name to be true. Having a name like Giovanna Urbina has made me sensitive to name pronunciation.

As far as my band goes, the worst faux pas ever committed...was by me. And I'll never fuckin live it down: I had "Hit by Bus a" printed on our stickers. They did go to good use: we labeled our gear with them.

Man you guys have all the luck. Worst we ever get is when they split our name into 2 words "Frost Bite".

At least they could call us Frostgoat or something .

Baaa!

The name of my last band was "Inertia", for some reason nobody had any idea how to spell it, what it means, or how to pronounce it. But it was a kick ass name, and the meaning was cool to!

Oh, I almost forgot, when I was in" Riotfuel" we got called rotten fuel once!

I got called "Edith Grove Helen" in Best of Burque in the Alibi many years ago. Still don't know where the "Helen" part came from.

What, are you kiddin, me? The Gracchi is the king of misspellings and mispronunciations.

It sounds like Grack-eye!

We used to get "Rage Against Charlie Sheen" all the time, or "Rage Against Ben Vereen". But I'm sure no one can hold a candle to the Grachusses problems.

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Originally posted by 56DeSoto:
I got called "Edith Grove Helen" in Best of Burque in the Alibi many years ago. Still don't know where the "Helen" part came from.

i remember that, it came from that band helen that i went to high school with at the time. something like you played a show together or were on a cd together and they thought the two bands were one band.

It's kinda hard to screw up "The New Strawberry Zots"

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Originally posted by duckbeat:
It's kinda hard to screw up "The New Strawberry Zots"

I don't know about that. Back in the days of the "old" Zots, the first time I heart the name I thought the person had said Strawberry Snots.

Of course this came off a night of standing next to the mains.

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Originally posted by Jenny Tonic:
[Strawberry Snots

A much better name in my opinion. I would have gone to more (read: some) shows.

The Strawberry Zots' musical style was just described to me. Nevermind.

the worst we`ve had was Chronic Obsession. instead of Kronic Obsession..and that is my lame contribution!!

I once had someone think we were called "The Hull is Weak." Like a poorly-constructed boat or something.

"Doublewriting Shotgun."

Our worst spelling only consists of people adding a “c” like Nunchuck. Which is actually the right way to spell it so that’s not to bad. But what gets me is people always pronounce it like Numb chuck.

It makes it sound like a little kid playing ninja turtles, I’m Michelangelo and I have NUMBCHUCKS! Lol oh well I guess there are worse things in life!

nobody really gets our name wrong. but one time we were playing at the launchpad and lucky put us on the set times sheet as "shirley's nipples".