2 bands with the same name

[Teed]

Nirvana

On the first album I ever bought.

 

[chriswallace85]

Is this common?

I’ve just seen this article Jonny Craig Leaves Slaves Following Relapse and it confused the Hell out of me because the only Slaves I’m aware of are the English band who are a duo.

It turns out there are 2 - the one I know, and an American hardcore band:
Slaves (UK band) - Wikipedia
Slaves (American band) - Wikipedia

I’ve never known 2 decent sized bands with the same name.

There was a Nirvana long before Kurt came on the scene.

The Beat were known as The English Beat in North America, and now there's actually two bands.

Didnt Liberty x have to add the x because there was already a band called liberty?

Think so aye.

 

[Snaggletooth]

Disturbed; though I think the uk punk band may have been called "the disturbed".

 

[dafunk2]

The Chemical Brothers were originally called The Dust Brothers, but had to change because there was already Dust Brothers in the USA.

 

[Billericay Dichio]

Skin - a singer and a band.

Zorch

 

[Boz33]

Duran Duran

The the

 

[Goat Eyes]

The the

Aye aye!

 

[Boz33]

Aye aye!

 

[Rotten Johnny]

Disturbed; though I think the uk punk band may have been called "the disturbed".

Yep. My mates were in the 80's punk band of that name.

 

[Fats]

Guess Who were originally named The Who

 

[__howdy__]

Wishbone Ash

 

[dangermows]

Tottenham Hotspur FC and Spur

 

[HABA87]

Tottenham Hotspur FC and Spur

Dave Hotspur is a great frontman.

 

[Fetch Fletch]

Nirvana were called Skid Row originally, so there was 3 at one point IIRC

 

[Falconhoof]

Coldplay stole thier name from a band called.....Coldplay

 

[shadowplay]

 

[The Sinful Dwarf]

Dinosaur Jr were so named because of an existing band called Dinosaur. I think.

 

[Tex]

The Chameleons vs Lori and the Chameleons

Loads of bands have to add ‘UK’ to their name to avoid confusion / copyright infringement with American namesakes.

 

[Arkle]

LFO (meaning Low Frequency Oscillation) - the bleepy techno band who were on Warp Records.
LFO (meaning Lyte Funkie Ones) - the briefly successful American boy band.

 

[fyl2u]

Audioslave bought the rights to their name from a small UK band that were playing under that name before the American superband got together.