Comments | stevieannie: Could I point you at this?

stevieannie

Could I point you at this?

May 11, 2010 14:58

Frank and I need a name. Not a silly name - we've got plenty of fun ideas for silly names, but they are not a good idea for playing at weddings and funerals which need a certain gravitas*.

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* We've had lots of laughs with "String Theory", "Rite of String" (thanks Marion!) and so forth, but I ( Read more... )

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bedlamhouse May 11 2010, 14:11:20 UTC

Heartstrings?

janewilliams20 May 11 2010, 14:20:50 UTC

That's a lovely name, and already taken.
http://frankieandtheheartstrings.com/

stevieannie May 11 2010, 15:22:06 UTC

I am most amused that it's taken by a "Frankie" - people who feel uncomfortable with the fact that Frank is a girl often refer to her as "Frankie". In fact she once won top prize on a village raffle and was billed as "Frankie the Polish Dancer" which confused everyone as she isn't Polish and hadn't been dancing!

keristor May 11 2010, 15:40:04 UTC

But had she been polishing dancers? *g*

janewilliams20 May 11 2010, 14:14:46 UTC

Weddings and funerals? Hmm.
You seem to be dwelling on strings as an idea, but the human voice is not a stringed instrument.

One thing both those instruments have in common (apart from being strings) is that they sound like "magic" to the inexperienced. Could you pick up on that? "Enchanted strings"? No, that's been used, quite a lot in fact.
Can't push it too hard or some people will get upset for religious reasons.

Frank's entry says it's English traditional songs, mainly, so maybe pick up on that as well? "Historical", "traditional", "from the past", "ye olde".

"Past enchantment" is nicely vague (is "past" an adjective or an adverb?), and doesn't seem to exist as a name so far.

stevieannie May 11 2010, 15:19:15 UTC

Nope, not dwelling on strings at all, in fact we want to get away from it and go for something more general as both Frank and I play other instruments as well as singing.

Not sure about the "magic" side of things, we're both fairly matter of fact types of people and not very fey. And the problem with pushing the retro thing is that traditional and historical are most emphatically not the same thing in folk terms.

Sorry to be awkward - it's one of those things when you know what won't work, but struggle a lot more to find what will...

janewilliams20 May 11 2010, 15:22:59 UTC

If it was easy, you wouldn't be asking for help, right? :)

OK, pretend I'm the sort of punter you want to sell your services to, for a wedding. (Or for a funeral). Tell me what you do, in as many words as it takes. Then we'll see if we can shrink it down.

Could I point you at this? filkerdave May 11 2010, 14:32:55 UTC

The Albionic Women? That'd give you something serious that has a certain gravitas and history as well

Re: Could I point you at this? stevieannie May 11 2010, 15:19:57 UTC

Shades of Lindsay Wagner in a denim jumpsuit with Oscar Goldman, perhaps?

gfrancie May 11 2010, 14:59:55 UTC

Marigold & Thyme!

stevieannie May 11 2010, 15:20:31 UTC

Heee!!!! I like the plant theme :-)

janewilliams20 May 11 2010, 15:34:37 UTC

How about something that sounds like the Latin name for a flower (if it's Latin, it must be serious, right?) but erm, isn't? "Mustela convivialis". No, forget I spoke.

gfrancie May 11 2010, 16:21:31 UTC

Plus they are plants with traditional uses/meanings. Marigolds were used by brides and thyme is medicinal.

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aunty_marion May 11 2010, 15:46:54 UTC

What a shame 'Chimes' is taken already... :-D

I wonder if I can free-associate in type? Let's see. Weddings and funerals, huh?

Hatches Matches and Despatches. Ready Steady Go. Together and Apart. In and Out. Bind and Release. (Binding. Hold that thought.) Music of Dreams. Hold the Dream. Hmmmm something with 'Thoughts' in? Holdfast. (Lawrence's The Passing of Time is taken too... Passing of Rhyme, though?) Rhymes of Passage. Onward. Onward in Life. Going for a Song (maybe not...). Timbres of Hope (not that anyone will know how to pronounce it!). Hope Strings Eternal (no, not another bad pun!). Sound (the) Advance. Sing Forth. Two Turtle Doves. Seasons Round.

OK, I'll stop.

bardling May 11 2010, 16:04:15 UTC

Surely that should be "Sing Fourth" ;)

aunty_marion May 11 2010, 16:05:54 UTC

Depends. They might be singing in thirds. Or fifths... *g*

aunty_marion May 11 2010, 16:14:12 UTC

Um, thinking of garden-y themes as well...

I like Zander's idea of Twine. Woodbine (no, too tobacco-y?). Columbine. Bindweed (hey, we're back to 'binding'...). Petals of Forever (too twee?). Stem and Root. Seed and Flower. Songseed(s). Flowers of the Forest. Thyme and Tune. The Ladies of Shallott (no, that's a TERRIBLE pun). Greensleeves! (Or Greenfingers...) Ladybird, Ladybird. Fly Away Home. Sky Blue, Grass Green.

Someone shut me up.

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