Good Name For a Band

ORIGINS: Blacktown, NSW

GENRE: Punk

YEARS ACTIVE: 1998-2003

 

MEMBERS:

• James Beattie (Bass, Vocals) 
• Dean Collingridge (Guitar, Keys, Vocals)
• Ian McT (Drums, Vocals)
  

RELEASES: 

 

• Restaurant Quality (2000)
• 1. The Chug Song
• 2. John Howard is My Hero
• 3. Alone
• 4. Corn Cob 
• 5. Listen
• 6. Rhomboid Goat Cabin is Very Annoyed
• 7. The Seven Hills Jazz Lounge
  

SUMMARY: Getting to know one another as students at Mitchell High School, the band formed in the late '90s and rehearsed a lot at Warehouse Studios in Rydalmere and Party Pig Studios in Girraween. Good Name For a Band played a variety of backyards, house parties, and pubs, and recorded their first EP at Smokin' and Jokin' Studios with Adam Barns. The band finished around 2001.

 

SHOWS: 

• Green Square Hotel, Zetland - 19th October, 2000

ORAL HISTORY:

DEAN: We all went to school together. Ian and myself were in the same Kindergarten class. James was two years older at school but we knew him through music at school and became friends. When I was 16 I started a band called Fetus Eater with two other friends. Ian approached me to jam and he tried to poach me out of Fetus Eater. 

 

DEAN: Ian, James and I started jamming at Ian's house as he had a share house at Baulkham Hills right next to the Bull and Bush Hotel. We would have crazy parties and people from the pub would just rock up to hear us play.

 

DEAN: We played the local gig scene but did lots of time in studio because I worked there. We had a good following and even had a few songs played on Triple J at the time. We never really tried to 'make it' as such because we just loved making music and had no real push to make it or sell ourselves. People liked because we weren't trying to be liked. 

 

DEAN: We were punk-ish but also weird. We did lots of styles. We liked being different and loved Mr Bungle. We liked doing unexpected stuff - heavy, soft, punk, even some hip hop metal and jazz. We liked to confuse people.

RELATED BANDS: Fetus Eater, Mrs Mangle