This year’s Coachella pretty much has my dream line up. I love so many of the artists that are playing, and I would do anything to go. However, that is impossible, so I indulged myself in researching all of the acts playing thoroughly. I came across several names I loved and noticed a lot of repeats while going through everything.
The band with the best names would have to go, in my opinion, to Pulp. I may be a bit biased, as I love Pulp, but they have a few names that are just so British and lovely:
[name]Jarvis[/name]
[name]Russell[/name]
And formerly members named [name]Magnus[/name], [name]Antony[/name], and [name]Captain[/name].
They also have [name]Candida[/name] and formerly a [name]Saskia[/name].
Other names that caught my eye were:
[name]Alessandro[/name] (Alesso)
[name]Amon[/name] ([name]Amon[/name] [name]Tobin[/name])
[name]Thibaut[/name] (Breakbot)
[name]Wylie[/name] ([name]Dawes[/name])
Munaf (Explosions in the [name]Sky[/name])
[name]Kirby[/name] (Givers)
[name]Fernando[/name] (Hello Seahorse!)
[name]Kendrick[/name] ([name]Kendrick[/name] [name]Lamar[/name])
[name]Hugo[/name] (Madeon)
[name]Graham[/name] X2 (Madness)
[name]Yann[/name] (M83)
[name]Loic[/name] (M83)
Fadil (R3hab)
Faris (The Horrors)
[name]Vito[/name] (The Rapture)
Leot (The Sheepdogs)
[name]Lasse[/name] ([name]Wolf[/name] Gang)
[name]Rakim[/name] (A$AP [name]ROCKY[/name])
Azealia (Azealia [name]Banks[/name])
[name]Reginald[/name] (Bon [name]Iver[/name])
Asaf (Borgore)
[name]Fisher[/name] (Destroyer)
[name]Efrim[/name] (Godspeed You! [name]Black[/name] Empire)
[name]Mauro[/name] (Godspeed You! [name]Black[/name] Empire)
[name]Thierry[/name] (Godspeed You! [name]Black[/name] Empire)
[name]Jacques[/name] ([name]Jacque[/name] [name]Lu[/name] Cont)
[name]Sergio[/name] (Kabasian)
Pontus (Miike [name]Snow[/name])
[name]Leopold[/name] (The Big [name]Pink[/name])
[name]Zan[/name] (The Big [name]Pink[/name])
Yuuki (The Shins)
[name]Merrill[/name] (tUnEyArDs)
[name]Abraham[/name] (AraabMuzik)
[name]Bernie[/name] (At the Drive-in)
[name]Perrin[/name] (Beirut)
[name]Amos[/name] (Fanfarlo)
[name]Leon[/name] (Fanfarlo)
[name]Johanna[/name] (First Aid [name]Kit[/name])
[name]Klara[/name] (First Aid [name]Kit[/name])
[name]Florence[/name] ([name]Florence[/name] + the Machine)
[name]Wouter[/name] (Gotye)
[name]Gaspard[/name] ([name]Justice[/name])
[name]Porter[/name] ([name]Porter[/name] [name]Robinson[/name])
[name]Santi[/name] (Santigold)
[name]Pelle[/name] (The Hives)
[name]Abel[/name] (The Weeknd)
There were names that repeated many times like [name]Nick[/name]/[name]Nic[/name]/[name]Nicolas[/name] (12), [name]Sebastian[/name] (4), [name]Ben[/name]/[name]Benny[/name]/[name]Benjamin[/name] (7), [name]Andrew[/name] (4), and [name]Chris[/name]/Christofer/[name]Christopher[/name]/[name]Christian[/name] (20).
Names that, for me, aren’t anything special, but still gain a new light because of the artist include
[name]Laura[/name]: I love [name]Laura[/name] Marling (plus her middle name is [name]Beatrice[/name]! [name]Laura[/name] [name]Beatrice[/name] Marling!), so while I know three Lauras and a handful of [name]Laurens[/name], this name still feels happy and fresh to me because of her. Her folky sound gives it a more eclectic sound to my ears.
[name]Matthew[/name]: M. [name]Ward[/name]’s full name is [name]Matthew[/name] [name]Stephen[/name] [name]Ward[/name], and even though [name]Matthew[/name] is a quite popular choice, I know associate it with the wonder that is M. [name]Ward[/name].
The last thing I noticed were names in the titles of bands, and these include:
[name]Shelly[/name] (Keep [name]Shelly[/name] in Athens)
[name]Augustine[/name] (We Are Augustines)
Alesso (okay, so this one is the stage name of [name]Alessandro[/name] Linblad, but it would make such a cute nickname for [name]Alessandro[/name])
Mazzy: (Mazzy [name]Star[/name]) could be used as a nickname for Mazarine, or maybe on its own for bolder parents.
[name]Sebastian[/name] ([name]SebastiAn[/name])
[name]Grace[/name] ([name]Grace[/name] [name]Potter[/name] and the Nocturnals)
[name]Fitz[/name] ([name]Fitz[/name] and the Tantrums)
[name]Florence[/name] ([name]Florence[/name] + the Machine)
So what do you think? Anything you’d use? Anything you love or hate?