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There is an English band called A. I like A's first couple of albums, they are upbeat catchy British pop-punk with a sense of humour and it's good fun summer listening. That was before they went all nu-metal with what admittedly became their biggest single. Now, I can't remember what that single was called and I would have liked to include that bit of information in this post. What I would normally do in this situation is use google to search for it. But, the band is called A.

Do you know what happens if you google for A?

"Results 1 - 10 of about 24,900,000,000"

25 billion results! Searching for A band reduces it to six hundred million. What about The The? Even if you quote "The The" you get sixty million hits.

These are extreme examples but it is really nice if you can search for the name of the band you are interested and find them in the top couple of hits.

The web is such a useful tool these days I think that when you are naming your band you have to think about how web friendly it is. It should already be standard practice to search for your potential name and see if there's another band with the same name, but at the same time why not see what else there is out there with the same keywords.

Although I do admit this might mean you end up being in bands with really stupid names like I have.