I play in a band called public relations exercise which as you might expect is often abbreviated to P.R.E. As many of you will know there is also a band called PRE fronted by that girl from comanechi. Until now we thought nothing of this, however recently I have found that the name issue is beginning to cause confusion as a lot of promoters use the PRE acronym for us.
Someone asked me today if I'd ever thought about changing the name of the band, to be honest I hadn't however it has got me to thinking about whether we should do something. So, Drowned in sound what do you think we should do?
Just give up and never play again?
Completely ignore the matter as they seem to be quite popular and we're not?
I am personally in favour of keeping our name but intentionally changing it to PRE to annoy the people who thought they were coming to see a hot Japanese girl in her pants but instead end up watching 5 guys, in their pants.
What would you do.
cheese it!
I saw you guys a few times when I was at uni in Leicester.
I have also seen PRE a few times since living in London. You are WAY better than PRE.
Sadly, they seem to be more popular at present, so they might win 'the battle of the name'. Can't you just refrain from shortening your name and just use the full length version? It's a good name, you should keep it.
P.R.E.
x 100.
aww shucks
We always use our full name, but sadly promoters neglect to, I feel this is largely due to the inability to spell exercise (seriously).
We'll definatley stick with it, but there does seem to be an increae of people getting us mixed up. Including promoters who thought they had booked them and got us - I don't know if it's happened the other way round.
Lolllzzzz111!!!
But thanks.
tiernan,
has that really happened? promoters booking you guys and thinking you were the
other band?
must have been a good gig.
It's a cool name, keep it.
Do what Cliche Guevara said, in other words.
^this rule applies to life.
*wife
did you have a single called Catalyst?
If so, I bought it for the sheer geekiness of the artwork.
.
indeed we did have a single called catalyst and the artwork you speak of was infact designed as a result of a competition on this very site:
http://drownedinsound.com/articles/2453302
I'd probably win in a fight, yeah. Cheers.
GO me.
fight her for it
surely you can't lose?
Change your name
to something like Public Relations Xercise.
Or U2.
Or ask the other band to call themselves 'the Pre that people actually want to see.'
yeah maybe just start being PRX
without spelling "exercise" wrong
PRX
"pricks"
lol
Pub.Rel.Ex.
^^
both good suggestions.
.
tiernan, whenever someone asks to book you, make it one of your conditions that the name needs to be spelt out in full and correctly. if they don't do it, tell them to fuck off. we often get the same thing with people calling us HNIC ...Karla, other variations. its balls. but your name is good so stick with it. if you change it, i'll burn my public relations exercise cd
translate it
into a foreign language ?
If we do change it may i suggest changing it to...
'The Good Pre'
thnx.
Spencer
The Good Pre
PR-X
PR-XTREME
Problem solved!
You mention PRE fans turn up so see a hot Japanesse girl in her pants. How about you guys play without pants, and you could be called PRE (without pants). No more confusion and it could potentially increase the size of your fanbase!
grrr, typo
*to, not so...
Just kill the other PRE
P.R.E. for life, yo.
Actually, I got excited recently when a few London friends started talking about PRE, I thought it was Leicester's very own P.R.E. I was wrong and they looked at me funny...anyway.
I think you should change your name though Tiernan.
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I should change me own name, what Tiernan?
P.R.E fo life, fo so.
Maybe you could
change it to P. Relations Exercise, then people would finally understand that you've been playing P-funk all along.
Or get a shit hot logo, which says P.R.E. and has three wicked-bad-cool grenades/boobs/Geoff Capeses in place of the dots between the letters.
or get one like the Metallica logo BUT BIGGER
I think tiernan should change his name to PRE
And start a solo project...and then...
P.R.E should remain P.R.E
and PRE should remain PRE
And when the solo Tiernan aka PRE plays a gig, PRE fans see 1/5th of P.R.E and a genuine PRE gig, just not the PRE they expected. And when P.R.E Fans go to see P.R.E they get to see P.R.E with a member of the Solo artist otherwise known as PRE, and there will also be PRE fans there.
BONUS!
^this
good good.
It's just common sense innit?
.
also, i will form a band called ERP
and play 20bpm doom covers of PRE
in support of P.R.E.
can you give us a P.R.Eview on what that will sonld like?
UUUUUUUUUUUWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
if you were first then PRE PRE
Well this confuses me
because I thought PRE were so-called as a shortening of Public Relations Exercise. So maybe I saw you listed and assumed that. Whoops.
I'd say change your name because clearly as the Kaiser Chiefs proved, A&R men like nothing better than a 'new' band, even if they're actually an old band with a different name and the same songs.
P.R.E the real P.R.E...
Don't wish to entice A&R men. Just women with beards and no teeth.
Just basically hurry up and get another gig in Leicester
...ouh, with Minnaars as well.
What are Cousin Scampi up to these days?
P!R!E!
would be awesome
P.R.E Gigs...
Well
2/5ths of P.R.E are in a noise band called Cunt Rag doing (amongst other gigs) a Gig with Minaars on 29th at Sumo in Leicester http://www.myspace.com/ccuunnttrraagg
1/5th of P.R.E is in a solo electro/breakcore thing called Pure Phase and doing (amongst other gigs) a gig at Leicester Demontford Uni on 29th (at 3pm) www.myspace.com/purephase1
and the remaining 2 are busy being handsome as f*ck.
Spencer, why did you change the name to Pure Phase?
Is the Feb 29th one also with Maybeshewill, You Slut! and Death of London?
I might have to come to that...'cause be would be reet cool.
is she hot?
i've seen her before. the hot pants aint swaying me!
as for the name thing, keep it. why change your name, its only abbreviated as pre. Unless you wanted it to be used in that context.
P.R.E are hotter.
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Considering that the band feature in the movie:
Dave Rees: A Public Relations Exercise, I feel you are now unable to change the name. Not only would it irk your fanbase, it would also make this film title pointless. Do you realise how many hours Ben spent editing this?
I think the film gets the Leicester Premiere at yours on Saturday! Hope you are in.
^ self-promo
Yep.
Co-director. Quite proud of the film too.
^^^^^
Is it on you tube or anything?
Hopefully i'll be around for the preview though.
I don't think it is on youtube yet.
then put it on youtube for fuck's sake
jesus man what is your problem etc.
the PRE and P.R.E thing has burned me once in "convo" before, but nobody went to hospital so it was ok.
personally i think if person A mentions PRE but person B thinks P.R.E and so says "do you mean P.R.E?" and person A says "who are P.R.E?" and then person B explains that "P.R.E are not PRE and are in fact P.R.E who are far better" then you have a ickle odd faced promotion bot doing all some work for you twixt the lines of some people-you-will-never-know conversations.
so it's a good thing, basically.
I am a director!
Not a computer nerd. I would have no idea how to put a video on youtube.
PRE are
fucking ace...ive never heard P.R.E. i reckon keep it, i cant imagine PRE being around for too long
theyve been touring in america n ting
Just call yourselves...
...Rotting Goat Sphincter and be done with it.
I saw you with Eighties Matchbox at Sumo a while back. Very nice :)
I've been to many P.R.E. shows
and seen no pants whatsoever. Armed with this fact, I ask: is that what you call public relations? You should change it to Public Alienation Exercise.
Pants or bust.
P.S. I wish people would stop mentioning pants when they talk about PRE. Including myself, I do it all the time. I can't help it. But more people should say "oh, PRE, isn't that the band with the interesting clothing decisions and the DISGUSTINGLY BRILLIANT album Epic Fits?", because then I could assure them that yes, this was the case, because epic fits was totally the best unwashed-fuck-pop album of 07.
Hi Tiernan.
Keep
Public Relations Exercise I reckon.
Its kewl
Great band! First album was rather splendid indeed, for those who haven't heard it....