Tilly and the Wall
Florence and the Machine
Peter, Bjorn and John (this would be like the swedish version of the Chuckle brothers)
any others?
(Belle and Sebastian don't count; there was a TV show called Belle and [et] Sebastia[e]n)
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The Pipettes
Pete & The Pirates
Tokyo Police Club
Gorrilaz
Peggy Sue & The Pirates
Tokyo Police Club would be immense
Tokyo Police Club would be immense
Ah fuck it
Anal Cunt.
fo' sho'
Cats in Paris
Band Of Horses
Patrick (the) Wolf
The Unicorns
cannibal
corpse
Phenotypic and the learn to reply in the right place brigade.
punk
i reply where i want to.
Hardcore,
man.
peter and the wolf?
*Rod, Jane and Freddy
Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice
Lucy and the Catipillar
Holten's Opulant Oog
dinosaur jr.
a children's educational tv show about talking, infant dinosaurs.
i'd SO watch the fuck out of that.
?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NzzzcOWPH0
^ best show ever right there!
but no, that's more saturday evening family orientated fun. dinosaur jr. would be subliminally educational, and marketed at the four to ten year old boy market. one i can totally identify with.
So like Barney the dinosaur?
but not shit?
actually
more like 'arthur' cross with 'the magic school bus'. the characters are all young dinosaurs and they take you on adventures - by way of the classroom! - throughout the prehistoric and jurassic periods of time.
I think there is a gap in the market here!
Except, I think it would be only the 2 of us watching.
no way, man
it'd be a massive hit with the kids. plus, get a huge cult following with all the stoners and hipsters.
Crystal Castles
Ladytron (Transformers spin-off aimed at girls who like ponies)
Jolean and the Jing Jang Jong (Polish animation about a boy with one eye)
Franz Ferdinand (Ukranian animation about a boy with no eyes)
and
Good Shoes
pedro the lion
about a lion, named pedro.
i knew something like this existed
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YJwaI3WFB8U
i used to watch that when i was wee, on a tape with barbar the elephant.
They Might Be Giants
this would be a spin-off of Jossie's Giants
with all the overweight asthmatic kids who couldn't play for toffee.
Not a show
but Jeremy Warmsley is a great name for a children's TV presenter
modest mouse
could've been an old kids cartoon from the '70s about a...erm...modest mouse. he'd be middle class too and have tea parties in his mouse hole.
Menomena
The Shaky Hands maybe.
Dizzee Rascal
matt & kim
one of those slightly too hyperactive tv shows, with sock puppets and crap 'magical' special effects and arts & crafts bits.
The Little Explorer
.
alphabeat
learn to spell, to the beat!
they look like kids' TV presenters
that would be perfect.
Jay-Z
could be a guest presenter, in the last episode obviously
From Autumn to Ashes
The backwards encyclopaedia that covers each subject in *detail*. Program 48141 of 50000.
Fuck Button Moon
mr. spoon gets a bit despondent with life on button moon?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Tortoise
Ghost Mice From Mars
The Gothic Archies
Echo And The Bunnymen
Iggy Pop
The Stooges
Mr. Bungle
Tilly and the Wall
were named after a children's book.
Tilly and the Wall
are named after a kids' book anyway, aren't they?
Goodbooks.
It'd like Jackanory, but it says it as it is, Good Books, but trendy because it has no space. Got to get down with the kidz, BBC.
this one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tillie-Wall-Dragonfly-Books-Lionni/dp/0679813578/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208205229&sr=8-3
oh okay
i should have checked their names before posting, really...
Animal Collective
New Young Pony Club
Neils Children
little pictures
myspace them, they are soo good :)
Beastie Boys
A Cbeebies-esque show about young Scottish monsters.
The Mae Shi
Some kinda pokemon-esque cartoon???
Also, The Mystery Jets, Nervous Cop, People in Planes, The Promise Ring
What a shit thread.
....
i quite like it, myself
kraftwerk
the new smart?
Stig of the Dump
seriously one of the best live bands I ever saw, I think they are the stig noise sound system now or something, crystal castles are named after She-Ra's hideout.
Popular Workshop would be like Why Don't You, with less glaswegian kids.
Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, sounds like an shite cbeebies show where adults jump around singing awful songs and look like they've lost the will to live - just like the band! See also Carrie & David's Pop Shop thing.
<bans mark speight/joy division jokes on grounds of taste>
^
boo