Ban(ne)d Books
In a slight break with tradition, today I thought I'd write about something a little different. I was scrolling through Spotify recently when I came across a band called The Boo Radleys. Now, no prizes for guessing where they got their name from... I had heard of them, but never actually looked into how many bands and artists took their names from literature. So, I present a list of every band or artist I could find with novel-inspired titles: (Also, I apologise for the terrible pun I made in the title of this post. Please forgive me). 1. The Boo Radleys - named after the reclusive in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird . 2. Modest Mouse - from a passage in The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf. 3. Veruca Salt - the famously spoilt little girl in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory . 4. My Chemical Romance - after the Irvine Welsh novel Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance , which bassist Mikey Way came upon when he worked at Barnes & No...
