Band Names and Names

Henry James and the Electric Aquariums. Tent. Track Pants. Failing That. OctacultagenarianY. Truss Rod. Goldband. Laxacune. Savage Typeface with the Underneath.

Who’s playing tonight?

Sunbarter. Ribbon Dancer Troupe. In Sheep Blazer. Ephemeral Disease. Salad Spork. Deep Think Voice. A Hundred Bats. ¡¿Food?! Hey Dennis. Essential Red.

They asked for a big bottle of Bushmills.

Black Underpants. Oofmama. Sevent. Lick Savage of the Gifts. Afterward The Cotton. Durodime. Slash Is Veneer. Hawaiian Shirts.

Are they going to pay for it?

Yeah, they actually mailed a check, so it was ready when they arrived.

Goldplatted Rattles. Senatum. Fingerlo. Of Course. Wizard Lint Sleeve.

Here’s the Bushmills, guys, in a bucket of ginger ale with no ice — we all good?

Exclamation Point. ASDF. Hundred Hundred. Spiral Sandwich. My Roomate’s.

Where are the mustard sandwiches? We said 7 mustard sandwiches.

Obernaught. Blank Yellow Bracelets.

I don’t know anything about that.

Casio Watch Stain.

They’re freaking out. The singer said they can’t play unless they get the sandwiches.

Fab Seven. Free As Frozen Pennies. April Fooled. You Know, You Know. Promise Face.

Christ, tell them to shut the fuck up.

[Caleb Garling is a writer in San Francisco and the author of The St George’s Angling Club, a novel about the outdoors.]