Our Band Name.. The Secret Nothings

Last week in our media lesson we sat down as a group and Olivia, Jack and I decided that we needed to brainstorm and put our minds together as a group to come up with a band name based on our research.

Together we decided that by looking through indie band names that we already know and felt were established enough to call good research, and we did this effectively and efficiently, coming up with bands such as The Killers, The Black Keys, The 1975 and so on.. It soon became evident that within the indie music genre a band name starting with 'the' is quite popular and gives the band a formal presence when announced and so forth. With that in mind we progressed on. Olivia, being the thinker of the group and Jack the litterateur both thought of the idea that even though indie bands give of a sense of formality and professionalism, they are often thought to be associated with rebellion and secrecy. I agreed with this and described also that this rebellion can give the impression of being wild and being free. With this idea present we came up with the name of 'Into the Wild' however something didn't feel right about it, and we came to the conclusion that in order to keep the professionalism that we want that our band has to start with 'The' as our research showed.

Name Choice
After coming up with 'Into the Wild' and disliking the name, and others such as The Little Castles, we decided to take the idea back towards secrecy and rebellion. Due to the fact that we had to have our band name starting with 'The' and we knew that indie bands give of a certain vibe of secrecy Jack came up with the idea of The Secrets. Olivia and I both took a shining to the name however we all knew that there was something missing. Eventually the band name 'The Secret Nothing's' was thought of and we decided that having done sufficient research that we would use this as our band's name.

We decided that we would dismiss the other two band names because after completing sufficient research it was inevitable that we had to pick a name that had connotations or a 'hidden message' as although our other choices gave of an indie vibe, they had no meaning.