The Rest Is Entertainment - Bad Band Names, Set List Dramas and Failed Comebacks

Episode Date: July 8, 2026

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And I'm Richard Osmond. Hello, listeners. Hello Marina. Hi, Richard. How are you? I'm very well. Thank you. Should we get straight on?

Get into it. With our first question. We don't muck about? No. That's the thing. Some podcasts, they'll do like 10 minutes of bans. this no we are absolutely straight in bans will come later it will be

it will be integrated into the answer bants included exactly our first question is from nile donnelly thank you nile nile says becky hill got booed off stage at transmit festival for choosing to only play a new music and no hits absolute textbook stuff

is this ever acceptable at a festival do you think audiences should get a say in a musician's set list two different questions there which I have two different answers to okay first of all Becky Hill did say I'm not a jukebox bear with her actually because I think

it's quite interesting what she does say she said I wanted to bring a new and exclusive 30 minute set of brand new music to the festival crowd unannounced and I thought it would be a great opportunity to play the new music I've been working so hard on and that I personally love so much she then said it was interesting

it was amazing to have such a captive audience who wanted to hear the new stuff too captive audience I don't think they did necessarily but she said, I said on stage how difficult is to transition into a new single and new music and new albums and all this conversation online is exactly what I meant. Okay, well, she's learnt into the backlash. I have to say she did make one good point, which is she said that had she been on the festival's billing,

she would have done her hits because, you know, her appearance was sort of sold against that. And actually, artists in my experience and comics as well, because they are always aware of this sort of thing, normally quite upfront in saying, oh I'm trying out new material. You know, comics will often say, this is a work in progress, I'm trying out new stuff because they don't want people to think,

oh, I'm, you know, turning up for the polished thing. And they always try to advertise quite closely to it. Yeah, if you're going to see comics, often they will literally be reading from a book. And after the, it's fun to watch a work in progress. They go, oh, I'm keeping that one, or that didn't work, or what do you think? It's quite a fun thing.

And they charge less for a work in progress, and it's actually quite an interesting thing to see. It's different for music, I think, because a joke is very immediate. I agree, but she wasn't on the bill. And so she, anyway, there are lots of other artists, blah, blah, it's a festival. I do think, obviously, the counterpoint to that is it depends to what degree you are in the audience service business. And by the way, if you are any kind of artist, you are, because if the audience doesn't get enough of what they want, for obvious reasons, they will stop showing up.

It was interesting. Do you remember when we did our interview with Paul McCartney, he was very funny about this, he said, you know, I'll do some of my new stuff. But I will say to the crowd, you know, I know how you really feel about this. because if I do A Jude, it's just like a sea of phone lights. And if I do something new, it's a black tunnel. And he's Sir Paul McCartney. He's the Paul McCartney. It's historically always happened.

Obviously, Bob Dylan went electric and people didn't like it. Metallica, they made a change direction and people don't like it. Another of the interesting stories that I think is out at the moment, sort of to do this, like, are you serving the audience, are you whatever, is that some stuff that came out last week about Lily Allen is touring West End Girl, her album, which is sort of about her split from David Harbour. And, you know, it is a sort of perfect narrative album. And she has decided to, I mean, it lasts 45 or minutes this.

And it's advertised that way. It says Lily Allen performs West End Girl. Nonetheless, there have been complaints. And there's a sort of string trio who are kind of the warm-up act because they do some of her hits in classical music form before she comes on. She doesn't, but you're done in an hour. Amazing. I mean, she doesn't.

She doesn't love that. I know exactly. I think that's like the absolute dream. I know. And then there's no audience chat. And some people are like, oh my God, you know, you didn't speak to audience at all. But she sees it. She says it's my artistic choice not to talk to the audience.

She's sort of doing it almost as a play. I'm playing the album from Note 1 to Note. And as we know, that is a story of the breakdown of the marriage and that, you know, and it is a story. And she says, I think it helps with the storytelling not to do that and, you know, to have a fourth wall or whatever. It is called Lily Allen performs West End Girl. It's not called Lillian and goes on tour. Actually, that thing of... A lot of people don't call their tours.

Goals on tour. No, no, no. But you know, it doesn't just say Lillian. It does say that very, very clearly. And as I say, that goes back to that thing of artists generally prefer to advertise what they know they are delivering. But taking a single album on tour even has become a more of the thing that people do. So in terms of like, is it ever accepted at a festival? I actually think her rationale for it.

it was fine. There's a load of other stuff you're going to see. She's got to try new materials somewhere. It is perhaps a bit of a risk at a festival where people are, probably it's better within a gig. In terms of whether audiences do get, say, a musician set list long term because they just stop turning up. Yes. Or they go absolutely crazy at the end of, you know, every band has got, obviously the big hits, but then they've all got album tracks, which they play a couple of times at gigs and people go crazy for and they become fan favorites. And They become staples in their set list. Every band knows which songs people want to hear.

Everyone knows the cliche of don't do the new stuff. Everyone knows all this stuff, okay? So I think in general artists are quite clever and careful as to what they do and how their work is advertised. They will hammock a new song between. If Polp have got a new song, you know it's going to be just before common people. Yeah, exactly. Because then it gets a little of the halo of that.

Oh, I wasn't aware she wasn't on the actual. bill so I think that is actually fair enough she's going along she wants to do something new and something interesting but yeah you do it's it's really really tricky if you are playing a gig for yourself then 100% do exactly what you want because fans are paid money to go and see you

so they are your fans if you're at a festival I think you know no one's paying 150 quid to come and see you and so you you sort of do have to break out the hits you have to sort of know what you're... Steep learning cash therefore yeah I was in

Swade I was are very interesting with this because everybody you know they just release a whole series of albums in the last 10 years which are among their best work and they have been so clever about how they've introduced those songs into their old song and they still play the old songs but yeah you go to a sway gig now and the songs from the last five years that people go absolutely crazy for but you know they don't just go out and just play all new songs they absolutely have worked out how to weave them together and again when people have come to see them personally You can see them at a festival.

It's different. But they did a thing where they'll play, you know, whole albums. I think they went through their whole career at the ICA. And they would do that. But then they'd come back off at an interval and just play every hit as well. You know, that's like that's the gig, you know. Most bands, I think, God, you're lucky to have hits. I mean, God, you're lucky to have hits.

And I know it must be frustrating for bands to have to play the same song. Time and again, they'll have seen Liam Gallagher talking about having to play Wonderful. And, I mean, that really, I could live without singing that. every, you know, night of my life for 10 years. But it's, you know, it's the gig, right? That's why they give you all that money. Okay, a question from Alex Davies. Your item on bad movie names reminded me of one of my obsessions.

Bands that have a name that do not fit to their music. I also thought Savage Garden wrote decent enough pop songs, citation needed. But there was nothing savage about their music. What are your top misfiring band names? I think, no. Did it come from the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, Savage Garden? think that's where that band noon came from. There are a load of these, actually.

And some of them, the more you think about it, I was trying to think about these, and then I was thinking, yeah, I mean, Destiny's Child, that just sounds like some really crap pseudo-prog rock. It sounds a bit of stonehengey, or a Romantici novel. Yeah, yeah, it doesn't sound like what it.

There's a point where you can just get into thinking about it too hard. Red Hot Chili Peppers. I feel with that, I'm getting some sort of Latin, jazz. They probably wear suits. They're definitely not Anthony Kudis with this top off and hair down to his waist and a load of tattoos.

It is extraordinary how names become synonymous with the groups and you forget. And then you forget how... But if you first heard that, I'd be thinking I'm hearing some kind of jazz funk, maybe. I don't know what I'm hearing. Primal Scream. There's a lot of names that sound metal but aren't. Yes, Primus scream is a great name for a Swedish metal band. Ten thousand maniacs? Yes. I mean... Death Cab for Cutie.

I mean, what that, again, that is... There's funny ones that Benfolds five when there were three of them. That's quite good. Come on, guys. But, yeah, 10,000 maniacs. The Waitful Dead, though, again, you know, it doesn't sound... Well, that I don't mind. I can sort of see that because it's...

I'm just saying that it's slightly... You could imagine it was something different. Oasis. Yeah. There's a terrible name for a band. Well, two names, which are very similar. Yeah, that is a terrible name for band. And they are both names for, like, soft...

jazz kind of 1974 kind of lounge bar bands Oasis, Nirvana. Yeah, they could just be serving the Lighthouse Families catalog actually. I think there was a sort of lighthouse family type.

I think there was a band in Nevada. I think maybe a slightly prok-rocky band. But yeah, you could definitely hi, ladies and gentlemen, we're Navano. We're going to be entertaining you this evening. Just sit back, relax, enjoy your meal and enjoy some smooth jazz stylings.

Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, hello, we're Oasis. I'm John, this is Penny. We are going to be entertaining you this evening. We're going to start with a couple of people you may have heard of, Mr. Elton John, and there's Kiki-D. That's Oasis, right? God, you're so right.

And it passes away. I mean, sometimes they do it on purpose, I guess. Like Alice Cooper, they did that on purpose. Yeah. Because they thought, what if we were, you know, we created the kind of opposite persona to who we are. Again, the killers. I mean, there's a lot that sound metal, but aren't. I don't mind the killers.

That comes from a new-order video, doesn't that the killers? Death Cab for Keaty comes from another song, but nonetheless, it just doesn't feel like... I always think the worst, I mean, again, it sort of suits their music, but my least, my least favorite band names is a hooty and the blowfish and toad the wet sprocket. Both of those, you think, come on, guys, come on. There was a band who were around, when would this have been, the early 2000s, sort of a, sort of a, I think they're in New York quite punky. And they were genuinely sort of in the NME and all these things. And they were called Cerebral Ballsy.

You think that's, and they were like a proper, you know, being reviewed, you know, being kind of like setting albums and that's terrible. I honestly think the worst name in the history of recording music, I think. Wow, I can't wait for this. But I think it is. Yeah. I think it is. But you don't think it's terrible.

Yeah. That's bad. Oh, that's in a difficult. Just think complex. But in terms of a band where you think, okay, I see why that's acceptable, you chose that name. It's the Beatles. Yeah. The Beatles.

I mean, as a pun, it's terrible. Yeah. And even as not as a pun, you think, oh, so you called the, like, you're named after the insect, the beetle. But you got more than one beetle, but you, B, A, T. I mean, the whole thing is absolutely unacceptable in every way. And if they weren't so brilliant, they would be called out on it almost daily. They really had to transcend their name. And you know, I think they've done a bloody good job, haven't they?

But they have because you never think about it. No. You never go, oh, hold on a minute. They're the ones that you just don't think about. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Beatles. Either it sounds metal or you just don't think about it, but it's terrible.

But it doesn't, if they were called the Stag Beatles or the Black Widows or something, but just the Beatles. They can't be called the black widows. That's metal. That's got the other problem. That's got both problems. Bad name and sounds metal. It's only just occurred to me that I wonder if it's in respect. spots to the crickets.

Ah. I just thought that then, because I was thinking of other insuit band names, Adam and the Ants. It's so a name from the past before them, and rather than the kind of revolution that they...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so unrevolutionary as a name. It's literally like from the decade before. And by the way, the crickets is a terrible name. I mean, Buddy Holly, I mean, you could call you a band anything. Buddy Holly and the Ives. Buddy Holly and the Crick...

I mean, what are they... Oh, yeah, because it's like a slightly annoying, chirpy noise. Name yourself up to something that sounds good. Call yourself Buddy Holly and the jumbo Jets. It's something with a bit of warmth to it. Yeah. The crickets and then the Beatles heard that and goes, yes, we need to do that, but we also need need to put a pun in it as well. Yeah, come on guys. Good question. Very good question. I think it's for a long time on that one. Okay, shall we go to a break? Shall we go to a break?

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I think it is a three-partner, I mean, it's quite a lot to say. You wouldn't think there's three parts on the village people. About that famously straight band in Victor's appreciation of it all. Believe you me, it could have been a five-parter. Tim Maynard has a question.

How much have streaming platforms changed when major series are released? When I was younger, when I was younger, how can you be younger and still have streaming? Oh man, when I was younger, the three channels. Okay, that's the only question I want to hear. Tim says, when I was younger, series are often released over the winter.

Now it seems shows a release more evenly through the year. Is this due to viewing habits changing? Maybe you're right. And then maybe he's talking about the time, which was before streaming, when it was very, very different. But you are definitely right that streaming originals debut throughout the year.

In the old days, you are right. You're maybe talking about. It was all to do with advertising buying. And the old days, the networks cared most about advertiser money. So they wanted to have big audiences at the times that they could predict. So for September and October, as you say, the autumn,

for big drama and comedy series, things they'd spent a lot of money on. And entertainment. But you had these things annually like clockwork. You know, now you've got these weights between seasons, all sorts of things. You know, you had these huge competitions like who had won Thursday night, what you schedule things against, you know.

It all mattered and it mattered because of advertising. And summer, particularly in the US, used to be a complete repeat wasteland. Anyway, as you say, everything has changed. There are some things that they still do for awards reasons because there is a sort of recency bias when they're looking for awards things. So it's not that release dates have become irrelevant.

It is just that they are now used for different things. Primarily, the platforms want subscribers. They want to acquire new ones. They want to retain the ones they have. They want to win awards and they want to avoid competition. And that is quite important when you think of people sort of the churn of subscriptions where people think, I'll sign up for this show, but not.

So they premiere new seasons of shows when they want big sign-ups. And the subscriber strategy basically dictates all of this now. So you might put it on at a time of slow subscriber growth. And all those things that I used to say, like summer's just not a wasteland anymore. Obviously, summer's very big as well with reality and things like that. There are certain shows that feel more summer for whatever reason and certain kind of expensive dramas that feel more January for whatever reason. But you might also do it just before you're going to do a price increase.

but they really worry about churn. I actually was trying to think back as to how some will have to go over Netflix because obviously they're the sort of global market leader. If you think of Netflix over the last year, so June 2025, they had Squid Games season three, August, Wednesday season two, part one. Again, these staggered drops are now a big part of it,

as you can see. September, they had Wednesday part two, again, staggered release. October, they had Love is Blind, selling sunset and nobody wants this too. November and December, all those stranger things finale season drops, which were enormous and everything got out the way for that, basically. January, you've got Bridgeton, the Harlan Coburn, the things that you just always are going to be your January bankers. February, you've got a second Bridgeton drop.

March, you've got your big franchise series, and you've got April, you might have returning comedy because you might be thinking about Emmys and things like that. So if you look at it, there is a reason for all of it. Every single, not just every quarter needs to be attractive to subscribers, but every month needs to be. be attractive. And these temp hole releases have got to keep you there all the way through. So you think, well, I won't cancel because, hang on a second. And this staggered release thing has become being bigger and bigger. As we say, the thing they disrupted, they have become.

But yes, but it's fascinating because, as you say, in the olden days of TV, if you made a TV series and they said they're putting it out in August, you would just be. Oh, right. Okay. They hate it. Hate it so much that they're willing to just burn it off. Yeah. And if you do a series and they're saying, we're going to put it in a,

third week of September, you'd be like, yes, that's great. Or we're going to put it in January. Those were the two times where you think, oh, you love this series. I mean, the case you stuff would have to go in March or in that's not a problem. We still feel that that first week of January is now the biggest time in the schedule of the year. Yeah, you know, Traders comes out. January, Rebush, Harlan Coburn comes out. January, Coben, yeah, exactly, Troters, all the stuff.

ITV have massive things. But my God, you know, January, August. You know, you can look at the BBC schedules. now and it's all repeats and it has been for many many many years by the way they you know you tend to because fewer people watch television during the summer it's one of the statistical things where people go yeah but if they put good shows on then few people wouldn't watch you go no no absolutely reality you can get them in the summer you can yeah yeah but you can you cannot you know it is light longer some you know people are away it is you will just get fewer people watching I I always

I always think the most instructive thing to know is if you've got someone like House of Games, which is on every day. And during the summer, it's, Michael Sheen's House of Games, Michael Sheen's House of Games, Michael Sheens, Richard Osmond's House of Games. It's on every day. When the clocks go back in the winter, you will immediately add 400,000 viewers. The next Monday, you'll have 400,000 more viewers than you had the... Yeah, you just will, because the people are, we're creatures of habit,

and the darkness affects us and are, you know, it is absolutely... I'm just imagining a caveman house of... games now on the wall. Yeah, anyway, carry on. It's a really good idea. Yeah, yeah. And yeah, so it's, it is September, October, you will, in terms of terrestrial TV, you will always be getting more viewers.

And in the summer, you will get fewer viewers. It's like you remember when, God, this is going back, when, when they do like replacements for the Saturday morning TV shows, so instead of Swap Shop or Saturday Superstore going live, it'll be like the summer replacement. And everyone would be like, oh, God. But because people just wouldn't watch, you know, people, you get, TV companies get the over the nights all the time, they would just see that viewing would drop off a cliff. But you can't do that for your streamer, so they've got to find ways every single month has to be attractive. You can never quite cut the chord.

Yeah, exactly that. That's not what broadcasting is. Okay, wrong analogy. You can never just quite, you know, be part of the churn. And yes, rereading Tim Maynard's question, you're absolutely right. He's talking about how much of streaming platforms change when major series are released. because in the old days he's talking about terrestrial TV. I thought Tim doesn't sound like the name of someone in his late teens.

I'm not sure there are late teen Tims out there, but Tim sounds a solidly kind of... He's got a sense of history. Yeah. A question relevant to your interest from Hannah Spires, Richard, who says, I watched Serena Williams' comeback match at Wimbledon and felt suitably underwhelmed.

He had such a massive buildup for a really anticlimactic end. I know you've talked before about best ever comebacks, but what about worst? Oh, I feel for Serena. I thought she did great. And I thought... You were there, right? I was there, yeah, watching it. Rich was in the Royal Books.

With Greg James. With Greg James. Yeah. Like, mere days later, is at Taylor Swiss wedding. Yeah, we kept it on the down right. Yeah, we talked about a lot. We did not talk about Taylor Swiss wedding. I will say that.

His mum trod on my foot, and she was very, very good about it. Sounds like you were, too. And she was very... You know what? I mean, you can tread on my feet all day long. I'm not going to feel it. Okay. The end of my foot is so far away from that.

I mean, it's, she was absolutely delightful. I have to say, again, she said nothing about Taylor Swift either. Perhaps she didn't know. Perhaps it was a surprise to her. Listen, we will find out. Can I just inch you back towards Serena Williams? Serena Williams. Yes.

So worst ever cut. Well, I'm going to give a very specific example of it, which is, which is we were making a documentary about E-17. After take that, had their unbelievable comeback. E-17, we'll have an unbelievable comeback too because they had the songs. Yeah. They did have the songs.

So we were making this documentary about them, just following them around, just relaunching themselves, starting to do gigs. And halfway through the documentary, Brian Harvey and Tony Mortimer had a fist fight. And the documentary ended. And their comeback ended. And so nobody made any money.

And the two I really felt for were Terry and John, who the other two members of E-17, who you watched some of the Russia. We did actually put the show out in the NBA. You watch those two boys who didn't have an awful lot of money and were so lovely. And they just think, oh, great, Brian and Tony have messed this up for us. So, you know, take that. I can't believe you can coax them back into sort of just, you know, taking the punch up on the road, is it all that?

Well, I don't think they've got the Gary Barlow figure who would just drive things through. Like the Barlow McCartney type figure. The statesman. Yeah, the statesman. It lacked a statesman, didn't he, E-70? I think slightly they lacked a Clement Attlee figure at the heart of E-17. Bismarckian intelligence. But if you think about it, I mean, that could have been huge, right?

And they could still be going now. Yeah. You know, they could absolutely be on that nostalgia circuit and headlining on that nostalgia circuit. Because like a huge amount of big hit songs, a huge amount of proper bangers, huge Christmas song. I mean, they could be going forever and ever and ever. but yeah they were for various personnel reasons they were not that seems a shame to me

so that's my worst ever come back i can't believe they can't get it together now now they see the circuit yeah but i mean they're not out there no you know by the way i thought it was lovely serena wouldn't try to you know she just wanted to you know she wanted to show them what she got oh yeah it's fine she's 120 mile an hour serve yeah okay you're 44 that's pretty good yeah but uh yeah there it is But, yeah, the big story there was Greg James not telling any of us that he was going to Taylor Swift's wedding. Another big story, I tell him who's lovely. Who?

Jamie Cullum. Oh. Oh, my God. What a nice guy. Anyway, that's absolutely by the bike as no one asked. Wow, that is all the goss you can hear from the Royal Box. And he was there with his bassist, Loz, who was also absolutely delightful. Very nice to hear this.

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