TOO MANY TIGERS?

Last night during NowPlaying@6Music friend of the show Andy Von Pip tweeted: "I saw Three Trapped Tigers live last week. I thought I was seeing Tigers That Talked and as such I was incredibly confused". Tigers That Talked weren't surprised. "Haha" they tweeted back "we've had a silent name battle with them for ages. Never spoken to them about it though, wonder if they're annoyed by it too?".



Actually looking back at our playlists from BBC Introducing: Fresh On The Net over the past three and a half years, there's far more scope for tiger-based confusion among band names than you might at first imagine. In chronological order of airplay we've heard music by:



EATEN BY TIGERS

https://www.myspace.com/eatenbytigers



TEN TIGERS

https://www.myspace.com/tentigers



TIGERSTYLE

https://www.tigerstyleonline.co.uk



PAPER TIGER

https://www.origamisounds.com



BURN PAPER TIGERS

https://www.myspace.com/burnpapertigers



THREE TRAPPED TIGERS

https://www.myspace.com/threetrappedtigers



TIGER SHADOW

https://www.myspace.com/jazzbongo



TIGERS THAT TALKED

https://www.myspace.com/tigersthattalked



MY TIGER, MY TIMING

https://www.myspace.com/mytigermytiming



TIGER PLEASE

https://www.myspace.com/tigerplease



WE CAME OUT LIKE TIGERS

https://www.myspace.com/wecameoutliketigers



TRUE TIGER feat P MONEY

https://www.myspace.com/truetigerrecordings



And there's even Sean Lennon's latest incarnation as a member of:

THE GHOST OF A SABER TOOTH TIGER

https://www.myspace.com/ghostofasabertoothtiger



What's with all these tiger-named bands and artists ? Can you think of any others - apart from perhaps the Tygers Of Pan Tang? And what, I wonder, are the other words and names most overused by musicians when thinking up monikers for their latest projects? Answers - not on a postcard please - but on a blog comment here, or else tweet me @BBC6Music with the hashtag #toomanytigers...