Idea for Band Logo #3

^ Click on the image above to view GIF

This post is to show one of my first designs for our band logo, we have used it as a header for our blog in the meantime as we decide on our final logo for the CD covers and posters to represent our band.
I created this GIF image myself using an editing programme called Photoscope, I used black and white because the contrasting colours are simple and effective yet classy at the same time. The font used is actually called 'Indietronica' and can be found on www.dafont.com, a website for free fonts.
For the logo on a CD cover or poster the text would obviously be still and not of a GIF form.

Choosing Our Band Name

Deciding on a name took us a long time as a group to settle on one, we are all extremely opinionated which meant we disagreed often on certain words or structures of band names. We used random name generator web pages but they were all hopeless for our genre...
e.g. The Pardons
The Sandcastles
Cross Club & The Parakeet

We then continued the search for a name that would be memorable and nothing like anything that exists now. We all really liked the idea of having 'The' at the start of the band name, due to knowing of multiple successful existing bands such as The Arctic Monkeys, The Maccabees, The Beatles, The Vaccines etc. However when we came up with our next idea, we had somehow forgotten about our original love for a band beginning with 'The'; we truly thought we had found a winner when 'Men In Tights' came about, although shortly afterwards we found out it was not the right name for our band. We soon realised that 'Men In Tights' although it mentions men, is along the same lines as 'Four Poofs and a Piano' - as talented as they are - that was not the vibe we were looking for.

The name choosing task became more and more tedious as it went along, after discussing specific words we liked and the structure of existing band names, from 'Kids in Glass Houses' to 'Foals', we finally settled on one name. My chosen favourite word ended up being 'skeleton' and as everyone agreed with the sound of this word, we added some variations around it, including...
The Skeleton's Mind
The Skeleton's Heart
The Skeleton's Closet
The Skeleton Boys
Skeleton Heart

We discarded the first three suggestions and focused on the last two, I think the group split half and half between the two remaining names but we soon came to the conclusion of which sounded more like a band, rather than a film.

So, 'The Skeleton Boys' it is!