Hot Club De Paris are one of those bands who attracted me with their crazy name. Well, I guess it's not that crazy. But it amused me. Once attracted by their name, I became interested by their music. So, the moral of the story is, aspiring bands yet to name themselves who would love to be nominated for CMU's award-winning (if untruthful, from time to time) MySpace Of The Day feature: Give yourselves a crazy name, and it might happen. Crazy is good. But also good is something that might inspire philosophical debate, or make a reference to something high-brow and literary, because I'm a bit of a snob like that. Anyway, back to Hot Club De Paris, who have a MySpace page. It's not a fancy one, but it does have four tracks for you to listen to, plus a host of tour dates, if you like what you hear. They actually recently played in Paris. "We felt rather ridiculous using our nom de plume in Paris" they say in one of the blog entries. "But I guess when we thought of it, we never imagined we'd get to play in Paris..."
http://www.myspace.com/hotclubdeparis