Band Name Ideas

The Madness logo in my analysis of artists' logos inspired me with some ideas for a band name. The way that the band was presented as an institution in a quintessentially British manner was very appealing to me and I thought I might try to replicate this. Now, recently I have been reading the James Bond novel Moonraker by Ian Fleming, so a name that sprang to mind was Q Branch. Q Branch is the department in 'the secret service' that produces the gadgets for operatives such as Bond. I thought this would work well with my genre as I feel that it is quite a nerdy genre, much like what I imagine 'those fools in Q branch' (to quote Raoul Silva in Skyfall) to be like. For a band name I feel that the use of a hyphen would be suitable to make the name Q-Branch. This makes the word and letter seem more connected. Like Duran Duran uses the Ds as a trademark, a band called Q-Branch could use the Q. The connotations of the name Q-Branch would suite the new wave genre well. Q is a very odd letter and is associated with words such as quirky and queer which establishes the band as a maker of non-mainstream material. The connotations of Q-Branch as a whole would be prestigious and institutional whilst also being intelligent as new wave artists are. It would also connote stereotypes of being British, which is of white middle and upper classes. These demographics are also conventional of new wave. This would also mean that the band could play on their being British in their website or digipack. Though I would like this, I'm concerned that it might not work as the only song my band will actually "sing" is the American song Psycho Killer. On the other hand, David Byrne, who wrote it was born in Scotland. Therefore, I claim Psycho Killer in the name of HRH The Queen.

This leads me too another idea. This plays more on Englishness and loses the Bond theme, so it doesn't connote new wave so much - though I still want to consider it. HMS Music or something similar is my second idea. ...    ...        ... OK actually I really don't like that. It sounds a bit too cliché and camp.