actually there is, i’m a big fan. Catch-22 is one of those california ska/punk bands.
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**Local band here in Houston (think they have since disbanded thought) that went by the name of Atticus Finch. Good band. **
this is a bit off, but Tom Dumont of Blink 182 has a clothing line called Atticus. Often, the shirts simply say Atticus across the front and there’s a silhouette of a dead bird on its back next to the brand name. charming, hm?
No, it’s from Bob Dylan’s The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest.
There’ve been a whole host of bands named for people, places, and things in Lord of the Rings, including both a band and a solo artist called Gandalf.
Trespassers William named after Piglet’s uncle in Winnie the Pooh (Trespassrers Will for short).
Are Sitcom characters Literary? If so, there was a band called Tuscadero named after Susie Quatro’s character, Leather, from Happy Days.
This probably doesn’t count (although, it should count if we’re counting Jethro Tull). There is a band called Nellie Bly Named after the 19th Century journalist.
The Reivers were around in the late 80s…there name is taken (I assume) from the Faulkner novel of the same name
Babe the Blue Ox comes from the Paul Bunyon story. I don’t think that qualifies as a literary charactor.
Toto?
There’s a good “smooth jazz” band (if such a thing is possible) called Shadowfax.
There is a band in Lawrence, Kansas called Shai Hulud. (after the worms from Dune, for the uninitiated).
Tiny Tim
Little Nell
Artful Dodger (short-lived 70s band, DC area)
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Eugenius was originally called Captain America
That’s harsh on Grace. Together with her father, she actually rescued the survivors of a steamer wrecked off the English coast by rowing out to them during a storm in 1838.
The Fall took their name from the title of a novel by Albert Camus.
Icicle Works comes from the title of a short story by Frederick Pohl.
James were named after James Joyce.
Joy Division is a reference to prostitution in concentration camps, but they took it from a novel by Karol Cetinsky about that subject.
Billy Pilgrim (Slaughterhouse Five)