About those titles-each band member’s stage name is a riff on Ned Flanders, including Head Ned, “Bled Ned, Red Ned, Thread Ned and Stead Ned“.
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Good news on worldwide Left-Handers Day: a totally verifiable-as-existing metal band named for Leftorium owner Ned Flanders is here.
He also explained how they came up with the band: ‘Myself and our drummer [Bled Ned] were in line at a grocery store, entertaining ourselves by coming up with really cutesy names for really hardcore, brutal bands.
After a while, we started to talk about an issue that inevitably comes up every single time we’ve gotten together over the past couple of years: What’s up with the lack of Ned Flanders-themed metal bands in this world?
Okilly Dokilly – Aw Hell Diddly Ding Dong Cult would’ve worked, too – are playing their first live show on September 5 in Phoenix, where they’ll dress in Ned’s iconic green sweater, except for one guy who feels like he’s wearing nothing at all, nothing at all, nothing at all. “I am”, said Head Ned. “Nothing at all. Nothing at all…”
“[It’s] not as fast as Bartcore, and a little cleaner than Krusty Punk”, vocalist Head Ned tells Rip It Up.
Outside of their music, Okilly Dokilly say their favourite hobbies are “watching The Simpsons“, “plenty of Futurama” and, of course, “politely asking for the return of our power tools, usually with little success”. “Not as heavy as Homer J.ent. Nedal is a happy medium in the Simpscene”. And they are all called – you guessed it – Ned.
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You can hear the early results of their work at the Okilly Dokilly Bandcamp page, where they’re now streaming the demo tracks “They Warned Me“, “Nothing at All”, “Press Destruct Button” and “All That Is Left“.
