research and planning; artist name ideas

For my magazine I will have one main artist on my cover and double page spread and I am also planning to have either a boy band or boy duo featured in my contents page. As my main artist has a 50's look I need to make sure that her name matches this therefore I have looked at similar artists such as Paloma Faith and Lana Del Rey and tried to use their names as inspiration, I also searched different websites for things such as 'unusual girls names' or 'girls names from the 50's'. From this research I came up with the name 'Dixie Q', I like it because it really suits the image that I am trying to stick to and also would draw a reader to a magazine if it was on the front page because it is so unusual. For the boy band/duo I wanted to come up with something completely random, again to draw the audience in. I researched again searching 'unusual band names' and came up with a few;

• Alien puppets
• Baloney poneys
• flying elmos

Although these names make absolutely no sense at all, they will be remembered!