Thursday 9th January 2014 by Gaby Whitehill

If you're going to make it in the music industry and your parents cursed you with a boring-as-hell name [think Sarah Smith, William Jones] you need to get a pseudonym and fast.

There are some highly weird band names floating around out there at the moment [step forward Perfect Pussy and Bleeding Rainbow] but there's also plenty of solo acts with totally hip names but less than cool real names. Here's what name you'll actually find printed on driving licenses from the likes of MØ, Hudson Mohawke, St Vincent and more...