Herbert (No comment)
It's just his surname. I think that disqualifies it from being "really shite", because it's not like he was wracking his brains all night and that's the best he came up with.
I've always hated:
Inspiral Carpets
The Electric Prunes
The House of Love
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Pop Will Eat Itself
The Teardrop Explodes (haha.. "My Bloody Valentine" isn't nearly as emo as this)
Porcupine Tree
The Boo Radleys
I do like some of those bands. The House of Love are bloody great for any of you who might like Echo & The Bunnymen or whatever.
And in general I'd agree with earlier sentiments about using other people's song titles as your band name. Funniest / saddest in that regard being Shakespears [sic] Sister.
Also, really boring tangent to resurrect, but PJ Harvey
was a band name, at least for the first couple of albums, a la Sade. For some reason this doesn't bother me as much as James, above.