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Re: Boards of Canada - new theory regarding band name origin

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 12:27 pm
by MidlothianMeddler
There is also a place called 'Bauds of Cullen'. They grew up in Cullen which is near Buckie High so that could be another origin for the 'boards' part of the name. They were interestingly going by 'Bawds of Canada' when they gigged in Edinburgh in 1997.

https://bocpages.org/wiki/Autechre_1997_UK_tour

Re: Boards of Canada - new theory regarding band name origin

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 3:07 pm
by dana
Also, notice the hexagonal structure of the wire used on the boards to make them non-slip.

Re: Boards of Canada - new theory regarding band name origin

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 3:26 pm
by Redd Panderson
Boards also are made of wood from trees, which have rings. The past inside the present.

Some lady called. She said her log has a message for you.

Re: Boards of Canada - new theory regarding band name origin

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 4:56 pm
by dana
My log is better than your log. Watch out.

Re: Boards of Canada - new theory regarding band name origin

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 4:58 pm
by Redd Panderson
LOG BATTLE

Re: Boards of Canada - new theory regarding band name origin

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2026 6:41 pm
by magrathea_ultima
/snark on

They said in interview that their memories of Canada are of immense empty vistas, malls and boxy office spaces.

From the NME interview: "My memory of Calgary is a picture of boxy 1970s office blocks dumped in the middle of nowhere against a permanent sunset."

It is very clear that the name comes from Bored of Canada but they were two so Boreds of Canada.

I am 100% sure it is the true answer.

/snark off

For the record, the image they describe is VERY 1970's Canada.

Re: Boards of Canada - new theory regarding band name origin

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2026 10:00 am
by sowhereareyouliving?
Buckie High wrote:Image

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Once spent a couple of weeks volunteering in Skaftafell repairing footpaths, laying boardwalks over wetlands ... Looks like this but ++ and well worth a visit https://www.vatnajokulsthjodgardur.is/e ... lsheidi-s3