shadows of the waxwing
Cf.: "I was the waxwing of the shadow slain." So what's your name a reference to?
It's from a book called Pale Fire, by Nabokov. It's a reference to a bird called Waxwing--there's a poem about the bird at the beginning of the book. We were recording our first record and reading the book and making lists of names when we came across it…we decided it was the name least likely to be taken but it was - we worked it out but there's a another band called Waxwing out there... (Full interview available here.)
- Official Waxwings site.
- AMG entry on The Waxwings.
- Many thanks to Nick Grandy & Donald Barton Johnson for the reference and the quote.
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