I ended up naming our band one day when sitting amongst the bores of Higher English, Hamlet. The numbing boredom couldn't have been any more bearable so I started thinking up names for our change of name from Mistaken Subkicks (yes it was a gay name!). Simply, I was flicking through my book randomly, and came to a page which started with the words "Let the birds fly, and like the famous ape, ..." Immaturely I laughed at those two words, and thus, Famous Ape was born.