Simon and the PuTTYvettes? Simon and the coeliacs? Simon and the solitaire army? :)

I do think optimistically imagining your version to be a synthesised best of Iron Maiden to be a good idea, though I don't know whether or not I'd test it.

"Solitaire Army", now you mention it, actually does have possibilities as a band name. It's got that nice property of apparently being a contradiction in terms so that fans can argue about whether it's making a terribly profound philosophical point (or alternatively a profoundly terrible one), and it has a real meaning which isn't a contradiction at all which people can eventually find out about and satisfy their curiosity.

Also, I can see the cover of the eponymous album now. Big square of men in uniform standing at parade-ground attention, all of whom are me.

That was the only one I meant at all seriously, I was joking around, and then it popped into my head and I thought "That could actually be quite good" :)

I was imagining more a bunch of people like alice-in-wonderland playing cards for some reason :)

It's got that nice property of apparently being a contradiction in terms so that fans can argue about whether it's making a terribly profound philosophical point (or alternatively a profoundly terrible one), and it has a real meaning which isn't a contradiction at all which people can eventually find out about and satisfy their curiosity.

:) Yes.