A Rose By Any Other Name...
(Why we changed our name)
As you may have noticed, we have changed our name from McFly to Mighty McFly. You may be wondering why we would do this when the name McFly has been such a good fit for us over the last several years. Well, it turns out that there is another band named McFly over in the UK. Although we were the first of the two bands to use the name McFly, the other McFly had a hit single in the UK and, more importantly, the financial support of a management company and a major record label behind them.
The confusion all started when their management company contacted us to let us know that they were going to start using the name McFly for a new band that they had just put together and as a result, they wanted us to stop using the name. We spent a year and a half trying to come to some kind of compromise that worked for both groups. Since we don't have the money that it would cost to fight for the name outright, we compromised by changing our name to something similar (they had originally wanted us to drop all reference to McFly, so believe it or not, this is actually a compromise). We thank you for continuing to support us as Mighty McFly and hope the years to come will be even better than the years past...after all, this band by any other name is just as Rockin'!