Namesakes #57: The Ghosts

It's Halloween! Only appropriate then that I offer you a bunch of Ghosts. But which would you welcome into your home, and which are downright scary...?

THE GHOSTS #1

Belgian surf-pop from 1963. Presumably they came from somewhere near Bruges, since that's the only part of Belgium to have a coastline.

THE GHOSTS #2

Brazilian garage band who released one album featuring instrumental covers of popular 60s hits towards the end of that decade...

THE GHOSTS #3

Also from Belgian, though no one seems to know when it was quite released, have some "horror funk", which I found surprisingly enjoyable. Imagine Iggy Pop mucking about in a studio on Halloween...

THE GHOSTS #4

Want to hear something really scary?

The man behind these particular Ghosts was none other than Radio 1 Breakfast Show DJ and all round "Ban this sick filth!" friend of Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Mike Read. 

THE GHOSTS #5

Not much that I can find out about these guys other than that they went by two different names on their debut 1984 release; one side of the album was by the Ghosts, the other was by The Heart Of Gold Band. All subsequent releases took the latter name, and all I can find online are tracks under that Neil Young-inspired moniker. But here they are anyway...

THE GHOSTS #6

From 2002, and the album A Hatchetful Of Secrets... I'll give them this: it does actually sound like something out of a horror film.

GHOSTS #7

Also from the early noughties, the era of "landfill indie", these guys were originally known as Polanski. Would you save them from the landfill?

THE GHOSTS #8

2010, and this "UK synth pop collective" arrived on the scene, splashing a load of money on a video... but disappeared after a couple of years. Were they Underrated?

If your mansion house needs haunting, which of these guys would you call?