Bandoff ! (or World Cup of Bands)

[StillSpike]

Many years ago, Flying Hippo and I invented a game we called Bandoff. It was in the bar (quelle surprise) of the Salutation Hotel in Perth, after a day at the races. We found a flyer for the Rewind Festival, which had bands from the 80s and 90s - and we created a knockout tournament between these bands to find the greatest band (from that list). Everyone in the bar joined in and voted / argued for their favourites in each tie - and they all seemed to enjoy themselves, into the small hours that July night.

For a few years we tried to find a way of cashing in (not to put a too fine point on it) - I even learned an App programming language and created a prototype App. Sadly, that fraud Richard Osman beat us to the punch, and created his "World Cup of....." series of games, books. (actually, I don't think he's a fraud and don't begrudge him any of the additional millions he's no doubt banked from it - he really does seem to have the midas touch, and I'm sure he came up with the idea independently)

If you'd like, i can arrange us a game of Bandoff for the next few days. If boarders would like to suggest bands / artists to be included, I'll random draw them into groups for the group stages. Then the winners and runners up from the group stages will progress to a round of 16, and so on to the final. Each round will be random drawn - like the FA Cup, rather than a predefined "route" (e.g. winner of Group A playes Runner up of Group F etc etc)

All matches / group stages, will be decided by way of Polls on here that I shall put up. You can vote for your favourite in each poll, and argue your case if you like and think you can influence other boarders' votes.

I'd propose to have the polling open for the group stages on here until about midday on Saturday, and then do the knockout round voting for a day each round.

What do you think? If you want a band/artist included, please enter them on this thread. (maybe a maximum of 2 bands each, eh?)

Entries: - These will be drawn randomly into 8 groups for the Group Stage voting - groups will be either 4 or 5 bands, and the top 2 by voting will go through to the Round of 16.

Oasis
Pink Floyd
Crass
Enter Shikari
Bowie
Specials
Jam
The Smiths
The Fall
Beatles
Kinks
Led Zeppelin
ELO
Housemartins/Beautiful South
Queen
10cc
Elton John
Steely Dan
Barenaked Ladies
Lightning Seeds
Nirvana
Arctic monkeys
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
Small Faces
Lyndsey Buckingham’s Fleetwood MAC
Steve White and The Protest Family
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
Backstreet Boys
One Direction
The Cure
The Damned
A tribe called quest
NWA
Rolling Stones
The Who
Sex Pistols
Roxy Music
Talking Heads
Alisha's Attic
Chas n Dave
Dire Straits
The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band
Cream
Badfinger
T.Rex
Elastic Band
Vanity Fare
Status quo
Canned Heat
The Shadows
Captain Beefheart and his Magic (tragic) Band
Peter Noon and The Hermits
Devo
Wire
Teardrop Explodes
Joy Division
Hollie Steel and her Backing Band
Ray Quinn and his Backing Band
Derek b
Depeche Mode
The Pogues
Thin Lizzy
KC and the Sunshine Band

[Max B Gold]

How Much?

[Thor]

Pink Floyd
Oasis

[StillSpike]

How Much?

Bottle of foosties, next time you see me

[The Mindsweep]

Crass
Enter Shikari

[StillSpike]

I'll stick in
Bowie
The Specials

[Max B Gold]

How Much?

Bottle of foosties, next time you see me

Deal.

I'm nominating The Jam.

[Constanza]

The Fall
ELO
The Smith
Housrmartins/Beautiful South

[Constanza]

Woops 2 only
The Smiths
The Fall

[BIGRON]

60s included ?

Beatles
Kinks

[Mikero]

Led Zeppelin

Mikero

[ComeOnYouOs]

Queen
10cc

[Griffin1975]

Elton John
Steely Dan

[StillSpike]

Suggestions posted up to date- I've added in a couple here and there too.

More entries welcome

[Rich Tea Wellin]

Nirvana
Arctic monkeys

[y o y o y]

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
Small Faces

[Rich Tea Wellin]

Lyndsey Buckingham’s Fleetwood MAC

[StillSpike]

Ha ha - OK - I'll also stick in Steve White and the Protest Family

[Currywurst and Chips]

Backstreet Boys
One Direction

[Tom Chance]

The Cure
The Damned

[StillSpike]

Some excellent suggestions here - I notice no-ones put the Stones or the Who (or the Pistols, or Roxy Music, or Talking Heads, or.........) - should I just add them in??

It's occurred to me that we might also, at least in the knockout games, post youtube vids in support of our particular faves - so that's something else to look forward to.

[Rich Tea Wellin]

For diversity...
A tribe called quest
NWA

[BIGRON]

Chas n Dave

[StillSpike]

That only counts as one Ron, you can have another one (or more) if you like...

[Omygawd]

Dice Straits
The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band