Bandoff ! (or World Cup of Bands)

[StillSpike]

I'll take it that was a typo (cause by the RSI your own dicing caused, no doubt)

[Viastratford]

Cream
Badfinger
T.Rex

[BraveNewWorld]

Elastic


Band

[BIGRON]

The wifes favourite band Vanity Fare .

Status quo

[point nine one eight]

Canned Heat
The Shadows
Captain Beefheart and his Magic (tragic) Band
Peter Noon and The Hermits. (Something tells me I'm in to something good)

[Disoriented]

Devo
Wire
Teardrop Explodes
Joy Division

[The Mindsweep]

Hollie Steel and her Backing Band
Ray Quinn and his Backing Band

[Beradogs]

Derek b

[Dunners]

Depeche Mode
The Pogues

[KC & sunshine band]

Thin Lizzy
KC and the Sunshine Band

[StillSpike]

Derek b

Derek b of Buckingham Road - he's in

[StillSpike]

ENTRIES NOW CLOSED

I'll create the random draw for the Group Stage now and post the groups here in a bit

[slacker]

And I was just gonna stick in a couple of not-quite-so-white-blokes-with-guitar bands, too...

[StillSpike]

Here are the Groups for MB BandOff

[StillSpike]

Slacks - quick - one name and you can take up the final place in Group H

[slacker]

Chic

[StillSpike]

In just under the wire

[Beradogs]

Ok. I will start. I nominate Derek b because he was a pioneer of British hip-hop, the first homegrown rapper to score a Top 20 pop hit, with "Good Groove" in February 1988, the first to appear on Top of the Pops, and the first to have an album – Bullet from a Gun, with a guest appearance from Public Enemy – on the UK charts for over two months.

In an impressive series of firsts, Derek B also became the first British rapper to feature in the teen bible Smash Hits, the first to appear at Wembley Stadium – after Salt-N-Pepa and before Stevie Wonder, at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday concert in June 1988 – and the first to secure a management deal with a US company, Rush Artist Management, run by the rap mogul Russell Simmons of Def Jam fame.

He is also one of us. From Woodford.

[StillSpike]

You'll get a chance to make your case on the relevant group when it goes up (he's in Group A) can you find some youtube

I remember Derek fondly - used to knock about with him in our early teens.

[Currywurst and Chips]

Has this competition been seeded?

[StillSpike]

Has this competition been seeded?

Nope - CBA - entirely random draws.

[StillSpike]

NB.

In the event of any ties in either group or knockout stages, these will be decided by coin toss

[Bergen]

Where is Thompson Twins?

[KC & sunshine band]

Where is Thompson Twins?

Last time I saw them they were on a mission with Tintin and Snowy

[Disoriented]

I literally haven’t got a feck - inn clue how this whole thing works.