Bandoff - Group Stage - Group A

[StillSpike]

Please vote for your favourite bands/artists from the Poll
You may vote for 2 from the list
Polls open till lunchtime Saturday

Please feel free to post about why you've selected your favourite(s) - you may be able to persuade fellow boarders with youtubes, tracks, anecdotes or simple bribery

Top 2 acts at the end of voting will go through to the Round of 16

[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.

[Currywurst and Chips]

VOTE BACKSTREET BOYS

[StillSpike]

Vote your conscience.

[Beradogs]

Chas and Dave has 5 more votes than Derek b. All my effort in copying and pasting dereks achievements. Pffftttt

[Dunners]

Gertcha!

[KC & sunshine band]

Whiskey in the jar Thin Lizzy and the brilliant Phil

[Disoriented]

I’m never gonna die young ......... in Chinatown.
Nuff said.

[Constanza]

Weak group
The Specials were a special group from a great time for political music.
Live and Dangerous by Lizzy - I want to put my leather jeans back on

[EH16]

Yep Specials and Lizzy. The Kinks were, at times, better than both but too inconsistent.

[KC & sunshine band]

Lizzy is coming to get yer