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

Cream
Badfinger
T.Rex

Elastic


Band

The wifes favourite band Vanity Fare .

Status quo

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)

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

Beradogs wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 8:05 amDerek b

Derek b of Buckingham Road - he's in

ENTRIES NOW CLOSED

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

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

Here are the Groups for MB BandOff

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

Chic

In just under the wire

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.

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.

Has this competition been seeded?

Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 11:41 am Has this competition been seeded?

Nope - CBA - entirely random draws.

NB.

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

Where is Thompson Twins?

Bergen wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 12:26 pm Where is Thompson Twins?

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

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