Independent Leyton Orient Forum

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

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.

VOTE BACKSTREET BOYS

Vote your conscience.

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

Gertcha!

Whiskey in the jar Thin Lizzy and the brilliant Phil

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

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

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

Lizzy is coming to get yer