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Brum’s Worst Band Name

Note, not worst band. We like some of the bands listed. You can be a great band and have an appalling name, or at least you can have hit records and have a shite name (Audio Bullys — sort the grammar out thickos) or have a good frontman and a guitar genius and have a shite name (The Tears — as it eye water leakage or ripping? sort it out). You can certainly come from New York and have a shite name, and that’s where we’ll be shamelessly half-inching this idea from. “band names have only gotten more loathsome ever since we ran out of words back in 1993.” Annually* BiNS in association with the The Big Paws will be launching the hunt to find the worst band name in Brum. The rule: 1. The band must actually play shows in the city. Anyone can name a bedroom project Private Lynndie England & The Ball-Pointer-Atters but it takes real nerve to actually book a show and put it on a flyer. Here are some to think about: Rase — decent indie pop, but can’t work out how to pronounce it, doesn’t mean anything… don’t think you’re allowed to make...

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