[Music] NSC Greatest UK Band Cup 2025 (GUBC25) - Official Group Draw

[peterward]

My prediction is that The Jam are going to win this.

Objectively it should be the Beatles but there you go.

How you can have blur but not oasis is confusing. Blur aren't even the biggest or best of the britpop era

No Beatles, no Coldplay this is the conference league of bands.

 

[A1X]

If Genesis don't win then we need to turn this competition off. Then Turn It On Again.

 

[boik]

Group H definitely the Group of Death in here

Group C for me. So good to see XTC in there. Probably my favourite live band ever.

 

[Mellotron]

I think if you were aiming for “biggest”, you’d bring in Led Zeppelin, Oasis, The Police, Coldplay, for the likes of Talk Talk, XTC, Hawkwind.

The Who also of course, although I’ve always personally found them monstrously overrated.

 

[BN9 BHA]

No Beatles, no Coldplay this is the conference league of bands.

The Beatles are there in group H

 

[BadFish]

The Beatles are there in group H

. . . And Coldplay are shit

 

[Red Squirrel]

thanks for doing this @Mellotron, it looks like a lot of work for little thanks. I missed the nomination stage but I think it's a good line-up, you can't please everyone. I hear there's a rebel tour being set-up but it can't get funding :

Group I @ AO Arena Manchester	Group K @ Donington Park	Group M @ Brixton Academy	Group O @ P&J Live Aberdeen
The Prodigy	Duran Duran	Culture Club	Def Leppard
ELO	Dire Straits	The Undertones	The Stranglers
T Rex	Iron Maiden	Black Sabbath	Jesus & The Mary Chain
UB40	Muse	The Libertines	The Animals
Group J @ Wembley Stadium	Group L @ Utilita Arena Birmingham	Group N @ First Direct Arena Leeds	Group P @ Lidl Car Park Eastbourne
Soul II Soul	Slade	The Chemical Brothers	Oasis
Ian Dury & The Blockheads	Cream	The Buzzcocks	Led Zeppelin
OMD	The Who	The Eurythmics	Fleetwood Mac
The Police	Motorhead	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	Roxy Music

 

[BN9 BHA]

thanks for doing this @Mellotron, it looks like a lot of work for little thanks. I missed the nomination stage but I think it's a good line-up, you can't please everyone. I hear there's a rebel tour being set-up but it can't get funding :

Group I @ AO Arena Manchester	Group K @ Donington Park	Group M @ Brixton Academy	Group O @ P&J Live Aberdeen
The Prodigy	Duran Duran	Culture Club	Def Leppard
ELO	Dire Straits	The Undertones	The Stranglers
T Rex	Iron Maiden	Black Sabbath	Jesus & The Mary Chain
UB40	Muse	The Libertines	The Animals
Group J @ Wembley Stadium	Group L @ Utilita Arena Birmingham	Group N @ First Direct Arena Leeds	Group P @ Lidl Car Park Eastbourne
Soul II Soul	Slade	The Chemical Brothers	Oasis
Ian Dury & The Blockheads	Cream	The Buzzcocks	Led Zeppelin
OMD	The Who	The Eurythmics	Fleetwood Mac
The Police	Motorhead	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	Roxy Music

Group P venue

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Ignore all the whinging @Mellotron , this will be a HUMDINGER of a contest.

Group H is like a champions league group of Real Madrid, Man Utd, AC Milan and Bayern Munich.

Luckily group B is not quite so forbidding. I don't rate my manics chances o doing much in the competition but that group has at least given them half a chance of progressing to the knock outs.

At least if any of the old whinging bastards have any sense. Which they probably don't. Being as they're old whinging buggers and all.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

thanks for doing this @Mellotron, it looks like a lot of work for little thanks. I missed the nomination stage but I think it's a good line-up, you can't please everyone. I hear there's a rebel tour being set-up but it can't get funding :

Group I @ AO Arena Manchester	Group K @ Donington Park	Group M @ Brixton Academy	Group O @ P&J Live Aberdeen
The Prodigy	Duran Duran	Culture Club	Def Leppard
ELO	Dire Straits	The Undertones	The Stranglers
T Rex	Iron Maiden	Black Sabbath	Jesus & The Mary Chain
UB40	Muse	The Libertines	The Animals
Group J @ Wembley Stadium	Group L @ Utilita Arena Birmingham	Group N @ First Direct Arena Leeds	Group P @ Lidl Car Park Eastbourne
Soul II Soul	Slade	The Chemical Brothers	Oasis
Ian Dury & The Blockheads	Cream	The Buzzcocks	Led Zeppelin
OMD	The Who	The Eurythmics	Fleetwood Mac
The Police	Motorhead	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	Roxy Music

Spice Girls can't even make the rebel tour! Sad....

 

[Mellotron]

thanks for doing this @Mellotron, it looks like a lot of work for little thanks. I missed the nomination stage but I think it's a good line-up, you can't please everyone. I hear there's a rebel tour being set-up but it can't get funding :

Group I @ AO Arena Manchester	Group K @ Donington Park	Group M @ Brixton Academy	Group O @ P&J Live Aberdeen
The Prodigy	Duran Duran	Culture Club	Def Leppard
ELO	Dire Straits	The Undertones	The Stranglers
T Rex	Iron Maiden	Black Sabbath	Jesus & The Mary Chain
UB40	Muse	The Libertines	The Animals
Group J @ Wembley Stadium	Group L @ Utilita Arena Birmingham	Group N @ First Direct Arena Leeds	Group P @ Lidl Car Park Eastbourne
Soul II Soul	Slade	The Chemical Brothers	Oasis
Ian Dury & The Blockheads	Cream	The Buzzcocks	Led Zeppelin
OMD	The Who	The Eurythmics	Fleetwood Mac
The Police	Motorhead	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	Roxy Music

f*** me, the UK has produced a LOT of good music.

Perhaps we’ll go crazy and go to 48 or 64 next time.

 

[BadFish]

f*** me, the UK has produced a LOT of good music.

Perhaps we’ll go crazy and go to 48 or 64 next time.

I think the minnows need some sort of pre qualifying competition.

Great band The Minnows.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

f*** me, the UK has produced a LOT of good music.

Perhaps we’ll go crazy and go to 48 or 64 next time.

Ridiculous idea, as if FIFA would do something stupid like that for a football World Cup…oh!

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

I think if you were aiming for “biggest”, you’d bring in Led Zeppelin, Oasis, The Police, Coldplay, for the likes of Talk Talk, XTC, Hawkwind.

The Who also of course, although I’ve always personally found them monstrously overrated.

Any band who can come out with I Can't Explain and Quadrophenia are right up there for me.

 

[1066familyman]

I am told you are able to start threads on stuff of your choice. You could start one of the genres you believe are missing.

You could even start your own competition.

That's not my point. There are indeed threads on Jazz, Ambient, to name just two genres.

My point is the arrogance of using words like 'best' and 'greatest' and then only apply them to Rock & Pop.

Either Rock & Pop needs stating, or 'best' and 'greatest' needs dropping for 'favourite'. Simple. Or else the cultural arrogance continues.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

That's not my point. There are indeed threads on Jazz, Ambient, to name just two genres.

My point is the arrogance of using words like 'best' and 'greatest' and then only apply them to Rock & Pop.

Either Rock & Pop needs stating, or 'best' and 'greatest' needs dropping for 'favourite'. Simple. Or else the cultural arrogance continues.

Just nominate the London Philharmonic or something then.

Best band I saw at Glastonbury when I went a few years ago were the Black Dyke Band. Comfortably.

 

[DJ NOBO]

Noasis?

 

[BN9 BHA]

Any band who can come out with I Can't Explain and Quadrophenia are right up there for me.

I nominated The Who, i suppose many fans of the band were busy working yesterday afternoon to see this thread and also vote

 

[Seagull58]

Group H definitely the Group of Death in here

Group C, shirley?

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

I nominated The Who, i suppose many fans of the band were busy working yesterday afternoon to see this thread and also vote

I was busy in a number of pubs in the Peak District with no signal.

I'll get over it.