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Fun story - was responding to some thread on Twitter a few months back about great/influential bassists, my response was along the lines of; “Carlos D of Interpol - took the melodic template laid down by Peter Hook and developed/expanded on it massively.” Who was the first person to like and...

Another one here asking why it is Chelsea and City have qualified, other than possibly being the two most egregious examples of dirty money in English football.

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 don’t really bear any of them any ill will. As said above, they all improved us, I’m glad all of them were our managers at the time.

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.

Always going to be the way. The other options I see are all not ideal - a 64 team tourney is just too long and unwieldy, another option is bands needing to be THIRDED but again that doesn’t guarantee certain bands getting in. Just like real life footy tournaments, always a chance some big...

To confirm, the nominations were provided by the good people of NSC - so it’s who in the NSC view is the greatest.

Those are the venues for each group. Notable/famous venues across the UK.

??? Where do you think the bias is? The bands I really like are generally in hard groups. I definitely didn’t manufacture the groups.

I had considered taking them out, as they are surely favourites. The nominations thread made me wonder though. We’ll see. If they walk it, they’ll be taken out next time. If there is a next time.

That’ll be REM from Athens, Georgia?

Here we go. Completely unseeded, as this is first of these competitions. Used a Random Group Generator online, no bias. Requests for comment from the Oasis camp on their absence led to a two fingered salute from Liam to reporters, and Noel stated to XFM “It’s all a load of pretentious, let’s...

The 8 venues have been decided for the tournament; Group A - The O2, London - rubbish venue but they needed something large Group B - King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow Group C - Shepherd's Bush Empire, London Group D - Rock City, Nottingham Group E - The Roundhouse, London Group F - Concorde2...

Can a mod please rename the thread to confirm NOMINATIONS CLOSED? Many thanks. (Won't stop people anyway, based on previous experience...)

Ha, egg is on my face. Smiths are in. But no Zep or Oasis.