Girl Band to Gilla Band

I think Felix is grand live at a festival. I wouldn't buy a ticket to see him solo though.

I thought the name was short sighted but other than that I surprised they were heavy enough for me to actually like

Ok so it's ok and empowering for female artists to golden shower someone live on stage in front of children with no consequences because it's the modern age of female representation in rock ? Not sure why you are having a pop at middle age men either that seems weird what does age have to do with it.

Nope, she should have been prosecuted the same as anybody that behaves in that way, assuming there's a specific law for that, which I hope there is if it was non-consensual! There's nothing empowering about denigrating another person.

I'm not having a pop at middle aged men in general, just that very small sub-group that spend their time online getting offended by people that want to promote others getting equal opportunities. The kind that tell inferior people like us women that we're either stupid or disingenuous if we don't agree with their point of view on even trivial matters.

I'm not saying it stops equality or they intentionally did it but it could be perceived as them trying to pass themselves off, or at very least be confused as a female led group when you quickly scan the lineup of a festival to see how much of the lineup is female and you're not familiar with them. I probably wouldn't put up a poster advertising my appearance at a show as the "Strongest Man in Ireland" when I am neither strong nor a man!

Are you in the band?

No? so then why does it matter a toss if they wanted to change the name?

They've explained their reasoning, it doesn't change their music, it's a nonsense thing to be offended over

It still hasn't been clarified who he was referring to! Feminists as a broad group I assume, but it wasn't very clear. I don't see what you find disingenuous of me assuming he meant feminists or female equality advocates. You jumped to an immediate put-down rather than engaging in the attempt to discuss the matter. You've a very adversarial and insulting posting style that's not in the least bit persuasive, it must be said! To clarify also, I don't feel victimised because 1) I'm not involved in the music industry and 2) I don't consider someone who doesn't know me telling me I'm stupid to be a specifically accurate or hurtful act. It merely clarifies the type of person that I'm dealing with.

I'll give you a hint - I wasn't referring to feminists or females. And you can be certain that the people who "educated" them on this (as they referred to in their statement) were not doing it for "equality" or "females". There's a very specific type of loser that "misgendering" offends.

Fair play, I'll go into my box now. You've convinced me of your point of view.

No, I'm saying the opposite. I'm not going to get into the rights or wrongs of it all, but promoters have in recent years emphasised their billing as having intentionally increased the female representation. Electric Picnic has made explicit reference to its attempt to be more inclusive. Some have even emphasised "female performer only" days. You had bands like The 1975 claiming that they wouldn't play festivals unless there was a higher percentage of females. There's a very definitive initiative to increase female representation and what I'm saying is that when they publish a poster there is scope to misrepresent it somewhat if a high billing is given to a band called Girl Band that consists of males. Just my opinion and I could be entirely wrong as that was just my interpretation of the motivation for the name change in this instance.

"G-Spot & The 4 Fingers" - a contemporary group who play acid jazz covers of Wolfe Tones songs while performing interpretive dance. See it's not that hard!