Girl Band to Gilla Band

yeah you're kinda right there will be a push for more diversity , same in the workplace, the 1% of female engineering job applicants will find themselves getting more interviews nowadays then before.

It's not the first thing I look at myself but I have seen those posters floating about on social media where they remove the male only names from the poster to show how many females are playing. It's a definitive initiative and some promoters attempt to cash in on it. The first thing I look at when a poster is released it whether there are many performers that I like but there are people who have no interest in attending regardless and they'll try to quantify the gender balance and then express their outrage online. They'll be doubling outraged if they feel tricked into thinking one such band is in a fact a band consisting of all males.

As I said, I could be wrong but I imagine the band would have gotten some complaints from those people regardless of whether they had any interest in listening to them under any name.

The more people hear about a band, the more chance it turns into talking about it...the more chance people will have a listen too.

This is just a stunt by a small time group to generate publicity and they're getting it.

They have been getting guff over the name for the last six years. Probably just fed up at this stage. The explanation/apology was a bit wanky tbf.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/6azyz5/girl-band-premiere-interview-2015

I never knew Girl Band existed until they no longer did.

"it had potential to be confusing for anybody that cared to look at a lineup to see whether there was a significant proportion of female artists"

Now maybe it's my fault for not having fuckwits for friends but I know a grand total of zero people (male or female) who have ever looked at a lineup to see whether there was a significant proportion of female (or indeed male) artists. They'd typically look to see if there were bands/artists that they'd be interested in seeing

We sure they didn't do this just to drum up some publicity for their band?

This is the first I've ever heard of them. I doubt they were getting much actual pressure to change the band name.

The band are far from unheard of.

I'll never understand people who automatically assume that just because they themselves have never heard of someone, that it means that no one else could possibly have heard of them either.

I haven't seen any outrage here. But I don't want to go back and re-read all the posts. Seems mainly people suspecting a publicity stunt using current trends about gender politics.

"We are changing our band name. We will no longer be performing or releasing records under the name Girl Band. We apologise for choosing a misgendered name in the first place and to anyone who has been hurt or affected by it."

"When we were starting off it was chosen without much thought, from a place of naivety and ignorance. We had no grasp of the weight of it at the time and in the past few years have found it impossible to justify or explain this choice.

"Regardless of our intention the effect of the name has been damaging to individuals. To try and negate any unfortunate role we’ve played in propagating a culture of non-inclusivity in music or otherwise, we have decided to change it.

"Thank you to those who spoke up about it and educated us on this, either directly or indirectly. Moving forward we will be performing and releasing records under the name Gilla Band. Gilla being a given name taken from Old Irish"."

Their statement didn't ring true for a lot of people. "girl band" is clearly ironic. its unclear how they are hurting, and damaging people. It just seems very cynical. But I don't think anyone will lose sleep over it.

i don`t know but the OP seems to be in a right flap about it