Black Cat Gypsy
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Mary Bell have cancel their gig in Newcastle. Honestly, why would you call your band after a child killer?!
Punk band named after notorious UK child killer forced to cancel Newcastle gig
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Need more info. Did they really? Who forced them to cancel?
Barnacle Boy
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A band with an offensive name?This is a first.
Discopants91
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Why not?
Sounds like shitty pre-internet moral outrage this.
Sounds like shitty pre-internet moral outrage this.
jedi_toaster
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Marilyn Manson and his band are all named after killers (and models).
errant
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because the band name will get them more publicity than their music ever will? perhaps...
martinlumley
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publicity, due to your post on here, hundreds of us (maybe thousands in time) have now heard of this band.
Black Cat Gypsy
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Would you call a band The Ian Huntley's?
nahwee
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Nail on the head.
chriswallace85
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Wonder if awld Mary was planning on gannin'.
JonnotheMackem
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Same reason the old punks wore swastikas back in the day - shock value, innit.
Discopants91
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Ian Huntley and the Careless Caretakers.
Rock/punk bands being "edgy" is hardly something new.
Some Random Guy
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Can't see many outside of the North East getting the reference tbh.
Pub has pulled it. Non story.
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I used to know a lass called Mary Bell. She wasn’t a criminal or owt. Maybe they’re named after her.
Cheesy Feet
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Kasabian..one of the Manson family.
errant
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only if the family name wasnt bell...
no, Peter and the Sutcliffes is a far better name
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