Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/King Prawn (band)

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The result was Keep per sources. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 17:28, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

King Prawn (band)[edit]

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Seems to fail WP:NMUSIC. Searches found only passing mentions and interviews. A couple of the albums were reviewed by AllMusic, but coverage is otherwise nonexistant. Current sources in the article include the band's own website, interviews, and Bandcamp pages. Searching the band members + "King Prawn" or the album names + "King Prawn" yielded nothing. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 02:02, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 02:02, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Found this and this easily enough. Back in the day, they were all over magazines such as Kerrang! They seemed to be on tour all the time, and I saw them live several times at my local live venue. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 08:32, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:03, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep - I agree with Lugnuts, this band was big back in the day. I agree that they don't have much of an internet footprint, though. This and this clearly state that they were a prominent member of the UK ska punk scene. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:12, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per prior. This is a band from an interesting era for source-finding -- much of the 2000s is a time where people might expect there to be more internet sources for things than there actually are. Especially for a pretty niche subculture like this, I would expect a far larger magazine footprint than an online one. Vaticidalprophet (talk) 11:43, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Perhaps I should have explained why I removed the template. They seem to meet WP:NBAND#5 given that two of their albums were released under Moon Ska Europe. They also tour pretty regularly and have been in several music festivals. To pile on some additional sources I found this which states that they had a sold out farewell concert at the O2 Forum Kentish Town. JayJay^{What did I do?} 15:48, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - As far as I can tell, they have enough coverage. Foxnpichu (talk) 16:41, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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