Battles – UK

Aired on Verso’s home Run and the Saturday Show ffrom August 2023 until January 2024

The bands and their seedings were:-

1. Manchester
2. Merseyside
3. Sheffield
4. London
5. Ireland (including Southern Ireland)
6. Birmingham
7. Scotland
8. Bristol and Avon
9. The South (Kent, Oxford, Sussex, Hants, Dorset, Devon & Cornwall)
10. Wales
11. The Rest (Chesire, Staffs, Shrops, Worcs, Hereford, Gloucester and Wilts)
12. East Anglia
13. The East (Cambs, Lincoln, Yorks and Humberside)
14. North East
15. Home Counties
16. Midlands

How did we work out who was playing who? Alphabetically but dropping THE out of any bands. So alphabetically “The Beatles” would be just “Beatles”.  Polls were/are created on both Verso Media – Broadcasting, Quizzes and Blogs | Facebook and Verso Media (@Verso_Media) / X (twitter.com)

Verso put together the regions and attributed some bands to the regions. Hammy then tweaked accordingly and added the songs (ably assisted by his wife and daughters) and worked out the seedings. Whilst the regions and bands selected are not definitive we have tried to capture all of the UK and get a cross section of decades and genres.

See the results

• Final – London v Scotland
• SF2 – The Rest v Scotland
• SF1 – Manchester v London
• QF4 – Scotland v Merseyside
• QF3 – Mixed v Sheffield
• QF2 – Ireland v London
• QF1 – Manchester v The South
• R1 (8) – Birmingham v The Rest (Mixed)
• R1 (7) – London v The East
• R1 (6) – Sheffield v North East
• R1 (5) – Ireland v East Anglia
• R1 (4) – Scotland v Wales
• R1 (3) – Bristol & Avon v The South
• R1 (2) – Merseyside v Home Counties
• R1 (1) – Manchester v The Midlands