Wrong sort of Stains?

The endearing, unmistakable, British Stains.

There are few things worse than a mixture of Stains; it can get really messy.  But it seems there is another set out there.  A Google search of ‘The Stains’ produces several mentions of what is a, probably extinct, US hardcore punk rock band.  Sorry about that; it’s almost as bad as having two copies of ‘Girls Aloud’.

We trust there is little chance of confusion, given the endearing quality of the recently revived UK band’s music.  And, so far as we can tell, there is no other band of the same name playing in Burton in Lonsdale on 24^th November.  But what will this mean for the rumoured US tour?  Could it go to court?  A representative of the band commented that the US tour was just press gossip and that the Burton gig will in all likelihood be the culmination of the Stains’ (the UK ones) farewell tour, as previously reported.  “There is a snowball’s chance in hell that the name will be changed.  By all means sue us – but prove we didn’t get there first anyway.  Besides, the other lot are almost certainly congressmen or accountants by now.”