{{Short description|2000s club night in Liverpool, UK}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{coord|53.402|-2.980|display=title}} '''The Bandwagon''' was a club night held on the first Saturday of every month at The Zanzibar club on Seel Street, Liverpool from 2001 to 2005.<ref name=xmas>{{cite news|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/echo-columnists/2008/12/20/bandwagon-christmas-partycarling-academy-liverpool-100252-22515500/|title=Bandwagon Christmas Party, Carling Academy Liverpool|last=Wright|first=Jade|date=20 December 2008|work=Liverpool Echo|accessdate=9 November 2010}}</ref> The Bandwagon night was run by John Robinson and Gary Murphy, members of the now defunct Liverpool band the Bandits.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/Archive/Article/0,4273,4405698,00.html|title=The way we listen now|last=Petridis|first=Alex|date=3 May 2002|work=The Guardian|accessdate=2009-09-16}}</ref>
{{quote box|align=right|width=20%|quote="...it wasn't a conscious plan or anything. People point at the name bandwagon and of course it's ironic now, but I never thought about it as a wagon of bands."|source=—John Robinson, The Bandits.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.gigwise.com/news/793/Stand-and-DeliverThe-Bandits---Interview|title=Stand and Deliver:The Bandits - Interview|last=Bowman|first=Jamie|date=25 September 2003|work=Gigwise|accessdate=9 November 2010}}</ref>}}
The Bandwagon was seen as a focal part of the local music scene, dubbed the "cosmic Scouse scene" by the ''NME'', which emerged in Liverpool in the early 2000s.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-370003-the-cosmic-scousers-have-landed.do|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120917163627/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-370003-the-cosmic-scousers-have-landed.do|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 September 2012|title=The Cosmic Scousers have landed|last=Clark|first=Paul|date=7 August 2002|work=London Evening Standard|accessdate=9 November 2010}}</ref> The Coral, the Zutons, the Stands, Tramp Attack and the Hokum Clones were all Bandwagon regulars, who forged their reputations at the night. The Bandwagon also played host to the Libertines and Noel Gallagher.<ref name=xmas/>
The Bandwagon drew attention from the media, particularly the ''NME'', and was the subject of a feature on Channel Four's 4music who filmed in the venue on a night when members of the Stands, the Bandits and the Hokum Clones joined on stage to play a cover of Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm". The Bandwagon played a guest night at the Knitting Factory in New York in October 2003.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nme.com/news/the-bandits/15095|title=Bandits Bandwagon Reaches NYC!|date=7 October 2003|work=NME|accessdate=9 November 2010}}</ref>
The Bandwagon club night ended as a regular night in 2005 when the Bandits broke up, and has continued only sporadically since then.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nme.com/news/the-kooks/44084|title=The Kooks to play intimate Liverpool Bandwagon gig|date=16 April 2009|work=NME|accessdate=9 November 2010}}</ref> A similar night called Bandwagonesque, now takes place in The Metropolitan on Berry Street, some {{convert|150|yd}} away from the previous venue.
A promotional sticker for the Bandwagon club night is found on an entry in Pete Doherty's journal, ''Books of Albion'' in an entry detailing a night out he had with John Robinson and Gary Murphy of the Bandits.
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