Girl Band become Gilla Band, apologise for choosing “misgendered name”

nme.com:

Girl Band have announced a name change and apologised to “anyone who has been hurt or affected” by their “misgendered name”.The band, made up of four men, have released a statement: “We are changing our name.

We will no longer be performing or releasing records under the name Girl Band. We apologise for choosing a misgendered name in the first place and to anyone who has been hurt or affected by it.”They went on to explain that the name “was chosen without much thought, from a place of naivety and ignorance.“We had no grasp of the weight of it at the time and in the past few years have found it impossible to justify or explain this choice.”We are changing our band name.