Bandom vs Fandom - What's the difference?
bandom | fandom |
The condition or quality of being a band.
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The fans of a sport, activity, work, person etc., taken as a group.
The subculture of fans.
As nouns the difference between bandom and fandom
is that bandom is the condition or quality of being a band while fandom is the fans of a sport, activity, work, person etc, taken as a group.bandom
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- Forming out of a mutual love of the music the band were less of a gang of mates drifting into bandom than people fired by their interest in the music.
Off the Treadmill: Bouncing Souls", Reax , Issue 34, March 2009, page 26:
- The confines of traditional bandom , so long seen as the only way to do it, are falling away, allowing committed lifelong musicians the freedom to actually have some semblance of a life.
One is enough", Qmunicate , Issue 72, 23 November 2009, page 14:
- Hundred Reasons have had a tumultuous career, having been dropped by three different record labels in five years, twice during crucial stages of bandom , shortly following the release of their second album and again following their third.