English

Noun

bandom ‎(uncountable)

1. The condition or quality of being a band.
   • 1998, John Robb, The Charlatans: We Are Rock, Ebury Press (1998), ISBN 0091865689, unnumbered page:

     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.

   • 2009, Colin Kincaid, "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.

   • 2009, Iain Smith, "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.