bandslash en · NOUN
Etymology
From band + slash.
Meanings
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(slang, uncountable) Slash fan fiction which pairs real musicians, especially ones belonging to the same group.
Westcott doesn’t even consider the thornier question of fan fiction based on real and often living people, for instance, the “bandslash” or “bandfic” phenomenon built around rock-star characters and often homoerotic subplots.
2008 July 15, Keith Goetzman, “Is Fan Fiction Flouting the Law?”, in Utne Reader:It's an archive of bandslash about the rock group Orgy, who are best known for their hard-hitting remake of New Order's early 80s chestnut "Blue Monday."
2002 August 10, LadyCyrrh [username], “[ART] The Annex Reviews, 8/10/02”, in alt.sex.stories.gay.moderated (Usenet):Even more amusing is that those doing the wishful humping in bandslash aren't your usual pin-ups. Bandslash has gone indie. This is a shadowy world where the boys in Franz Ferdinand are each others' fetish objects, and former Libertines Carl Barat and Pete Doherty, lovers.
2006 October 26, Kitty Empire, “Pop idols trade licks”, in The Observer: