Related Clues:

• Bard's sonnet section
• Eight players etc to play
• Little big band, maybe
• Jazz group, maybe
• The Bradford kids of '70s-'80s TV, e.g
• Eight-person unit
• Group of eight, and the rest turned up in the Old Testament
• Eight singing together
• Good-sized combo
• One calls this eight troupers principally
• To hug, and so on, when backing band
• Band of Lib Dem MPs?
• Chamber group (4)
• This puzzle's special squares, e.g
• Eight singers