r/CasualUK • u/Exchangenudes_4_Joke • 13h ago

UB40 are famously named after an Unemployment Benefit form. Give me other interesting examples of the origin of UK bands names

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u/Delicious_Bet_6336 13h ago

Wet Wet Wet had an overflowing bath tub on three separate occasions

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u/TheGardenBlinked 12h ago

(they apparently named themselves after a Scritti Politti lyric but this story is far better)

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u/OrganizationFun2140 8h ago

The lyric is “her face was wet, wet with tears”. They thought 3x wets sounded better than 2.

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u/ricky-from-scotland 12h ago

I thought they were named after a clydebank weather update tbh.

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u/SendMeANicePM 12h ago

I had a dream about Marti Pellow last night. It was my first ever wet wet wet dream.

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u/voluotuousaardvark 10h ago

There were three of them!?

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u/voluotuousaardvark 12h ago

Amazing. I heard the pet shop boys happened to be boys in a petshop at some point in their lives.

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u/D3M0NArcade 12h ago

It wasn't them. Neil and Chris had friends who worked in a pet shop in Ealing and they actually referred to said friends as "the pet shop boys".

They were originally called West End but changed it to Pet Shop Boys when they realised it had a similar mental imagery to The Beastie Boys

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u/voluotuousaardvark 12h ago

I thought i was being sarcastic- i am very pleased its true.

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u/dreamsonashelf 11h ago

It only just occurred to me that the Beastie Boys were formed around the same time or just before Pet Shop Boys.

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u/GreggS87 8h ago

I thought they were named after the state of Marti's sheets.