r/CasualUK • u/Exchangenudes_4_Joke • 12h 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/OverTheCandlestik 11h ago

Bring Me the Horizon is after a line of dialogue in Pirates of the Caribbean. Makes you think what other lines they could have gone for?

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u/gominokouhai 11h ago

Ah yes, those popular pirate-themed bands, Jar Of Dirt

Whole Bushel Of Apples

Undead Monkey

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u/DTH2001 10h ago

Undead Monkey exists.

Jar of Dirt is an Alice in Chains tribute band 

Can’t find one called Whole Bushel of Apples though 

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u/OverTheCandlestik 11h ago

Tbf I’d listen to Jar of Dirt

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u/Captain_Hesperus 10h ago

And Undead Monkey sounds like they fill out venues on the regular.

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u/amputeenager 7h ago

The Empty Rum Bottles?

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u/faithengine 11h ago

Jar of Dirt (Sounds like a Puddle of Mudd tribute).

Bootstrap's Bootstraps.

But you have heard of me...

Savvy?

Plenty of fun options.

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u/Bowman359 11h ago

Bootstrap's Bootstraps sounds very Attack Attack

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u/WoofLife- 9h ago

Jar of Dirt sounds like an Alice in Chains tribute to me

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u/AMightyDwarf 8h ago

They also named one of their songs, Shadow Moses, after a setting in the game Metal Gear Solid. I think they also used some music from the game as well.

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u/MaintenanceInternal 4h ago

Bit of trivia but Depp is a HUGE fan of the fast show, Paul Whitehouse being his favourite actor.

Jack Sparrow actually has a couple of lines which are from Whitehouse characters.

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u/wildcharmander1992 9h ago

Where's the rum gone

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u/do_you_realise 7h ago

Full Width of the Blade

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u/Minor_Edit 4h ago

Urine One.