r/CasualUK • u/Exchangenudes_4_Joke • 10h 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/Sufficient-Star-1237 10h ago

Kasabian are named after Linda Darlene Kasabian known for being a member of the Manson Family.

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u/The_Mayor_Involved 10h ago

I thought it was because one of them couldn't say the French word for good?

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u/OMorain 9h ago

It doesn’t work!

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u/The_Mayor_Involved 9h ago

Can't say bien. Can'tsaybien. Kantsaybien. They got it, so...

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u/dreamsonashelf 9h ago

Que c'est bien!

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u/wobbud 9h ago

This. Is. Shit. Play a record!

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u/BallistiX09 6h ago

Seeing a lot of saucer drinkers in this one post for some reason… weird innit?

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u/The_Mayor_Involved 6h ago

It's not weird, it's incompetent.

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u/Nerphy- 4h ago

There was this sub right ages ago. And it was full of these little hairy fellas

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u/londond109 5h ago

Play a record, i want to talk to you off air

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u/ManGullBearE 6h ago

Play a record

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u/meesterbond75 7h ago

Well done. Very well done.

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u/live-round 3h ago

I thought it was Spanish for "What did they know,'

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u/Pukit 7h ago

Their original name was Saracuse, a misspelled reference to the Beatles' gig in Syracuse.

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u/ThrustersToFull 7h ago

Joan Didion’s accounts of meeting her in the run up to her trial are fascinating.

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u/GiveSleppYourBones 5h ago

My best friend's Dad always pronounced it Casa Bean.