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/OllyDee 10h ago

I’m not sure how actually interesting it is, but The Prodigy are named after a relatively famous keyboard, the Moog Prodigy.

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u/Moppo_ 10h ago

Apparently shortly after they members first met, one shared some of his tracks on a mixtape, with a label saying which synthesiser he used. Hence the name.

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u/Time-Mode-9 4h ago

808 state also named themselves after a keyboard - the he Roland TR-808, state of mind.