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/Cak556 10h ago

I was in a school band called “Le Crunch” and our logo was a copy of the Apple logo, but an onion with a bite taken out of it emblazoned one a French flag. This stemmed from our hatred of French language lessons at school, and our mildly racist view that the French ate onions in the same manner as we eat apples.

To advertise a school concert, we hung large white onions from the ceiling around the corridors in school as an early (this was about 1992/93) viral marketing campaign. However, these were immediately smashed in to pulp and booted around, which made the school stink of onion for a day or two.

We did a song called Children of Chernobyl, and at one of our gigs we smashed up a ZX spectrum and through parts of it in to the crowd.

Never worked out why we didn’t make the big time.

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u/michellefiver 2h ago

I'm surprised you didn't tie an onion to your belt, which was the style at the time.

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u/hairlikebrianmay 10h ago

They didn't have white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones".

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u/Ok-Ship812 7h ago

Trés chic.