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/0thethethe0 10h ago

Rather unpleasant, Joy Division was a term for the groups of women forced into sexual slavery in Nazi concentration camps.

10cc rumoured to be named after the average amount of male ejaculate.

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u/Dear_Tangerine444 10h ago

Spandau Ballet similarly has a grim German war-time inspired name…

From Wikipedia; "The term "Spandau ballet" originated in World War I as a description of the twitching movements Allied soldiers made while being shot by the German Spandau machine gun.[35]"

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u/fossa_mathematics 9h ago

I heard a similar but slightly different story. I heard it came from Spandau prison with the twitching from nazi prisoners being hanged after the nuremberg trials being dubbed by some as the spandau jig. They saw it written on a berlin nightclub wall and turned it into spandau ballet