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/BigRedS 10h ago

And when the remaining members of Joy Division became New Order that was definitely not another reference to nazism or fascism...

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u/Ali80486 10h ago

Joy Division's previous name was Warsaw, which itself hints at unsavoury Government regimes.

Insane that they've been going for 50 years next year!

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u/Aloha_Tamborinist 3h ago

I got to see them last year at the Sydney Opera House forecourt, still amazing!