Post punk band from Sheffield, originally a twosome consisting of Adi Newton and Steven 'Judd' Turner.
From a blog post from a Slavic fan it could be gathered that Clock Dva simply means 'two o'clock' (dva is Russian for two), but there is a more obvious counterpart, and that is that the band name is a reference to the book A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (later so successfully filmed by Stanley Kubrick).
The teens in Burgess' book speak the so called Nadsat language, mixing English slang with Russian: friends are called droogs, girls are devotchkas and intellectuals are sofisto's.
Clock Dva can for this reason also be interpreted as 'Clockwork Orange version 2'.

The teens in Burgess' book speak the so called Nadsat language, mixing English slang with Russian: friends are called droogs, girls are devotchkas and intellectuals are sofisto's.
Clock Dva can for this reason also be interpreted as 'Clockwork Orange version 2'.
Active: 1978-1993; 2008-present, GBR
Site: http://www.anteriorresearch.com/
See also: Heaven 17, Moloko
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