The Wanted 'label rejected rude name'

The Wanted have admitted that they stuck with their name after failing to think of a better one.

The boyband, whose debut single 'All Time Low' hit number one last week, revealed that their record label rejected a name suggested by song writer Guy Chambers.

"Guy said we should call ourselves The Fux," Nathan Sykes told the Daily Star.

"We've had some crazy times with him and it really made us laugh.

"We actually thought about it for a while as it would have made us stand out. But the record company put the kibosh on it, weirdly," he confessed. "I ended up coming up with the name The Wanted instead."

Sykes went on to reveal the inspiration behind the choice of name.

“We’ve got a song called 'Let’s Get Ugly' and it samples a tune from The Good, The Bad And The Ugly film.

"I had this vision of us all on one of those wanted posters and because the lads couldn’t come up with anything better, it stuck."

The band, who release their next single 'Heart Vacancy' in October, admitted that they are already planning a follow-up to their debut album, which apparently has the working title Behind Bars.

"We want to record the next album in a couple of months, or as soon as possible," Tom told the paper.

"Our label want us to keep on it and we plan to write the majority of it ourselves. We want to evolve and progress all the time."

He added: "The first time the label put us in the studio, it was just us and a tech­nician.

"They said: 'You’ve got a day to come up with something’. So we did," he said. "They couldn’t believe the song we’d written. I think we surprised them."

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