Jockstrap is an English alternative pop duo formed in 2017 by Georgia Ellery (vocalist, lyricist and core harmony-writer) and Taylor Skye (producer). They met in 2016 during their freshman year at London’s Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where Ellery (who is also part of Black Country, New Road) was studying jazz violin and Skye electronic composition.

Regarding their band name, Ellery said:

I chose it and that’s the effect I was going for. I like that kind of gross, shock factor in music and lots of people I admire use that. So I think the name Jockstrap has that effect but it could have been much worse. Jockstrap is quite tame. Also, I tell younger people and they’re like, “Cool.” But I told my grandmother and she didn’t reply to the text and she hasn’t mentioned it since. As long as people remember it though I don’t care.

– The Quietus

The band name kind of came before the band. I think that the band names of heavy metal bands are usually really really good, so like Iron Maiden and Slipknot, I know Jockstrap is different, but I thought that maybe Jockstrap could be a heavy metal band name, so that’s why I was drawn to it. Also, the imagery that it has with it, that sort of like, toeing the line of extreme and erotic. It doesn’t really represent what the music is and that’s cool with me.

– Flip Side Planet