 4 ft Fingers were formed in Cheltenham in 1996.The mid nineties was a time of a minor musical revolution in Cheltenham.Lead singer Rob Crebbin stated in an interview that the name comes from the fact he has large hands and had an old rubber bat toy which sat on top of his television – "the [other band members] used to say he had fingers like mine and someone said they're 4ft Fingers and so we went with that".