Band name Originally called "Rishikesh", a name suggested by Olliffe, which refers to the Indian city where the Beatles visited an ashram in 1968, they played a couple of small gigs in pubs. The local newspapers regularly misprinted the name as "Rishi Chasms", so Nicholls suggested a new name, "the Vines", as an homage to his father, who fronted a local band called the Vynes.
Band name Originally called "Rishikesh" a name suggested by Olliffe which refers to the Indian city where the Beatles visited an ashram in 1968 they played a couple of small gigs in pubs The local newspapers regularly misprinted the name as "Rishi Chasms" so Nicholls suggested a new name "the Vines" as an homage to his father who fronted a local band called the Vynes