Lead Image Credit: Flickr: drgillybean / Creative Commons
Why's the sky blue? Why's water wet? Why are people graffing a popular northern cuisine on bridges on the M57, M6 and a few others?
There are numerous bridges and landmarks you could have passed that have 'The Pies' scribbled across it. This is one on the M6 near Cheshire.
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Credit: Flickr: William Fallows/Creative Commons
The Pies are actually a Liverpool band who are much more well known for their street art than they are their actual art.
No-one really knows much about them but they were formed in Merseyside in the late 80s, but like many UK bands they embarked on an ill-fated US tour that led to the group's demise.
According to The Mirror, the original graffiti was painted after the band 'became stuck' on the bridge and didn't know what else to do.
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"The M57 is the famous one, 'The Pies The Pies' was basically because we got stuck on the bridge and we didn't know what to do, so we wrote The Pies again," frontman Ashley Martin told the BBC.
In the year 2000, Martin reformed the band with a new line-up. Now, 16 years after their re-emergence and 30 years after they first formed, their debut album 'A Brief History of Pies' is here.
PIES.
Topics: Liverpool, Bridge, Interesting