What do the bands Heaven 17 and Haircut One Hundred have in common?

Is this a Catch22?

Both names begin with the letter H, don’t imagine you had that in mind though.

I’ve never heard of either.

Ba-dum-tss!

@Seek I had never heard either band either, so that makes two of us.

OK, I’ll play. In addition to the fact I too have never heard of either, both band’s names not only begin with the letter but end with a number < 101.

The fact I’m another one who has never heard of either of them?

They’re both English New Wave bands from the 1980s that started as trios but didn’t remain so.

They suffered Temptation from wearing Fantastic Shirts, leading to Love Plus One.
Heaven 17 named after a band in A Clockwork Orange.

I imagine they are both shit.

Both bands are named after record stores frequented by our Dear Narrator in A Clockwork Orange.

Pats self on back

^Please pat Loli in the face.

Hard.

Can’t, subject of restraining order :D

@SecondHandStoke The record store in A Clockwork Orange is named Melodia. For the film, it is changed to the Chelsea Drug Store in London (which was very trendy at the time). The Heaven Seventeen is mentioned as a band name in both the book and the film, but Haircut One Hundred appears in neither.