Uppsala was formed way back in 1969 under the name Absinthe. Though in the second half of the 1970s their name was changed. The band's new name is the namesake of the Swedish city of Uppsala. The latter was the hometown of two guitar players, Coste Apetrea (of Samla Mammas Manna) and Jukka Tolonen, who Absinthe met while they were vacationing on the French South-West coast in 1978. What's especially interesting is that Uppsala were actively touring throughout the last three decades.