The band name is a pun on the Spanish word for “escape” and ska p(unk). The name further takes advantage of the letter k common to ska, and since the early 1980s, also closely associated with the Madrid working-class district of Vallecas, as a symbol of working-class pride. Thus, Vallekas and many other occurrences of the k instead of the c or qu in Spanish words, reflecting also a feature of the Basque, which has neither the qu nor the c, replacing both with k.
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The band name is a pun on the Spanish word for “escape” and ska p(unk). The name further takes advantage of the letter k common to ska, and since the early 1980s, also closely associated with the Madrid working-class district of Vallecas, as a symbol of working-class pride. Thus, Vallekas and many other occurrences of the k instead of the c or qu in Spanish words, reflecting also a feature of the Basque, which has neither the qu nor the c, replacing both with k.