The Holloways can comfortably expect to be the biggest band in the world by the end of this year - NME
Moral of this story - don't ask the NME to choose your lottery numbers
So this is Great Britain? the 2006 debut album from North London band The Holloways on the Orchard label was my solo pick from trip two to Euans. He had already picked those he wanted and two other pals who were also there to watch the Scottish football team put on an absolutely pathetic performance against Ireland got first dibs.
To me it is a bit neddy/chavvy in an Oasis/Stone Island sort of a way. All lyrics about young lads getting pissed and trying, not always successfully, to pull "birds". So the title is pretty accurate then?
16 years on you could ask the same question in a slightly different context given everything that is going on at the minute.
The name must have rang some sort of vague bell in my mind for me to pluck it from the box but I couldn't have told you the names of any of their songs. Incredibly the have appeared here before as their track What's the Difference? appeared on a Magnet New Music sampler that I picked up somehow, somewhere along the way.
Even more incredibly it appears that they have had five number 1 singles in the UK Indie singles charts and several top 40 singles Here are the first two singles from the album.
I can't really see me ever playing this again so it will be going to charity rather than taking up shelf space.
Given that this is the last selection tthis represents the end of this mini series
I really liked this album, far superior to anything Oasis ever put out.
ReplyDeleteI did a double-take at your "5 Number One Singles" line though... I think you might need your glasses next time you go on iffypedia.
"They have had five No.1 singles on the UK Indie Chart and several Top 40 singles. "
Indie Chart. You know, the one where you can get to #1 if all your mates buy your record. (Although these days, that's probably the main chart too. But the Holloways record is 15 years old, so that didn't apply quite so much back then.)
Point taken
DeleteI shall amend