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Article: Watching an indie band in Islington.
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- Cyprus Mail (Cyprus)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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Byline: Lauren O'Hara
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THE GARAGE in Highbury and Islington is one of those London venues that is just the right size, big enough to feel there's a crowd but small enough to be equidistant from the bar and the band and have a good view of both.
We're watching The Holloways. They're good: witty and political, layers of beat and insistent rhythms making the crowd bounce up down as one moving machine.
They are singing a song called 'Generator'. It's dredging a memory from the depths; 1970s Staines when we'd changed our gym-slips for jeans, skipped Guides and headed to a south London pub to hear a new band from Woking, called ...