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Find out more about Kyle: Kyle grew up on The Housemartins, R.E.M., The Clash, Talking Heads and (unfortunately) some Wham! Today while he still follows Stipe and Co. he has interviewed the likes of Menomena, What Made Milwaukee Famous, The Thermals, Louis XIV and Ben Kweller. |
When it comes to Brit Pop, you can go the way of Keane. When you need Brit Ska(ish) good jams, there's no better place to go than the Holloways, the four-piece indie band from North London. They're fun, rowdy, and offer great bouncy sing-a-long tunes, especially Generator, one of my favorite songs.
For British music, these guys are too good not to share. Alfie Jackson (Guitar, vox), Robert Skipper (Guitar, vox), Bryn Fowler (Bass, vox) and Dave Danger (Drums) — and his name really is Dave Danger —really get into what they do. I could see a Glastonbury Festival with these guys tag-teaming with The Wombats. Talk about a show.
It’s a bit funny that someone once remarked that “Truly now is the time to get into them, because, like Kaiser Chiefs, everyone will hate them in a year’s time.”
This Libertines-meets-Kaiser Chiefs band sings about mundane items — after all, they are nice, middle class boys. Their first single ‘Two Left Feet’ entered the charts at number 33 in July of 2006, with the follow-up ‘Generator‘ charting at number 30 in October.
Why talk of them now? They're currently recording their second album and it should be here in the Fall.
The name? They formed in a live-music venue called Nambucca on the Holloway Road in 2004, and the name stuck.
Fancy a listen? Here's 'Generator':
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