FEATURE
London Backline Photography
Lime Tree Music
London Backline Photography
London Backline Photography
How did you guys meet and how did Holloway Road
come into being?
We met back at school in 2001! Been playing in
various bands ever since until we found our mutual
interest in country music.
Where does your love of country music come from?
We like great songs and songwriting and country
music consistently produces great songs and great
songwriting.
How would you describe your style of country music?
The best in the UK.
What influences your songwriting?
Everyday life always has a way of influencing our
songwriting whether it's something that excites us or
something that makes us feel like s**t.
Who are your idols?
George Strait
Until you guys came along I always thought of
Holloway Road as part of the A1 running
through North London! What made you name the
band after it?
Choosing a band name is always really hard and
something that bands tend to overthink. We had a tube
map in our hands at the time so we just closed our
eyes and pointed. Good job it didn't land on
Cockfosters.
No matter how big you get you always make time to
come home to Southend to play local gigs...
It's home, its where we are from. These people
have been there from the start! Plus.. where else
would we get to play for our mums?
How difficult is it for a British country band to make
their way on the country music scene which has its
roots firmly planted in the US? How do Nashville
artists react to you?
We have been lucky enough to work with artists
and writers from the states and there’s always been a
mutual respect for each other. We all have the same
end goal. We dig what they're doing and they are
really into what we are doing.
To what do you attribute the explosion in popularity
of country music in the UK and increase in country
music artists over the last 5 years?
Country music along with any genre is constantly
evolving. we think that the modernisation of the
genre has made it more accessible to both the
younger and older generations of music lovers. The
pre-conceived stigma of what country music is, is
quickly being wiped out. We think that people are
now starting to realise that country music isn't just
about old blokes in Stetsons on their front porch
singing about constant heart break.
You played to the largest satellite stage audience on
the Entrance Stage at C2C 2017. How did that feel
and did you get a sense at the time of the scale of
the crowd?
Hugely overwhelming! It was pretty damn cool to
see how much we had grown over the last 3 years of
appearing at the festival.
Each year you've played C2C you've graduated to