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Alternative rock, indie rock, Britpop. Occupation (s) Musician. Instrument (s) Bass guitar. Years active. 1992–2001. Annabel "Annie" Holland (born 26 August 1965) is a British musician. She is best known as the bass guitarist and co-founder of the Britpop band Elastica.
- Annie Holland Join Justine Frischmann and Justin Welch in Elastica
- “…I Don’T Feel Any Kind of Need to Bare Myself in Public…” – Justine Frischmann
- Justine Frischmann Voted as Second Favourite Female Singer
- Annie Holland Leaves Elastica
- Annie Holland Returns to Elastica
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Elastica’s roots dated back to June of 1992 when Frischmann and Welch would join forces with bassist Annie Holland, who allegedly never played the instrument before joining the band. By August of 1992, the band put an ad in the Melody Maker Magazine looking for a second guitarist. They would end up finding guitarist Donna Matthews. Elastica would w...
Frischmann’s approach to music was pretty simple, with her telling the Guardian, “I have a low boredom threshold. I want the best bits – verse-chorus, verse-chorus, that’s it… Also, I don’t feel any kind of need to bare myself in public. I’m not into angst… I’ve always liked humour in music.” By October of 1993, the band released their first single...
The plan ended up backfiring. By 1994, before the band even put out their first album, or even had a major record deal, Elastica was gracing the covers of weekly music magazines in the UK and getting a lot of coverage. Even without an album to their name, readers of Melody Maker in a 1994 poll voted Frischmann as their second favourite female singe...
Bassist Annie Holland left the group in 1995, with Frischmann telling Rolling Stone, “She left on good terms. It was really her saying, ‘I love you guys, but I don’t want to do this anymore’. She was tired of the grind. Either you like this lifestyle or you don’t.” The band would interview about 36 different bassists to fill her role. By 1995, the ...
By this point in time, the studio bills were piling up for Elastica, having wasted 50,000 pounds on recordings they never used. The band also lost their American recording contract after their label merged with Interscope. However, things would eventually work out. Annie Holland returned to the band the same year. By 1999, Elastica expanded to a si...
Elastica was a British band that had a huge hit with \\"Stutter\\" in 1993, but their success was short-lived due to infighting, lineup changes, and legal issues. Annie Holland was one of the original members of the band, but left in 1994 and was replaced by Donna Matthews.
- Elastica. [LISTEN] Justine Frischmann: Why I dropped music for art. Elastica formed in mid-1992, when Justine Frischmann and Justin Welch decided they needed a group to reflect the interests of people like them.
- Echobelly. [LISTEN] Sonya Madan on getting the band back together. Even more than Elastica, Echobelly - a multiracial, multicultural and multigendered band - destroy the pernicious fib that Britpop was just a bunch of blokes with guitars and Beatle cuts singing about sunshine.
- Sleeper. [LISTEN] Louise Wener on her time in Sleeper. Louise Wener met Jon Stewart at Manchester University in 1987, resolving to form a band and do some gigs.
- Kenickie. [LISTEN] Lauren Laverne on John Peel playing Kenickie. Inverting the Sleeperbloke lineup, Kenickie had three stars at the front and one slightly anonymous bloke (Lauren Laverne's brother Pete - known as Johnny X) at the back.
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Annie Holland’s age is 58. English musician who played bass guitar for Elastica, a Britpop band that released the singles “Stutter,” “Line Up,” and “Connection.”. The 58-year-old guitarist was born in England, United Kingdom. She was born and raised in Brighton, England.
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Annie Holland (born 26 August 1965, Brighton, England) was the bass guitarist for the britpop band, Elastica. The quietest and perhaps most enigmatic of the group, Annie had an Elastica song named in her honour. "Annie" was written by Donna Matthews and her friend Jane Oliver and is… read more
Jan 21, 2017 · In the photo below, guitarist Donna Matthews, bassist Annie Holland, and drummer Justin Welch, who just completed a stint touring with reunited shoegazers Lush, are all seen together on a...
Sep 24, 2017 · By Judy Berman. Genre: Rock. Label: Deceptive. Reviewed: September 24, 2017. With its pithy, searing songs about sex, groupies, and ennui, the self-titled 1995 debut from Elastica captured the...
