Holloways bassist heads 'home'

Lichfield-born Holloways bassist Bryn Fowler will be playing close to home during two dates on the band's autumn tour.

Following the indie popsters' success with Generator, Dance Floor and Two Left Feet, the Holloways are back with a new EP, Sinners & Winners, available on download from October 27, and a tour which kicks off tonight (Oct 24).

They play at The Custard Factory, Birmingham, on October 29, and The Underground, Stoke, on November 14.

Fowler is bassist and backing vocalist for the band, and attended Nether Stowe High School in Lichfield and was in a band called Silverline.

The Holloways first album, So this is Great Britain?, garnered them a great deal of attention for their taut guitar-jangling ditties. Fans flocked to sold-out shows up and down the country. Festival favourites, this year saw them hit Get Loaded in the Park, Glastonbury, and Shrewsbury's Indieco Sunday Social, with their gleeful stage performance.

So for the infamous second album, the boys trundled off to the famous Sawmills Studio (the birthplace of classic albums from Supergrass, Muse and Oasis). And then suddenly it all stopped. Their record label TVT had gone bust.

Yet the boys knew what they had to do and pulled out all the stops to complete their songs, plus found a new label. Finally, here we are with a finished EP, and a slew of promising tracks in the form of the album Tales From the Tarmac, to follow early next year,

"It was a real struggle when TVT went under," says vocalist Alfie Jackson. "We weren't expecting it at all, but I think you have to adapt to what gets thrown at you, and it meant that we were all so personally entailed in what we had to do to get our tracks out. Our fans have been incredible."