ROXY BOURDILLON GOES BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE UPAND-COMING SINGERSONGWRITER
I’m standing next to Lots Holloway seconds before her performance. “Nervous?” I ask. “Excited,” she grins. “I feel better up there than I do down here.” She leaps onto the north London pub stage and immediately makes it her home, tearing it up like she’s playing Brixton Academy. Her performance is visceral; the crowd is transfixed. Once she’s thrashed her way through her half hour set – a stirring mix of her own alt-pop tracks and a rock ‘n’ roll cover of The Cranberries’ Zombie that has the whole venue singing along – we grab a drink from the bar and scout out a table in the fairy-lit beer garden.
As we take our seats, she confesses that this will be her 11th night on the trot of gigging and drinking. “I’m all about enjoying the moment. I can’t say ‘no’ to a good time.” But, she assures me, she’d take a friendly local over a swanky celeb do any day. “I was playing Kensington Roof Gardens the other night and it’s not my scene. I don’t need to pay £7 for a Peroni. I don’t even like Peroni!” Bored of the panoramic views and overpriced Peronis, she took the other performers to a local boozer. A few rounds later, she was “stood up on a bar stool” leading a singalong of Oasis’ Don’t Look Back In Anger. “The whole pub was like, ‘So, Sally can wait’. That’s my idea of a good night.”
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