Musician — London
A Holly Walker Photo
Holly Walker, London.
Red and blue.
For sentimental reasons, No Doubt at Scala when I was 16. Think this was the first proper gig I ever went to. Couldn’t believe they were real human beings
How about The Supremes and Nirvana. For the singalong value.
I spent my youth trying not to like mainstream things but have now accepted that pop culture is my inescapable destiny.
I want to meet Maya Angelou - writer and civil rights activist. Among a million other things she worked for Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and toured the world as a singer and met Billie Holiday… she’d know what’s what.
Koko in Camden means a lot to me. I used to live around the corner when I was an impoverished open-mic-night-botherer, and then years later played there with Maribou State. I stood in the dressing room looking out the window at my old laundrette thinking "I’ve done it". And also "I need to put a wash on".
She’s not quite unsung but Bobbie Gentry didn’t get enough of a go. 'Fancy' is a perfect song. Ironically it was one of the only ones on her album she wrote herself and by far the best.
Holly Walker may be familiar as co-writer and vocalist with Maribou State. Now the London singer-songwriter steps into the spotlight with new solo single ‘Ballerine’. The single premiered as Lauren Laverne’s ‘While You Were Sleeping’ track on 6 Music and was added to Spotify’s New Music Friday playlist upon its release in May 2019.
It was East 17. Let’s leave it off the playlist for all our sakes.
No Doubt - 'Get On The Ball'
Everyone else was listening to angry guitar bands and this had that rare thing in pop music - a sense of humour.
Missy Elliot - 'Work It'
Gadonkadonkdonk
"It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender"
Leonard Cohen - 'The Stranger Song'
Casisdead - 'Pat Earrings'
Genius storytelling
Azaelia Banks - '212' usually works
Giggs - 'Linguo'
He’s a cheeky man
Recently remembered this little gem - DJ Zinc, Ms Dynamite - 'Wile Out'.
Frank Ocean - 'Super Rich Kids'.
All your mates singing in the kitchen.
Sault - 'Don’t Waste My Time'
I don’t know anything about them. But they’re succeeding in sounding classic and fresh at the same time.
Holly Walker, London.
Red and blue.
For sentimental reasons, No Doubt at Scala when I was 16. Think this was the first proper gig I ever went to. Couldn’t believe they were real human beings
How about The Supremes and Nirvana. For the singalong value.
I spent my youth trying not to like mainstream things but have now accepted that pop culture is my inescapable destiny.
I want to meet Maya Angelou - writer and civil rights activist. Among a million other things she worked for Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and toured the world as a singer and met Billie Holiday… she’d know what’s what.
Koko in Camden means a lot to me. I used to live around the corner when I was an impoverished open-mic-night-botherer, and then years later played there with Maribou State. I stood in the dressing room looking out the window at my old laundrette thinking "I’ve done it". And also "I need to put a wash on".
She’s not quite unsung but Bobbie Gentry didn’t get enough of a go. 'Fancy' is a perfect song. Ironically it was one of the only ones on her album she wrote herself and by far the best.
Holly Walker may be familiar as co-writer and vocalist with Maribou State. Now the London singer-songwriter steps into the spotlight with new solo single ‘Ballerine’. The single premiered as Lauren Laverne’s ‘While You Were Sleeping’ track on 6 Music and was added to Spotify’s New Music Friday playlist upon its release in May 2019.
It was East 17. Let’s leave it off the playlist for all our sakes.
No Doubt - 'Get On The Ball'
Everyone else was listening to angry guitar bands and this had that rare thing in pop music - a sense of humour.
Missy Elliot - 'Work It'
Gadonkadonkdonk
"It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender"
Leonard Cohen - 'The Stranger Song'
Casisdead - 'Pat Earrings'
Genius storytelling
Azaelia Banks - '212' usually works
Giggs - 'Linguo'
He’s a cheeky man
Recently remembered this little gem - DJ Zinc, Ms Dynamite - 'Wile Out'.
Frank Ocean - 'Super Rich Kids'.
All your mates singing in the kitchen.
Sault - 'Don’t Waste My Time'
I don’t know anything about them. But they’re succeeding in sounding classic and fresh at the same time.
Holly Walker - 'Ballerine'
Holly Walker - 'Straight Line'
Maribou State - 'Nervous Tics (feat. Holly Walker)' [Official Video]
Maribou State - Nervous Tics feat. Holly Walker (6 Music Live Room)