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. Holland had an Elastica song titled in her honour. "Annie" was written by guitarist

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and her friend Jane Oliver and is about going down to Brighton to visit Holland, which is where she spent most of the time when the band were not working. Holland left the band after the

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on 6 August 1995. Although she had some well-publicised arguments with Matthews about the future of Elastica, Holland left because she was fed up with the constant touring and was suffering quite badly from

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. At the time Elastica had been on the road for almost a year, and with even more dates being added to their schedule, Holland decided enough was enough. Holland re-joined Elastica in 1999 and remained a member until the band's demise in 2001. On 21 January 2017 three-quarters of the original line-up of Elastica – Matthews, Annie Holland and

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– worked together on the remastering of ''Elastica''.

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1965 births Living people People from Brighton English bass guitarists Elastica members Britpop musicians Women bass guitarists {{UK-bass-guitarist-stub