Gin Crazy
In the mid-eighteenth century the effects of gin-drinking on English society makes the use of drugs today seem hardly news worthy.
Much of the gin was drunk by women, consequently the children were neglected, daughters were sold into prostitution, and wet nurses gave gin to babies to quieten them.
The thirst for gin appeared insatiable. People sold their furnishings and even their homes to get money to buy their favourite drink.
Here's my interpretation of a modern day magazine with gin related stories of the day.
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Holloway was much like other areas abandoned by polite society. Things could gestate without neighbours moaning, pubs could put on raucous music nights, former cinemas could become top rank music venues and accommodate large unruly crowds, the locals were partaking themselves!
Visiting the area was part of the frisson for concert goers, slumming it, but above all the quality of the acts brought the punters in from far and wide. The bands that cut their teeth in the area in the 1970's and 1980's went on to take the music world by storm.
Finsbury Parks own council estate prophet John Lydon AKA Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols, Blur, Madness, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Oasis, Radiohead and the Arctic Monkeys to name but a few were acts which performed in Holloway.
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