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It Started Recreational: DiS meets The Hold Steady

In Depth by Ben Godfrey

The Hold Steady welcome 2007 having released three albums in as many years; each one has been almost universally welcomed by punters and critics alike. They’ve toured just short of constantly around the recording of Almost Killed Me (2004), Separation Sunday (2005) and Boys and Girls in America (2006), but until this month they’d played just one gig in Europe, opening for Les Savy Fav and Todd in London in 2004. That night, sniffling indie kids, clustered-up clever kids, bartenders and bartenders’ friends on this side of the Atlantic got their first taste of what, for some, would become an addiction...»