"Annie" was written by guitarist Donna Matthews 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.
[3] 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 repetitive strain injury.
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.
But then we were offered the Lollapalooza tour and I couldn't face it.Holland re-joined Elastica in 1999 and remained a member until the band's demise in 2001.
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