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Evening Standard
Ruth Bloomfield

London leaver: 'I left my band the Holloways and then quit Archway to follow my heart to rural Austria'

Simone Brünner and Alfie Jackson in Austria - (Supplied)

Following in the footsteps of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of young men and women, Alfie Jackson, who has played guitar since he was a teenager, moved to London after university.

The move was a culture shock for Jackson, and not a pleasant one. But the capital did give him what he had always dreamed of: the chance of making it as a professional musician.

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