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The Hillfields

out now on Cloudberry Records... nr 78!

About Me

Born in the Royal Festival Hall, overcome by the raw power of Iggy Pop's 2007 Meltdown gig, a beautiful evening, and a smattering of beers... The line up includes Rob Boyd of lo-fi noiseniks Partition and his solo work with Ian Catt , and Grant Wilkinson , filmmaker, writer and recovering bass player... and then, as the clocks changed and the summer of 2007 formerly turned into autumn, Carlos Russell slipped in - born south of the Amazon, he toured the world to arrive in London in 2002, where he decided to upset the local musical scene with his bohemian drumming and a heavy support to lost causes...

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Member Since: 8/13/2007
Band Website: thehillfields.com
Band Members: Rob Boyd - guitars, vocals

Grant Wilkinson - bass

Carlos Russell - drums


Influences: Wire, Sarah Records, C86, The Clean, The Chills, Straitjacket Fits, The Field Mice, The Trembling Blue Stars, Pavement, The Swellmaps, Sigur Rós
Sounds Like: it'll all work out
Record Label: Cloudberry Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

10,000 plays!

We are utterly delighted that we passed a significant milestone (for us at least) on hitting 10,000 plays of our songs on the player. So a BIG thank you for listening to us. We're now finalising some ...
Posted by The Hillfields on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:39:00 PST

Dingwalled.....

Sunday's gig at Camden Dingwalls has been cancelled due to happenings out of our control. Sorry about this. However... one door closes and another opens. Watch this space... Rob
Posted by The Hillfields on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:00:00 PST

New stuff

Its been a bit of a rollercoaster recently. Work has been manic, hard personal choices have had to be made - its been a bit like trying to make a conscious effort to self preserve. Trying to get that ...
Posted by The Hillfields on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:45:00 PST

Cafe 1001 Trumans Brewery gig

Well that was an interesting one. Playing on a Saturday afternoon, at a family friendly, all ages, free gig feels good. Cafe 1001 is a cool, chilled out sort of a place of an afternoon where you can b...
Posted by The Hillfields on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:14:00 PST

Lost Music presents... Cloudberry Records

Well. What a night. After a really difficult day dealing with the anticipation of the gig, work distractions, and some split jeans we had a flippin fantastic time at The Buffalo Bar last night, playin...
Posted by The Hillfields on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:38:00 PST

A couple of mentions

the lovely Song by Toad has written about us here, and then gone and done it again but on the radio here scoot back to half through the 27.2.08 show for the mention... (you can scroll to about th...
Posted by The Hillfields on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:08:00 PST

Cloudberry Release!

Right... our single is out on 21st February from Cloudberry Records. It features a1A Visit / b1Winsome Lostit / b2The Front Room. You can purchase a copy from the website or through their MySpace page...
Posted by The Hillfields on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:05:00 PST

a freezing cold day, brittle hopes getting concrete and other aspersions

strange days.... listening tonight tonight, as rob and I did, after a game of darts, to the final versions of our first bona fide recorded tunes, we realised there's a lot of water evaporating under t...
Posted by The Hillfields on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:24:00 PST

Water Rats report

Twos up! Yup, our second gig as a full band happened last night at The Water Rats in Kings Cross.. and I'm afraid I let my hair down afterwards. Thanks to everyone who showed up, it was cool to see so...
Posted by The Hillfields on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:46:00 PST

4 more songs in the can

Yep, another days recording done. We're pretty pleased to have managed to get another four tracks down - Winsome Lostit / Shop / This might be antifolk / The Front Room. After our difficulties with Wi...
Posted by The Hillfields on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:35:00 PST