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Victoria

Victoria Hall, Mockingbyrd Music... rockin' in Sydney

About Me



I'm a Brit living in Sydney, Australia. I have a huge passion for the arts; literature, theatre, fashion, but most importantly - MUSIC. I love travelling and will try anything twice!

Please visit Mockingbyrd Music (www.mockingbyrdmusic.com), my personal music appreciation site and HQ to independent projects. Thanks! :o)



My Interests

Music, books, plays, travel, movies, modelling, fashion and skydiving.

I'd like to meet:

Definitely Zippy... we have so much in common!

Music:

Love all genres, but here are a few of my favs...
Angus & Julia Stone // Arcade Fire // Arctic Monkeys // Athlete // Amy Winehouse // Kate Bush // Babyshambles // Battles // The Beastie Boys // The Beatles // Blondie // Bloc Party // David Bowie // James Brown // Badly Drawn Boy // Bob Dylan // The Black Keys // Blur // Jeff Buckley // Tim Buckley // Belle & Sebastian // The Beach Boys // The Byrds // Buddy Guy // Chinafight // Coldplay // Cut Copy // Creedence Clearwater // The Charlatans // Cat Stevens // Elvis Costello // The Clash // Clarence Carter // Cream // The Cat Empire // The Cure // The Darkness // Dappled Cities // Death Cab For Cutie // Deerhoof // The Divinyls // The Doors // Nick Drake // The Doves // David Gray // Miles Davis // Eurythmics // The Eagles // Eric Carmen // Elton John // The Four Tops // The Futureheads // Foo Fighters // Fratellis // Fleetwood Mac // Aretha Franklin // Garbage // Jimi Hendrix // Hole // The Howling Bells // Iggy Pop // Idlewild // INXS // Joy Division // Janis Joplin // The Jam // Jewel // JET // Jason Mraz // Kasabian // Kaiser Chiefs // The Killers // Kinks // Kisschasy // La Rocca // Love of Diagrams // Lynyrd Skynyrd // The Libertines // Led Zeppelin // John Lennon // Moby // The Music // Mahogany Blaze // M83 // Manic Street Preachers // Mazzy Star // Maximo Park // The Maccabees // Nirvana // Oasis // Old Man River // Roy Orbison // The Pixies // Presets // Pearl Jam // The Pretenders // Phoenix // The Police // Pink Floyd // The Ramones // The Rakes // R.E.M // Radiohead // Razorlight // Red Hot Chilli Peppers // Robert Forster // Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings // Rolling Stones // Dusty Springfield // The Smiths // The Small Faces // Stone Roses // The Source // Snow Patrol // Stereophonics // The Srokes // Sufjan Stevens // Sunshine Underground // Supergrass // Starky // Frank Sinatra // Simon and Garfunkel // Travis // Them // Turin' Brakes // Tom Petty // UPCDOWNC // U2 // Van Morrison // The Verve // The Who // The White Stripes // Patrick Wolf // Wolfmother // The Yardbirds // Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs!
And many, MANY more...!

Movies:

Love all genres, but anything with zombies, vampires, killer wolves will do just fine!
Here are a few of my favs...

28 Days Later
Control
24 Hour Party People
True Romance
Requiem for a Dream
Almost Famous
City of God
The Lost Boys

Television:

Later... with Jools Holland
The Office
Top Gear
Summer Heights High
Black Adder

Books:

To Kill A Mockingbird - Lee
The Colour Purple - Walker
Lord Of The Flies - Golding
Rebecca - DuMaurier
Wuthering Heights - Bronte
Adrian Mole Diaries - Townsend

Heroes:

My Grandad
Femme-bots!

My Blog

Return to England in August - 25 June 2008

Hi friends, Just a note to let you know I'm alive. I haven't been on MySpace for a while because... well... I prefer Facebook. Ha ha! Anyway, I  just wanted to let all of my lovely UK friends kno...
Posted by Victoria on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:04:00 PST

Return to England in August - 25 June 2008

Hi friends, Just a note to let you know I'm alive. I haven't been on MySpace for a while because... well... I prefer Facebook. Ha ha! Anyway, I  just wanted to let all of my lovely UK friends kno...
Posted by Victoria on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:04:00 PST

Victoria hearts Zippy forever! (17 April 2008)

  VICTORIA HEARTS ZIPPY FOREVER! Okay... so it suddenly dawned on me why I'm so badly behaved (like the way I shirk responsibility? Me too)!!! I totally and unequivocally blame the children's TV...
Posted by Victoria on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:34:00 PST

NEW MUSIC: Robert Forster, Hercules & Love Affair and Firekites (10 April 2008)

  NEW MUSIC: Robert Forster, Hercules & Love Affair and Firekites! Dearest friends, I want to share my excitement with you about some new music that I’m listening to at the moment. HOT ...
Posted by Victoria on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:37:00 PST

Summer Heights High (21 February 2008)

SUMMER HEIGHTS HIGH... Hi friendlies... I just want to share my love of the 'Summer Heights High' series that ABC were running last year. For those of you that haven't seen it, or aren't in Australia...
Posted by Victoria on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:07:00 PST

New Music! (08 February 2008)

NEW MUSIC... I just want to share my excitement with you guys about some fantastic new music I've been listeing to... Firstly, I've been listening to the new Kooks album - out 19 April. It pretty much...
Posted by Victoria on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:16:00 PST

MOCKINGBYRD REVIEW: Robyn

'ROBYN' - ROBYN  [Konichiwa records, 2007] She entered our lives almost a decade ago, chirping the hit track 'Show Me Love'. Now, Swedish euro-pop sensation Robyn is back with a self-titled relea...
Posted by Victoria on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:54:00 PST

Merry Christmas! (11/12/2007)

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND ALL THE BEST FOR 2008! Just wanting to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and all the best for 2008! I feel it's been an awesome year for me personally and professionally and I h...
Posted by Victoria on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:18:00 PST

Mockingbyrd - October 2007 Issue

OCTOBER ISSUE OF MOCKINGBYRD ONLINE NOW! Check it out at: www.mockingbyrdmusic.com IN THIS ISSUE: Silverchair and Powderfinger gig review, Angus & Julia Stone album review, The Paper Scissors...
Posted by Victoria on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:25:00 PST

Blur to reunite... YES!!! (09 September 2007)

CHECK THIS OUT! AWESOME! Blur WILL reunite next month says Alex James --> --> Bassist tells NME.COM Graham Coxon is onboard for sessions 10.Sep.07 10:22am Blur are to set to record together as a four...
Posted by Victoria on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:00:00 PST