Half-Mauritian 26-yr old poet, musician, promoter and general man-about-town PIERRE HALL hails from London and was brought up on the sunny side of the Wirral before becoming a firm stalwart of the Manchester music scene back in 2001. He played in a band called LEAD BALLOONS and along with Sam Gardner has run burgeoning indie-manc clubnight FRIENDS OF MINE since 2004, now a firm favourite in this fair city. Get the hell involved.
PIERRE IS NOW WORKING ON HIS FIRST COLLECTION OF POETRY, DUE FOR RELEASE SOON AND ALSO A NEW MUSIC PROJECT, DEMOS CAN BE LISTENED TO AT:
http://www.myspace.com/goldenglowmusic
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"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams..."
'Fifteen minutes later none of this matters. The sun's come out and we're sitting on a grassy bank drinking and singing along to some top notch summer indie-pop like it's 1986; thank you, LEAD BALLOONS, the infectiously brilliant "Don't Bother With Him" just saved the day. Singer Pierre Hall was born just days after NME released its legendary C86 tape, and more than almost anyone the band seem to carry its spirit in their blood - friendly and joyously lo-fi, unashamed to jangle through bittersweet little sing-songs but equally likely to rock out in a thoroughly enjoyable way - by the last couple of tunes their pop's gone all Buzzcocks but is no less sparkling.' -manchester music
Pierre Hall & The Lead Balloons:
"Pierre Hall, Manchester's most ubiquitous scenester and street pop poet finally gets a band together, and - who'd have thought it! - writes the drunken, pie-eyed skiffle pop anthems that The Libertines' second album should have sounded like. Exuberent pop heaven.." -MANCHESTER TIME OUT
'This boy has rare talent'-City Life*Demo of the Week
'A sweet boy, with a heart full of tunes' -Manchester Music
'Made me dance around the house and put me in a good mood!' ADAM GREEN (Moldy Peaches) on the Lead Balloons
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