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Bob Halliwell

I'd love to sing you a lullaby...

About Me

Hey, the name's Bob. I'm in my late twenties and I live in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk - pretty much in the middle of that big bulge on the right hand side of England. I used to play drums and write songs for various bands around here. The Exiles was probably the best one. John Peel quite liked us.By the time we split in May 2004 I'd got a bit bored of playing the drums. It's bloody knackering. And humping that kit around all the time got pretty tiresome. So yeah, I decided that I'd just carry a guitar around instead, and start doing the pickin' and singin' myself. I wrote some songs about girls, and started making demo recordings of them on my 8 track digital Roland recording unit thingy. I did my first gig, accompanied by Ben Miles and Gish on January 2nd 2005.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/1/2005
Band Website: bobhalliwell.co.uk
Band Members: Bob Halliwell - All instruments...The following either contributed to the album or help me out at gigs from time to time:Gish - extra guitars, bass;Ben Miles - extra guitars;Ellie Dart - cello;Mark Steward - drums;Neil Baldwin - drums;Mike Smith - bass
Influences: Elliott Smith, Neil Young, Radiohead, Blur, The Smiths, Sigur Ros, Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, PJ Harvey, Super Furry Animals, Spiritualized
Type of Label: None

My Blog

It's confirmed...

...I am leaving lovely Bury St Edmunds to live with my lovelier girlfriend in London. We'll be moving into a flat in East Finchley on March 23rd, but I'll still be working in Bezza until the 30th of M...
Posted by Bob Halliwell on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:00:00 PST

Golden Oldie

I've just added 'The Day My Life Fell Apart' to the page. It's an old song that I did with Ben Miles of The Siamese Sluts. We recorded and mixed this in my flat over the course of an evening and morni...
Posted by Bob Halliwell on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:44:00 PST

My favourite song right now...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I30H7mhfLe8&search=sigur% 20ros Lovely
Posted by Bob Halliwell on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:13:00 PST

Another song up...

'Star of the Show' is now available to you lovely people. It's taken from my album. I'm going to start demoing some new bits and pieces soon, and once they're in a presentable condition I'll stick 'em...
Posted by Bob Halliwell on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:17:00 PST

I think I've sorted my tunes out...

...well, two of 'em anyway. Cold Shoulder and Leagues Apart should now play properly...
Posted by Bob Halliwell on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 05:31:00 PST

The songs on myspace...

Yeah, I'm a bit of a fool when it comes to all this computer lark and I still haven't managed to properly upload my songs to my page. So yeah, they won't play, but you can download them. Click on the ...
Posted by Bob Halliwell on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 06:02:00 PST

I'm here, and to quote Norah Jones: Don't Know Why...

So I did the LiveJournal thing for a while and found that ultimately I didn't have an awful lot to write about. One o' dem tings - I think my life's kinda interesting and fun. I do stuff. I just don't...
Posted by Bob Halliwell on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 03:19:00 PST