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Halfway House

Halfway House

One of the islands latest up and coming bands are Halfway House. They formed at school with the original line up of Megan and Stix. After a few minor gigs and a few months of doing mainly instrumental songs, the band recruited Sinead to sing and Amanda to play the bass.

We asked the band to tell us a little bit about themselves and put a few questions to them.

Since then, we have rocked the Aurora pub in Cattle Street on many a night.

Recently the band played at the Royal Hotel Tsunami Appeal gig and in front of 700 Celtic supporters at their annual bash at Hotel de France.

Stix has recently won the title of Young Musician of the Year for her percussion. We don’t intend at this stage to introduce her ten-foot marimba into the set, particularly in the Aurora where they would think it was just another bar!

Sinead’s other interests include acting, which have an influence on her stagecraft and Scottish stuff. She is currently single and looking (and will kill me now).

Amanda’s other interests are dancing, singing, Jesus, peace, love and understanding. She has a great love for ska and Christian music and would rather attend Soul Survivor than Reading Festival. ( She won’t kill me…see above)

Megan’s hobbits include Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Merry Brandybuck, Jimi Hendrix and Pipin Took….. oh sorry did you say ‘hobbies’?

Interview

Q: Describe your style of music, who do you sound like?
60’s, 70’s rock. We sound suspiciously like Halfway House, because Hendrix was a man!

Q: What are your main musical influences?
Our main musical influences have to be Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and George Formby…..

Q: Who is your favourite band of the moment, what's in your CD player?
Robert Johnson, the Osmands

Q: What are your feelings on peer 2 peer downloading of songs; do you see
it as a good way of getting exposure or pure theft?
Art is to be shared. Many obscure recordings are unavailable in any other media due to their former independent status (the Redskins for example). If that’s the only way you can get the songs, take them.

Q: How did you meet?
Through school.

Q: Is there an interesting story behind the name or did you choose it because you thought it would sound good?
Private Joke…..

Q: Big or small? Would you prefer to play a packed festival in front of thousands orÌý a small pub full of fanatical music fans?
How much would we be getting paid?

Q: You are the first Earth band to play on an alien world that doesn’t know our music, you can play any song ever written, what would you play?
It would have to be Johnny B Goode or the Birdie Song.