Lianne Hall is an English folk/electronic singer, originally from Peterborough, but based in Berlin, Germany. She started writing songs as a teenager, and joined her first band, Witchknot, when she became involved with the 'Riot grrrl' movement in ’93 with Gaynor Haggerty, Kes, Marion and Sarah MacHenry.
She lived in a bus for five years, making acoustic folk pop with Bela Emerson under the name Hiphuggers and electronica as Pico with bedroom producer Andy Wills.
In 2000 she left her bus and moved Pico to Brighton, where she formed The Broken Heart Club with Matt Eaton, Alice Eldridge and Susanne Lambert. Lianne has also collaborated with lots of different artists including D_rradio (deathrowradio) and Paul Hartnoll (Orbital).
Links to Peel[]
Lianne Hall on John Peel's Sounds of The Suburbs, Bradford
John Peel featured Hall in his Sounds Of The Suburbs: Bradford episode, which was recorded in 1998, but broadcast in 1999 where she is shown living in a bus and mentioning living in it for three years. She also mentioned studying Human Studies at the University of Bradford for one year before dropping out, as well as working at a bookshop and making a demo tape with Bela Emerson under the name of Hiphuggers.
Since that meeting with Peel, her Hiphuggers demo tape was played on his show in 1998 and later she went on to record several sessions for his programmes with a variety of line-ups.
In 2002, Peel nominated her work with Pico as albums of the month for August 2002 (Peel's Record Box) and September 2002 (Peel's Record Box).
John Peel once described her as "one of the great English voices" and also compared her to a modern day Bridget St John on his 13 November 2001 show.
Festive Fifty Entries[]
- Pico (Lianne Hall & Andy Wills)
- 2001 Festive Fifty: Chard #50
Sessions[]
- Lianne Hall
1. Recorded: 2000-04-30. Broadcast: 30 May 2000
- Warning / Alright / Stumble / Full On /Chard
2. Recorded: 2001-10-14. Broadcast: 06 December 2001
- Fair Enough / Rain / Trouble / Stumble / So Good
3. Recorded: 2001-12-20. Live Broadcast: 20 December 2001
- In The Bleak Midwinter / Soul Kid
- Lianne Hall & Caroline Martin
1. Recorded: 2004-07-14. Broadcast: 05 August 2004
- Winter Blues / Chain Smoking / Beautiful Boy / Like A Man / Peace
- Pico
1. Recorded: 2003-08-12. Broadcast: 23 October 2003. Repeated: 15 January 2004
- Abandon Ship / Speed / Tether / Want You Alive
Other Shows Played[]
Witchknot - pianist envy
- Witchknot
- 03 December 1994: Pianist Envy (7" - Suck) Flat Earth
- 30 December 1994: Pianist Envy (7" - Suck) Flat Earth
- Hiphuggers
- 05 May 1998: Weaving (Cassette - Drunk) No Label
- Lianne Hall
- 11 March 1999 (Radio Eins): Cosy (v/a album - John Peel's Sounds Of The Suburbs) Shifty Disco
- 28 August 2001: Running Out (LP - Trouble) Beat Bedsit Records
- 04 September 2001: Warning (LP - Trouble) Beat Bedsit Records
- 04 October 2001: 'Owe You (CD-Trouble)' (Beat Bedsit)
- 25 October 2001: Alright (LP - Trouble) Beat Bedsit
- October 2001 (FSK): Alright (CD - Trouble) Beat Bedsit
- 29 November 2001: 'Fair Enough (CD-Trouble)' (Beat Bedsit)
- 05 December 2001: Alright (LP – Trouble) Beat Bedsit
- Pico
- 28 July 1999: 'Chard' (demo)
- 29 July 1999 (Radio Eins): Chard (demo)
- 11 August 1999: 'Sea' (CDr)
- 18 August 1999: 'Chard' (demo)
- February 2000 (FSK): Stumble (Demo)
- 04 April 2000: Coming Round (Cdr Demo)
- 18 April 2001: Fair Enough (CDR demo) White label
- 25 April 2001: 'Chard (7 inch)' (Emma's House Recordings)
- 05 June 2001: Chard (7") Emma's House Recordings
- 06 June 2001: 'The Right Thing To Do' (demo)
- 26 July 2001 (Radio Eins): Chard (7") Emma's House Recordings
- 02 August 2001: Chard (7") Emma's House Recordings
- 09 August 2001: Fair Enough (demo CD)
- 25 December 2001: 'Chard' (Demo CD) FF #50
- 13 August 2002: 'Fair Enough (LP - Pico)' (Malinki Music)
- 15 August 2002: 'A Secret (LP - Pico)' (Malinki Music)
- 22 August 2002: So Good (LP - Pico) Malinki Music
- 29 August 2002 (BBC World Service): Chard (7") Emma's House Recordings
- 29 August 2002 (Radio Eins): All Change Of Heart (album - Pico) Malinki
- 03 September 2002: 'All Change Of Heart (Mini LP-Pico)' (Malinki)
- 06 September 2002 (BBC World Service): Fair Enough (demo)
- 18 September 2002: 'Is It Never Happens (LP - Pico)' (Malinki Music)
- 02 October 2002: 'Get My Head (LP - Pico)' (Malinki Music)
- 11 September 2003: So Good (7") Goodbye Virginia
- 19 September 2003 (BBC World Service): So Good (7") Goodbye Virginia
- 24 September 2003: Rain (7") Goodbye Virginia
- 25 September 2003 (Radio Eins): So Good (7") Goodbye Virginia
- 04 October 2003 (BBC World Service): Rain (7") Goodbye Virginia
- 09 October 2003 (Radio Eins): Rain (7") Goodbye Virginia
- 21 October 2003: Rain (7" EP) Goodbye Virginia
- 26 November 2003: 'Rain (7")' Goodbye Virginia Records
- 04 December 2003 (Radio Eins): 'Rain (7")' (Goodbye Virginia)
- 02 January 2004 (BBC World Service): Rain (7") Goodbye Virginia
- Broken Heart Club
- 16 September 2004: Fireworks (7") Malinki
- 24 September 2004 (BBC World Service): Fireworks (7" - Storyteller) Malinki
- 28 September 2004: Fireworks (7") Malinki
- 02 November 2004 (Rob Da Bank): Fireworks (7") Malinki
See Also[]
- August 2001 (Peel's Record Box)
- December 2001 (Peel's Record Box)
- August 2002 (Peel's Record Box)
- September 2002 (Peel's Record Box)
- September 2003 (Peel's Record Box)