Songs Jon sings on
Lead: All For You, In Awe of Industry, Amsterdam, soundcheck versions of various songs, Greenham, Martin, Love & Money, What Noise?, Katherine Clarke, My Light Show, Super-superficial World, All That Moves, Sad People, Our Song Scottish Rude Boy
Backing: The Last Film, Big Man Restless, The Other Side Of Heaven, The Rain It Never Stops, Footsteps, One Step, Can You Hear Me?, Jones, Michael, Sanity Vanity, Fat Home, Spying On Me
Unconfirmed: Frightened in France... missing a few.
Born: 4 August 1959
Originally from: Jersey
Instruments: Keyboard, voice
Band status: In (1980-present)
!! This bio is a draft and will be changed later !!
Jon is the band's leader, he always does banter onstage, always tries to rally people together, always
willing to hear out on what others have to say. Jon is very eccentric and eclectic, much like the band as a
whole. Unlike the band as a whole he's very flash. Jon liked looking weird. In early shows he would draw on
eyebrows and a mustache and wear small dangly earrings (visible in the video
for Maybe This Day). The need to stand out eventually resulted in him wearing dresses and makeup. Even
if it didn't belong to him! (Nick says that Jon sometimes wore his (Nick's) mother's pinafore)
Jon began studying the keyboards at a young age, as his father was also a musician, and he went to college for
music in Scotland, which is the complete other side of the UK to his birthplace of Jersey! Eventually he met
Peter B. and Peter S. where they formed Ubu Roi.
After which, they met Nick and Jo, and the rest is history.
Jon's songs are a little more dramatic and avant-garde, and he especially loves to sing with his soul!
(Especially evident on In Awe Of Industry and Footsteps) Though as Jon is from Jersey, he's mostly predisposed
to funk music. In the late-90s, Jon created the Jon Hall Quartet (AKA: JHQ) [is this just kissing the pink but
with a different name?] and released several songs and an album of drum n' bass music, fronted by him.
something something he also produced with nick and george outside of that and i think he did something with
stevie too?
Jon and Nick have gotten along especially well and are the group's only two consistent members. Jon lives
somewhere in the UK, and like Nick he's a licensed psychologist. Jon is now the head of a charity called
Outsider Music which aims to help sad people fight mental health problems through the power of creation...
doesn't the whole AI music video thing kinda undermine that? Ah whatever. Jon seemingly hates his middle name
for no reason. Without it, it's pretty hard to search for him. Do you know how many musicians, let alone other
people, have the name Jon or John Hall?! Too many!
Jon also did the visuals for the w-fest performance. that seems notable.