Locating Gerry Hallom?

Subject: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 04 Aug 04 - 12:00 PM

I have news that will benefit Australian singer Gerry Hallom. My last address for him was in York (UK) but I believe it long out of date. Can any 'Catter help me contact Gerry?. PM me please. Maybe you will read this Gerry, if so please get in touch. You will know me as Roy Harris. Burl.

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 05 Aug 04 - 02:24 PM

Refresh. This is the first time I've put an enquiry on Mudcat and had no reply. Come on somebody, please help. Whereabouts of Gerry Hallom please. Burl.

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST,obm
Date: 05 Aug 04 - 08:15 PM

FWIW this is what I have:

Gerry Hallom
24 Main Avenue
YORK
YO3 0RU

It might be out of date...or worth a try

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 05 Aug 04 - 11:27 PM

G'day Burl,

I seem to have a different street address ... althought it is also in York (should dated from ~ 2002 ... ?).

I have e-mailed Gerry with the e-mail address I have for you ... and posted to him the URL for this thread. I'll PM the street address.

Regards,

Bob

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST,padgett
Date: 06 Aug 04 - 04:00 AM

I believe Gerry still in York; I have refreshed this in case anyone knows any different!!
He also has some recent musical connections with Nic Jones, altho' i don't know to what extent

Best of luck
Ray Padgett

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: rich-joy
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 03:41 AM

I believe that Gerr and Linda regularly spend some time in Portugal now ...

Cheers! R-J

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 03:49 PM

Gerry Hallom
[e-mail] Feel free to call!

Gerry Hallom

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 04:25 PM

Nice one, Gerry, from the outside track....

(I last saw you at Sheila Miller's Cellar Upstairs)

Kitty

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST,skipy
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 06:05 PM

gay dancin din
pay to go

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: JudyB
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 09:15 PM

Gerry-

Thanks for posting your e-mail address. And thanks for arranging the music for Lawson's "Outside Track."

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST,Sandy Paton
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 10:50 PM

Gerry:
    Is your fine "Undiscovered Australia" CD on Pangaea going to be available from another source now that the original label has given up the ghost?
    Sandy

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST,Gerry Hallom
Date: 18 Oct 05 - 05:49 PM

Sandy
I don't think so, but if I can get the stuff to you some other way let me know. I do not have a copy.
Gerry

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 18 Oct 05 - 06:29 PM

Gerry-

Could you provide us a brief bio. There seems to be a lot of confusion within the folk music community with regard to your origin. If you're not careful someone may compose a song in your honor with completely eroneous information.

Thanks once again for your musical setting for "The Outside Track" and your kind permission for Roll & Go to record it on our forthcoming CD, ROLLING DOWN TO SAILORTOWN.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST,Debbie, Ellie and Steff
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 10:47 AM

Hi, Gerry, just wondering if you could sign us an autograph!
See you soon
Love you xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 11:21 AM

Availabe here

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: stallion
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 01:09 PM

I spoke to Gerry last month about getting out to see Charley and maybe doing he few songs, he is quite adamant that he does not want to perform anymore, such a pity I really enjoyed his performances.

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST,Owen Bell
Date: 24 May 12 - 12:10 PM

Gerry Hallom is NOT an 'Australian singer'. He was born in Richmond, Surrey in the UK in 1950. He just sings Australian material. Big difference!, He might like people to think he is Australian but that's something else altogether.
Owen Bell (Australian fiddle player who lived in the UK for 28 years and saw GH a few times)

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: The Sandman
Date: 24 May 12 - 12:57 PM

GERRY lived in Australia for some years, as did Martyn Wyndham Read, so I d0 not think it is a question of GERRY wanting people to think anything, he sings Australian material because he spent a considerable time there, and likes the songs.Dick Miles[an old friend of Gerrys]

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 24 May 12 - 01:08 PM

And Bert Lloyd.

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 24 May 12 - 05:31 PM

Gerry's a fine singer and tunesmith, and is still doing the work he loves in Yorkshire, I believe.

I've enjoyed my e-mail contacts with him over the years and some day I hope to hear him sing live.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: Bill D
Date: 24 May 12 - 06:11 PM

Gerry is the only 'professional' singer I have heard who does "Andy's Gone With Cattle" with a sensible meter. (It isn't a waltz).

Met him on a US tour a number of years ago.

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: The Sandman
Date: 25 May 12 - 12:47 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5w75f_Lz_A ANDYS GONE WITH CATTLE, not played as a waltz

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: stallion
Date: 25 May 12 - 12:58 AM

Yup Gerry is alive and well, he has stopped performing now but he did turn out for a fortieth birthday party a few months back and is still as good as ever. I think if he could get his cd's re issued he might be persuaded to do the odd gig

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: stallion
Date: 25 May 12 - 01:13 AM

Ahh Owen, when Gerry first arrived in York he had a very strong Aussie twang, more than twenty five years ago cos we were in our old house when I first met Gerry. Dunno how long he spent there but I don't think he ever claimed he was Australian, he sang a lot of Australian songs and I suppose everyone concluded he was Australian, I suppose a bit of the twang is still there although it is not something I would scrutinise so people might be forgiven for making assumptions, if you buy the LP's or cd's there is a biog on at least two of them explaining his roots so I don't think it is an issue really.

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: Elmore
Date: 25 May 12 - 08:00 PM

Why would anybody wish people to think they were Australian, unless they were looking for an acting gig?

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: Bill D
Date: 25 May 12 - 08:05 PM

"...not played as a waltz"

Great! That's two.....

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 25 May 12 - 08:13 PM

I wonder who in Australia turned Hallom onto Henry Lawson or did he find him on his own?

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: Bill D
Date: 25 May 12 - 09:24 PM

I think that in Australia, it would be almost impossible to NOT know of Lawson....and to sing at least some of his poems put to music. Some become very involved.

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 26 May 12 - 09:02 AM

It's been so long since this thread first appeared that I've totally forgotten what good news I had for Gerry. I hope it all turmed out ok. Anyway, I'm glad to know he's still around, although he really ought to be singing. He's very good.

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: stallion
Date: 26 May 12 - 09:08 AM

Dead right Roy, he is still every bit as good as he used to be, he does have a gaff in Portugal and as far as I know is still teaching, who knows but I for one would like to see him doing more even if it is just about York.

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST,Guest Charles Macfarlane Harrison
Date: 26 May 12 - 10:00 AM

As it happens, I spent the tail end of last year digitising all my vinyls, including two of Gerry's, "Travelling Down The Castlereagh" and "A Run A Minute". Really, really nice to able to hear them again. Yes, his version of "Andy's Gone With Cattle" is by far the best I've heard, and his arrangement of "The Outside Track" is a thing of beauty. I could also mention many of the other songs on those albums, "The Free Selector's Daughter", "The Bonnie House Of Airlie", "General Leeds Clock Meeting", and Ralph McTell's "Gypsy", etc.

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: stallion
Date: 26 May 12 - 10:10 AM

I got a cd recently "Undiscovered Australia Il" from Amazon, I think it is a compilation, has all those on along with my favourite Overlander. have to say that our version of Outside Track came from Gordon Bok via the singing of Charley Noble (Ipcar) and is quite a bit different to Gerry's rendition. I was gobsmacked when Charley gave us it's provenance and heard Gerry sing it live a few months ago, GB versionit has acquired an additional verse, it's just different!

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: Chris_S
Date: 26 May 12 - 10:57 AM

I rate Gerry Hallom as an intelligent and thoughtful performer and he did many goods nights at the Witney Folk Club which we ran. A while ago I came across his CD On the Periphery, available from The Living tradition shop. It is in my opinion his finest work, full of interesting songs and arrangements. Grab yourself a copy while they still have them.

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST,Guest Charles Macfarlane Harrison
Date: 26 May 12 - 11:28 AM

WARNING: POSSIBLE THREAD DRIFT!

If this was Witney FC in the mid-80s or so, we probably met, but I'm afraid the names and faces are getting very hazy now. I sang from the floor there a few times, as I was good friends with one of your regulars, a girl called Lynn.

http://www.macfh.co.uk/Macfarlane/Macfarlane.html

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: Chris_S
Date: 26 May 12 - 01:24 PM

That's the same club and Lynn is still around even tho' the club is long gone! I think I remember you Charles, did you play guitar and sing - really nice arrangements (open tuning?) I think you travelled from quite a way to visit us. I will mention to Lynn when I see her.

Chris

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST
Date: 26 May 12 - 02:39 PM

> That's the same club and Lynn is still around

Been out of things recently, so haven't seen her since we had a brief chat at Bromyard around the late 80s / early 90s.

> even tho' the club is long gone!

Sorry to hear that. I always remember it with affection as a friendly club.

> I think I remember you Charles

O dear! Unlucky you ...

> did you play guitar and sing - really nice arrangements (open tuning?).

Both standard and open tunings, particularly Open C.

> I think you travelled from quite a way to visit us.

Yes, I used to come across from Gloucestershire, and then Herefordshire when I bought a house on the Glos/Heres border.

How nice that you remember all that rather than the obviously memorable thing about me, which is that I'm 6'4"!

> I will mention to Lynn when I see her.

By all means, and give her my very best wishes.

If she wishes to make contact, there's a contact email address on my website given above.

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: Chris_S
Date: 26 May 12 - 03:02 PM

I don't want to hijack this thread - go and buy that CD, it's really a gem and if anyone can persuade Gerry to play live again anywhere near Oxfordshire I'm there, but.....

Charles....
> I think I remember you Charles

O dear! Unlucky you ...

Not unlucky, you played great and sang really interesting songs. I hope you are still performing, you had/have a talent that needs sharing! Nice to remember good times at the club. I will pass on your deatils to Lynn when I see her.

Chris

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST
Date: 27 May 12 - 05:43 AM

> From: Chris_S
> Not unlucky, you played great and sang really interesting songs.

(blushes) Thanks!

> I hope you are still performing, you had/have a talent that needs sharing!

Sadly no. I've been too ill for some time with, despite a hospital full of specialists, some as yet undiagnosed lurgy.

> I will pass on your details to Lynn when I see her.

Thanks, and I hope she's well and thriving.


To get back on topic, I've been so out of it that I didn't know that Gerry had stopped performing! When did he last tour?

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: Chris_S
Date: 27 May 12 - 12:05 PM

There are a couple of really good Youtube videos of Gerry performing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWTyvm9tS7U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6bz9MSeCsM sorry can't do blue clicky thing.

Sorry to hear of your illness Charles, I hope things improve for you soon

Chris

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: maeve
Date: 27 May 12 - 01:30 PM

Gerry Hallom link #1
Gerry Hallom link #2

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 27 May 12 - 08:45 PM

G'day all,

I don't have details for Gerry's arrival and/or departure from Australia ... but I dealt with him (~ in 1975 and 1977) when I booked the 'Turner Hall', within the old Institute of Technology (now University of Technology Sydney), for a concert ... and some I of T student areas for workshop venues in the Bush Music Festivals I organised in those years.

Gerry was living and working at the Institute of Technology in Sydney, in those days ... and performing quite nicely, around the folk music scene.

Regards,

Bob

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 May 12 - 10:26 AM

Nice to hear again from you, Bob.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 29 May 12 - 07:14 AM

I only saw you once gerry trying to get a gig at The Jug of Punch when it was in Digbeth.about '75. I remember thinking if that guy can't get a gig, no chance for me.

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST,Gerry Hallom
Date: 02 Mar 14 - 09:57 AM

Thank you all for the many positive comments on this thread recently discovered. Am doing gigs again, at present as fundraisers for Centrepoint. Do get in touch for any info or dates etc. [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: The Sandman
Date: 02 Mar 14 - 01:26 PM

remember the australian meusli,Gerry?

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Mar 14 - 04:24 PM

Yes a Well known Suffolk singer, who is singing ever sweeter since his impromptu breakfast. He is much more careful to check the packet

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jun 14 - 08:31 PM

Glad to hear you are doing gigs! If you come back to Oz be sure to make   the National. Your interpretations & performances are legendary.

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Jun 14 - 01:30 PM

I particularly liked the outside track

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST,TVPC-WESTERN NC USA
Date: 31 Jul 16 - 07:56 PM

I saw Gerry Hallom at the Troubadour Folk Club in Churchville, Pennsylvania back in 1982 or 83. I have an autographed Traveling Down the Castlereigh LP from that night. I love his singing and playing style. He had a guitar that was smaller than a dreadnaught. This was an all acoustic club and he fit right in. It was place where you could here a pin drop when the performer was on the stage. It was in a nature center and used on Tuesday nights for folk music. Bob Pasquarella was the host.

I now live in Wilkesboro, NC where Merlefest takes place every April. I'd love to get Gerry over here!

TomC

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST,Gerry Hallom on Spotify
Date: 31 Jul 16 - 08:43 PM

I've looked for Gerry on Spotify and today one song came up. The album is: The Journey Continues, Fellside at 40. The song is Where the Brumbies Come to Water. It is classic Hallom, makes you feel you spent many days and nights with Rory Donohue in an Outback camp and miss him greatly and that his passing is not only of a person, but of a era.

BTW, Australian brumbies are the equivalent of U.S. wild mustangs. The difference is that since 1971 our mustangs have been protected and can be adopted, but the brumbies are considered varmints and treated as such. There was a recent story on BBC about having them wiped out.

(Spelling in last post, "you could hear")

TomC

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Aug 16 - 03:39 PM

Thanks for refreshing this old thread.

Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 24 - 06:50 AM

Thank you. It did surprise me when others turned it into a waltz. Following the melody line is the clue.

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 24 - 06:52 AM

Be happy to. Where to contact. ?

Subject: RE: Locating Gerry Hallom?
From: The Sandman
Date: 06 Apr 24 - 09:11 AM

he lives in York