Hal is a copywriter at Rife magazine developing content for the Go Places Places Do Things website. A sometime music-maker and (ostensibly) a trained sound engineer, he realised that days and nights spent cooped up in a hermetically-sealed, soundproofed coffin recording Santana cover bands was not the future he had envisaged. Putting his recording knowledge to one-side momentarily before quickly forgetting most of it, he has taken his first tentative steps into the world of writing and journalism; who can say where the path will lead. Quite often to Lockleaze.