My name is Rob Redhead i am a songwriter guitarist and singer from England Great Britain and in the year 2022 i am 53 years of age. Gefrin is a music project i started in the year 2000-2011, it was my first big solo project whereupon i took on the task of doing everything myself including production. Gefrin was in two sections.. early gefrin 2000-2003 then i returned to the project in 2007 and later 2010-2011. The music can be described as indie guitar pop and is influenced by bands of the 1960s and 70s. Photos and Slideshows appear on this website as well as links to music videos, i was 31 years old when i began gefrin in my rural northumberland cottage recording studio, i had spent the previous ten years studying art at college and university before going travelling around europe and america. Many of the gefrin songs are influenced by recent events of that time and i am very happy with my songwriting and production achievements. Looking back at photos of me as gefrin in 2000 i am struck by how young i look, back then i thought i was already an old man.. but in reality i was only a stones throw away from my late teens.
Gefrin 2000-2012
I fell into a rural cottage in Northumberland my home county in northern england in the year 2000, i was exhausted i felt like the previous ten years had been a roller coaster ride which they had and i was needing a few years slowing down. Over the previous two years 1998 and 1999 i had been travelling on and off around europe and the uk busking with my Puppet act. The puppet act was a dancing rod puppet i operated with my leg while leaving my hands free to strum an acoustic guitar. I had wanted to keep on travelling.. i was a wandering heartbroken geordie and just wanted to see more stuff anyway! and i chose to invent this puppeteer act, not because i particularly liked puppeteering but more the fact that i didnt want to end up busking on the street doing my music. I thought im too good of a musician to end up busking on the street so puppet street entertainment will enable me to make money and travel without the feeling that my music had failed, but also the amplifier battery technology was'nt there in the early 2000's and i didnt fancy lugging a car battery around with me, that was the thing with the puppet act it was a visual performance and an acoustic guitar.. lightweight and no batteries needed. I did this for 17 years and it funded my future music projects until in 2017 when i decided to hang up the puppets and do instead my music on the streets.. at least i was able now to sit down and perform. And of course as soon as i started this people began saying "you're too good to be busking on the street". |