Andy B meets singer/songwriter Rob Halligan

now um music so you're a singer songwriter where would you put yourself are you not in a box which i'm very very much in favor of or would you sort of be boxed as a acoustic but where would you like to be or not be

i find it i find it really hard to put myself in the thing because i change with um it's it's it's the job i've been doing this for 25 years as a job so the tour that i'm doing at the moment is my 25th anniversary thing and over those 25 years, I've gone from rock to folk to sort of more poppy, more country, you know, so there is a whole kind of wide thing.

I did a, um, Paul Gambaccini.

He, he said, I did an interview with him on radio two years ago.

And he said, um, he said, oh, you're, you're a bit like Bruce Springsteen having English tea with Billy Bragg.

So, you know, I'll take that.

That'll do.

Yeah.

That's an interesting description.

A lot of respect for Paul Gambaccini.

I love the way he interviews.

So let's go back in time to music then.

What was your first guitar? You've got one or two now.

What was your first guitar? How did that end up in your

hands? I was...

When I was about 11 years old, I was involved in a car accident.

I got knocked off my bike and I really smashed up my leg quite badly and I was in hospital and...

And it was just really boring.

So my mum bought me a battered old nylon string guitar and the complete guitar player book one, which taught you three chords, which is all you needed, you know.

And so I was I don't think my mum was particularly popular with the nurses.

But yeah, yeah.

So I did that.

And then when I came out of hospital, I got into quite a lot of trouble when I was a teenager.

And it was one of these kids that got taken out of class and put in the special room for kids that didn't get on in class.

And that room at the hospital, sorry, at school was the music room.