The Bob Dynamite Experience

THE LEGEND

Bob Dynamite, real name Rob Hall, was born in Plymouth in 1980.

His first experience in music was at the age of 8, where he took piano lessons for 3 years (remembering very little of it) as it was a condition insisted upon by his Mum before he was allowed to have a guitar. Bob’s first guitar was a £30 classical guitar, and he learned his first chords from beloved school teacher Alan Wadman, who was a huge influence in unlocking Bob’s creative streak, which remained unlocked into adulthood.

From these rudimentary beginnings, Bob went on to develop a love for guitars. Bob will admit himself that he’s no demon on a guitar, but self-taught he managed to learn enough to put together engaging riffs and write catchy tunes, and discovered that he also had a decent rock vocal too.

Through school this talent laid mostly dormant, with some forays into school choir activities until around 2002 when he became involved in a band with his two best friends (and brothers) the Flemings. With them, a basic band was formed, with Andy Fleming (currently the bassist for Six Sins ‘til Sunday) on the bass, Matt on lead guitar, Bob on rythm guitar and vocals and the omnipresent CD player which provided the drum track. They were Social Distortion.

Early in 2004 the trio competed in and won heats which gave them the opportunity to play a short accoustic set at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It was a short, little known but much beloved performance which gave the three even more confidence and drive to perform.

In Winter 2004 the band, now known as Jack and with an actual drummer on board, had the opportunity to support the Commitments at a significant corporate event, and they grabbed the chance with both hands, appearing in their local paper and wowing the crowd with their unique rock/pop sound.

Jack continued to deliver, alongside fellow band Sangreal, for the next couple of years, gigging in and around Plymouth and writing new material. They were forced to change their name to Fireflight due to a clash with another, similarly named band, and continued to rock the South West until finally, work commitments forced the band to split.

For the next year or so Bob remained out of the music scene and Matt and Andy formed a new band, Stormseeker. Their new band was rocking out until, one fateful day, their lead singer suddenly had to drop out of the band for medical reasons. Faced with losing the gig or finding a replacement, with two weeks to go they approached Bob, who heroically stepped in, learned the entire set (plus a last minute accoustic set) and joined Stormseeker in 2008.

In 2010 Bob left the band for personal reasons, and in 2011 he became a father and made the decision to leave the live music world behind him, prioritising being a father over a rock legend.

It would be ten years before Bob put pen to paper and wrote anything new. That song was Spoon of Destiny. Bob toyed with the idea of putting an album together and considered a concept album about sandwiches which didn’t really go anywhere.

In 2024, at the age of 44 with his daughter now a teenager, Bob started writing and recording an album, originally called These Days and later named Spoon of Destiny, and over the next year using just a laptop and working it out as he went along wrote over 30 songs, 10 of which made it on to the album. Bob learned how to play bass and used his basic piano skills to put together a body of music that he feels proud of.

He hopes you enjoy it as much as he enjoyed making it. Rock On!