Meet Jonny Halfhead

Jonny Halfhead grew up as a third generation Jehovah’s Witness. As one of Jehovah’s Witnesses for twenty years, he experienced a thorough immersion in its doctrines and practices. Although never baptised, he was raised under a very strict regime that always made him different and stand out from everyone else around him, even others in the same faith.

When circumstances ejected him from that controlling and all-encompassing lifestyle, he was in a unique position to follow his love of music and expand his imagination as an all-round artist. Jonny Halfhead started a Gothic music fanzine in the early nineties in an attempt to find musicians and join a band. The band he joined was called 13 Candles, which he joined as a keyboard player and grew as a singer until he split to form his own band called Personality Crisis in 1994.

Failure to keep a live band together meant turning Personality Crisis into a studio only band for the next decade and more.

In 2012 Jonny Halfhead started an online blog about his hobby of collecting the music of the famous independent music label 4AD with the aim on exhibiting his collection on the labels 50th anniversary in 2030. After a few years the blog entries started to dwindle as it became more difficult to collect and stick to the high expectations and costs placed he placed upon his own collection promise.

In 2018 Jonny Halfhead released his first short story “Nine Pills” through Amazon, which had many elements based on his youth as being one of Jehovah’s Witnesses and the struggles involved with being associated with a cult. A few months later he released another short story “The 1975 Apocalypse” which once again drew on his experiences as a Jehovah’s Witness from his youth.