Halo Friendlies

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The Halo Friendlies

The Halo Friendlies are an all girl pop-punk band from Long Beach, CA. After snatching up a guitar in a thrift shop while on her first date with then-boyfriend now-husband Matt Wignall of Havalina/Matt Death and the New Intellectuals, Judita Wignall made the decision to start a band. Originally featuring Wignall on lead vocals and guitar, Cheryl Hecht on guitar, Natalie Bolanos on bass guitar, and Deanna Moody on percussion on their 1998 self-titled debut, by 1999's Acid Wash, Hecht had dropped out of the project. She was then replaced by Ginger Reyes, who not only began sharing lead vocals with Wignall, but also took up bass guitar, allowing Bolanos to switch to lead guitar. It wasn't until 2002 that the Halo Friendlies replaced Moody with Christina Theobald. Theobald, however, was replaced shortly before the band's first sweep of the United Kingdom in 2003 by Claudia Rossi.

Currently, the band is on an indefinite hiatus to allow its members some time for solo creative efforts.

[edit] Discography

Halo Friendlies (1998, Jackson Rubio, Review: The Phantom Tollbooth)
Acid Wash (1999, Jackson Rubio, Review: The Phantom Tollbooth)
Ghetto Demo (2000)
Get Real (2002, Tooth & Nail).

[edit] Trivia

They had a song called "Me vs. the world" which appears on the Freaky Friday soundtrack.

Judita Wignall is a mistress-of-all-trades: not only is she an accomplished musician, but she is also a model/actress who has appeared in Austin Powers: Goldmember, an episode of CSI, and was featured as the model for the character Judy Nails in the video game Guitar Hero for the Playstation 2.

They appear in season 6 episode 9 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer titled "Smashed" and perform their song "Run Away".

They also appear on the track "Play it Loud" on MxPx's 2003 release Before Everything & After.

Rock rumor webzine Buddyhead is reporting that Ginger Reyes is the new bassist for The Smashing Pumpkins, replacing D'Arcy Wretzky and Melissa Auf der Maur.