Bob Fairfoull

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Bob Fairfoull (born Robert James Fairfoull, 6 August 1976) is a Scottish musician. He was the bass guitarist for the Scottish rock band Idlewild. Roddy Woomble - a friend of Fairfoull and Idlewild's lead singer - asked Fairfoull to join in February 1997 following the departure of Phil Scanlon.^[1] His appearance and attitude is classically punk rock and his typical on-stage antics consist of head-banging and jumping around.^[2]

He became increasingly distant from the band in 2002, and on 29 September 2002 he left the band following a show in Amsterdam in "a rain of misdirected punches".^[3]

After leaving Idlewild he joined the band Degrassi. He has had various other projects on the go, along with Degrassi, and, at the moment is playing in Edinburgh with the band Paper Beats Rock, who have supported Blood Red Shoes.

In 2009, when asked if the members of Idlewild remain friends with Fairfoull, Rod Jones stated that "there are no bad feelings between any of us and we have all seen Bob a few times over the last few years and remain on good terms."^[4]

References

v t e Idlewild

Roddy Woomble Rod Jones Colin Newton Allan Stewart Gareth Russell Gavin Fox Alex Grant Bob Fairfoull Jeremy Mills Phil Scanlon

Studio albums	Captain Hope Is Important 100 Broken Windows The Remote Part Warnings/Promises Make Another World Post Electric Blues

Compilations	Scottish Fiction: Best of 1997–2007 A Distant History: Rarities 1997-2007

Singles	"Queen of the Troubled Teens" "Chandelier" "Satan Polaroid" "A Film for the Future" "Everyone Says You're So Fragile" "I'm a Message" "When I Argue I See Shapes" "Little Discourage" "Actually It's Darkness" "These Wooden Ideas" "Roseability" "You Held the World in Your Arms" "American English" "Live in a Hiding Place" "A Modern Way of Letting Go" "Love Steals Us from Loneliness" "I Understand It" "El Capitan" "As if I Hadn't Slept" "If It Takes You Home" "No Emotion" "A Ghost in the Arcade"

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Name	Fairfoull, Bob
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Short description	British musician
Date of birth	6 August 1916
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