Halves

Preview ‘May Your Enemies…’

halves — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:08:12 +0000

You can listen to a song from the vinyl over on soundcloud. New web shop opening in the next couple of days (we’ll have some copies of the vinyl there so act fast).

http://soundcloud.com/halves/may-your-enemies-never-find-1

April 2012

halves — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:02:57 +0000

Well well well…

Once again I have to start with an apology for keeping this blog dusty- Since the last time I wrote here we toured, recorded a live album (which you can see below) and mostly have just wrote new songs. The skeleton for our second record is forming slowly but surely. We have booked our studio for late summer and we’ll see how that goes. I’m going to try and keep this regular, I swear. Keep an eye out for our new web shop which will be online at the end of the week (we’ll have very limited amounts of the live album). Be Good.

‘Darling, you’ll meet your maker’ (live)

watch?v=KDogOC2SSKc&feature=youtu.be

Live at the Unitarian Church

halves — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:32:58 +0000

Hello friends,

We are delighted to announce we are releasing a live album! ‘Live at The Unitarian Church’ will be released for Record Store Day 2012 (April 21st) on 180grm clear vinyl. This will be limited to Irish shops but we will put a few on our website for those abroad. Tracklist follows.

Land/Sea/People
Blood Branches
Haunt Me When I’m Drowsy
Medals
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May Your Enemies Never Find Happiness
Darling, You’ll Meet Your Maker
Growing & Glow
Tony Hart’s Revenge Theme
Mountain Bell (Digital Download Bonus Track)

November 2011

halves — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:26:39 +0000

Hello,
Well it has been a wee while hasn’t it? Lots of wonderful things have happened since I mumbled here last- most recently we played The Cork Opera house with Amiina and it was one of the best nights of our career (if you can call it that). We have a short run of dates coming up (see tour page) ending with a date in a church. After that we launch into album number two- scary starting afresh but the ideas have started coming once more. More soon….

album stream

halves — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:07:44 +0000

hey all,

so our debut album ‘it goes, it goes (forever & ever)’ is now 1 year old. to celebrate, we’ve made the whole album stream-able from our bandcamp page. enjoy!

It Goes, It Goes (Forever & Ever) by Halves

winter is coming, halves are touring.

halves — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:20:56 +0000

hello everyone!

to celebrate the arrival of the bitter irish winter, we are delighted to announce the following irish dates for the coming months. if we’re visiting a town near you, do come down and bring your friends!

also, we’ve just launched our new record label website, for all things halves (and carnival moon). go take a look: www.hiterecords.com

cheers!

halves.

Date	Where	Venue	Link
30-10-2011	Cork	Cork Opera House (supporting Amiina)	www.corkoperahouse.ie
11-11-2011	Dublin	Whelan’s (supporting Gardens & Villa)	www.whelanslive.com
24-11-2011	Galway	Róisín Dubh (free show)	www.roisindubh.net
25-11-2011	Cork	Cyprus Avenue (free show)	www.cyprusavenue.ie
26-11-2011	Limerick	Dolan’s (Upstairs)	www.dolans.ie
09-12-2011	Dublin	Unitarian Church	www.dublinunitarianchurch.org

Growing in a gaff

halves — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:04:32 +0000

Here’s a video of us doing a stripped down version of Growing & Glow in a house in Toronto. Enjoy!

Body & Soul Festival

halves — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:46:06 +0000

So we’ll be playing at the Body & Soul festival in Co. Westmeath next weekend. We’re playing at the Casa Habana stage at 1am on the night of saturday 18th of June. We hope our music will be a good way to end the night, so if you’re going to the festival, do come and see us. We’re really looking forward to it!

For now, here’s a video from Lisa Hannigan, another artist playing at the festival. Enjoy!

May 2011

halves — Tue, 17 May 2011 10:32:30 +0000

Hello folks…
Trying to get back on the horse and write here monthly. We’re just back from two days in glorious Brighton for The Great Escape Festival. Oh what fun we had- two shows went better than we could have hoped for (thanks to all who came on down). Earrrrly morning flights are rough so there was a lot of delirious nonsense. Our good friend Guy ‘Iambic’ Andrews showed us the best watering holes and we sure did enjoy that. We’re opening for Mercury Rev tomorrow night in Vicar street (pending heightened security due to her royal highness). We’ve also begun writing for album number 2, finally! Our album gets its full uk/european release on July 4th so do go out and buy it!

Well well well

halves — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:31:07 +0000

Hello folks…sorry for the lack of updates but with the records finally coming out we were busy. So what happened since the last entry? We played a lot of shows around Ireland, enjoyed the pleasures of our Choice Prize nomination, played in Toronto a couple times and then went on to Texas for SXSW once more. We’ve said goodbye to our beloved Paul who has moved abroad for his studies (good luck mlad) and we have a new violinst called Margie which is exciting. We’re currently sorting shows for the summer and winter (more news on these as they come) but our next outing will be The Great Escape festival in Brighton (May 14th) and opening for Mercury Rev in Vicar street (May 18th). Back to it now, oh aye. More soon.