Tour : Halves
La la laa! *prance and clap dance* Halves on tour!
Starting with a support slot to BellX1 (strange…but nice) in Vicar Street on 11 November, they hit Galway (13), Cork (14), Kilkenny (15) before returning to the smoke for a week-long anticipation to what will undoubtably be their biggest headliner to date in Whelans on 22 November. Good friends Subplots will sub-port 
at the Roisin Dubh and Cypress Avenue while newborn Villagers, brainchild of ex-The Immediate Conor O’Brien, provides back-up at the final Dublin show. That tingling you’re feeling is my brain shorting….
Something Halvish has been brewing to blow up for a while considering how immensely succesful 2008’s been for the Dublin-based instrumental outfit. Described as “sublimely atmospheric” by the oul’ HP, in May they released second EP Haunt Me When I’m Drowsy, a puddle of delicate, evocative songs and looked on as music fans lapped them up. Several prolific shows followed as a result, including a billing at the ill-fated Austrian Transmission festival.
This tour should act as a springboard to the next level of development for the band, who are currently psyching-up mental fireworks by writing new material. You’d better hurry for tickets: this tour’s been a long time coming….
halves rok in an electronic type way
I never think of Halves as electrok…it’s all accordions, violins and guitars for me…
Cool-have caught them a couple times and they are always brilliant:-) Came across a Danish group last night called Under Byen that has a similar vibe.
nay - they sound nice and ambient to me, though they do a proper mix between live instruments and electronica. ah - remember the skylight days when there were a zillion band members? (i think it was skylight anyway)
a zillion, what??
there were 5 people in s*****ht
halves usually has 8/9 on stage,
and we all the rules, more people onstage = massive chart success
i thought there were six or seven in skylight - at least it seemed that many when they played in the tavern
that’ll teach me about saying halves rok ………
“Jehovah, Jehhovah, Jehovah!”
haha,
cormac 79 i take it?
its been a few years-
well thank you for the kind words
damn i was aiming to start the first ever flamewar on nays blog …..
Nah that was The Blonde Majority last December.
im always too late for these things
On the flipside, it was the first OHR Friends Reunited
Must get to one of these!
Under byen are deadly. nearly caught them playing a gig with efterklang at a danish jazz festival in july but that was the week of transmissionless woe and a change in travel plans.