Halves:
Brian Cash
Elis Czerniak
Tim Czerniak
Dave Scanlon
(With)
Sarah Pratt (Cello)
Slipdraft (Stage Visuals)

Since their debut release in May '07, Halves have played Ireland's premier music festival, The Electric Picnic, headlined The Hard Working Class Heroes Festival, as well as being one of only 4 irish acts selected to play the prestigious Eurosonic '08 Festival in Holland last January. They have also toured with British Sea Power, 65 Days Of Static and Cathy Davey. Halves were recently voted as having produced one of the finest Irish releases of 2007.
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Halves have developed their live show into something truly captivating; a mix of synched visuals, strings, brass, and electronics, anchored by soaring guitars and live drums. Broadly influenced, they craft intense, deeply resonant sound-scapes, blending a range of instruments – bells and glockenspiel one moment, the piano and accordion the next - over guitar crescendos, haunting strings and both acoustic and electronic drums. Theirs is a rich, multi-layered sound, ambitious, lush and cinematic.

The band release their new record 'Haunt Me When I'm Drowsy' in May 2008. This seven track ep displays Halves' growing diversity of sound, from the crunching distortions of "May Your Enemies Never Find Happiness" to the epic orchestral embrace of "In The Sorrow….In The Fire". The record (alongside a repress of the first ep) will be released across Europe and the UK, with Irish and European dates scheduled throughout the summer.

"Responsible for one of the finest irish releases this year...they are an example of the rise in quality of irish electronica, unafraid to be intense, engaging and dark..music that demands your attention"
– Sunday Tribune

"A gorgeous, tranquil wash of glazed ambience and dreamy guitar noise…..this performance possessed a cosmic beauty that few others can reach…. It's with great pleasure that i discover that halves are actually bloody brilliant" – Hot Press Magazine

Eurosonic Festival Review
Hotpress Magazine

by Patrick Freyne

"A little way down the road from where Cathy Davey was playing at the eurosonic festival in Groningen, a lesser known Irish act, Halves, was taking to the stage in a slightly dingier bar to play their music to a crammed room of Dutch people and industry types.

"We make post-rockish type music with lots of strings lots of different layers, and there's quite a strong electronic influence as well" singer and multi-instrumentalist Tim Czerniak told me before I went down to see them. "It's ambitious. we try to make everything huge if possible"

That sounded great, but my hopes weren't that high. I'm going to malign a whole genre here, but the term post-rock is often used by jamming musicians to describe unstructured noodling often made under the influence of "cake" or "crank" or "goat" or some other trendy narcotic. So it's with with great pleasure that I discover that halves are actually bloody brilliant. Meticulously arranged vocal lines, string sections, electronic noises, drum patterns, drum-machines and guitar lines intermingle like something from a Michael Nyman score. They chop and change instruments effortlessly, performing it all in an unaffected but totally engaged way.

It sounds a bit like a more aggressive Thom Yorke, or less boring Sigur Ros.

By the end of the gig Halves were distributing free copies of their EP to a throng of impressed foreigners, before returning to the house-boat where they were staying (in true dutch style). They're just one release into the career with an album due out soon, so I fully expect them to be ruling us with an iron fist by the end of the year.

It's weird that I had to go to Holland to find a new Irish band that I like."

Road Records Review
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Halves

Halves are a new dublin based post rock outfit and this is their debut three track ep released on their own label, the ep comes very beautifully packaged in a hand made card sleeve with ribbon tie and plastic card inner, the ep opens up with the very beautiful track take exact revenge sounding something like the voice of Radiohead blended with the music of Sigur Ros, godspeed and explosions in the sky, a very haunting piece of clever post rock with delicate vocals and a really haunting guitar heavy slow building wall of sound, the remaining two tracks are like one extended instrumental piece opening up with some lovely string led soundscapes before launching into the almost apocalyptic like sounds that would quite easily grace any godspeed record, top marks for both musical content and packaging, may 2007

(Single of the week May 18th)

Music Videos
* Tony Hart's Revenge Theme
* Medals

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