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HALFWAY

HALFWAY Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Country / Indie / Rock

    Location Brisbane, Queensland, Au

    Profile Views: 64523

    Last Login: 2/21/2013

    Member Since 4/19/2006

    Website www.halfway.com.au

    Record Label Plus One Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. We are HALFWAY, and we play music that we enjoy Take care. .... **** Rolling Stone - 4 Stars - An Outpost of Promise - July 2010 .... This is a fine piece of work, a great travelling companion and a local album with international appeal. An Outpost of Promise - Bruce McMahon, The Courier Mail (AUS) 4 Stars - June 2010 .... 'An Outpost of Promise' is not only a sublime Roots-tinged Rock'n'Roll album, but Halfway's finest record by a country mile and one deserving to be bracketed with hallowed names like The Triffids and The Go-Betweens. And I don't say stuff like that too often, believe me. Tim Peacock, Whisperin’ & Hollerin’ (UK) 9/10 June 2010 .... Halfway are consistently excellent with their delivery of heartfelt country flavoured rock and roll albums, and their latest offering, An Outpost of Promise, is no exception. Andrew Prentice, TOM Magazine (Australia) 5 Stars and Album of the week .... An Outpost Of Promise is a record for the ages-classic, straight-up and completely unpretentious. Ned Pearse, Inpress (AUS) - July 2010 .... The accuracy of genre identification matters not, as at the heart of the matter lies a simple fact: Brisbane’s Halfway are damned good songwriters. Andrew McMillen, Mess & Noise (Aus) .... " Like Springsteen, who believed that hope was a place you could drive to, Dale believes in the myth of the highway and that if you drive long enough, and far enough, there's a good chance you'll find it. Taking their cue from Gram Parsons, The Byrds and The Band, Brisbane, Australia's Halfway play the kind of roots rock that lasts. Remember the River - Amplifier Magazine - USA May 2007 .... 10 Best Albums of 2006 - Noel Mengel - "listen up, Dean and the Fitzroy and Cheri Ann - haunting tunes inspired by real-life tragedies - are two of the songs of the year" - Halfway - Remember the River - The Courier Mail - Dec 2007 .... Those who discovered Halfway with ‘Farewell To The Fainthearted’ will find plenty more of the same to love here. For those who have yet to discover the new uncrowned kings of alt-country, start here and find out what you have been missing. Penny Black Music (UK) Malcolm Carter Oct 2006 .... "...wheezing harmonicas, Stonsey grit and Gram Parsons' melody" Farewell to the Fainthearted :: The Daily Mirror (UK) July 29, 2005

  • Members

    John Busby, Chris Dale, Elwin Hawtin, Ben Johnson, Noel Fitzpatrick, Liam Fitzpatrick, Luke Peacock, John Willsteed.

  • Influences

    Bob Dylan, Big Star, The Byrds, The Go-Betweens, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, The Kinks, Archers of Loaf, The Replacements, The Band, Warren Zevon ,Steve Earle, Neil Young, Paul Kelly, Tony Mundine, The Triffids, Townes Van Zandt, Knievel, Paul Westerberg, The Church, Guy Clark, The Smiths, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Charles Bukowski, Peanut Montgomery... the list goes on, and on

  • Sounds Like

    Victory ..

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.. We are HALFWAY, and we play music that we enjoy Take care.

**** Rolling Stone - 4 Stars - An Outpost of Promise - July 2010

This is a fine piece of work, a great travelling companion and a local album with international appeal. An Outpost of Promise - Bruce McMahon, The Courier Mail (AUS) 4 Stars - June 2010

'An Outpost of Promise' is not only a sublime Roots-tinged Rock'n'Roll album, but Halfway's finest record by a country mile and one deserving to be bracketed with hallowed names like The Triffids and The Go-Betweens. And I don't say stuff like that too often, believe me. Tim Peacock, Whisperin’ & Hollerin’ (UK) 9/10 June 2010

Halfway are consistently excellent with their delivery of heartfelt country flavoured rock and roll albums, and their latest offering, An Outpost of Promise, is no exception. Andrew Prentice, TOM Magazine (Australia) 5 Stars and Album of the week

An Outpost Of Promise is a record for the ages-classic, straight-up and completely unpretentious. Ned Pearse, Inpress (AUS) - July 2010

The accuracy of genre identification matters not, as at the heart of the matter lies a simple fact: Brisbane’s Halfway are damned good songwriters. Andrew McMillen, Mess & Noise (Aus)

" Like Springsteen, who believed that hope was a place you could drive to, Dale believes in the myth of the highway and that if you drive long enough, and far enough, there's a good chance you'll find it. Taking their cue from Gram Parsons, The Byrds and The Band, Brisbane, Australia's Halfway play the kind of roots rock that lasts. Remember the River - Amplifier Magazine - USA May 2007

Halfway, Australia's premier alt country outfit, have, in their follow up to the marvellous Farewell To The Fainthearted - a hard act to follow - rekindled memories of Fables/Reckoning/Green REM. The band shows the same freedom of spirit, subtle shades and infinite possibilities that Athens' finest did in their young artistic heyday. To categorise Remember The River is to miss the point, the album doesn't cross genres it ignores them. Net Rhythms (UK) January 30, 2007

10 Best Albums of 2006 - Noel Mengel - "listen up, Dean and the Fitzroy and Cheri Ann - haunting tunes inspired by real-life tragedies - are two of the songs of the year" - Halfway - Remember the River - The Courier Mail - Dec 2007

Those who discovered Halfway with ‘Farewell To The Fainthearted’ will find plenty more of the same to love here. For those who have yet to discover the new uncrowned kings of alt-country, start here and find out what you have been missing. Penny Black Music (UK) Malcolm Carter Oct 2006

"...wheezing harmonicas, Stonsey grit and Gram Parsons' melody" Farewell to the Fainthearted :: The Daily Mirror (UK) July 29, 2005

Member Since:

April 19, 2006

Members:

John Busby, Chris Dale, Elwin Hawtin, Ben Johnson, Liam Bray, Noel Fitzpatrick, Liam Fitzpatrick, Chris Hess.

Influences:

Bob Dylan, Big Star, The Byrds, The Go-Betweens, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, The Kinks, Archers of Loaf, The Replacements, The Band, Warren Zevon ,Steve Earle, Neil Young, Paul Kelly, Tony Mundine, The Triffids, Townes Van Zandt, Knievel, Paul Westerberg, The Church, Guy Clark, The Smiths, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Charles Bukowski, Peanut Montgomery... the list goes on, and on

Sounds Like:

Victory ..

Record Label:

Plus One Records

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