Recorded live in Brisbane, in October 2016.
The gig represents the full gamut of Halfway’s career; released in 2004, Farewell To The Fainthearted was the band’s debut full-length, while The Golden Halfway Record marks their most recent LP effort, having been released to hugely enthusiastic response back in April. Laid side-by-side, they bookend the growth of one of Queensland’s most underrated bands, featuring some of the state’s most accomplished musicians, and the opportunity to hear both records in such a setting is sure to be a vivid, reflective and enjoyable one.
“The band is like a face, showing all the stuff that the years have piled on,” says the band’s John Willsteed. “One day you’re just a kid, screaming around in the summer dark, and then you do what you do, roads less travelled or waking up in the ditch, but keeping on. Then every now and then, in the midst of it all, you look in the mirror and it’s all there. These albums are like those mirror moments.”
The gig comes as part of the venue’s first annual Longplayer Sessions program, and in service of getting local punters in the mood — as well as create a sense of what you’re missing, for everyone else — The Music is deeply thrilled to be premiering a new LP recorded at the venue, fittingly enough titled Live At The Triffid, featuring a selection of tracks from across their acclaimed oeuvre.