Our heartfelt thanks to Michael Fortes for taking the time to visit us & to do a Parlour to Parlour episode on us!  We had a blast hanging out in the morning shooting for the episode, as well as a ridiculous amount of fun later that evening at the Hive Mind Halloween Party (c’mon guys, it was TOO successful for you to REALLY call it quits with no more of these).  A grand time was had by one & all.

In other news, we have solidified a date at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard for Wednesday, January 13th with our friends in Osaka Explosion.  We’ve been hammering & smashing up a few new song ideas as we get ready to track the second half of songs for our new album (trust us, we’ve tossed around a Meeeylion creative working titles over rehearsals, although all have been quite silly so far).  We’re to a point we know what we’re going to work with song-wise - now we just have to get them recorded.  We’re most assuredly hoping that minus any little unexpected bumps/quirks/catastrophes, we’ll be sending off a Batch O’ Songs for mixing/production by the end of May& get this thing out the door in the second half of 2010.

Finally got around to plopping some photos up on the site…

Not a lot going on in the Half Light camp this week. Some members doing the summer vacation thing here & there… working on some recording. Next up: September 3rd show @ The Columbia City Theater with The Upside Down & Pink Snowflakes…

Hey All,

we posted a video of the song “Feel” from our gig at the commnet.  You can check it out here.

Thanks to all who came to the gig, and the other bands for rocking and C-monster for taking this video.

As Seattle withers in a rare heat wave, we’ll be playing the cozy confines of the Comet Tavern…

Yes - it could likely be very warm still… that’s what cold beer is for though.   We encourage you to come down & celebrate the return of normal Seattle Summer this weekend.

We’ll be playing with  Sneaky Thieves, Gertrude’s Hearse, & Nathan Wade & the Dark Pioneers - The Comet, 922 E. Pike St.  We will be playing first slot ~ 9:00.

We were contacted (relatively) recently by a filmmaker who is gathering music for the eidting process of his film.    If all goes well, we look forward to another blog post down the line with specific details as to which might have been chosen as well as detials about the film’s release.

We’ve just finalized details on a psychedelic-rock-oriented bill for Thursday September 3rd. We’ll be playing with The Upsidedown, The Pink Snowflakes, and Amsetrjam. We’re looking forward to breaking in this new venue (new to Half Light - Ms Smith has played there previously) as well as playing with some really cool bands. Mark your calendars!

Our next show on the horizon is Thursday July 30th at the Comet Tavern with Nathan Wade & The Dark Pioneers.

Granted - the sunny summer weather of Friday and Saturday didn’t quite hold out for our set Sunday afternoon… but at least there were no major downpours & the thunder waited until much later in the afternoon/early-evening.
We’d like to thank everyone who stopped by - as well as the fine folks who ran the West Seattle Summer Fest. We had a blast playing out there!

Doesn’t look as summery today as it did yesterday, hmmn…????

Well, we’ll sally forth & persevere and all that jazz…. the set is still going to be a lot of fun today.  We’ll be convening in a bit to load up the Silver Bullet & head on over to the Alaska Stage for our 12:45 set.

Seattle Weekly posted a brief preview for the festival yesterday (somehow they chose to run with some band called “Mudhoney” for the photo rather than us…)

Also, ”Sunday’s lineup begins in the middle of the day with the hushed, shoe-gazing intoxication of Half Light (12:45PM)” from the Seattle PI.

Look forward to seeing anyone who can swing by to catch our set tomorrow. One note - the process for loading bands in & out to keep the music on schedule is a little on the tight side… the organizers basically need every band to load & go after their set & get their one allotted vehicle the F Outta Dodge: ASAP, so we may not be lingering to socialize all that long after the set as we load & move The Silver Bullet Van.