Halfway
An Outpost Of Promise
In 2008 Halfway song writing duo, John Busby and Chris Dale won Queenslands most prestigious song writing award - The Grant McLennan Fellowship. The selection panel included members of the Go-Betweens, the McLennan family and Queensland Arts. The fellowship allowed John and Chris to travel to London in November 2008. Whilst in London, they rehearsed, played acoustic shows, wrote and began to put together the initial framework for this their third album "An Outpost Of Promise". This award helped develop a working relationship with Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens) and in 2009 Robert was recruited to handle the production duties for the new album. After months of rehearsal under Roberts instruction, the bands third album was completed in September 2009 with Wayne Connolly again at the controls. Third album.