Halfway, Pleased Curt Smith
during 2000, smith began work on become halfway, pleased, project put on hold when re-established contact roland orzabal again after decade of silence. conversations culminated in tears fears reforming 2004 s loves happy ending led worldwide tour, wasn t until 2006 smith resumed work on halfway, pleased. semi-autobiographical album explores smith s relationships children, parents , friends.
in april 2007, french record label xiii bis records released halfway, pleased in france. 14 tracks included original version of (which recorded tears fears on loves happy ending); live version of snow hill 2005 tears fears uk tour; single version of 7 of sundays (also recorded duet french singer so); , cover of on ira tous au paradis (also available on tribute polnareff). 2 music videos made 7 of sundays – 1 solo track, , 1 duet so.
all songs except 7 of sundays co-written smith , charlton pettus. solo version of 7 of sundays co-written pettus , chesney hawkes; smith , sophie saillet helped adapt song duet version.
smith released album in u.s. , rest of world in may 2008 via own kook media label. kook release features different track listing, eliminating polnareff tribute , adding 2 new acoustic tracks ( coming out , 7 of sundays ). released under creative commons license allows fans distribute, perform , use songs long uses non-commercial , attributed smith.
smith has made limited live concert appearances in los angeles area support halfway, pleased. in january 2009, announced perform weekly residency @ standard hollywood in west hollywood, ca during month of february 2009. announced in mid-february standard had asked him extend through march 2009 , agreed. played similar residency there in october 2008.
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