Guest performers on the record include: Amy Millan (Stars/Broken Social Scene), Katie Kim, Phil Boughton (Subplots), Canadian harpist Elaine Kelly-Canning (Carnival Moon), Irish Chamber brass and string players and twenty-seven members of the Kilkenny Ladies' choir.
In 2009 Halves made their debut TV performance, topping the viewers choice poll on RTÉ's 'Other Voices' series.
[9] Their 2008 appearance at Eurosonic Festival in Holland was their first outside Ireland and they have since travelled twice to Toronto to play at Canadian Music Week and Texas for SXSW.
Other festival outings include Kilkenny Arts Festival Kilkenny in 2010 and The Great Escape Brighton, England in 2011[10] The band is known for switching between a wide range of instruments while performing - including Electric guitars, dulcimer, drum kit, piano, vocoder, Synth, laptop, Accordion, Clarinet, Flugelhorn, Trombone and various effects.
[11] It Goes, It Goes (Forever & Ever) was nominated for the Choice Music Prize in 2011 and the band performed two songs live at the awards in Dublin's Vicar Street.