Posts Tagged ‘Wierd Little Birthdays’

HAPPYNESS – ” S.B Trucks “

Posted: May 10, 2016 in MUSIC
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Happyness are back with a new track entitled ‘SB’s Truck‘.

It’s a precursor to the band starting work on a second album, as is a tour supporting The Dandy Warhols throughout Europe this month, of which they say:

“We’re bringing a friend of ours along to play some of the parts that we can’t play with just three people. We’ll be playing a few songs from the first record that we haven’t been able to play before, and some of the same songs a little different to how people have heard them, and some new ones.”

“So we’re going backwards and forwards in time, and we’re excited to do it. And our friend’s name is Paul. And thanks to The Dandy Warhols for having us on tour with them!”

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HAPPYNESS – ” A Whole New Shape “

Posted: February 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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If you were at Happyness’ London Birthdays show earlier this week, chances are you’re still wringing the sweat outta your clothes. I know I am. The fast-rising slackers’ last hometown headline show, in November, saw them bring with them onstage a six-foot statue of Jesus. The trio needed no such divine intervention to impress this time, careening through tracks from last year’s fuzzy first album ‘Weird Little Birthday’ with breathless urgency, to a rammed Birthdays crowd. “This could go pretty wrong,” bassist Jonny Allan confessed to the audience before a debut live airing of plaintive piano ballad ‘Reagan’s Lost Weekend’ – but that’s them all over. Happyness are at their best when flirting with disaster. From short-and-sweet garage-rock churn ‘Great Minds Think Alike…’, to Wilco-ish anthem ‘It’s On You’, their mix of melancholia and cheery grunge-pop dips in and out of thrashy guitar dissonance, forever threatening to fall apart at the seams. It’s part of what makes them so thrilling.

Their new single ‘A Whole New Shape’ is no different, honing rather than evolving their brilliant debut’s alchemy of sweet, breathy melodies and scrunched noise. A bouncy three and a half minutes of lamenting lyrics (“I wanna take it all back”) and low-slung Pixies scrawl, the track’s set to feature on a deluxe edition of ‘Weird Little Birthday’, out on March 30th via new label Moshi Moshi. If you love bands like Wilco, Pavement and Built To Spill and aren’t all over this band already.
This February, Happyness are touring with Slow Club across the UK. See dates above the player.
FEBRUARY
05 Oxford, The Bullingdon
06 Norwich, Arts Centre
07 Colchester, Arts Centre
11 Stoke, Sugarmill
13 Pocklington, Arts Centre
14 Edinburgh, Pleasance Theatre
15 Hebden Bridge, Trades
16 Liverpool, Arts Club
23 Leeds, Wardrobe
24 Leicester, Cookie Jar
26 Gloucester, Guildhall
27 Birmingham, Sunflower Lounge
28 Sheffield, Queens Social Club