Happyness announce London headline show at The Garage and sign deal with Rough Trade Publishing
Happyness announce London headline show at The Garage for Oct 27 and sign deal with Rough Trade Publishing
Listen to new single “Uptrend / Style Raids” preview HERE
Praise for new album “Write In” – Out now on Moshi Moshi
“Deceptively well thought-out, deftly constructed, and laced with subtly eyebrow-raising sonics”
Q
“Beatlesy songcraft put through a woozy slacker-rock filter”
Uncut
“Sparkling harmonies”
MOJO
“Classic songwriting”
DIY
“Purposefully-imperfect, grungey goodness…Jon, Benji and Ash have proven themselves to be some of the finer songwriters in what’s a crowded scene.”
Loud & Quiet
“A fantastic listen”
London in Stereo
“Killer melodies and memorable couplets”
GQ
“They have a canny knack of drawing you into their wonderfully fuzzy world that’s hard to resist.”
Drowned In Sound
With their critically acclaimed new album Write In now released world-wide, and a whole host of festival appearances coming up across the summer, Moshi Moshi Records signings Happyness have confirmed another London UK headline show of their own for October 27th at The Garage. Tickets will be on sale from Friday June 23rd HERE. The band are also celebrating signing to Rough Trade Publishing and the release of a new single Uptrend / Style Raids, which can be heard HERE.
Discussing the track, the band say it is “A song mainly about not knowing how to dress.
A few years ago we spent a whole day walking around a big sprawling flea market in Paris determined to find something vaguely musical. Eventually as it was getting dark we managed to find an old supermarket announcement microphone and a Bontempi chord organ that Benji’s cat immediately broke. We recorded Uptrend / Style Raids live and were already using all our normal sounding microphones for the instruments, so the guide vocals were done into the Paris mic and we liked them too much to change them. We were out of mic stands so we had to tape it to a lampshade.”
Happyness playing the following festivals over the summer
July 15 – Readipop Festival, Reading
July 16 – Latitude Festival, Suffolk
July 21 – Deer Shed Festival, Thirsk
July 29 – Three Wheel Drive Festival
Aug 03 – Fengaros, Cyprus
Aug 05 – Visions Festival, London
Aug 11 – Ventnor International Festival, Isle of Wight
Aug 18 – Green Man Festival, Wales
Aug 27 – Art Is Hard All Dayer, Bristol
Sept 30 – The Nil By Mouth Sessions (Sky Club), San Giljan, Malta
JUST ANNOUNCED: Oct 27 – The Garage, London [buy tickets]