Happyness @ SXSW 2015 (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)
‘SB’s Truck‘ – the track which is acting as a buffer between Happyness‘ 2014 debut ‘Weird Little Birthday‘ and the recording sessions for its follow-up – has an official video.
“We always thought it was kind of a funny idea that a cartoon person might have to turn up to a big glamorous cover shoot for a magazine like ‘Mad’,” the band say.
“And that ended up fusing with a pretty vague video idea we’ve had floating around for a while about what Bob Dylan does in his green room.”
Happyness began tour dates with The Dandy Warhols in France last night (May 17th) and will be in the UK on Friday.
“We’re bringing a friend of ours along to play some of the parts that we can’t play with just three people,” they’ve said of the tour. “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.”
Tour dates:
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L’Aéronef, Lille, France (18)
O2 Academy, Bristol (20)
Electric Ballroom, London (21)
Engine Rooms, Southampton (22)
Rescue Rooms, Nottingham (23)
University Of Northumbria, Newcastle (24)
The Art School, Glasgow (26)
Limelight 2, Belfast (27)
The Academy, Dublin, Ireland (28)