Happy, Wellington, New Zealand

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2011-12-20T05:13:00.000+13:00

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Happy BAR 2010 (more photos and posters)

2010-08-28T00:20:00.002+12:00

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HERE IS WHAT CURRENTLY GOES ON IN THE HAPPY CLUB

Happy For the furthering of psychedelic and tuned-in living we present L.A's SUN ARAW with ORCHESTRA OF SPHERES. Thursday October 14th at Happy. Presales from utr.co.nz from tomorrow.

SUN ARAW (US) with Orchestra of Spheres

HAPPY

Happy And Tomorrow: Sunday night Live Jazz featuring
The Gruesome Threesome with special guest Tim Hobkins on sax

Come hang out by the faux fire, drink some mulled wine, play scrabble!

Storehouse - rent party blues @ Happy Sat 14 Aug

14. August 2010

Happy is having a bit of a spring clean this week. Then opening on Saturday for Storehouse Blues.

Happy Tonight! NOT OK (aus) 5TH THREAT, DOLE DAY RAGE and BLACK LICK. Show kicks off at 10pm.... bring earplugs!

Happy BAR August 2010

2010-08-27T23:51:00.002+12:00

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HERE IS WHAT CURRENTLY GOES ON IN THE HAPPY CLUB

We're awfully excited about this show...

"I think those that are staying alert, making sure to crest the wave, are already ecstatic in the ways they have found to re-order those energies for their benefit and the furthering of psychedelic and tuned-in living." - SUN ARAW interviewed on Tiny Mix Tapes

The High Seas, Under The Radar and VBC Present:
SUN ARAW (US) + Orchestra of Spheres
Thursday 14th of October at HAPPY
...
Presales $20 from http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/

SUN ARAW is the sound of the late-night party deepening to cosmic levels as you turn up the bass and fog up the place. Mantras emerge from voluminous reverb. Old-school Jamaican grooves roll deep with Afro-funk guitar. Shuddering percussive delays stretch out to the event horizon. It's like taking a journey from Kingston via Nigeria en route to the heart of the sun.

Hailing from Long Beach, LA, Cameron Stallones is the man behind this musical solar storm. A member of heavy rockin' psych-revivalists MAGIC LANTERN as well as recording with the likes of POCAHAUNTED and VIBES, Stallones infuses his lysergic blues with a hefty dose of tropical sunshine in some places, and deep-as-space Kraut-drone elsewhere. Moments on his latest double LP ON PATROL (Not Not Fun Records) sound a little like Lee Perry going crazy in the Black Ark Studio with members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, with an appropriately cinematic feel as the different sonic dimensions shift in and out of focus.

The SUN ARAW live experience sees Stallones taking the recorded material even further into realms of dubbed-out bliss, utilising guitar, Farfisa organ, vocals and a whole lot of delay to entrance the crowd in his colossal hypno-grooves. If astral projection had a soundtrack, this would be it. You can either get lost in this music and watch a universe being created or just dance like a stoned jellyfish. Whichever path you choose, make sure it leads to HAPPY, Wellington on Thursday 14th October.

WITH SUPPORT FROM ORCHESTRA OF SPHERES

Orchestra of Spheres take you to higher dimensions through mathematical ratios of rhythm and chaos patters of sound. Born from the Frederick Street Sound and Light Exploration Society in 2009, the Spheres have developed a cult-like following in their brief existence. Like celestial sponges, they draw on influences far and wide: the hypnotic beats of Kuduro; repetitive minimalist Bornean sape music; celestial chimes of gamelan. DIY instrument makers, the Spheres use the biscuit tin guitar, electric bass carillon and sexomouse marimba to create their cosmic dancing sound!

EVENTS @ HAPPY

* LIVE JAZZ - EVERY SUNDAY NIGHT FROM 8:30PM - FREE ENTRY
* WEDNESDAY AUGUST 25 - The Nerines w, Old Grey Wolf & The Lost Boys
* THURSDAY AUGUST 26 - Simon Comber, Rory Storm & Claire Terry $10
* FRIDAY AUGUST 27 - Vinyl Friday FRIDAY JULY 30 - Vinyl Friday (various collectors spinning their more interesting selections with boutique beers for purchase) 5:30pm FREE ENTRY
* FRIDAY AUG 27 - T54 with No Aloha and Hatemen - early show! Starts 9:30pm sharp
* SATURDAY AUGUST 28 - RESEARCH, Jetsam Isles & no miracles. 8:30PM. $5.
* THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2 - Lauris, Announce and OCELOT.
* FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 3 - Creaky Draws & Kittentank
* SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 4 - VITAL SOUNDS Hi Fi presents REGGAE REVIVIAL. 9PM. $5
* FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10 - Murder Chord & Freddy Fudd Pucker
* SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 25 - Nathan Haines & The Dream Band
* TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 28 - Grouper (US) with Pumice
* SATURDAY OCTOBER 2 - Pine 'Books and Magazines' album release show with Luc Arnult
* THURSDAY OCTOBER 14 - Sun Araw (US) with Orchestra of Spheres. Presales $20 from utr.co.nz

NEW RESIDENCY! VINYL FRIDAY last Friday of every month

The Rotating Plastic Inevitable presents

VINYL FRIDAY at Happy

A monthly celebration of rare groove and good beer.

It’s official. Digital tyranny has failed to stifle the joy of music that warps if you leave it out in the sun, so Happy are staging a celebration. The Rotating Plastic Inevitable presents an occasion designed to flush out a whole bunch of great, good and sporadically lamentable music from bedrooms and basements all over Wellington and give it a public airing.

Each month we offer relief to the families and flatmates of two different DJs who get to bore a whole new audience with the high points of their record collections. It’s a chance to relive some youths, hear stuff you’ve never encountered before, or just get some shit off your chest in the company of people who are at least vaguely sympathetic. We’re not sure whether it’ll be pipe smoking and beard stroking or a bacchanalian riot of strip limbo, but it’s definitely up the alley of the musically bi-curious.

To strike the right tone, there will be a selection of excellent boutique beer likely to appeal to people suspicious of iPods. If your idea of music is something that’s even more analogue than the Book of Kels, then get along to Vinyl Friday and lap it up. You’ll be in excellent company.

WHERE Happy, 118 Tory Street, Wellington

WHEN 5.30pm
Friday 30 June and the last Friday of every month

WHO Want to pencil a spot as DJ? Contact bookings.happy@gmail.com

Melancholy Babes
We have these fine chaps playing for us on Tuesday July 13 & 20

The trio of saxophonist Jeff Henderson, bassist Tom Callwood and drummer Anthony Donaldson are three of the country's most experienced and innovative jazz improvisors and blend an array of influences into their own unique sound. Expect music that soars like a bird, snaps like a crocodile and breathes like a dragon!

Saxophonist Jeff Henderson is a prolific international performing and recording artist who has recently returned from a month touring Japan with drummer Shoji Hano. He has performed with Many leading jazz and experimental musicians such as Steve Lacy, Han Bennink, Tetuzi Akiyama and Marilyn Crispell and has close associations with great New Zealand musicians such as Mike Nock, Richard Nunns and Gerard Crewdson.

Drummer Anthony Donaldson is a legend in New Zealand music, from the seminal avantjazz collective the Primitive Art Group to The Six Volts to his massive stage show productions with The Village of Idiots, Anthony Donaldson is one of the most influential and inspirational musicians and
bandleaders in New Zealand today.

Bass player Tom Callwood is a member of popular bands Little Bushman and the Phoenix Foundation. Recently he has released the album Little Bushman with the NZSO, toured Australia and performed extensively throughout New Zealand. His jazz credentials are exemplary, having performed with Mike Nock, Roger Sellars, Leila Adu and Marilyn Crispell to name but a few.

NEW BLOG!

2010-07-05T16:44:00.001+12:00

HELLO - WE WILL NO LONGER BE UPDATING THIS ADDRESS. PLEASE GO TO http://happythebar.blogspot.com/

THANK YOU

2010-06-22T08:10:00.001+12:00

FREE JAZZ - EVERY SUNDAY NIGHT

with THE POPPIN JAYS - HARD SWINGING ORGAN JAZZ CLASSICS and ORIGINALS, RENDERED IN A RUSTIC KIWI STYLE by LUCIAN JOHNSON, AL CAMPBELL, CHRIS YEABSLEY and JOHN RAE

2010-06-22T08:06:00.001+12:00

FRIDAY JUNE 25 - CANCER & TEEN HYGIENE - 10PM FREE SHOW!

SATURDAY JUNE 26 - DIANA ROZZ & GOLD MEDAL FAMOUS - The premiere of Maximal Minimalism (a piece for 10 electric guitars and drum machine)

WEDNESDAY JUNE 30 - Mmdelai (live vocals) and Cut Loose (DJ set) FREE SHOW!

THURSDAY JULY 1 - KITTENTANK with Terror of the deep and Gucci Coo

FRIDAY JULY 2 - The Broken Heartbreakers with Bond Street Bridge & Rosy Tin Teacaddy

SATURDAY JULY 3 - LUC with Joe Blossom and the National Average

THURSDAY JULY 8 - NEVERNUDES, MAMMAL AIRLINES, THE POSTURES, SIDEWALK MESSE

SATURDAY JULY 9 - 47 DIAMANTES BODY 125 OLD GREY WOLF MILKSHAKE COWBOYZ (Auckland) GRASS CANNONS (Auckland)

This weekend...

2010-06-15T19:59:00.001+12:00

THE MULLED WINE IS BACK FOR WINTER! ONLY A FIVER.

FRI 18: SAM HAMILTON 'PALA' ALBUM RELEASE with Leno Lovecraft, I.Ryoko, Shadow Blasters, DJ Ask No Requests (aka Stephen Clover) and guest act TBA...

SAT 19: 9:00PM: ORCHESTRA OF SPHERES & FULL FUCKING MOON DOUBLE LP RELEASE

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Chrisana Love
Happy Bookings Manager
(04) 3841965
021 755 314
118 Tory St, Te Aro Wellington
PO Box 24298 Manners St, Wellington

Listings from HAPPY

2010-05-28T03:08:00.001+12:00

FRI 28TH, 6PM: FRIDAY ON MY MIND, an after-work event with Fancy Beers and Excellent Records

SAT 29TH, 9PM: PArTY PaRTY

SUN 30TH, 8.30PM: LIVE JAZZ with AL Campbells HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (Free entry)

TUES 1ST, 7.30PM: LIVING MUSIC - Improvised music and Alternative Composition

WEDS 2ND, 8PM: MUSIC and ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB

FRI 4TH, 9PM: THE TENDERIZERS, BUTTERFLY P!G

SAT 5TH, 10PM: FORCEFIELDS, STRANGE HOUSE, JETSAM ISLANDS, OH NO SOLO

SUN 6TH, 8.30PM: LIVE JAZZ with AL Campbells HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (Free entry)

TUES 8TH, 7.30PM: LIVING MUSIC - Improvised music and Alternative Composition
--
Deborah Resnick
Happy Bookings Manager
021 1810916

The Listings!

2010-05-21T11:57:00.001+12:00

FRI 21ST, 9PM: THE SCUMBAGS

SAT 22ND, 9PM: KILLING BEAR Album Release with TOTALLY RAD and friends!

SUN 23RD, 8.30PM: LIVE JAZZ with AL Campbells HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (Free entry)

TUES 25TH, 7.30PM: LIVING MUSIC- Improvised music and Alternative Composition

WEDS 26TH, 5PM: MULLED WINE HAPPY HOUR with Scrabble and Pick up sticks!

THURS 27TH,5PM: MULLED WINE HAPPY HOUR with Scrabble and Pick up sticks!

FRI 28TH, 6PM: FRIDAY ON MY MIND, an evening of Fancy Beers and Excellent Records

SAT 29TH, 9PM: PArTY PaRTY

SUN 30TH, 8.30PM: LIVE JAZZ with AL Campbells HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (Free entry)

TUES 1ST, 7.30PM: LIVING MUSIC - Improvised music and Alternative Composition

WEDS 2ND, 8PM: MUSIC and ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB

--
Deborah Resnick
Happy Bookings Manager
021 1810916

Here's the listings folks!

2010-05-06T13:03:00.001+12:00

Thurs 6th, 9pm: GNU with OLD TIME ENEMIES ($5)

Fri 7th, 10pm: RUN RUBY RUN, FUNKYCYBIN, AFTERMATH ($5)

Sat 8th, 9pm: DOUG JEREBINE aka JESSE HARPER with THE MANTARAYS ($15)

Sun 9th, 9pm: JORDAN O JORDAN, MATTHEW CRAWLEY, THE SING SONGS and TIM BLACKMAN ($10)

Tues 11th, 7.30pm: LIVING MUSIC PRESENTS: THE RUSSIAN FROST FARMERS (free entry)

Thurs 13th, 8.30pm: CALMING RIVER, ADAM JAMES, BEDE EAGLE, MARA SIMPSON

Fri 14th, 10pm: RICKY BOBBY ALBUM RELEASE with THE DAUNTLESS, ENTRAILS

Sat 15th, 10pm: THROW IT TO THE FIRE, THE NOVELIST, MATT MULHOLLAND

Sun 16th, 8.30pm: LIVE JAZZ with AL CAMPBELLS HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (Free entry)

Thurs 20th, 9pm: ALTMUSIC PRESENTS: BILL ORCUTT

Sat 22nd 10pm: KILLING BEAR, DIANA ROZZ
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Deborah Resnick
Happy Bookings Manager
021 1810916

Special Bulletin from HAPPY!

2010-05-06T11:40:00.001+12:00

Dear Friends,

Psychedelic Guitar Legend Doug Jerebine (AKA Jesse Harper) Formerly of Human Instinct, The Embers and The Brew will be playing in Wellington for the first time in over 40 years!

This Saturday The 8th Jerebine and band with be rocking out 60s style with support from The Mantarays - Wellingtons' own psychedelic boogaloo soul 3 piece.

Jerebine the consummate sixties session guitarist and working band regular for the Mike Perjanik Group, Dinah Lee, Tommy Adderley, The Embers and The Brew, was they say, our finest guitarist of the 1960s. A gentle searching sage-like guitarist. The professional pop guitarist with the jazz lifestyle. The small town guitar prodigy from Dargaville who'd joined school friend Mike Perjanik in Auckland working band, The Embers, and gained a Jimmy Page-like reputation as a cult session player and low key guitar hero around town with The Mike Perjanik Group; the ubiquitous Auckland backing group of the era.

The Jerebine Story continues here:

http://mysterex.blogspot.com/2009/06/doug-jerebines-guitar-absolution.html

Video from last years show in Auckland:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OOG-As652k&feature=related

The Mantarays:

http://www.myspace.com/themantarays66

Don't miss this once in a lifetime show!

xx Happy

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Deborah Resnick
Happy Bookings Manager
021 1810916

Happy Listings

2010-04-30T11:23:00.001+12:00

FRI 30TH, 8PM: Music and Artists Social Club presents: THE STRING CONTINGENT with ROSE DESCHAMPS and SIMONE & TRISTAN ($10)

SUN 2ND, 8.30PM: LIVE JAZZ (free entry)

WEDS 5TH, 8PM: MUSIC AND ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB

SAT 8TH, 9PM: DOUG JEREBINE (AKA Jessie Harper - Formerly of Human Instinct, The Embers and The Brew) with THe MANTARAYS

SUN 9TH: JORDAN O JORDAN with MATTHEW CRAWLEY, THE SING SONGS and TIM BLACKMAN ($10)

TUES 11TH, 7.30PM: LIVING MUSIC with THE RUSSIAN FROST FARMERS (FREE)

THURS 13TH, 9PM: BEDE EAGLE, CALMING RIVER, MARA SIMPSON and ADAM JAMES RING ($5)

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Deborah Resnick
Happy Bookings Manager
021 1810916

Happy LIstings!

2010-04-23T12:00:00.001+12:00

FRI 23RD, 9PM: STOREHOUSE www.tomrodwell.com

SUN 25TH, 8.30: LIVE JAZZ with THE CHRIS YEABSLEYS (free entry)

TUES 27TH, 8PM: LIVING MUSIC (free entry)

WEDS 28TH, 8PM: BOARD GAME SPECTACULAR (BYO Boardgames) Free entry

FRI 30TH, 8.30PM: MASC presents: THE STRING CONTINGENT

SAT 1ST, 10PM: URBAN TRAMPER with GHOSTPLANE

SUN 2ND, 8.30PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE CHRIS YEABSLEYS (free entry)

TUES 4TH, 8PM: LIVING MUSIC

WEDS 5TH, 8PM: MUSIC AND ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB ($5)

SAT 8TH, 9PM: DOUG JEREBINE with THE MANTARAYS

SUN 9TH, 9PM: JORDAN O' JORDAN with MATTHEW CRAWLEY

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Deborah Resnick
Happy Bookings Manager
021 1810916

Happy Listings

2010-04-09T11:48:00.001+12:00

FRI 9TH, 9.30PM: The Outsiders & The Postures

SAT 10TH, 9PM: Phantom Tollbooth with Newtown St Justice

SUN 11TH, 8.30PM: Live Jazz with Al Campbells Happy Obscurantists

TUES 13TH, 10PM: Chickens Call (FR), Neon Bastard, Entrails

WEDS 14TH, 8.30PM: An Anthony Donaldson Special

THURS 15TH, 8.30PM: Storehouse

FRI 16TH, 9.30PM: Bad Statistics with Orchestra of Spheres

SUN 18TH, 8.30PM: Live Jazz with Al Campbells Happy Obscurantists

TUES 20TH, 7PM: Living Music Featuring The Melancholy Babes

--
Deborah Resnick
Happy Bookings Manager
027 6459960

Happy Listings

2010-04-02T11:32:00.001+13:00

SAT 3RD, 9PM: Tommy and the Fallen Horses

TUES 6TH, 7PM: Living Music- Improvised Music and Alternative Composition

WEDS 7TH, 8PM: Music and Artists Social Club

THURS 8TH, 9PM: Lisse Lisa

FRI 9TH, 10PM:Outsiders, The Postures

SAT 10TH, 10PM: Phantom Tollbooth

SUN 11TH, 8.30PM:Live Jazz with Al Campbells Happy Obscurantists

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Deborah Resnick
Happy Bookings Manager
021 1810916

Happy Listings

2010-03-26T12:42:00.001+13:00

FRI 26TH, 8.30PM: Apricot Jamm, Gracious Deviants, Monroe

SAT 27TH, 9PM: Caiohme, Tourettes, Gaytime, Alphabethead, Wilberforces

SUN 28TH, 8.30PM: Live Jazz with Al Campbells Happy Obscurantists

TUES 30TH, 7PM: Living Music- Improvised Music and Alternative Composition

THURS 1ST, 9PM: I Cried Wolf, Glasseye and the Carnies

SAT 3RD, 9PM: Tommy and the Fallen Horses

TUES 6TH, 7PM: Living Music- Improvised Music and Alternative Composition

WEDS 7TH, 8PM: Music and Artists Social Club

THURS 8TH, 9PM: Lisse Lisa

FRI 9TH, 10PM:Outsiders, The Postures

SAT 10TH, 10PM: Phantom Tollbooth

SUN 11TH, 8.30PM:Live Jazz with Al Campbells Happy Obscurantists

--
Deborah Resnick
Happy Bookings Manager
021 1810916

Happy Listings!

2010-03-12T12:29:00.001+13:00

TUES 16TH, 7PM: BALLS! experimental expectoration with Noel Meek

WEDS 17TH, 9PM: Tony Barnao, The Renegades of, The Placid Saints

THURS 18TH, 8.30PM: Jeffrey & Jack Lewis (NYC) with Jordan O'Jordan
and Seth Frightening ($15)

FRI 19TH, 9PM: The Coincidences with Special Guests

SUN 21ST, 8.30PM: Live Jazz with Al Campbells Happy Obscurantists (FREE)

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Deborah Resnick
Happy Bookings Manager
021 1810916

Listings from the Happy Dept

2010-02-26T11:28:00.001+13:00

FRI 26TH, 9PM: Strange House, Tin Soldiers, The Girl with the Exe Mask ($5)

SUN 28TH, 8.30PM: Live Jazz with Al Campbells Happy Obscurantists (Free Entry)

TUES 2ND, 7PM: BALLS! an Improvisational Expectoration

WEDS 3RD, 8.30PM: Oddball and Chain, Haunted Housewife and Claire Terry ($5)

THURS 4TH, 9PM: The Melancholy Babes

FRI 5TH, 9PM: Phantom Tollbooth, Karaoke Taxi and Newtown St Justice ($5)

SUN 7TH, 8.30PM: Live Jazz with Al Campbells Happy Obscurantists (Free Entry)

TUES 9TH, 8.30PM: Josephine Costain with Ben Fulton ($20)

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Deborah Resnick
Happy Bookings Manager
021 1810916

Shows at Happy this week!

2010-02-19T11:47:00.000+13:00

SAT 20TH, 10PM: Aktion Unit, Young Lions, Psychic Jams and Scratchplate (all aus)

SUN 21ST, 8PM: Live Jazz with Al Campbells HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE)

TUES 23RD, 8PM: Duos and Trios with Jeff Henderson

WEDS 24TH, 9PM: EVIL, Full Fucking Moon, Zombie Fuck

FRI 26TH, 9PM: Strange House

SUN 28TH, 8PM:Live Jazz with Al Campbells HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE)

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Deborah Resnick
Happy Bookings Manager
021 1810916

Happy Listings this weeek!

2010-02-12T11:24:00.001+13:00

SAT 13TH, 10PM: Realicide (usa), NoMex (Uk), NUTE and The Incredible Hexidecibels

SUN 14TH, 8PM: Live Jazz with Al Campbells HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE)

TUES 16TH, 8PM: Duos and Trios with Jeff Henderson

WEDS 17TH, 8PM: Tortures/Hatecores with Psychic Jams ($3)

THURS 18TH, 9PM: Louis Baker and Alex and BB ($5)

www.myspace.com/bakerlouis
www.myspace.com/bbandalex

FRI 19TH, 10PM: Giles McNeil with Scott Broadley
http://www.tzschot.com

SAT 20TH, 10PM: Aktion Unit, Young Lions, Psychic Jams and Scratchplate (all aus)

SUN 21ST, 8PM: Live Jazz with Al Campbells HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE)

TUES 23RD, 8PM: Duos and Trios with Jeff Henderson

WEDS 24TH, 9PM: EVIL, Full Fucking Moon, Zombie Fuck

FRI 26TH, 9PM: Strange House

SUN 28TH, 8PM:Live Jazz with Al Campbells HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE)
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Deborah Resnick
Happy Bookings Manager
021 1810916

listings alteration.

2010-02-05T12:01:00.001+13:00

WEDS 17TH, 9PM: Giles Mc Neill and Scott Broadley

(not the friday)

Thanks!

--
Deborah Resnick
Happy Bookings Manager
021 1810916

Some Happy Listings

2010-02-05T11:36:00.001+13:00

FRI 5TH, 7PM:CURRENCY ($15/$10)

10.30PM: The Tenderizers with Butterfly P!Glet aka Bumble Puppy ($5)

SAT 6TH: 7PM:CURRENCY ($15/$10)

10.30PM: Ouch My Face, Sets and Ocelot
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=267707230247&index=1

SUN 7TH, 8PM: Live Jazz with Al Campbells HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE)

TUES 9TH, 8PM: Steven Barry Plays Jazz ($5)

FRI 12TH, 9PM: Vostock Lake and Rutger and Wendy

http://www.vostoklake.org/

SAT 13TH, 10PM: Realicide (usa), NoMex (Uk), NUTE and The Incredible Hexidecibels

SUN 14TH, 8PM: Live Jazz with Al Campbells HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE)

TUES 16TH, 8PM: Duos and Trios with Jeff Henderson

THURS 18TH, 9PM: Louis Baker and Alex and BB ($5)

www.myspace.com/bakerlouis
www.myspace.com/bbandalex

FRI 19TH, 10PM: Giles McNeil with Scott Broadley
http://www.tzschot.com

SAT 20TH, 10PM: Aktion Unit, Young Lions, Psychic Jams and Scratchplate (all aus)

SUN 21ST, 8PM: Live Jazz with Al Campbells HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE)

TUES 23RD, 8PM: Duos and Trios with Jeff Henderson

WEDS 24TH, 9PM: EVIL, Full Fucking Moon, Zombie Fuck

FRI 26TH, 9PM: Strange House

SUN 28TH, 8PM:Live Jazz with Al Campbells HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE)

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Deborah Resnick
Happy Bookings Manager
021 1810916

Some music for Feb at Happy

2010-01-29T12:00:00.001+13:00

SUN 31ST, 8PM: Live Jazz with Al Campbells HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE)

MON 1ST, 9PM: Little Night Music ($5)

This band is a three piece indie folk/ soul/ rythm and blues outfit that play a repertoire of original material, traditional folk and rhythm and blues and New Orleans inspired funk. The Line up comprises Daniel de Vries on guitars, Joost van Dijck on drums and guitar and Sofie van Dijck on Guitar, Bass and Mandolin. We're focussing on acoustic sets with material ranging from a capella versions of old folk songs to a more funky acoustic set with originals.

http://www.myspace.com/littlenightmusic

TUES 2ND, 7PM: CURRENCY 3 plays by 3 wellington writers ($15/$10)

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=283025454611&ref=ts

WEDS 3RD, 7PM: CURRENCY ($15/$10)

10.30PM: Polka Dot Dot Dot, The Show is the Rainbow, Seth Frightening, Snowfield ($10)

THURS 4TH, 7PM:CURRENCY ($15/$10)

10.30PM: SINGING SADIE a one woman tap dancing, bad singing musical comedy routine.

http://www.dualplover.com/

FRI 5TH, 7PM:CURRENCY ($15/$10)

10.30PM: The Tenderizers with Butterfly P!Glet aka Bumble Puppy ($5)

SAT 6TH: 7PM:CURRENCY ($15/$10)

10.30PM: Ouch My Face, Sets

SUN 7TH, 8PM: Live Jazz with Al Campbells HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE)

TUES 9TH, 8PM: Steven Barry Plays Jazz ($5)

FRI 12TH, 9PM: Vostock Lake and Rutger and Wendy

http://www.vostoklake.org/

SAT 13TH, 10PM: Realicide (usa), NoMex (Uk), NUTE and The Incredible Hexidecimals

SUN 14TH, 8PM: Live Jazz with Al Campbells HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE)

TUES 16TH, 8PM: Duos and Trios with Jeff Henderson

THURS 18TH, 9PM: Louis Baker and Alex and BB ($5)

www.myspace.com/bakerlouis
www.myspace.com/bbandalex

SAT 20TH, 10PM: Aktion Unit, Young Lions, Psychic Jams and Scratchplate (all aus)

SUN 21ST, 8PM: Live Jazz with Al Campbells HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE)

TUES 23RD, 8PM: Duos and Trios with Jeff Henderson

WEDS 24TH, 9PM: EVIL

FRI 26TH, 9PM: Strange House

SUN 28TH, 8PM:Live Jazz with Al Campbells HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE)

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Deborah Resnick
Happy Bookings Manager
021 1810916

Happy Listings for the new year!

2010-01-15T12:01:00.001+13:00

SUN 17TH, 8PM: Live Jazz with The Happy Obscurantists The most unexpected Jazz Quintet in town!
Featuring Al Campbell, Lex French, Mike Isaacs, Seamus Jolly and John Rae (FREE)

THURS 21ST, 9PM: Anonymeye with William John Hooker Experimental noise

FRI 22ND, 10PM: NOMEX (UK) with TOECUTTER (AUS) $10 Experimental and live electronics

SAT 23RD, 9PM: ROCKABILLY MADNESS with The Rhythm Hawks, Nightmare Alley and Laundromat Cats

SUN 24TH, 8PM:Live Jazz with The Happy Obscurantists The most unexpected Jazz Quintet in town!
Featuring Al Campbell, Lex French, Mike Isaacs, Seamus Jolly and John Rae (FREE)

TUES 26TH, 10PM: NEVERNUDES and friends Punk

THURS 28TH, 9PM: KOKO NUTS! (AUS) with UNI AND HER UKELELE 50's Tiki Rave

FRI 29TH, 9PM: QUICK BROWN FOX (UK) Low fi Rock N Roll

SAT 30TH, 10PM: FREDDY FUDD PUCKER

WEDS 3RD, 10PM: POLKA DOT DOT DOT (US) with SETH FRIGHTENING and SNOWFIELD

THURS 4TH, 10PM: SINGING SADIE (AUS)

SAT 6TH, 10PM: OUCH MY FACE (MELB) with SETS

SAT 13TH, 10PM: Return To The Conquest Of Breakcore Island Redux with REALICIDE [USA], NOMEX [UK], N.U.T.E, THE INCREDIBLE HEXADECIBELS W/ CREASSAULT + WGTN SUPPORT TBC

HAPPY LISTINGS!

2009-12-04T12:31:00.001+13:00

FRI 4TH, 10PM: THROW IT TO THE FIRE, PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH, SON OF PIG

SAT 5TH, 10PM: USE JSME DOMA with MR STERILE ASSEMBLY and THE CONTROL RADIOPHONIC ENSEMBLE

SUN 6TH, 8PM: AL CAMPBELLS' HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS. LIVE JAZZ QUINTET (FREE ENTRY)

TUES 8TH, 8PM: BEYONDSEMBLE and Friends

THURS 10TH, 8PM: BOND ST BRIDGE (AK) with ROSY TIN TEACADDY

FRI 11TH, 9PM: THE PROXIES a pixies tribute band!

SUN 13TH, 8PM: AL CAMPBELLS' HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS. LIVE JAZZ QUINTET (FREE ENTRY)

HAPPY Listings!

2009-11-20T11:19:00.001+13:00

FRI 20TH, 10PM: GOD BOWS TO MATH EP RELEASE with SHARPIE CROWS, CULT OF THE COBRA, NEON BASTARD and THE POSTURES

SAT 21ST, 10PM: ZINEFEST AFTERPARTY featuring SHARPIE CROWS, ZOMBIE? FUCK!, FULL MOON FIASCO and DRAGONSLUG

SUN 22ND, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE!)

TUES 24TH, 6PM: ANTHONY DONALDSONS HISTORY OF THE DRUMKIT PART III (NOT TO BE MISSED!) ($5)

WEDS 25TH, 8PM: SOUND EX with the MUSIC and ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB ($5)

THURS 26TH, 8PM: NADENE PITA with STEVE ABEL and THE MELANCHOLY BABES

FRI 27TH, 9PM: FOREST SPIRITS and SNOWFIELD

SAT 28TH, 9PM: JOE FOGARTY and THE NIGHT TRAINS with TERRY SHORE and STONE BEAT FANATICS

SUN 29TH, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE!)

THURS 3RD, 9PM: OY AZOY and friends

FRI 4TH, 9PM: THROW IT TO THE FIRE

SAT 5TH, 10PM: UZ JSME DOMA (czech) with MR STERILE ASSEMBLY and THE CONTROL 6580 RADIOPHONIC BLUES ENSEMBLE ($15)

SUN 6TH, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE!)

TUES 8TH, 8PM: BEYONDSEMBLE and special guests

THURS 10TH, 9PM: BOND STREET BRIDGE BAND (AK) and FRIENDS

FRI 11TH, 10PM: PROXIES - A PIXIES TRIBUTE

HAPPY. The Listings.

2009-11-06T09:54:00.001+13:00

FRI 6TH, 10PM: STREET CHANT ALBUM RELEASE! With RIFLES and CARTOON ($5)

SAT 7TH, 5PM: BOX WARS! Come to our cardboard dungeon, build some battle armour and fight for the prizes! Building starts 5PM, The battle starts at 9. Spot prizes! $5 for non competitors!
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?filter=nf#/event.php?eid=176459962174&ref=mf

SUN 8TH, 4PM:POETS FOR PRESIDENT BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA , 8PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE!)

MON 9TH, 5-7PM: OUR HAPPY HAPPY HOUR! 5-7, Tues- Fri. Great music, sweet booze.

TUES 10TH, 7PM: COLLECTIVE, IMPROVISATION (FREE!)

WEDS 11TH, 9PM: MANGLE and GROWL with OH MY GOLLY! ($5)

THURS 12TH: 9PM: TINY RUINS, LAVENDERS and LISA CRAWLEY and FRIENDS

FRI 13TH, 10PM: RIVERBLIND, BIG FLIP THE MASSIVE, MOONLIGHT FLIT and THE NOVELIST $5

SAT 14TH, 9PM: PHANTON TOLLBOOTH with THE BOTANICS and FULL MOON FIASCO ($5)

SUN 15TH, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ WITH THE HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE)

TUES 17TH, 7PM: COLLECTIVE, IMPROVISATION (FREE!)

WEDS 18TH, 8PM: KOKO ZELLE

THURS 19TH, 9 PM: VORN and Friends

FRI 20TH, 10PM: GOD BOWS TO MATH EP RELEASE

SAT 21ST, 10PM: ZINEFEST AFTERPARTY featuring SHARPIE CROWS and Friends!

SUN 22ND, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY OBSCURANTISTS (FREE!)

TUES 24TH, 6PM: ANTHONY DONALDSONS HISTORY OF THE DRUMKIT PART III (NOT TO BE MISSED!)

WEDS 25TH, 8PM: MUSIC and ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB FILM AND SOUND NIGHT ($5)

THURS 26TH, 8PM: NADENE PITA and Friends

The Listings! (HAPPY!)

2009-10-30T08:22:00.001+13:00

FRI 30TH, 10 PM: BUTTERFLY P.!.G, BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS and THE HARD HEARTED HEART BREAKERS ($5)

SUN 1ST, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS (FREE)

MON 2ND, 5PM: OUR HAPPY HAPPY HOUR! NEW AT HAPPY! 5-7 TUES-FRI The finest record collections and the best after work/school Drinks in town! Guest DJs every evening!

TUES 3RD, 7PM: COLLECTIVE: IMPROVISATION; NEW MUSIC, SOUND ART; EXPERIMENTAL AURALITY (FREE)

WEDS 4TH, 8PM: A JEFF HENDERSON SPECIAL EVENT!

THURS 5TH, 9PM: PLASTIC KITCHEN and FRIENDS

FRI 6TH, 10PM: STREET CHANT Album Release With RIFLES and CARTOON ($5)

SAT 7TH, 9PM: BOX WARS!! BATTLE EXTRAVAGANZA! With WESTCOAST BULLIES and Suprise guests! ($5)

SUN 8TH, 4PM: POETS FOR PRESIDENT BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA 8PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS (FREE)

TUES 10TH, 7PM: COLLECTIVE: IMPROVISATION; NEW MUSIC, SOUND ART; EXPERIMENTAL AURALITY (FREE)

HAPPY LISTINGS!!

2009-10-23T09:46:00.001+13:00

FRI 23RD OCT, 9PM: JOHNNY ON THE SPOT with TABOO SISTER (FREE)

SAT 24TH, 9.30PM: RIFLES with THE NOVELIST ($5)

SUN 25TH, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ WITH THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS open till late! (FREE)

TUES 27TH, 7PM: COLLECTIVE: IMPROVISATION; new music; sound art; experimental aurality; hello sir/madam (FREE)

WEDS 28TH, 8PM: MUSIC AND ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB featuring: THE NOVELIST, RIVERBLIND, MOONLIGHT FLIT and HEAT LIKE ME ($5)

http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=Music+and+artists+social+club&init=quick#/event.php?eid=157256878434&ref=mf

THURS 29TH, 8PM: WE DON'T KNOWS, LAVENDERS and TINY RUINS ($5)

Tiny Ruins
Hollie Fullbrook's witty, pretty indie folk mel-oh-dies will leave you smitten.
Lavenders
Sounds like? Two Sisters. Sometimes agreeing, sometimes disagreeing. The eldest (India Flynn) - a one woman band, composing the entirety of Lavenders' instrumental backup from the guitar to the harmonica, and the youngest, (Hermione Flynn) - a tangy, twangy, cutesy vocalist with a knack for southern harmonies.
The We Don't Knows
Slinky sexy rock n roll that'll make you wanna get up and shake your shit.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191526214337&ref=nf

FRI 30TH, 10PM: BUTTERFLY P.i.G and BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS with EVAN AND THE BONGOS

SUN 1ST NOV, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ WITH THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS open till late! (FREE)

TUES 3RD NOV, 7PM: COLLECTIVE: IMPROVISATION; new music; sound art; experimental aurality; hello sir/madam (FREE)

HAPPY LISTINGS!

2009-10-11T21:47:00.001+13:00

MON 12TH, 8PM: TINY VIPERS (subpop) with support from MATTHEW CRAWLEY ($25)

TUES 13TH, 7PM: COLLECTIVE: IMPROVISATION; new music; sound art; experimental aurality; hello sir/madam (free)

THURS 15TH, 9PM: NOISEFEST featuring: Pink Beard, BMX Rapists, Rackets, Left at Dawn feat. burlesque sensation Courtney L'Amour, Intergracia, Big flip the massive ($5)

FRI 16TH, 9PM: NOISEFEST featuring: Postures, Vex, Ladieswear Landscapie, Mr Sterile Assembly, Defectorbotsoreassex, and solo performances by the sultry Courtney L'amour ($5)

SAT 17TH, 9PM: SPOOK THE HORSES with West Coast Bullies & Tony Barnao ($5)

SUN 18TH, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ featuring THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS (FREE)

TUES 20TH, 7PM: THE CONTINUED HISTORY OF THE DRUMKIT according to ANTHONY DONALDSON- a lecture

WEDS 21ST, 8PM: THE MELANCHOLY BABES play JAZZ

Happy Listings

2009-10-02T11:59:00.001+13:00

TUES 6TH, 7PM: COLLECTIVE: IMPROVISATION; new music; sound art; experimental aurality; hello sir/madam (free)

WEDS 7TH, 8PM: Couch Surfing

THURS 8TH, 8PM: I RYOKO and ILIOS (greece) ($10)

FRI 9TH, 8PM: RODRIGO BROTHERS with PISCES ($5)

SAT 10TH, 10PM: CONNIPTION, MALPARIDO and CULT OF THE COBRA

SUN 11, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS (FREE)

MON 12TH, 8PM: TINY VIPERS with MATTHEW CRAWLEY

TUES 13TH, 7PM: COLLECTIVE: IMPROVISATION; new music; sound art; experimental aurality; hello sir/madam (free)

Happy listings!

2009-09-25T14:08:00.001+12:00

SUN 27TH, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ featuring THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS (free entry)

TUES 29TH, 8PM: BUG EYES and BIG EARZ (free entry)

WEDS 30TH, 8PM: MUSIC AND ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB featuring: THE GREAT HOAX, SAY NO TO TANGO, MAMA TILLY and SON OF PIG ($5)

THURS 1ST 8PM: PHOTOSPHERE with DJ BALANCED ($5)

SAT 3RD 10PM: SHOJIHANO with HONKYS and SECRETARIES ON STANDBY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVUc0DpPb94
http://www.shojihano.com/

SUN 4TH, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ featuring THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS (free entry)

TUES 6TH, 8PM: BUG EYES and BIG EARZ film night (free entry)

At HAPPY this week..

2009-09-18T11:53:00.000+12:00

FRI 18TH, 10PM: PINK REASON(USA), xNOBBQx, ZOMBIE? FUCK! , BAD STATISTICS ($5)

SAT 19TH, 9PM: DEAR TIMES WASTE with SETH FRIGHTENING

SUN 20TH, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS (FREE)

TUES 22ND, 8PM: JEFF HENDERSON and Friends Play Jazzzz

WEDS 23RD, 8PM: BOARD GAMES NIGHT

THURS 24TH, 8PM: Rhydian W. Thomas & Tali Williams poetry reading / release / gig with THE BODY LYRE and Albert Williams

FRI 25TH, 9PM: DALLAS and THE MANNEQUINS, JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHERRYS GEMSTONES ($5)

SAT 26TH, 10PM: UPSIDEDOWN UGANDA

SUN 27TH, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS (FREE)

TUES 29TH, 8PM: BUG EYES and BIG EARS- noises for your headspace

WEDS 30TH, 8PM: MUSIC AND ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB ($5)

HAPPY Listings

2009-09-11T12:18:00.001+12:00

FRI 11th, 10PM: THE OUTSIDERS, THE POSTURES, WE THE COMEDOWN

SAT 12TH, 10PM: NEON BASTARD, ENTRAILS, MALPARIDO

SUN 13TH, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY SUNCOPATORS (FREE)

TUES 15TH, 8PM: BUG EYES and BIG EARS (FREE)

WEDS 16TH, 8PM: MELANCHOLY BABES: Jeff Henderson, Anthony Donaldson and Tom Callwood play Jazz

FRI 18TH, 10PM: PINK REASON (USA), XNOBBQX (brisbane), ZOMBIE?FUCK!and BAD STATISTICS

SAT 19TH, 9PM: DEAR TIMES WASTE, STREET BEAT and SETH FRIGHTENING

SUN 20TH, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY SUNCOPATORS (FREE)

TUES 22ND, 8PM:BUG EYES and BIG EARS (FREE)

Happy listing ammendation

2009-09-04T13:00:00.001+12:00

Sat 12TH is: ALI's BIRTHDAY PARTY.

NOT BUTT SIMPSON ETC

Sorry for the bother

Happy

Happy- The Listings

2009-09-04T12:42:00.000+12:00

FRI 4TH, 9PM: THE VIETNAM WAR and THE BODY LYRE

SAT 5TH, 9PM: MR STERILE ASSEMBLY ALBUM RELEASE with: ALPHABETHEAD, PUBLIC TOILET LTD, LADIESWEAR LANDSCAPI and SAKOOMOOROOAZAR ($8)

SUN 6TH, 8PM: HOLLY THROSBY with SETH FRIGHTENING ($20)

TUES 8TH, 8PM: BUG EYES and BIG EARS (free)

WEDS 9TH, 8PM: CROWN JULZ and the 24 CARATS Bad Blooded Blues, Killah Kalypso and Agnostic Gospel (free entry)

FRI 11TH, 10PM: THE OUTSIDERS, THE POSTURES and WE THE COMEDOWN

SAT 12TH, 10PM: BUTT SIMPSON and BIG FLIP THE MASSIVE

SUN 13TH, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS (FREE ENTRY)

TUES 15TH, 8PM: BUG EYES and BIG EARS

The Haps at Happy:

2009-08-21T14:45:00.001+12:00

FRI 21ST, 9PM: THE BADS with THE CALICO BROS
http://www.myspace.com/badstheband
http://www.amplifier.co.nz/artist/7745/the-bads.html?full=1

SAT 22ND, 9PM: THE RODRIGO BROTHERS with THE HULA BOYS

TUES 25TH: BUG EYES: EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIMENTATION (FREE)

WEDS 26TH, 8PM: MUSIC AND ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB featuring KILL YOUR BABIES, ALYPHANCE WILD, STREETLIGHT REQUIEM and THE IMPROV NOISE BAND ($5)

THURS 27TH, 9PM: THUMPER ($5)

FRI 28TH, 9PM: THE DIMS (formerly havana affair),THE LUCKY STRIKES and MATT MULHOLLAND AND THE TAIL WHIPS ($5)

SAT 29TH, 10PM: GOLDEN AXE, BUTT SIMPSON and LADIESWEAR LANDSCAPI ($5)

SUN 30TH, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ and MULLED WINE with THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS (FREE)

HAPPY LISTINGS

2009-08-14T17:00:00.001+12:00

TUESDAY 18TH, 9PM German day out featuring Niko Suave (DE) Juse1 and DJ Kerb ($10)

WEDNESDAY 19TH, 8PM Crown Julz and the 24 carats - blue blooded blues, agnostic gospel, killa kalypso (FREE)

THUSDAY 20TH, 9PM The Free Tones and the Avaitors W/ dj support from Mr Information ($5)

FRIDAY 21ST, 9PM The Bads and Calico Bros. ($5)

SATURDAY 22ND, Rodrigo Brothers ($5)

SUNDAY 23RD, 8PM Live Jazz with the happy syncopators (Al Campbell, Reuben Bradley) (FREE)

TUESDAY 25TH, 8PM BUG EYES Aural Experimentation (FREE)

Happy Listings

2009-08-07T12:02:00.001+12:00

TUES 11TH, 7PM: Anthony Donaldson presents a lecture:

The history of the drum kit and its development in Western music.

Come and hear the venerable master spout percussive truths from the fount of his drummerly knowledge. ($5)

WEDS 12TH, 8PM: CROWN JULZ and the 24 CARATS (FREE)

THURS 13TH, 8PM: THROW IT TO THE FIRE, JONNY ON THE SPOT and CANDY FOR STRANGERS ($5)

FRI 14TH, 9PM: RACHEL HOPE NORTON with TIM ARMSTRONG (can we talk) and MATT HOLLEMAN ($5)

SAT 15TH, 9PM: THE DANCE NIGHT - put on your dancing shoes and come shimmy, jitter, tap and strut the night away. LIVE BANDS and DJs ($5)

SUN 16TH, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS (FREE)

TUES 18TH,8PM: GERMAN DAY OUT FEAT: NIKO SUAVE (DE) & JUSE1 and DJ KERB ($10)

The Listings: HAPPY

2009-07-31T11:49:00.000+12:00

MON 3RD,5PM: HAPPY is open weeknights from 5!! drink and be merry!

TUES 4TH,8PM: BUG EYES experiential observations (FREE)

WEDS 5TH,8PM: CROWN JULZ and the 24 CARATS (FREE)

THURS 6TH, 8PM: ANTARCTIC ANTICS

FRI 7TH, 9PM: BENEFIT SHOW: FULL MOON FIASCO, VORN AND THE SOMETHING OR OTHERS, URBAN TRAMPER, LOST UNIVERSE (AKL) and SURF FRIENDS (AKL)

SAT 8TH, 9PM: SICK SECTION with SEXY/HEAVY and KOKO ZELLE

SUN 9TH, 8PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS (FREE)

TUES 11TH, 8PM: BUG EYES suprising synapses (FREE)

Listings for Happy!

2009-07-24T09:32:00.000+12:00

TUES 28TH, 8PM: BUG EYES aural exploration (FREE)

WEDS 29TH, 8PM: MUSIC AND ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB featuring THE SMP ENSEMBLE ($5)

FRI 31ST, 9PM: ALPS OF NEW SOUTH WHALES, SETH FRIGHTENING, SNOWFIELD ($5)

SAT 1ST, 10PM: SAVING GRACE, EKKLESIA & CAST THEM TO RUIN

SUN 2ND, 8PM: EVERY SUNDAY, LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS and FRIENDS (FREE!)

TUES 4TH, 8PM: BUG EYES flirting with danger (FREE)

HAPPY LISTINGS

2009-07-17T12:09:00.000+12:00

TUES 21ST, 8PM: BUG EYES experimental action (FREE)

WEDS 22ND, 8PM: OPEN AND ORESOME

THURS 23RD, 9PM: JONNY ON THE SPOT and GUESTS

FRI 24TH, 9PM: JP YOUNG, RUPERT SNOOK (New Friend) and HEAD. ($5)

SAT 25TH, 9PM: TOMMY AND THE FALLEN HORSES Album release tour with THE HEARD HEARTED HEARTBREAKERS

SUN 26TH, 8PM: Every Sunday LIVE JAZZ featuring THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS and friends (FREE)

TUES 28TH, 8PM: BUG EYES Open Mic Night (FREE)

WEDS 29TH, 8PM: MUSIC AND ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB featuring THE SMP ENSEMBLE and more! ($5)

Happy listings 13th-20th

2009-07-10T12:03:00.001+12:00

TUES 14TH, 8 PM: EXCEPTIONAL EXPERIMENTS IN SIGHT AND SOUND ..BUG EYES- THE Julian Taylor Residency (FREE)

THURS 16TH, 9PM: OUT OF THE WIND with special guests

FRI 17TH, 9PM: FANUCMAN and FRIENDS $5

SAT 18TH, 9PM: THE PUDDLE with MARINEVILLE Silver Anniversary Concert Tour

SUN 19TH, 7PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS AND GUESTS (FREE)

TUES 21ST, 8 PM: MORE EXCEPTIONAL EXPERIMENTS IN SIGHT AND SOUND ..BUG EYES- THE Julian Taylor Residency (FREE)

This week at Happy! and TONIGHT the SLEDGE HAMMER OF SOUND!

2009-07-02T09:20:00.001+12:00

Hello Folks,

The next few days are just FULL of excellent times.

TONIGHT The 2nd of July we have

Sledge Hammer Of Sound

The last ever night!

Primal Psychedelic lush sound-scapes to organic live visuals by an Artist from Chile named Pablo.

The visuals motivate the music which are unpredictable and stunning to watch.

The music which accompanies -almost as unpredictable as the visuals, is an interesting combination of instruments.

3 Strings each running their own mad effects creating a symphony. A saxophone and synthesizer player creating textures, melodies and chords. A guitar interacting and surfing through the psychedelic colors. A drummer always playing to the deep primal pulse of his own heart.

This is the last show this band will play! (FREE)

On FRIDAY the 3RD we have THE LITTLE VICES with THE NOVELIST and THE COLD SHIVERS ($5)

SATURDAY the 4TH is a BIRTHDAY EXTRAVAGANZA with FLICK (down from auckland for karaoke and beatboxing madness), ALPHABETHEAD, THE POSTURES and MONDO TRASHO ($5)

SUNDAY the 5TH is more LIVE JAZZ with the HAPPY SYNCOPATORS

TUESDAY the 7TH IS BUG EYES, THE JULIAN TAYLOR RESIDENCY (FREE!)

ON WEDNESDAY the 8TH we have SKYSCRAPER down from AKL they are a 3 piece lo-fi alt blues act

CHEESE ON TOASTS Andrew Tidball had this to say about their EP:

SKYSCRAPER - I Bide My Time (Arcade Recordings)
Y'see that tall guy over there, yeah, that guy, that really nice and polite guy. Did you know he's a creative genius with a voice halfway between warm honey and wet cement channelling Nick Cave? Yep. Serious. This is his band; Emlyn on drums (but's left for overseas now), Jack on bass and Phil (formerly of MeatBix and currently in Benka Borodovsky Boredello Band) on guitar; recorded with gear mostly borrowed by Rohan from the Wine Cellar and released on Rohan's new record label Arcade Recordings. I feel remiss that I had consistently failed to check them out live and now hear that they only have a handful of shows left in Auckland before that tall guy (Stan Woodhouse) leaves for Melbourne. I hate it when i find my new favorite band and they are already going away! At least I have this EP and a couple of shows to go to. You should join me. Seriously. AT

They are playing with THE CHERRY BOMBS and special guests
Bring your dancing shoes and leave inhibition and sobriety at home!!

COMING UP THIS MONTH:

DYLAN STOREY and REB FOUNTAIN on the 11TH country, folk, indie, pop, psychedelic, rock About Reb Fountain: US-born, Christchurch-raised, Auckland-based singer-songwriter. About Dylan Storey: Auckland-based musician, currently playing with a five-piece band.

FANUCMAN on the 17TH
THE PUDDLE with MARINEVILLE on the 18TH
About The Puddle: Seminal psychedelic surf lounge three-piece formed in Dunedin 1984 by George D Henderson Ross Jackson. Membership has included Shayne Carter, Peter Gutteridge, Leslie Paris, Norma O'Malley, Richard Steele, Alan Starett and Martin Phillipps at one time or another. Releases on Flying Nun, Powertool, Fishrider.
AboutMarineVille: A four-piece indie/rock band from Wellington. Formed in 1999. They have two albums: Ready for the Dance (2001) and Diving the Wreck (2004).

HOT HOT WINTER on the 24TH
Madsunny presents...
JP Young
Rupert Snook (New Friend)
HEAD
Another special night of local Wellington artists. Get your fix of mulled wine and a taste of some brilliant musical talent.

RORY STORM AND THE INVADERS on the 31ST

AND MUCH MORE!

xx HAPPY

Happy listings...

2009-06-19T12:09:00.001+12:00

TUES 23RD, 8PM: BUG EYES with CHRIS PALMER and GUESTS (FREE)

WEDS 24TH, 8PM: MUSIC AND ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB, The Jazz Special ($5)

THURS 25TH, 9PM: EVA PROWSE and TESSA RAIN ($15)

FRI 26TH, 10PM: NOT EVEN OWLS, RORY STORM AND THE INVADERS, MIRACLE HEX and ALEX MACKINNON ($5)

SAT 27TH, 10PM: PERLONEX (Berlin) with BAD STATISTICS ($10)

Alt Music, Vitamin S and HSP present
PERLONEX
supported by BAD STATISTICS
Ignaz Schick - turntables, live-electronics
Jörg Maria Zeger - electric guitars
Burkhard Beins - percussion, objects

The electro-acoustic trio PERLONEX was founded in late 1998 and has performed and toured in Europe and North Americaextensively since then. Ranging from prominent contemporary music festivals to underground noise /punk clubs, from art galleries to obscure improv backrooms the wide variety of venues they have played marks out the musical spectrum of the group.
Through the interplay and friction of gradually shifting layers of sound, sonic interferences, interwoven loops and hidden repetitive structures PERLONEX is plumbing the depth of a rather complex sound material.

The Berlin group PERLONEX's flurrying micro textures and corrupted electro-acoustic zones have taken them on a twisting incursion across some of the most persistently radical and inventive musical fields of thought and experimentation. While the trio have collaborated and played alongside an esteemed line-up of disparate spirits that have included pianist Charlemagne Palestine and Keith Rowe (AMM), its individual members have done time with an even more proliferate array of iconoclastic luminaries, such as Don Cherry, Zbigniew Karkowski, Jason Forrest, Anla Courtis (Reynols), Philip Jeck, The Haters's GX Jupitter-Larsen, Xavier Charles, Valerio Tricoli, Toshimaru Nakamura, Phil Minton, and our own Greg Malcolm. Percussionist Burkhard Beins' Polwechsel has appeared on fabled UK label Erstwhile in tandem with Fennesz and prolific Swiss imprint Hat Hut, alongside AMM's John Tilbury.

As The Wire Magazine's Nick Cain writes, Perlonex's "music is in a state of constant movement and advance, and though the rate and speed at which it shape-shifts varies greatly, it is never static. Comparison has been made to AMM, and there are surface similarities in the use of layers of sound in the construction of the improvisations, but Perlonex's electronic source material is significantly more dynamic, and the range of sounds it generates broader".

SUN 28TH, 8PM till LATE: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS (FREE)

MON 29TH, 9PM: MOUNTAIN EATER with THE FRIENDLY BARNACLE

TUES 30TH, 8PM: BUG EYES: The JULIAN TAYLOR residency (FREE)

The Listings

2009-06-12T10:11:00.001+12:00

TUES 16TH, 8PM: BUG EYES featuring the Deconstructed Honky Tonk of CHRIS PALMER and special guests. The third week of his one month residency /free/

WEDS 17TH, 8PM: A Suprising performance from JEFF HENDERSON

FRI 19TH, 9PM: GUY BLACKMAN with SETH FRIGHTENING

Melbourne-based sensual troubadour Guy Blackman returns to his native land of New Zealand for just two gigs this month.

First up he plays in windy wonderful Wellington with the intriguing loner folk stylings of Seth Frightening. Then up at Cassette 9 in Auckland

www.myspace.com/guyblackman
www.myspace.com/sethfrightening
www.chaptermusic.com.au

SAT 20TH, 10PM: THROW IT TO THE FIRE, DONOR FEEDBACK and CANDY FOR STRANGERS ($5)

Three local Indie Rock bands join forces!

SUN 21ST, 8PM TILL LATE: THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS play JAZZ (FREE)

Happy listings

2009-06-05T12:10:00.001+12:00

MON 8TH, 5PM: HAPPY is now open from 5 for after work drinks on weekdays.

TUES 9TH,8PM: BUG EYES featuring CHRIS PALMER's deconstructed honky tonk and guests.

WEDS 10TH, 5PM: Come try out our great new drinks list!

THURS 11TH, 9PM: SECRETARIES ON STANDBY with BRIGHT COLOURS

FRI 12TH, 9PM: THE WILBERFORCES with RIFLES and guests

SAT 13TH, 10PM: THROW IT TO THE FIRE, DONOR FEEDBACK and CANDY FOR STRANGERS

SUN 14TH, 7PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS (FREE)

This week at HAPPY (there is a big party on friday!)

2009-06-02T13:43:00.001+12:00

Hi everyone, We're all set for the big re-opening party on Friday the 5th!

The HUGE lineup includes:

SIGN OF THE HAG
PONCHO PILATES
THE WINTER
COUGAR COUGAR COUGAR
TERROR OF THE DEEP
PUBLIC TOILET LTD
ELECTRIC RAINBOW
AND MORE!

Dress up like something that can fly! Spot prizes!

It'll Kick off around 7 with some eats and the gig proper will start around 8.30

But we're getting ahead of ourselves.. here's the rest of the week!

TUES 2ND, 8PM: BUG EYES featuring the deconstructed honky tonk (and more!) of Chris Palmer - The first week of a month long residency.

THURS 4TH, 8.30PM: NINA and SANDY with friends: Sandy makes tribal/hip hop beats and Nina sings and plays accordion over the top.

FRI 5TH, 8PM: HAPPY: THE GRAND RE-OPENING PARTY! FREE!

SAT 6TH, 9PM: DOTEYES EP RELEASE with BIG FLIP THE MASSIVE, I RYOKO and CUE THE SUN ($10)

SUN 7TH, 7PM: LIVE JAZZ with THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS (FREE)

See you soon!

HAPPY

HAPPY LISTINGS

2009-05-07T12:01:00.001+12:00

FRI 10TH, 11.30PM TILL LATE: LATE NIGHT POST COMEDY PARTY TIME with DJ MUSCLE SHIRT (FREE!)

SAT 9TH, 11.30PM: KITTENTANK Midnight gig! W/ Alex Lashlie and his big beat(Melbourne) and Big Flip the Massive.($5)

SUN 10TH, 8PM till LATE: THE INAUGURAL SUNDAY JAZZ NIGHT! WEEKLY with THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS (FREE!)

MON 11TH, 8PM: PIKELET with BRIGHT COLOURS

TUES 12TH: COMEDY FESTIVAL till 11. OPEN TILL LATE

WEDS 13TH: COMEDY FESTIVAL till 11. OPEN TILL LATE

THURS 14TH: COMEDY FESTIVAL till 11. OPEN TILL LATE

FRIDAY 15TH 11.30: ANTAGONIST Closer to the sun tour

SAT 16TH, 11PM: LATE NIGHT POST COMEDY PARTY TIME with DJ MUSCLE SHIRT (FREE!)

SUN 17TH, 7PM till LATE: SUNDAY JAZZ NIGHT! WEEKLY with THE HAPPY SYNCOPATORS (FREE!)

HAPPY LISTINGS 27th April

2009-04-24T12:02:00.000+12:00

TUES 28TH, 8PM: BUG EYES featuring Erika Grant, Julie Bevan and Simon
O'Rorke

WEDS 29TH, 8PM: MUSIC AND ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB featuring: SAY NO TO TANGO, NORTH ISLAND TOWNS, TONY WILSON, MOONLIGHT FLIT and THE OWEN WILSON STREET CORNER TUNES (ENTRY $5)

FRI 1ST MAY, 9PM DYNAMO GO, SING SINGS and FAMILY CACTUS

SAT 2ND MAY 9PM: TOURETTES and ALPHABET HEAD

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HAPPY LISTINGS

2009-04-17T18:08:00.001+12:00

TUES 21ST ALLAN THOMAS BOOK LAUNCH AND BUG EYES

THURS 22ND SECRETARIES ON STANDBY

FRIDAY 23RD 9PM FAYE BLAISE (CAN) AND APRIL MAZE

SAT 25TH 9PM: DAMSELS EP RELEASE with NEON BASTARD, SIAMESE and ALPHABETHEAD.

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HAPPY LISTINGS 27 March

2009-03-27T14:11:00.000+13:00

MON 30- Weds 1 : Closed for beautification

THURS 2, 9PM: VEX

FRI 3, 9PM: THE COLLINS with support from Kofi Annan

SAT 4, 9PM: ZOMBIE? FUCK?!, PITS (Melbourne), TIM COSTER (Ak) and RORY STORM AND THE INVADERS (9PM)

SUN 5, 8PM: ZAPITASTA FILM EVENING

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happy listings and upper hutt posse press release

2009-03-20T15:20:00.000+13:00

happy listings:

Attached is the press release for the upper hutt posse gig on friday the 27th.

FRI 20:9PM Oxfam Fundariaser night feat. COUGAR COUGAR and FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL

SAT 21:9PM NIKKI PATIN - Phat Grrl Revoution Tour

Chicago-based Def Jam poet and member of the American National Slam Team Nikki Patin is heading to New Zealand on her Phat Grrrl Revolution Tour.

SUN 22: 8PM CAROLYN MARK (Canada)

"There's two kinds of women you let in your life/ Exciting new mistress and boring old wife," sings country throwback Carolyn Mark on her new album, Nothing Is Free. The line is indicative of Mark's straightforward style - she doesn't take shit and she's not afraid to let you know it. And, safe to say, Mark is not boring. She's good friends with fellow twangy siren Neko Case (the outspoken duo released an album together in 2000) and the Canadian songwriter has made a name for herself with five brassy albums over the last seven years.

Mark's music is so authentic in its back porch vibe, it seems to come with its own direct link to Loretta Lynn's '60s heyday - like her heroes, Mark is not afraid to rail against a man too drunk to understand his own fuck-ups. Not to say Mark is some kind of saint: Her gigs are known for their off-balance candor and ribald humor as much as the homespun tunes. Go for the music, stay for the dirty jokes.

http://www.carolynmark.com/

WEDS 25: The SMP Ensemble with The Society Ladies and The Improv Noise Band

THURS 26: CONNAN MOCCASIN

FRI 27: UPPER HUTT POSSE

SAT 28: SHEBA WILLIAMS - eroticstatic video release

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HAPPY LISTINGS MARCH

2009-03-06T15:14:00.001+13:00

Fri 6 9pm

JACOB PERKINS and the Nobody (US)

Peneloping

Ashes of August

SethFrightening

Sat 7

AUDIO EMPIRE " Combining elements of Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Breaking Benjamin, Incubus, Pearl Jam and various others, the sound is atypical of the standard New Zealand rock format. The end result is polished, professional and radio-friendly, with enough grit and integrity to keep heads bobbing and fists pumping. "

MERCURY CROWE / MOONLIGHT FLIT

Tues 10 - 8.30

JIM DENLEY - Aussie improv sax legend plays with....

Secretaries on Standby (A Donaldson, J Taylor, D Beban)

and

Hermione Johnson and Gerard Crewdson

Wed 11 8.30pm

JIM DENLEY (Aus) with

APLHABETHEAD / GERARD CREWDSON

and

THE ECSTASY TRIO - (J Henderson / T Callwood / C O'Connor)

Thurs 12 9pm

SMASHIN OFF / WASTELAND / STRANGERS - big night o touring rocknoisepunk

Fri 13

THE COMEDOWNS - Ak rockers

Sat 14

PUMICE - the one and only! and....

GROUPER (US)

"Vicky Sleeps with Dead People" Part 8: Vicky sleeps out in the woods with dead people but she always combs her hair in the morning. Her parents don't understand her. And she doesn't understand them. They try. She tries. The dead people try. They will all work it out someday.

http://www.myspace.com/grouperrepuorg

Tues 17 8.30pm

BUG EYES - new year new name BUG EYES is BUG EYES....anything could happen.

Wed 18 - 8.30pm

THE COLLINS

Thurs 19 8.30pm

HOLLY THROSBY - Australia

"Superb lyricism and subtly rich, oaky instrumentation, effortlessly veering from bright folk pop to spare, almost ambient acoustic laments."

http://www.myspace.com/hollythrosby

Fri 20 9pm

Oxfam Fundariaser night feat. COUGAR COUGAR

and

FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL

Sat 21, 9pm

Nikki Patin - Phat Grrl Revoution Tour - Auckland

Chicago-based Def Jam poet and member of the American National Slam Team Nikki Patin is heading to New Zealand on her Phat Grrrl Revolution Tour.

Sun 22 8pm

CAROLYN MARK (Canada)

http://www.carolynmark.com/

Tues 24 8.30pm

BUG EYES

Wed 25 8pm

MUSIC AND ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB

Thurs 26

CONNAN MOCCASIN

Fri 27

UPPER HUTT POSSE

Sat 28

SHEBA WILLIAMS - eroticstatic video release

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Happy listings Feb - March

2009-02-12T13:38:00.001+13:00

Thurs 12 Feb

7pm Boomerang Lean and the She Devil from Outer Space

9pm Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing / Rifles and others...

Fri 13

7pm Boomerang Lean and the She Devil from Outer Space

9pm THE RAMPS! Belly Dancing, juggling, rock n roll...

Sat 14

7pm Boomerang Lean and the She Devil from Outer Space

10pm AN EMERALD CITY / KERRATA

Sun 15

9pm LOST : SHADES - a new theatre work from the wonderful Roadworks pioneer Ksenjia Chobanovich, music by Lucky Foodbar

Mon 16

9pm LOST : SHADES

Tues 17

7pm - KRESSINED - Fringe comedy

9pm LOST : SHADES

Wed 18

7pm - KRESSINED

9pm - REUBEN BRADLEY's RESONATOR feat. Mostyn Cole and Miles Crayford

Thurs 19

7pm - KRESSINED

10pm - MIKE CCOPER (UK/Italy) with WILLIAM JOHN HOOKER and the BAD BLUES BAND

Fri 20

7pm - KRESSINED

10pm - The RAINBOW - US pop

Sat 21

7pm - KRESSINED

10pm - NEW TELEPATHICS

Sun 22

8.30pm

MIKE COOPER with ANTONY DONALDSON

Tues 24

8pm - MIKE COOPER with RICHARD NUNNS and GRAYSON COOKE...Taonga Puoro legend meets avant folk legende meets Oz video wiz!

Wed 25

8.30pm BUG EYES! with SECRETARIES on STANDBY / Jeff Henderson and others

Thurs 26

7pm IN THE NIGHT, ALL THE CATS ARE GREY...Fringe album launch from the 2+2= 5 ensemble

9pm JEFF HENDERSON END OF DAYS

Fri 27

7pm IN THE NIGHT, ALL THE CATS ARE GREY

8.30pm ANTONY MILTON / FERTILITY FESTIVAL plus others

Sat 28

7pm IN THE NIGHT, ALL THE CATS ARE GREY

10pm DELETE! / MICROSOFT VOICES / CONTROL 6580 / BRIGHT COLOURS massive reunion gig for legendary electrospazzpophipplopnoiseniks Delete!

Sun March 1

7pm IN THE NIGHT, ALL THE CATS ARE GREY

Tues 3

8pm ACOUSTIC PIONEERS

Wed 4

8.30pm LEILA ADU - our favourite Rome based songstress returns to NZ after 3 years abroad! with Tom Callwood, Chris O'Connor and Jeff Henderson

Thurs 5

9pm - GOODBYE MURDOCH

Fri 6

JACOB PERKINS (US)

Sat 7

AUDIO EMPIRE / MERCURY CROWE / MOONLIGHT FLIT

Tues 10

JIM DENLEY (Aus) KIM MHYR (Norway) improv greats

Wed 11

JIM DENLEY (Aus) KIM MHYR (Norway) improv greats

Thurs 12

SMASHIN OFF / WASTELAND / STRANGERS

Fri 13

THE COMEDOWNS

Sat 14

PUMICE / GROUPER (US)

Wed 18

CAROLYN MARK (Canada)

THurs 19

HOLLY THROSBY

Fri 20

CASSETTE

Sat 21

NIKKI PATIN (US)

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happy listings feb

2009-01-30T15:36:00.000+13:00

Mon 2 Feb - SHARPIE CROWS, NEON BASTARD, CREAKY DRAWERS and GIRLS PISSING ON GIRLS PISSING.

Tues 3 / Wed 4 Feb - SERENDIB SEXTET - Traditional Sri Lankan musicians and NZ improvisors playing new psychedelictradlushexotica.....
Gayanath Dhahanayake - thabla, Ashoka Indrajith, vocals, Chamila Sangeeth, harmonium, vocals. Jeff Henderson - clarinet, Sum Suraweera- drums, Isaac Smith - bass

thurs 5 Feb - JUSTICE YELDHAM and the DYNAMIC RIBBON DEVICE / TOECUTTER / THE STUMPS ...wowee! a monster triple bill...if you missed the utterly mindblowing set of Yeldham last year with Schimpfluch Gruppe wee don't make the same mistake twice...this guy has turned glass blowing into a magnificent spaceage artform! Plus the legendary TOECUTTER from Sydney and Wellington favourites the STUMPS...catch them while you can cos they is moving away soon!

Fri 6 Feb - WAITANGI DAY SPECIAL! Celebrate the treaty with WILLIAM JOHN HOOKER and the BAD BLUES BAND , SECRETARIES ON STANDBY and special guests...

Sat 7 - FREDDY FUDPUCKER

Feb 10 - 14 HEAD presents....BOOMERANG BEAN and the SHE DEVIL FROM OUTER SPACE 7pm

Wed 11 , 9pm - SHERPA SHERPA!

Thurs 12, 9pm - Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing

Fri 13 9pm - THE RAMPS in the remarkable tale of the TurKISH courthouse DISCO - Mime! Dance Rock! Belly dancing!

Sat 14 = EMERALD CITY / KERRATTA

Sun 15 - Tues 17 - KSENJIA CHOBANOVICH FRINGE SHOW! 9pm

Tues 17 - Sat 21 - KRESSINED...Fringe comedy show

Wed 18 9pm - REUBEN BRADLEY / MOSTYN COLE / MYLES CRAYFORD

Thurs 19 - MIKE COOPER (UK/ITALY)

FRI 20 - THE RAINBOW

Sat 21 - NEW TELEPATHICS

and plenty more to come.....last week of Feb is a biggie so peel yer eyes!

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HAPPY listings Jan / Feb

2009-01-01T22:10:00.001+13:00

Jan 2009

Fri 16th - FERTILITY FESTIVAL / BRIGHT COLOURS

Sat 17th - LEO LaDELL (US) / Matt Langley-

Tues 20 - Mark Lockett Jazz Quintet (Aus)

Wed 21 - GREAT BIG EARZ

Thurs 22 - DR EUGENE CHADBOURNE w/ Sign o the Hag, Manimanima! and Basketcase

Fri 23 - DR EUGENE CHADBOURNE w / the BAD BLUES BAND and Secretaries on Standby

Sat 24 - The DHDFD'S (Ak)

Sun 25 - Zapatista Support Film night

Wed 28 - CHARLIE RIVERS

Fri 30 - NEW FRIEND

FEB

Wed 4 - SERENDIB SEXTET (Sri Lanka / NZ)

Thurs 5 - JUSTICE YELDHAM and the DYNAMIC RIBBON DEVICE / TOECUTTER

Fri 6 - FERTILITY FESTIVAL / BRIGHT COLOURS / EVERPRESENT SKULLS

Sat 7 - GINGER BROWN

Tues 10 - Sat 14 - Boomerand Lean and the She Devil From Outer Space (Fringe NZ)

Fri 13 - THE RAMPS

Sat 14 - EMERALD CITY / KERRETTA

more to come....thanks

JUSTICE YELDHAM and the DYNAMIC RIBBON DEVICE / TOECUTTER (Aus) - 5 Feb

MIKE COOPER - 24 / 25 Feb

and plenty more....

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Dr Eugene Chadbourne in NZ - press release

2008-12-23T11:35:00.000+13:00

Vitamin S presents
DR EUGENE CHADBOURNE
in NEW ZEALAND

JANUARY 22 - 30, 2009

Jan 22 - Wellington - Happy, with Sign of the Hag, Manimanima! and Basketcase
Jan 23 - Wellington - Happy, with the Bad Blues Band and Secretaries on Standby
Jan 24 - Christchurch - the Wunderbar, with Greg Malcolm
Jan 25 - Dunedin, Chicks Hotel Port Chalmers, with Greg Malcolm
Jan 29 - Auckland - the Whammy Bar with Nigel Gavin & Steffan Neville
Jan 30 - Auckland - the Wine Cellar

Described as a direct threat to the American way of life by the White House spokesman for president Reagan, Eugene Chadbourne now threatens our shores with his electric rake, and a mixture of improvised and folk banjo playing.

Eugene Chadbourne has spent his career both undermining and energizing the contemporary rock scene, ignoring all of the barriers traditionally placed between folk, blues, country, jazz, and rock. In addition to working within these Western formats, he feels just as comfortable exploring the sounds of various other cultures, often incorporating Asian and Middle Eastern styles and instrumentation into his creations.

Likewise, his trademark electric rake--a lawn rake fitted with a pickup--further demonstrates the musician's knack for discovering new sound possibilities. "One of the things I liked about the music in the '60s was how weird it got and how many sound effects were on the records," Chadbourne told Los Angeles Times writer Josef Woodard. "I really missed that when we started weeding that out of rock."

Because of his penchant for combining various forms, as well as inventing his own sound devices, critics find it difficult to place Chadbourne and his growing discography neatly within the scheme of American music. "He is many things at once: a hillbilly improviser, a self-made raconteur, a pop gemologist and a new music eclectic who mixes up jazz, folk, noise and neo-vaudeville," noted Woodard.

Nonetheless, the frizzy-haired Chadbourne has remained one of the underground community's most famous and well-regarded eccentrics since the mid-1970s. In the 1990s, he found a wider audience surprisingly more receptive to his music than in the past, and enjoyed growing success. A man of self-reliance, Chadbourne regularly performs in odd places, such as record and book stores, as well as in smaller clubs and fringe music festivals. With no set lists, anything is liable to happen at a Eugene Chadbourne gig.

Chadbourne, born on January 4, 1954, in Mount Vernon, New York, grew up in the cultural hotbed of Boulder, Colorado. As an adult, he made his home base in the community of Greensboro, North Carolina, where he lives with his family. Raised by his mother, a refugee from the Nazis, Chadbourne took up the guitar at age 11 after watching the Beatles perform on the Ed Sullivan Show. In high school, Chadbourne played covers of Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix with various bands. Hendrix, in particular, became an important influence, prompting him to begin experimenting with distortion pedals and fuzzboxes, as did protest singer Phil Ochs, an early rival to Dylan. However, Chadbourne soon grew tired of the conventions of rock and pop. Thus, he traded in his electric guitar for a Harmony six-string acoustic and learned to play bottleneck blues.

Jazz, too, served as an important formative discovery. First came exposure to John Coltrane and Roland Kirk, whose music puzzled him initially. Before long, however, Chadbourne found himself hooked on the whole catalog of the 1960s black jazz revolution. Some of his favorites included Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Pharoah Sanders, and Ornette Coleman, as well as England's free improviser, Derek Bailey.

After recording his debut, Chadbourne delved further into more experimental music, building connections in New York's "loft scene" of avant-garde artists throughout the 1970s. In 1977, he played on Frank Lowe's Lowe & Behold alongside Billy Bang. Also during these years, John Zorn and Chadbourne, along with cellist Tom Cora, made notorious ventures into the Midwest with improvised country and western implosions.

Although Chadbourne became a leading figure on the improv scene, he returned to his initial interest in the folk tradition as well, taking a stand against corporate America and worldwide militarization and industrialization. He would often forsake his instrumental abilities in favor of a hard-hitting approach, living up to his personal vision of rock as a revolutionary form of expression. Through his myriad influences, Chadbourne soon carved out his own unique style, one comprised of protest music, free jazz, and noise experiments.

Throughout the following decade, he continued to collaborate with a variety of artists and explore various musical genres, releasing countless records with other musicians and a lengthy string of solo albums, most on his own Parachute label. One of his most recognized genre-bending projects included 1980's There'll Be No More Tears Tonight, a reunion with Zorn, which was an album Chadbourne self-styled as "Free Improvised Country and Western Be-Bop," as quoted by Robert Murray in Rock: The Rough Guide. During the early part of the decade, Chadbourne also garnered some mainstream attention for his work as the frontman of Shockabilly, a rockabilly/revisionist outfit that also featured well-known producer and power grunge guru Mark Kramer. With Shockabilly, the East Coast reply to the Residents, Chadbourne tapped into the energy of rock music's folk roots and made rock covers into noise rides.

After the group disbanded, Chadbourne released the folk/country album LSD C&W in 1987. That same year, he joined the band Camper Van Beethoven for a cover project. He has also recorded with musicians ranging from Fred Firth and Elliott Sharp to Evan Johns and ex-Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black, with whom he virtually rewrote the songs of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart. Additionally, the guitarist is credited with giving greater musical validity to 1960s psychedelic bands through his deconstructed covers of songs by Tim Buckley, Love, Pink Floyd, and others.

While Chadbourne himself says he would like to be remembered as the inventor of the electric rake and the dogskull harmonica, his noisy guitar, intelligent songwriting, and left-wing political stance have made him a somewhat unexpected cult hero. However, as Murray pointed out, "Chadbourne is most compelling as a live performer, switching at ease from electric guitar to banjo, zipping through a tune that sounds totally improvised and yet recalls something buried in the collective folk memory, like a punk Burl Ives, whipping off his spectacles to scrape them down the fretboard, adding another dimension to his wonderfully pixilated sound."

Banjo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEUTe-Lo_OA&feature=related

with Luther Thomas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4gW9drVhBw&feature=related

solo guitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv56STEmboM&feature=related

Shockabilly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olUZ9NN_keI&feature=related

Electric Rake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h5qF3SwWXc

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Happy listings Dec urgent!

2008-11-28T13:02:00.001+13:00

Tues Dec 2 - Acoustic Pioneers / Secretaries on Standby
Wed 3 - Tono (Dunedin) / Matt Langley
Thurs 4 - Te Kupu from Upper Hutt Posse hosts CRucial Consciousness
Fri 5 - FERTILITY FESTIVAL / Bright Colours
Sat 6 - The Ghastlies / Slim Chants / Rory Storm
Sun 7 - Monroe

Tues 9 - The Plastic Kitchen
Wed 10 - Richard Nunns
Thurs 11 - Music and Artists Social Club
Fri 12 - The Blueness feat. John White
Sat 13 - William john Hooker and the BAD BLUES BAND / the Everpresent Skulls
Sun 14 - Good Laika

Tues 16 - Frire Blast Blossom #2
Wed 17 - Secretaries on Standby / Manimanima / Lucky Foodbar
Thurs 18 - Roger Manins / Reuben Bradley / Mostyn Cole Trio
Fri 19 - Sing Songs / Bearcat
Sat 20 - Tues 23 - the HAPPY MERRY JOLLY XMAS EXTRAVAGANZA PARTY BIG
TIME LAST NIGHT ON EARTH

Hello! Happy listings for Nov

2008-11-03T22:43:00.001+13:00

Tues 4 - Acoustic Pioneers + Secretaries on Standby

Wed 5 - Chris Palmer

THurs 6 Nov - Julian Taylor

Fri 7 - The Livids

Sat 8 - Butterfly P.I.G

tues 11 - Secretaries on Standby

Wed 12 - Caoimhin O Raghallaigh & Brendan Begley (Ireland)

"Theirs is some of the most maddeningly nourishing, elevating,
and mesmerizing Irish traditional music you'll hear today."
Earle Hitchner. September 26th, 2007, IRISH ECHO

thurs 13 - MASC...Mercury Crowe / Don't Land In texas / North Island Towns / The Pleasure desert

Fri 14 - the Concerned residents

Sat 15 - Marineville..

Sun 16 - Sunny Albeau - Jazz Organ from Melbourne

Tues 18 - Secretaries on Standby

Wed 19 - Random Nouns

Thurs 20 - The Ramps

Fri 21 - Sproutts, Cherrys Gemstones

Sat 22 - Autoharpies / Windups

Sun 23 - Stormbird

Tues 25 - Secretaries on Standby

Wed 26 - Crown Jules and the 24 carats

Thurs 27 - Achilles Botes

Fri 28 - Mercury Crowe / Harbour City Electric

Sat 29 - Panda Battle Panda / Murderbike

HAPPY LISTINGS OCT

2008-09-29T19:11:00.001+13:00

Tues 30 Sept 8pm

THE MELANCHOLY BABES -

Introducing to all you BAD people out there....the first ever REAL BAD BLUES FESTIVAL! Featuring only the BADDEST of BAD BLUES

to give you the REAL BAD BLUES....these blues are so BAD some of them have turned BROWN....OH YEAH SO BAD DADDY, SO BAD...

featuring some of the BADDEST BLUES MUSICIANS ever, come along for a REAL BAD TIME!

five Bad bucks a night all gigs start at BAD O'CLOCK and finish at REAL BAD O'CLOCK!

Wed 1 OCT

BAD BASKET CASE

BAD RYAN PREBBLE

CROWN JULEZ AND THE 24 CARATS

LUCKY FOODBAR

BAD MATT ARMITAGE BAND

SIGN OF THE HAG

Thurs 2

THE CONTROL 6580 RADIOPHONIC BLUES ENSEMBLE

THE MIGHTY RAMBLE

DRY HORRORS

MEMSAHIBS

Fri 3

BAD CREWDSON BAD BEBAN BAD DOWNER

THE MANTARAYS

WILLIAM JOHN HOOKER PLAYS THE BAD BLUES BAND

THE ELEPHANTMEN

Sat 4 9pm

BODY CORPORATE

RIFLES

THE DISSENTORS

Tues 7 Oct 8pm

ACOUSTIC PIONEERS

Wed 8 Oct 8.30pm

BIG EARZ - LAST BIG EARZ OF THE YEARZ!!

Thurs 9 8pm

MUSIC AND ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB Present..

An New Music Concert - new chamber music and electroacoustic music by JACK BODY, HELEN BOWATER

PAUL DOORNBUSCH, JJUDITH EXLEY, ANTON KILLIN, BERYL MATETE, ANDY TATE, RICHARD ROBERTSHAWE

AND DAVID 'TREEFROG'SANDERS

PLUS AT 10.30PM, HALVA EVE

Fri 10th Oct

ZOMBIE PROM III

VOODOO SAVAGE AND HIS SAVAGES

NEWTOWN

KNIFEFIGHT

THE DEATH RAYS

THE GHASTLIES

BRIDE OF PINBOT

MARKET VALUE

dress to distress....

Sat 11 Oct

BILLY SQUIRE AND THE RYE

Wed Oct 15

CHLOE LANGLEY

Thurs 16 Oct

GOOD BASTARDS

Fri 17 Oct

THE AFRO MUSIC SOUND WITH THE RHYTHM MAN
SAM MANZANZA. THE TRICKY SAM BAND AND MANY MOORE

Sat 18 October

GEORGE AND QUEEN

Wed 22 Oct

THE DIRT NAPS

Thurs 23 Oct

REB FOUNTAIN AND THE BANDITS

BOND STREET BRIDGE BAND

JOHNNY BARKER AND SLEEPY KID

Fri 24 Oct

SURVEILLANCE STATION

Sat 25 Oct

WHITE WOODS
Sharpie Crows
Thought Creature
Panda Battle Battle Panda

Sun 26 Oct

PUMICE

Tues 28 Oct

IMPROV NOISE BAND

HALVA EVE

Wed 29 Oct

THE VOLUNTEERS

Thurs 30

ZOMBIE!?FUCK!

ROCKSHOP

Fri 31

HALLOWEEN HORROR ROCK SPECIAL with

GHOST TRAIN

Sat Nov 1

Volcana
the hadehaha's
Faster Pussy Cat Kill Kill!

Sun Nov 2

MEXICAN DAY OF THE DEAD!!

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HAPPY LISTINGS

2008-09-02T19:12:00.001+12:00

PLEASURE YOUR SENSES!

Tues 2 Sept 8pm

ACOUSTIC PIONEERS

Tim Armstrong
Michael Butchard
Kaitlyn McHugh

Wed Sept 3 8pm

Godspell - feature film fundraiser featuring Auckland and Wellington luminaries performance poetry, improvised music and film screening

Poetry from SHANE HOLLANDS, ANDY COOMBS, CRAIG IRESON and GLENN ASHWORTH, FILM by DARCY GLADWIN, MUSIC from MICHAELA MANLEY and CITIZENS of SOUND

Thurs 4 Sept

JOHAN PIRIBAUER (Sweden) yes a LAPLANDER! Sounds interesting doesn't he! also featuring Maude Rombe..

not ofetn you get to a someone from that far north!

Fri 5 Sept 8.30pm

CRUCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS

Te Kupu performs live with backing from the Bad Blues Band plus films and music

Sat 6 Sept 9pm

Rory Storm

Tank Black

Lady Log

Cobra Strike.

TUES 9, 8pm

THE MELANCHOLY BABES - Spirit Jazz from Jeff Henderson (alto sax) Tom Callwood (bass) and Anthony Donaldson (drums)

Wed 10, 8.30pm

WHITE FUNGUS presents VOX NOVUS

with Anthony Milton, Harry Rama and Chris Narama and others...

THurs 11 8.30pm

MUSIC AND ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB

North Island Towns

Silenzio & the Swift

The Novelist

New Friend

Fri 12

THE CONCERNED RESIDENTS

Sat 13

ADAM SMITH ASSASINATION

SPRAYDOLL

Tues 16, 8pm

Songs of Middle Earth by ASNI

Wed 17

BIG EARS

THurs 18

FREDDY FUDD PUCKER

Fri 19

FANUC MAN

Sat 20

UNITED NATIONS PEACE CONCERT with

UPPER HUTT POSSE

SAM MANZANA and more

Wed 24

6pm ZAPATISTA FILMS

8.30pm BIG EARS

Thurs 25

EMMA PAKI

Fri 26

THE CRAZY

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this HAPPY Week

2008-08-13T15:22:00.001+12:00

oh the world is filled with JOY!

Oh! the World! Is filled with JOY!

OH! THE WORLD IS! filled with Joy!

more joy.

Wed 13 9pm

STRANGERS

THE THAW

THIS CITY SUNRISE

Thurs 14 August 8.30pm

MUSIC AND ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB presents ROY G AND THE BIVINATORS and friends

fri 15 August 9pm

JASON McIVER

METROPLIS

DON'T LAND IN TEXAS

Sat 16 9pm

CONCERNED RESIDENTS

THE DISSENTORS

KITTEN ET ME

Sun 17 9pm

REB FOUNTAIN

JOHNNY BARKER

Tues 19 8pm

FOLKIN' GOOD TIMES

Wed 20 0pm

BIG EARZ feat. The Don't Come Tonights

Thurs 21 8.30pm

ACCIDENTAL TOURISTS

Fri 22

LITTLE PICTURES EP RELEASE

Sat 23

SPRAYDOLL

PALACE THIS

FUCKTRONICA

Tues 26

MISHA MARKS MEXICAN FAREWELL

Wed 27

ZAPATISTA SUPPORT FILM NIGHT

BIG EARZ

Thurs 28

The ENRIGHT HOUSE

fri 29

MR STERILE ASSEMBLY

Sat 30

The DEBUTANTES

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happy listings for August

2008-08-05T17:01:00.001+12:00

Tues 5 Aug 8pm

ACOUSTIC PIONEERS

Wed 6 August 6pm

iiii records presents

DAVID LONG - CROSS CREEK album release.

Celebrate the release of David Long's new album, David will perform with NZSO harp player Carolyn Mills.

8.30pm

Big Earz...rumoured to appear this week...David Watson from New York, ex Primitive Art Group, Tzadik recording artist...

Thurs 7 August 8.30pm

THE MONGOLIAN MUGGERS

NGONI NGONI

MISHA MARKS

PISSDRINKERS

Fri 8 Aug 9pm

FLIP GRATER

Sat 9 Aug 9pm

ZIRKUS

WILLIAM JOHN HOOKER PLAYS THE BAD BLUES BAND

Sun 10 8.30pm

MARK TRAYLE (USA)

Mark Trayle works in a variety of media including live electronic
music, installations, improvisation, and compositions for chamber
ensembles. Recent venues and festivals for performances and
exhibitions include Ballhaus Naunyn (Berlin), t-u-b-e (Munich), DEAF
'04 (Rotterdam), and Inventionen 2004 (Berlin). His music has been
performed by Champs D'Action, Ensemble Zwischentoene, Kammerensemble
Neue Musik Berlin, and Ensemble Mosaik. Recent collaborators include
Boris Baltschun and Serge Baghdassarians, Jason Kahn, Muhal Richard
Abrams, Toshimaru Nakamura, Wadada Leo Smith, and the Rova Saxophone
Quartet. He is a member of the laptop band The Hub. Trayle has
recorded for the Artifact, Atavistic, CRI, Creative Sources, Inial,
Los Angeles River, Elektra/Nonesuch, and Tzadik labels. http://
music.calarts.edu/~met/ for more info.
with

CLANGOPHONE (Simon O'Rorke and Alphabethead

and

the ANALOGUE TAPE EXPLORATIONS OF GEORGE D ANGUS

Tues 12 Aug 8.30pm

JASMINE LOVELL SMITH QUARTET - Jazz from saxophonist

Wed 13 8.30pm

STRANGERS

THE THAW

Thurs 14 August

MUSIC AND ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB presents ROY G AND THE BIVINATORS and friends

fri 15 August

JASON McIVER

METROPLIS

DON'T LAND IN TEXAS

Sat 16

CONCERNED RESIDENTS

THE DISSENTORS

KITTEN ET ME

Sun 17

REB FOUNTAIN

Tues 19

FOLKIN' GOOD TIMES

Wed 20

BIG EARZ

Thurs 21

ACCIDENTAL TOURISTS

Fri 22

LITTLE PICTURES EP RELEASE

Sat 23

SPRAYDOLL

PALACE THIS

FUCKTRONICA

Tues 26

MISHA MARKS MEXICAN FAREWELL

Wed 27

ZAPATISTA SUPPORT FILM NIGHT

BIG EARZ

Thurs 28

The ENRIGHT HOUSE

fri 29

MR STERILE ASSEMBLY

Sat 30

The DEBUTANTES

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OOOH!

2008-07-18T19:02:00.000+12:00

Sat 19 July 9pm!

A Night of New Music and Film from AMSTERDAM and NZ

featuring SYNC - Jan-Bas Bollen and Alison Isadora (Netherlands / NZ)

performing

TRACE

Alison Isadora and Jan-Bas Bollen (alias SYNC) have worked together on interdisciplinary performances since Hoofdwas, their popular show for computer controlled washing-machine and mezzo-soprano in 1995.

Their performance of The Deep South, relflecting on a residency in Dunedin, was premiered in the DPAG in 2001 before touring Europe. In 2003 they created Born and Bred which was premiered in De Balie in Amsterdam and dealt with the sense of belonging within a culture, a land or a family.

Currently SYNC is working on a new piece that will be premiered in the Netherlands in 2008 entitled TRACE -Studies in Audio Theatre.

In July 2008 SYNC travel through New Zealand with a combined performance/lecture format. A trip to the States is planned for later in the year.

Jan-Bas Bollen performs solo electric-bass throughout Europe and is also a member of Peter van Bergen's seminal group LOOS and the new offshoot LEAMO. He is frequently commissioned by ensembles wanting to explore interactive electonics in the realms of audio and projected image.

Both Isadora and Bollen are active in tertiary education in the Netherlands. Jan-Bas Bollen teaches electronics and composition in Rotterdam Conservatorium, Enschede and Zwolle. Isadora gives classes in music to choreographers in Arnhem and runs a music-theatre project for theatre- makers and composers in Utrecht.

Many of Isadora's recent works deal with cultural identity and the use of biographical material. She performs as both a soloist and in ad hoc combinations.

TRACE -Studies in Audio Theatre, is a 60 minute programme consisting of a number of works dealing with the consequences of loss and alienation.

The work considers on a poetic level the dynamics of trauma and tracks the role that time can play.

plus new films by reclusive Wellington film maker DENIS CLARE with a live soundtrack by DANIEL BEBAN, GERARD CREWDSON AND JEFF HENDERSON and a performance by outstanding new computer taskforce

the MICRO SOFT VOICES

plus collaborative improvisation.

SUNDAY 20 JULY 2008 8.30pm

PUNCHBOWL EP release

with Dyke! Dyke! Dyke! and

NEON BASTARD

TUES 22 July 8pm

GET HAPPY OR DIE TRYING!

A new comedy night featuring local and international comedians and happening music...let the good times roll with side splitting laughter

Wed 23 8.30pm

BIG EARZ this wek featuring the legendary CRUDE from Dunedin

Thurs 24 doors open 7.30pm

ROOTS ROCK, REGGAE AND DANCEHALL PARTY with

IROOTZ

DJ DOZEN

MC JINETERO

HANNAH HOWES and CHAPTERS BURNING

Fri 25 July 9pm

NEWTOWN

THE AESTHETICS

THE STUMPS

PANDA BATTLE BATTLE PANDA

Sat 26 July 9pm

KITTEN ET ME

Tues 29 July 7.33 PM

OM THE SPACE 2008

WELLINGTON'S AANNUAL FESTIVAL OF INTERESTING MUSIC PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS BOMB THE SPACE

THE ATMOSPHERE HAS ALREADY SUFFERED FROM TOO MANY VIOLENT EXPLOSIONS.

NO LONGER AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR ATMOSPHEREIC VIOLENCE AND INTERPLANETARY WAR!

OM THE SPACE.....NOW EXPLODING:

- UNIVERSAL LOVE THROUGH SONIC EXPERIMENTATION!

- ALL PERVADING PEACE THROUGH IMPROVISATION!

-SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH NOISE!

- INNER HARMONY THROUGH HOME-MADE ELECTRONICS!

TUESDAY 29JULY 7.30PM

OPENING NIGHT PARTY WITH....

- THE WOP WOPS

- HAPPY OLD LADY

- GERARD CREWDSON / HERMIONE JOHNSON

- CHRIS PROSSER / SOPHIE WILSON

- MICRO SOFT VOICES

- FREEBOOTER BAZAAR

- DJ ALPHABETHEAD

AND MORE

WED 30TH JULY 7.30PM

- THE TURNS

- ZIRKUS

- MARK WILLIAMS / JEREMY COUBROUGH

- RICK CRANSON / TOM CALLWOOD / JOE CALLWOOD / REUBEN DERRICK

- HELEN MCVEY'S HAPPY FAMILY BAND

- WILLIAM JOHN HOOKER PLAYS THE BAD BLUES BAND

- DJ BURRYMAN

THURS 31 JULY 2008 7.30PM

- RICHARD NUNNS / DAVID LONG / ALPHABETHEAD / JEFF HENDERSON

- THE PENNY DREADFULS

- YUDANE / SUM SURAWEERA / REUBEN DERRICK

- VLADA PLACKIC / SOPHIE WILSON / JULIAN TAYLOR

- SIMON O'RORKE / JULIE BEVAN / CHRIS PROSSER

- DJ ID

AND MORE

FRI 1 AUGUST 2008 7.30PM

- UNKNOWN ROCKSTAR

- I.RYOKO

- BRIGHT COLOURS

- ALPHABETHEAD

- MR STERILE ASSEMBLY

- 1/3 OCTAVE BAND

- THE WINDUPS

- RESERVOIR

- DJ DAY G DAY

SAT 2ND AUGUST 7.30PM

- ANNA ELLIPSIS

- ANTHONY MILTON

- SEHT

- CONTROL 6580

- BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL

- JAMES IKRK / JEFF HENDERSON

- OMIT

- SIGN OF THE HAG

- DJ DIN DADA

SUNDAY 3RD AUGUTS 7.30PM

CLOSING NIGHT EXTRAVAGAZA FEATURING

- A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE OF JOHN COLTRANE'S OM

- BRIDGET KELLY QUARTET

- THE METABOLISTS

- MEMSAHIBS

- DJ THONE

- LOCAL EXPERIMENTAL FILMS WITH LIVE SOUNDTRACK

OTHER EVENTS

FREE GIGS AT OFFBEAT ORIGINALS CAFE

WED - FRI 12.30 - 1.30PM

FRI 6PM-8PM

THE LUCID DREAMING EAR

A NIGHT OF IMMERSION, ERASING THE BORDERLINE BETWEEN MUSICIAN AND AUDIENCE

A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE BROUGHT TO YOU BY DUNEDIN'S JIM CURRIN.

YOU MUST BE PREPARED TO BE BLINDFOLDED DURING THIS PERFORMANCE.

SUNDAY 3 AUGUST 7PM

ARO VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTRE

NUMBERS FOR THIS EVENT ARE STRICTLY LIMITED - BOOK AT HAPPY - $5

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HAPPY LISTINGS for you

2008-07-03T21:49:00.001+12:00

TUESCDAY 8 July 8pm

FOLKIN' GOOD TIMES

WED 9 July 8.30pm

BIG EARZ!

THurs 10 July 8.30pm

Music and Artists Social Club

Fri 11 July 9pm

RED WOOD

STORMBIRD

Sat 12 July

SPRAYDOLL

PENELOPING
KITTENTANK

THE WINDUPS

SUNDAY 13 July 4pm

MARG LAYTON with Bill Lake, Andrew Delahunty and Chris Prowse

Tues 15 8pm

ACOUSTIC PIONEERS

WEd 16

BIG EARZ

THurs 17

Peneloping

KITTENTANK

VERY NICE TREEHOUSE

ROY G

Fri 18

POLKA DOT DOTS

Seth Frightening +

A Little Further Down the river

Sat 19

SYNC - TRACE

Jan-Bas Bollen / Alison Isadora (Amsterdam)

DANIEL BEBAN

JEFF HENDERSON

Tues 22

Get Happy!!! Or Die Trying - comedy night!

Wed 23

BIG EARZ feat. CRUDE

Thurs 24

Hi ACES

Fri 25

NEWTOWN

Sat 26

SING SONGS

PENELOPING

PRINCESS CHELSEA

Wed 30

BOMB THE SPACE 2008

THurs 31

BOMB THE SPACE 2008

AUGUST 1

BOMB THE SPACE 2008

AUGUST 2

BOMB THE SPACE 2008

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Rafael Toral live at Happy Mon June 30

2008-06-17T16:02:00.000+12:00

RAFAEL TORAL 2008 tour

SPACE STUDIES

happy mon 30 june - 8pm - $10

http://www.rafaeltoral.net/

Rafael Toral is a musician and artist. Born in Lisbon, he has been performing live since 1984. Having attempted to study music, he realized his path was one of exploration and discovery, to which conventional music teaching was irrelevant. He learned acoustics, electronics and music writing, having started to write music on paper after his former fascination with graphic scores. In 1994, Wave Field determined a shift in composing methods, taking from then on sound itself as the basic matter for all music, thus rendering his work unwriteable. Considered later in the 1990's by the Chicago Reader to be "one of the most gifted and innovative guitarists of the decade", he has been working on the possibilities of ambient music (variable attention listening process) and improvisation with higher levels of risk (using instruments or systems that behave in unpredictable ways), among other things.

Developing solo work since 1987, with a strong focus on how sound phenomena, ambient sound and artistic fruition are inter-related and weaving a unique blend of references such as ambient, rock, chance and improvisation, Toral recorded several solo CDs, two with the MIMEO orchestra and two with com No Noise Reduction, an experimental project with long time friend and collaborator Paulo Feliciano (see discography). He has performed throughout Europe, Japan, Canada and extensively in the USA, as well as with Sei Miguel, Phill Niblock, Rhys Chatham, John Zorn, Thurston Moore, Dean Roberts, Christian Fennesz, Lee Ranaldo and Jim O'Rourke. He has also produced rock bands (Pop dell'Arte, Tina and the Top Ten, Supernova, Toast, Clockwork), presented video and multimedia installations and recorded music of Phill Niblock and John Cage.

In 1996 Toral collaborated with Rhys Chatham as curator and coordinator for 100 guitarists in Lisbon for his performance An Angel Moves too fast to See. In 1998 he participated in the Acqua Matrix show at Lisbon's Expo'98, collaborating with David Toop and an international creative team, composing a piece for remote-controlled boat horns. Later in this year he becomes a member of the Mimeo orchestra. In 1999, with Paulo Feliciano, built the "white cube", a light generating device interactive with sound spectrum, and participated as guest in Sonic Youth's record NYC Ghosts and Flowers. In 2000, again with Paulo Feliciano, participated, with the mixed-media installation Toyzone (modified electronic toys, custom relay circuits and multiple sensors), in "Sonic Boom the Art of Sound", an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London, alongside Christian Marclay, Pan Sonic, Ryoji Ikeda and Brian Eno. In 2003 Toral produced the first Anthology of Portuguese Electronic Music, and in early 2005 he collaborated with Alvin Lucier, as assistant to setting up his "Empty Vessels" installation at Serralves Museum, Porto.

Having produced video pieces since 1994, used in both live performances and installations, his visual output has been increasing. His installations usually have an interactive and unpredictable behavior, often using processing of generative feedback systems, such as Toyzone or Echo Room, a piece for delayed feedback random sound filtering, recently installed at the ICC in Tokyo.

Between 2002 and 2004 he operated a radical change in most aspects of his music practice and thinking, launching the so-called Space program - a work program establishing approaches to real-time performance and use of silence new to his past work, and including projects for many live pieces and recordings.

Here are 3 mp3 files for promo (2 of them are unreleased), all solo excerpts from Space Studies and related to the upcoming performances:

http://download.yousendit.com/DB9023F65E80F8B9

http://download.yousendit.com/CE249E5E21F37629

http://download.yousendit.com/79C243AE7E4CBDF9

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listings

2008-06-10T17:51:00.000+12:00

Tues 10 June 8pm

HANAN TOWNSEND

DAN ADAMS

Wed 11 June 8.30pm

BIG EARZZ

featuring:

Songa Singh Raita

Drumba

Dan b'Ban and Tom Calw'D

and special suprise tantrum throwers

Thurs 12 8pm

Music and Artists Social Club

MASC farewells Charlette Hannah
Charlette Hannah & band; Thom McArthur & band; Jenn Shelton; Head $5 entry.

Fri 13 9pm

Malenky Robot (Ak)
Rifles
Sharpie Crows
Postures
Dyke? Dyke? Dyke?

Sat 14 June 9pm

MATT LANGLEY

Matt and the band with support from the wonderful Chloe Langley

Tues 17 June 8pm

ACOUSTIC PIONEERS

Wed 18 June 8.30pm

BUG UZ

Thurs 19 8.30pm

PAUL McLANEY

KIRSTEN MORELLE (Goldenhorse)

Fri 20 June 9pm

Volcanca

Cougar Cougar Cougar

Special Olympics

Sat 21 June 9pm

ISUNRAY

Tues June 24

ZAPATISTA SUPPORT Film Night

Wed 25 June 8.30pm

BEEG EYUZ

Thurs 26 June 8pm

Sara West

Fri 27 June 9pm

CONNAN AND THE MOCCASINS

Sat 28 June 9pm

An Emerald City, Date With Doom, Dj Lotion and guests

Mon 30 June

RAFAEL TORAL (Portugal)

BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL

sIgN Of ThE hAg

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Happy Listings til end of June

2008-05-22T10:41:00.001+12:00

THURS 22 MAY 8pm

RICHARD GILEWITZ (USA)

FRI 23 MAY 9pm

CHARLOTTE YATES

releases her latest album Beggars Choice

SAT 24 MAY 9pm

FOOD! they want to eat you

BRIGHT COLOURS - new hot band in town

may 27 - 31 7.30PM TALES OF HOLLOW HILL - A FAERIE CABARET

TUES 27 9pm

ZAPATISTA SUPPORT FILM NIGHT

WED 28 MAY 9pm

BIG EARZ - tonight feauturing new electronic music, Public Toilet Ltd, M Marks and more!

THURS 29 MAY 9pm

GOOD BASTARDS featuring members of the Holidaymakers, Rapai Te Hau and introducing Thelma Baleikasavu!

FRI 30 MAY 9pm

Panda battle battle panda

Kittentank

sat 31 may 10pm

RAILWAY TRACK SLEEPERS

CONTROL 6580 BLUES BAND

HEAVY TURKEY

closing night party of Tales of Hollow Hill

Sun 1st June 8pm

DELGIRL (Dunedin)

Delgirl is a group of three Dunedin based women, who produce a unique blend of folk, roots, blues, jazz and alt country music resulting in beautiful big harmonies,

built around the double bass, guitar, banjo, ukuleles & snare/percussion.

Having recently released their debut album "two, maybe three, days ride", and being already on to their second pressing, they decided a jaunt to Wellington

for shameless self promotion and a trip to the Minnie Cooper shoe store was in order...

The Delgirls comment: "We've had a lot of play on National Radio, (churs RNZ) so people from all over NZ have been contacting us to see when we were coming up to play."

Delgirl have a strong following in the South Island, yet as William Dart noted in his review on Concert FM "...They've been around for seven years but so far

remain a South Island secret. I was hooked irretrievably from their opening song..."

If you like your NZ music tinged with the flavours of Americana and indie folk then Delgirl have got a place at the table set for you.

Their tunes have been compared to The Be Good Tanyas, Tres Chicas and the Triplets of Belleville. The Delgirl sound, according to

Graham Reid, (www.elsewhere.co.nz) "has uniquely close harmony, suggestions of alt.country and Polynesia, (with) understated balladry and smart lyrics".

More reviews are available on the bands website www.delgirl.co.nz and several tracks can be heard on their myspace page.www.myspace.com/delgirl

TUES 3 JUNE 8pm

ACOUSTIC PIONEERS...all acoustic night, open to performers - contact acousticpioneers@gmail.com

www.myspace.com/acousticpioneers

WED 4 JUNE 8.30pm

BIG EARZ - Yo get those stones out of yer ears!

THURS 5 JUNE

CRUCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS - Hip Hop, Roots, Films, Music hosted by Te Kupu from Upper Hutt Posse

FRI 6 JUNE 9pm

THE GHASTLIES

ANTONY MILTON

RORY STORM

SAT 7 JUNE

LITTLE BUSHMAN BIRTHDAY SPECIAL

Tues 10 June 8pm

HANAN TOWNSEND

DAN ADAMS

Wed 11 June 8.30pm

BIG EARZZ

THurs 12 8pm

Music and Artists Social Club

Fri 13 9pm

Malenky Robot (Ak)
Rifles
Sharpie Crows
Postures
Dyke? Dyke? Dyke?

Sat 14 June 9pm

MATT LANGLEY

Tues 17 June 8pm

ACOUSTIC PIONEERS

Wed 18 June 8.30pm

BUG UZ

Thurs 19 8.30pm

PAUL McLANEY

KIRSTEN MORELLE (Goldenhorse)

Fri 20 June 9pm

COUGAR COUGARCOUGAR

Sat 21 June 9pm

ISUNRAY

Tues June 24

ZAPATISTA SUPPORT Film Night

Wed 25 June 8.30pm

BEEG EYUZ

Thurs 26 June 8pm

Sara West

Fri 27 June 9pm

CONNAN AND THE MOCCASINS

Sat 28 June 9pm

AN EMERALD CITY

Mon 30 June

RAFAEL TORAL (Portugal)

BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL

sIgN Of ThE hAg

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new happy listings

2008-05-13T22:15:00.001+12:00

sick of Earth? too hot? too cold? too many disasters, dictators, debt collectors and dreadful developments?

well time for some interplanetary travel

Wed 14 MAY, 8.30pm

ECSTASY TRIO

Two sets : Jeff Henderson / Tom Callwood / Chris O'Connor

plus a special appearance from

BASKET CASE

THURS 15 MAY 8.30pm

ACCIDENTAL TOURISTS

FRI 16 MAY 9pm

Bright Colours - they are BRIGHT!!

THE ELEPHANTMEN! - yes a welcome return to the stage from one of our all time favourite bands!

and the ORCHESTRA OF TRIUMPHANT ANGELS

Sat 17 May 7pm

CRITICAL ART BODY presents

BEFORE THE BODY WAS BROKEN

a dance theatre work

SAT 17 MAY 9.30pm

ELISE AND JEM (Melb)

THE INVENTIONISTS

BLACK BONED ANGEL

THE STUMPS

SUN 18 May

3pm and 7pm - CRITICAL ART BODY - Before the Body was Broken

TUES 20 MAY 8pm

ACOUSTIC PIONEERS

WED 21 MAY 7pm

CRAIG SENGELOW CD RELEASE

10pm

BIG EARZ

THURS 22 MAY 8pm

RICHARD GILEWITZ (USA)

FRI 23 MAY 9pm

CHARLOTTE YATES releases her latest album Beggars Choice

SAT 24 MAY 9pm

FOOD! they want to eat you

may 27 - 31 7.30PM FAERIE CABARET

TUES 27 9pm

ZAPATISTA SUPPORT FILM NIGHT

WED 28 MAY 9pm

BIG EARZ

THURS 29 MAY 9pm

GOOD BASTARDS featuring members of the Holidaymakers and Rapai Te Hau!

FRI 30 MAY 10pm

Panda battle battle panda (USA),

Kittentank

sat 31 may 10pm

RAILWAY TRACK SLEEPERS

CONTROL 6580 BLUES BAND

HEAVY TURKEY

TUES 3 JUNE 8pm

ACOUSTIC PIONEERS

WED 4 JUNE 8.30pm

BIG EARZ

THURS 5 JUNE 7pm - late

CRUCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS - videos, films, music, rap hosted by Te Kupu

FRI 6 JUNE

THE GHASTLIES

ANTONY MILTON

RORY STORM

SAT 7 JUNE

LITTLE BUSHMAN BIRTHDAY SPECIAL

and coming to the Happy Stage... RAFAEL TORAL (Portugal) 30/5 , ALISON ISADORA / JAN BAS BOLLEN (Ned), CONNAN AND THE MOCCASINS,

AN EMERALD CITY BOMB THE SPACE 2008 and more more more

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SAT 26 APRIL 9pm

MISHA MARKS / SUM SUAWEERA / ISAAC SMITH

GERARD CREWDSON

SUN 27 APRIL 8pm

AFRICAN DANCE PARTY, DJ's, MC's, LIVE MUSIC, DANCING

WED 30 APRIL 8.30pm

BIG EARZ...featuring

KITTENTANK

THE GOAT

THURS 1 MAY

CRUCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS

music and film hosted by TE KUPU

2 MAY FRIDAY LUNCHTIME CONCERT 12.30pm

FRI 2 MAY 9pm

PALACE THIS

UPPER HUTT POSSE

MR STERILE ASSEMBLY

FEMINAZIS

Sat May 3, 9pm

PYRAMID SCHEME

SONS OF MIDAS

TUES MAY 6, 8pm

ACOUSTIC PIONEERS

WED MAY 7 8.30pm

BIG EARZ

THURS MAY 8 8.30pm

MASC

Joe Walsh

The Olly Knox Experiment

Tendergroove

Thom McArthur

FRI MAY 9

LUNCHTIME CONCERT 12.30pm

9pm

TONY MCIVOR

MOONLIGHT FLIT

THE MIRACULOUS SIGNS

SAT MAY 10

THE HUHU

THE SPROUTTS

TUES 13 MAY, 8.30pm

NORMAN MEEHAN QUARTET

Wed 14 MAY, 8.30pm

ECSTASY TRIO

THURS 15 MAY 8.30pm

ACCIDENTAL TOURISTS

FRI 16 MAY

LUNCHTIME CONCERT 12.30pm

9pm

SURFIN USSR

SAT 17 MAY

ELISE AND JEM

THE INVENTIONISTS

BLACK BONED ANGEL

TUES 20 MAY

ACOUSTIC PIONEERS

WED 21 MAY

BIG EARZ

THURS 22 MAY

RICHARD GILEWITZ (USA)

FRI 23 MAY

LUNCHTIME CONCERT 12.30pm

9pm

CHARLOTTE YATES

SAT 24 MAY

"BEFORE THE BODY WAS BROKEN" BY CRITICAL ART BODY

FOOD

SUN 25

"BEFORE THE BODY WAS BROKEN" BY CRITICAL ART BODY

may 27 - 31 7.30PM FAERIE CABARET

TUES 27

ZAPATISTA SUPPORT FILM NIGHT

WED 28 MAY

BIG EARZ

THURS 29 MAY

GOOD BASTARDS

FRI 30 MAY

LUNCTIME CONCERT 12.30pm

9pm

Panda battle battle panda,

Kittentank

sat 31 may

BRIGHT COLOURS

RAILWAY TRACK SLEEPERS

CONTROL 6580 BLUES BAND

FERTILITY FESTIVAL

TUES 3 JUNE

ACOUSTIC PIONEERS

WED 4 JUNE

BIG EARZ

THURS 5 JUNE

CRUCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS

FRI 6 JUNE

LITTLE BUSHMAN

SAT 7 JUNE

LITTLE BUSHMAN

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THurs 10 April 9pm

Music and Artists Social Club

feat.

MOONLIGHT FLIT

THE RAMPS

MERCURY CROWE

FRI APRIL 11 9pm doors

VIALKA - http://www.vialka.com/

DANIEL MENCHE - http://esophagus.com/htdb/menche/

MR STERILE ASSEMBLY - www.skirted.net

SAT APRIL 12 9pm

THE BROKEN HEARTBREAKERS

ROSIE TIN TEA CADDY

BOND ST BRIDGE BAND

Tues 15 April 8.30pm

ROBERT KIRK (Aus)... electronic music

Wed 16 April

Zapatista Solidarity Film Night..raising funds and awareness of rthe Mexican Zapatista movement

THURS 17 April 8.30pm

EMMA PAKI

Fri 18 April 9pm

Ragamuffin Children

Sat 19 April 9pm

THE POSTURES

Tues 22 April

ACOUSTIC PIONEERS

Wed 23 April

NO REHEARSAL - night of improvisation from

XENU, SKY SAW, VISCIOUS THE CIRCLES and INFLATABLE SAVANTS OF OCCASIONAL BELIGERENCE

Thurs 24 April

Jesse Rivest

Fri 25 April

Pandoras Bucket

sAT 26

REUBEN DERRICK

WILLIAM JOHN HOOKER PLAYS THE BLUES

AND MORE

wED 30

BIG EARZ!

Thurs 1 May

CRUCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS - music and film night hosted by Te Kupu of Upper Hutt Posse

Fri 2 May

FEMINAZIS

MR STERILE ASSEMBLY

Sat 3 May

PYRAMID SCHEME

Tues 6 May

Acoustic Pioneers

Wed 7 May

BIG EARZ

THurs 8 May

MASC

Fri 9 May

THE MIRACULOUS SIGNS

TONY McIVOR

MOONLIGHT FLIT

Sat 10 May

THE HUHU

Tues 13 May

NORMAN MEEHAN QUARTET

Wed 14 May

BIG EARZ

Thurs 15

ACCIDENTAL TOURISTS

Fri 16 May

THE ACTUALITIES

Sat 17

ELISE AND JEM (Melb)

INVENTIONISTS

BLACK BONED ANGEL

Tues 20 May

Acoustic Pioneers

Wed 21 May

BIG EARZ

Thurs 22 May

RICHARD GILEWITZ (USA)

Fri 23

CHARLOTTE YATES

Sat 24 May

FOOD

Sun 25 May

PEOPLE THEATRE

Tues 27 - Sat 31 May 7.30pm

FAERIE CABARET

Tues 27 May

ZAPATISTA SOLIDARITY GROUP

Wed 28 May

Big Earz

Fri 30 May

RIFFRATS

Sat 31 May

FERTILITY FESTIVAL

RAILWAY TRACK SLEEPERS

CONTROL 6580 BLUES BAND

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Fri 4 April 10pm

GREY POWER

dead cubs

sharpie crows

death in gaza

Damsels

Sat 5 April 9pm

FIGHTING THE SHAKES

SLEEPY DEMONS

Tues 8 April 8pm

ACOUSTIC PIONEERS

regular acoustic night returns hosted by Jessie Moss

Wed 9 April 8.30pm

BIG EARZ!

Thurs 10th April 8.30pm

MUSIC AND ARTISTS SOCIAL CLUB presents...

MOONLIGHT FLIT

THE RAMPS

MERCURY CROWE

FRI APRIL 11

VIALKA - http://www.vialka.com/

DANIEL MENCHE - http://esophagus.com/htdb/menche/

MR STERILE ASSEMBLY - www.skirted.net

SAT APRIL 12

THE BROKEN HEARTBREAKERS

ROSIE TIN TEA CADDY

BOND ST BRIDGE BAND

Tues 15 April 8.30pm

ROBERT KIRK (Aus)

Wed 16 April

Zapatista Solidarity Film Night..raising funds and awareness of rthe Mexican Zapatista movement

THURS 17 April 8.30pm

EMMA PAKI

Fri 18 April 9pm

RAGAMUFFIN CHILDREN

Sat 19 April 9pm

SHEBA WILLIAMS

Tues 22 April

ACOUSTIC PIONEERS

Wed 23 April

NO REHEARSAL - night of improvisation from

XENU, SKY SAW, VISCIOUS THE CIRCLES and INFLATABLE SAVANTS OF OCCASIONAL BELIGERENCE

Thurs 24 April

Jesse Rivest

Fri 25 April

Pandoras Bucket

sAT 26

REUBEN DERRICK

WILLIAM JOHN HOOKER PLAYS THE BLUES

AND MORE

wED 30

BIG EARZ!

Thurs 1 May

CRUCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS - music and film night hosted by Te Kupu of Upper Hutt Posse

Fri 2 May

FEMINAZIS

MR STERILE ASSEMBLY

Sat 3 May

PYRAMID SCHEME

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Happy For the furthering of psychedelic and tuned-in living we present L.A's SUN ARAW with ORCHESTRA OF SPHERES. Thursday October 14th at Happy. Presales from utr.co.nz from tomorrow.

Happy And Tomorrow: Sunday night Live Jazz featuringThe Gruesome Threesome with special guest Tim Hobkins on saxCome hang out by the faux fire, drink some mulled wine, play scrabble!

Happy is having a bit of a spring clean this week. Then opening on Saturday for Storehouse Blues.

Happy Tonight! NOT OK (aus) 5TH THREAT, DOLE DAY RAGE and BLACK LICK. Show kicks off at 10pm.... bring earplugs!

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Happy And Tomorrow: Sunday night Live Jazz featuring
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Come hang out by the faux fire, drink some mulled wine, play scrabble!