Happyness reissue album, release new single and announce UK tour
Newly crowned NME Award Winners (Best Lyric), Happyness, have announced a string of UK headline dates for May; including their debut appearance at The Great Escape Festival.
The band come into the year full of expectation after a fruitful 2014, having made NME’s Best Newcomer list and the Sunday Times’ Best Albums Of The Year. In January they announced they had signed to Moshi Moshi in the UK, who will reissue their debut album Weird Little Birthday on 30 March. The reissue features four bonus tracks.
Also on 30 March, single “A Whole New Shape” will be released, and you can listen to the buoyant new single below. The band's upcoming tour dates can be found afterwards.
May
5 – Hare and Hounds, Birmingham
6 – The Louisiana, Bristol
7 – Soup Kitchen, Manchester
8 – Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh
9 – Think Tank, Newcastle
13 – Boston Music Room, London
14 – The Great Escape, Brighton
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