China Pig Pro / Send In the Idiots "Life Unfolds Wherever You Are"

Free 5 track download EP available from:

Bandcamp and Archive.org

The Happiness Patrol on Discogs / Buy Stuff You Can Download for Free

We have finally updated our Discogs.com pages. They are now fully up to date and include links to buy our physical releases for very reasonable prices.

The Happiness Patrol label
The Happiness Patrol band (includes details of all releases, not just HP label)
Send In the Idiots
China Pig
China Pig Pro
Kenny Loggins At Live Aid
District Convention Dogshit Overseer

China Pig Pro will be online once they actually release something.

Full biographies and download links to be added soon.

China Pig Pro - Yet Another Happiness Patrol Project

China Pig Pro are China Pig, but using Cool Edit Pro, not a knackered old 4-track.

Here are 2 new tracks. Enjoy.

Send In the Idiots - free track

Two New Send In the Idiots Tracks

These are the two new tracks from their new imaginatively titled 3" CD-R compilation EP "#1"

Send In the Idiots "A Fine Collection of London Hats"

New Send In the Idiots EP.

Free download from:

https://thehappinesspatrol.bandcamp.com/album/a-fine-collection-of-london-hats

Another Send In the Idiots Preview Track

From their forthcoming mini-album "A Fine Collection of London Hats"

Send In the Idiot "RaQet" a new EP

New 7 track EP by Send In the Idiots entitled "RaQet" available as a
Free download from Bandcamp

Listen to a preview track below:

Send In The Idiots "At the BBC"

It's here, the new EP from Send In the Idiots.

Entitled "At the BBC"

Electronic dirge and grot. Not the easiest or nicest listen in our catalogue.

Quality free download from Bandcamp.

Some Photographs of Hale Station

Here are some photos of the potentially lovely Hale Railway Station located on the Mid-Cheshire line that runs between Chester and Stockport (and onward to terminate at Manchester Piccadilly) which I took back in July 2012.

General view of station from town centre side car park. Like the proceeding station at Altrincham, Hale station is conveniently located just off that town's main thoroughfare.

However the exit is oddly located on the opposite side of the line.

Though this is made up for by the quite pleasant surroundings.

Middle of level crossing facing towards Stockport.

Platform for Stockport bound trains.

Train headed for Chester.

Stopping train passing over level crossing before continuing on to Manchester piccadilly via Stockport.

New Music from Send In the Idiots

More semi-improvised analogue noise this time with added bubbly texture here's a new preview track from Send In the Idiots' forthcoming EP, "At the BBC"...


I know we promised this last month but alas we had problems converting the cassette masters of our new material to digital.

Unique (?) Deroy Sound Services Acetate

Found another of these custom cut "Tape to Disc" records (my third) but before you get excited read the label:

No long lost lo-fi acid folk or garage rock nor spoken word oddness, it's simply a recording of the Wedding of Michael Stewart Vernon to Patricia Alice Turner on Saturday August 29th 1964 at Hazel Grove Methodist Church.

And there's nothing wrong with that. I'm glad this 12" LP survived and I'm happy to own it and preserve it in as listernable as it'll probably ever get quality on our Archive.org account.

Nothing much else to say about the record. The recording quality is quite good for what it is, however Miss Turner perhaps should have been a little closer to a (the?) microphone.

Plain white card sleeve, no inserts and no writing at all on the b side label.

Have a couple more of these one-off acetate LPs them being a 12" LP containing an amateur production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance" and a 10" LP of a 1972 hymn service. I won't be uploading either of them as they're not very interesting.

DOWNLOAD HERE: https://archive.org/details/WeddingHazelGrove1964

The Happiness Patrol Is Alive and Well and Living In New Mills

Just letting all three of you know that the Happiness Patrol

is still a going concern and will be releasing some new music

before this month is out.

 

EDIT (June 2015): Though new music was recorded technical issues

meant we couldn't master it onto our computer.

Remember:

You know it makes sense.