You can download most of our releases for free from the Happiness Patrol Archive.org profile where you'll also find a handful of field recordings, some interesting TV documentaries about the eccentric English (grab them before the inevitable copyright claims) and an interesting acetate LP we found.
Our music:
Send In The Idiots "Everyone You See Will Be Righteous"
China Pig Pro c/w Send In the Idiots "Life Unfolds Wherever You Are"
Send In The Idiots "Mini CD-R #1" (Bonus Tracks Only)
The Happiness Patrol "...after Hymnen"
Send In the Idiots "A Fine Collection of London Hats"
Send In the Idiots "RaQet"
Send In the Idiots "At the BBC"
District Convention Dog Shit Overseer "1" - Pointless, crap, and lazy. Please ignore.
China Pig "Shut Up Grammatic Oil!"
China Pig "Let Them Eat Pork"
The Happiness Patrol "Curing Mental Spasticity"
Send In the Idiots "Mmm, Naked Librarian"
Various Artists "1.0 Outside" (+ The Happiness Patrol "Messing With Bob's O.C.D.")
Kenny Loggins At Live Aid "2 Improvisations for 5 Stringed Electric Guitar"
Bloody Spoons Netlabel:
BS 003 - Duck Halt, Send In the Idiots and The Happiness Patrol "Protest Songs Are Boring"
BS 002 - "Our Kingdom Ministry (a Happiness patrol Sampler)"
BS 001 - "Exotic Sauce: Archival Crap From A Wonky Cassette"
Other folk's music:
Ceramic Hobs "Free Tim Telsa" (mini album 2000)
One of a kind (?) acetate LP (Original blog entry here):
Wedding of Michael Stewart Vernon to Patricia Alice Turner (Hazel Grove 1964)
Field Recordings:
Walking Through Macclesfield Town Centre 1234pm 27th March 2012
Heaton Chapel Station To Fapp Manchester Via Manchester Piccadilly Station 1616 thru 1638 10th March 2012
Noises, Chatter and Some Guy Humming Strangely To Himself 1201pm through 1208pm on the Bredbury to Marple Train 22nd January 2012
Sounds Recorded at Romiley Board Mill on the Afternoon of July 29th 2011
Documentaries:
Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric - 50 minutes
Sam Smith "Genuine England" - 15 minutes
The Curious World of Frinton-on-Sea (part 1) - 15 minutes
The Curious World of Frinton-on-Sea (part 2) - 15 minutes
The Happiness Patrol.
Experimental Bollocks, Godawful Noise Music and Intermittent Waffle.
From High Peak, Derbyshire, England.
Showing posts with label field recordings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label field recordings. Show all posts
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Sunday, 24 November 2013
A New Release: The Happiness Patrol Take Part In the Hal Tapes Museum of Microcassette Art Project
Here is our appallingly titled contribution to the Hap Tapes Museum of Microcassette Art project.
Improvised and recorded live onto our malfunctioning Dictaphone this is essentially a semi-random collection of found noises and samples with a train ride from Dinting to Broadbottom thrown in for good measure.
Is it any good? Don't ask us. You can however listen to and download it here:
As Hal has spent quite a lot of his own money paying for this project please make some sort of payment, even if it's just £0.50/$0.50, if you choose to download the album
Lastly, thank you once again Hal for allowing us to take part in this project.
Friday, 25 May 2012
Macclesfield Town Centre 1234pm 27th March 2012
Three different buskers encountered in quick succession while wandering through Macclesfield shopping precinct.
Download from Archive.org
Monday, 12 March 2012
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Noises, Chatter and Some Guy Humming Strangely To Himself 1201pm through 1208pm on the Bredbury to Marple Train 22nd January 2012
Pretty much what it says above
Got on this train last week and as soon as I sat down I noticed a strange almost throat singing-esque hum which I took to be a rather pleasant sounding mechanical fault, so I decided to record it on my phone.
After a moment or two I realized that it was actually a guy sat near the front of the carriage intermittently humming to himself. Which was a little odd.
Sorry about the shite sound quality and the fact you can barely hear him.
Download from the archive.org
Got on this train last week and as soon as I sat down I noticed a strange almost throat singing-esque hum which I took to be a rather pleasant sounding mechanical fault, so I decided to record it on my phone.
After a moment or two I realized that it was actually a guy sat near the front of the carriage intermittently humming to himself. Which was a little odd.
Sorry about the shite sound quality and the fact you can barely hear him.
Download from the archive.org
Thursday, 11 August 2011
Field Recordings Made At a Paper Mill
Apologies for the poor sound quality:
http://www.archive.org/details/SoundsRecordedAtRomileyBoardMillTheAfternoonOfJuly29th2011
Made these as an experiment to test the quality of the sound recorder on my phone. Turns out it's crap.
I'm using them as part of a blog post on Very Good Plus forum at some point in the next few days. Will link when I do.
http://www.archive.org/details/SoundsRecordedAtRomileyBoardMillTheAfternoonOfJuly29th2011
Made these as an experiment to test the quality of the sound recorder on my phone. Turns out it's crap.
I'm using them as part of a blog post on Very Good Plus forum at some point in the next few days. Will link when I do.
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