Updated Archive.org Downloads List

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

Ceramic Hobs "Free Tim Telsa" - Download

Originally released in 2000 this long out of print 6 track CD-R of sample and noise infested avant-punk was brought into the world by the equally long time defunct Small Orange label.



Biography from their Discogs Pages: "Blackpool avant-punk band active from the mid-eighties onwards, formed by singer Simon Morris & assisted by a variety of musicians, including many ex- or future members of other Blackpool bands."

Download full EP from: Mediafire

Our CD-R copy has since became corrupted so this download is instead taken from a 15 or so year old deteriorated second generation cassette. The sound is presented "flat" the only processing applied being a moderate amount of tape hiss reduction.

The inner tray image was originally deliberately hidden behind a black CD tray. See it here in all it's "glory"

"Bang Out of Order" by Simon Morris

Unattributed but almost definitely the work of Simon Morris of the brilliant Ceramic Hobs this 24 page booklet is a document of the early 1980's Power Electronics scene and contains both a hilarious and shocking account of the rise and fall of fictional PE band Hitler Rally as well as a potted history of all the scenes major players (and many not so major players) with the odd bit of actual PE ephemera thrown in for good measure.

Having not lived through this period and having only a very limited knowledge of the music, this booklet almost makes me wish I had and certainly makes me long for the pre-Paypal, pre-My Space (remember them?), pre-blog, pre-Sound Cloud days of D-90s and the actual writing and posting of letters and cheques rather than all this "add to basket" bollocks.

Disclaimer 1: Contains (not that kind of) adult content. Reader discretion advised.

Disclaimer 2: Pages 2 and 23 are missing from the zip as they are blank blue cardboard.

Download from the Archive.org