The Underground of Happiness

An extended show this week, 2 hours of goodness feat. loads of new music from Fixity , superb freewheeling improv Nathan Bowles , minimalist piano patterns reminiscient of Philip Glass Laura Cannell , timeless & arresting double recorder tunes Angel Olsen , tremendous garage rock w heart on sleeve North Sea Radio Orchestra , great delicate folk songs La Femme , invigorating psych tune w motorik backbeat There's also some older treasures from Luna, Television, Stars of the Lid, The Unthanks and of course Gene Wilder RIP. More on these pages. The Underground of Happiness uplifting pop music of every creed www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/theundergroundofhappiness Twitter: UndergroundOfHappy Playlist 413 Tues Sept 6 2016 11.00am-1.00pm (repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm) UCC 98.3FM listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/983fm *listen back to this show here goo.gl/v6TS7X Playlist Gene Wilder – Pure imagination (from the...

There’s a lovely satisfying no nonsense thrum and crack about this single from the Melbourne band’s third album. In particular you would be inclined to locate it around the 3rd and 4th Velvet Underground albums. That is to say, observational story songs semi-spoken by Craig Dermody and built around one-directional guitar strumming and a matter of factly pounded snare drum. (Is Maureen a reference to Mo Tucker you’d wonder?) That and the very rock n roll chorus - “Whup Whup Whup Whup Whup Whup Whup Whup Whup Whup Whup Whup Whup Whup Maureen” There is a guitar solo of sorts later on which is pretty together by VU standards but by that stage you don’t tend to care, what with the manic head bopping and leg stamping. All round most excellent.