Half Happy

HALF HAPPY // PART TIME SIGNALS // SLINKY MALINKY

Shooting up through the flourishing Welsh music scene, thrilling Cardiff quartet Half Happy bounce around the walls of dream-pop, indie-rock and post punk but don't stay in one place for too long. Winners of the Welsh Music Prize 2023 (Triskell Award), the group mould their influences with fresh force, creating engaging and melody-stuffed storytelling, with honest observations melting into day-dream lyricism.

Having already earned substantial praise from Huw Stephens on the BBC 6 Music airwaves, Half Happy recently released their profound new offering ‘Slow Down’ and are primed to release a slew of new material in the coming months. On the live front, the band’s decade of best-friendship is clearly evident in their stellar performances, with a slew of key support slots with the likes of English Teacher, Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, Pale Blue Eyes and Camera Obscura.

Detailing their new release, frontwoman Rosalie Miller revealed: “You often see people you love let stress take over to a point where it consumes. It’s hard to tell them to stop or tell yourself to stop. ‘Slow Down’ is a message really. Stop what you’re doing, look around and try and find some joy, shut out external noise, go have a boogie in your room or something.”

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Part Time Signals is a project formed by Sock vocalist and guitarist Jacob Church. The band came together initially by taking demo seeds written by Jacob, which were then planted into a musical garden when introduced to a live band setting.

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Slinky Malinky are a Cardiff-based four-piece punk/new wave outfit. Inspired by the simplicity of poets like Brian Patten, Slinky Malinky’s songs are exercises in pointed and careful jabs at modern life. They say something, though what that is, is always somehow obscured.

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