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Future Happiness

About Me

Future happiness band Future happiness it's what we think about , future happiness we go with the flow of life future happiness contained in every sadness future happiness contained in every sadness, Future happiness we be with beingness , future happiness we enter the emptiness , future happiness our happiness is endless , future happiness contained in every sadness. Every one knows that 'ever lasting happiness' is not attainable that happiness and sadness coexist like night and day the same for past and future, they are concepts created by man as a way of coping with living, they are in our nature and yet they are concepts we are taught, do the animals live in past and future?, oh god, you can argue these ideas for ever but who's arguing? , not me, Im just trying to live these ideas ( the key to living these ideas is not to try). They are ideas loosely thrown around in my songs , which are performed by the wonderful band Future Happiness. I grew up through the seventies and I some how have this subconscious need to try and create an album that could possibly have been made in the 70's. Thats why Future Happiness are currently recording their album 'Love is your destiny' the musical style i would say is happily influenced by 70 s music as well as modern , maybe that's for you to work out, or to 'Feel'... man. The albums lyric content explores notions of romantic love so often portrayed in pop music and music is one of the best ways to explore the high elations and desperate depressions of romantic love. 'Existential love' is not so often explored, the Beatles probably the most famous band to write about it , there are plenty of others , stereo lab are one I can think of. The above demos have all been rerecorded and will appear on the album. We have played a few gigs so far and hope to play many more but for now the focus is on the recording!! But always happy to do supports that come our way. You can also log on to wwwmartinmackerras.com for info and samples of Martins' previous recordings. as Kate Bush says we hope you ' feel it'

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Music:

Member Since: 6/2/2008
Band Website: www.futurehappiness.net
Band Members: Future happiness bandMartin Mackerras. vocals guitars
Biddy Connor. vocals guitars & key boards
Jo Abbott. vocals key boards
Nat Grant. vocals mallet percussion
Alastair Watts. vocals bass
Kjirsten Robb. drums & percussion
Influences: The Beach boys, Godspell. Stereo Lab, The Mamas and the Papas, John Barry, Burt Bacharach, The Carpenters, Orange Juice , High Lamas, Polyphonic Spree, New Buffalo, Guy Blackman, Kes , Laura Jean, Philip Glass, Bach, Mike Oldfield, Dragon...... loads more
Sounds Like: Some of the songs are influenced by the bands above. 60's and 70's vocal type music, all kinds of music, I love music in the local scene. I' ve posted some demos here, these are demos I' ve been working on over the years in my own studio but the sound of the band playing them is much much better
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

The current state of Future happiness

 Hi This Martin , and this is the first  blog I 've EVER  written ,  I write well, just on behalf of my self though , Future happiness is  band of people  and  a band of different ideas, but seeing as...
Posted by on Mon, 11 May 2009 04:29:00 GMT