In a lot of ways, Ball Park Music’s Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs was the ideal debut record. To paraphrase, it was an album that jumped up and down, forever, smashing out six singles with unyielding fervour and neglecting to draw breath for forty minutes. It also delivered what it promised – happiness – across all twelve tracks, deliberately fingerpainting with primary colours even when dealing…
The festival landscape has undergone major upheaval in the last three years, and Covid’s long-term impact on the music industry…
