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Final Happiness
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Final Happiness



Lisbon/ London, London and South East
United Kingdom

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Last Login:  12/11/2009
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Member Since3/22/2008
Band Websitewww.myspace.com/finalhappiness
Band MembersDaniel Borges - Vocals - Nuno Trindade - Guitars - Jackie - Bass - - - - - - - - - Pedro Santo - Drums - CONTACT 00351 96 553 53 72 ---- 0044 2078339040 ---- 00351 93 479 63 03 happiness_music@hotmail.com
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We are influenced by Captain Beefheart’s eyeball dagger of blues, Velvet underground’s urban narcotic tar filled with all the love and hate you can express in a song, Rolling Stone’s sympathy for us all and everything else worth being inspired from. Doors, The Stooges, Primal Scream, Joy Division, The Fall, Death in Vegas, Sixteen Horse Power, Bob Dylan, Rimbaud, Ian Brown, Sex Pistols, Pere Ubu, Birthday Party, Can, Radiohead, etc, etc, etc. PS. We are equally inspired by everything that is against us.
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   About Final Happiness
It was in 2002 Daniel (Vocals) and Nuno (Guitar) went, with a clutch of songs in hand, in search of a bass player and drummer and joined forces with Rui (Bass) to form what today is known as ‘Happiness.’ For some time they were unable to sort out a drummer and so it was by using a keyboard that they did the rhythms.

Actually, it was at that moment that the whole songwriting production began, and over the next two years a number of drummers came and went.

Claudio, the band’s first drummer, who would later disappear following an immersion in music and drugs, was followed by David Canhoto who helped the group gain a further structural dimension as a live performing band, and now Pedro Espirito Santo, the present drummer, following an invitation to do a studio session where new songs were worked. From this session ‘Final’ came about and it was as “if the flow was completely there, just like if we had been playing together for ages ”.

Some years before Daniel and Nuno had got to know one another in the early hours of one morning at the end of a party with a few friends at a small seaside town. These were times of mutual learning and understanding for a group of young people where each found in the other an artistic compliment to enhance their individual talents.

Daniel, apart from painting, wrote intensely and together with Nuno on guitar they began to compose music and pen songs almost spontaneously. Rui was Nuno’s childhood friend and had an electric guitar. He had never played bass up until that time. It actually must have been this fact that contributed to create the sound that later he would produce on the bass and so perfectly summed up the musical feeling that Nuno and Daniel had imagined, with so much creation and artistic freedom.

It was just the beginning of a relationship that was much more than musical and that later on would result in a band project initially called ‘Shot Gun Wedding’ and later renamed ‘Happiness,’ a name inspired from a film by Todd Solondz.

In the beginning the band dedicated itself to working on songs and playing together, getting to know one another and living together most of the time, only performing its first concert in 2003.

In 2004 the band stopped for various reasons with the departure of Daniel who went to live in London, time passed until its surviving members found a new direction.

Daniel’s London experience inspired him and made his writing really take off and once again in June 2008, the band booked the ‘Final’ studio session which marked the getting back together of ‘Happiness.’ With live debuts planned across Europe they are at the present moment promoting their ‘Final’ album, parts of which can be heard on the band’s my space.

Today, as yesterday, it’s difficult to pigeonhole the band’s musical style: Of course, this won’t always be like this, "it is often the case that when we let ourselves go completely, our music reaches unexpected places.” Actually the vast majority of the band’s output has never even been catalogued although there is something of the Keith Richards about it with regards to the songs: “They are swimming around inside our heads for us to catch.” That’s how it is and that’s ‘Happiness."

Music isn’t something rigidly fixed or contrived for them, the structure of their songs is fluid and creative and has something of the jazz about it in terms of creative style, where the songs give way to improvisation. - And it’s from this improvisational starting point that they compose and play their songs. Songs such as ‘Hotel Troubadour’, ‘Mainline’ or ‘Hobbyhorse Blues’ expound this philosophy well with their musical influences which include bands like ‘Captain Beefheart’, ‘Velvet Underground’, ‘Birthday Party’ or ‘NIN,’ which have all influenced their style and stage performances. RM

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Dec 10 2009 6:36 AM

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Dec 9 2009 9:07 PM

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Dec 9 2009 6:03 PM

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Dec 7 2009 11:39 PM

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Dec 7 2009 9:55 PM



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As you may or may not be aware SoundARC hold a charity gig every year at Club 85 in Hitchin in aid of the Garden House Hospice in Letchworth, and this year we are going to try something a little different from previous years.

This year we are going to take over the club and host 37 acts in one weekend putting full bands upstairs and acoustic acts downstairs in an event that we are calling ARCfest!

It all starts on Friday 4th December at 7pm and then continues on through Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th from 12pm-11pm

As well as raising money for the Garden House Hospice in Letchworth, ARCfest will showcase all the different genres of bands that we at SoundARC have come across over the last 4 and a half years. Over this weekend a lot of the acts that you will see don’t get a chance to play a great local venue like Club 85, So as well as hearing new music you will see all manors of genres and styles from acoustic - Metal - Indie - Rock - Punk - Electro - Ska - Funk - Hip Hop/Rap - Alternative - Rhythm & Blues - Reggae - Grunge and loads more that I cant remember!



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Dec 2 2009 9:23 AM

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volusens

volusens



Dec 1 2009 5:06 PM

Non Fides n'est plus

mis en ligne le 28 novembre 2009.

Après deux ans d’existence et quatre numéros, le journal Non Fides a décidé d’en finir.
Né de la volonté de plusieurs individus de faire quelque chose qui leur ressemble, ce journal se voulait une sorte de proposition à créer, écrire, débattre et réfléchir. Il nous apparaissait à l’époque qu’un certain manque se faisait ressentir dans les domaines de l’analyse critique et de l’écrit, un manque loin d’être comblé, à quelques exceptions prés, par les multiples journaux ne s’éloignant pas des habituels chemins militants et alternatifs.

En ces temps où tout laisse croire que la lecture, l’analyse ou la théorie sont devenus des efforts insurmontables, un privilège d’académiciens et d’intellectuels, et où au final on sait de moins en moins lire, y compris dans les milieux radicaux ; à cette époque où l’on doit choisir entre deux spécialisations : l’activisme ou l’intellectualisme ; à cette époque où tout semble converger vers la dégradation qualitative de la pensée révolutionnaire, vers l’appauvrissement des rapports humains, nous voulions, avec Non Fides, contribuer à notre mesure, à opérer une jonction entre l’activité et la réflexion, l’action et l’analyse.
...
P.S.
On pourra toujours commander des exemplaires de Non Fides N°4, à l’adresse habituelle. Le site, lui, plutôt que de se contenter d’être la vitrine d’un journal, continuera son chemin autrement. Il prendra peu à peu la forme d’une base de donnée anarchiste internationale et multilingue...

http://infokiosques.net/spip.php?article764

http://www.non-fides.fr
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Dec 1 2009 2:14 PM



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Nov 28 2009 1:50 PM

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Nov 27 2009 11:01 PM

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Nov 25 2009 4:03 PM

Happy Thanksgiving!!!  :)
volusens

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Nov 24 2009 9:52 PM

À Brest, 500 million pour les sous marins nucléaires lanceurs des bombas atomicas

mardi 24 novembre 2009

DCNS
a décroché un contrat de 500 millions d'euros pour l'entretien des
quatre sous-marins nucléaires basés à l'ÎleLongue, en face de Brest.

...D'une durée de cinq ans et demi, il couvre l'entretien courant de quatre unités : Le Triomphant, Le Téméraire, Le Vigilant et Le Terrible...

Ces contrats étaient attendus. Les sous-marins représentent aujourd'hui une bonne
partie de l'activité de l'ex-arsenal. « Le contrat de maintenance que nous venons d'obtenir pèse 500 personnes par an, indique-t-on à DCNS Brest. Au total, 1 300 personnes vivent ici de l'activité SNLE. »

À
Brest, DCNS emploie au total 2 700 salariés. Inexorablement, même si
l'entreprise continue à recruter, les effectifs diminuent d'une centaine de personnes par an.
...
Les sous-marins, eux, garantissent de la charge de travail pour encore quelques décennies. Construit à Cherbourg, Le Terrible s'apprête à rentrer en service. Il peut lancer le nouveau missile stratégique M51.
Courant
2010, DCNS doit attaquer la refonte des trois autres sous-marins de la
force de dissuasion pour les adapter à l'emport de cette nouvelle arme.








GUERRE AU CIVILISE
United Sounds of Music

United Sounds of Music



Nov 21 2009 6:47 PM





nice to meet you and your work.

all the best.

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Tallowate

Tallowate



Nov 21 2009 11:52 AM

Hi,
 
We're Tallowate, a band from Oporto, Portugal.
We´re inviting you to visit our myspace page and listen to some of our tracks which will be released as a demo ep in December.
You can also watch the live video of "Pointless Discussions About Art (and stuff like that)", our latest track.
 
Feel free to comment.
 
Rock on,
Tallowate


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Nov 21 2009 9:22 AM

i like your song!!

Luca

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Nov 20 2009 8:57 AM

THANKS FOR THE REQUEST !!! GREAT WORK GREAT MUSIC !!!





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