The Wild Reeds Gateway City Arts in Holyoke Ma Holyoke April 3

• 

The Happy Fits at Gateway Metropolis Arts (Holyoke, MA)

Schedule

Tue Feb 22 2022 at 08:00 pm

Location

Gateway City Arts | Holyoke, MA

Advertisement

DSP Shows Presents:
The Happy Fits
w/ special guest Sarah and the Sundays
February 22, 2022
Gateway City Arts | Holyoke, MA
For the safety of our artists, venue staff and our customs equally a whole we will be requiring proof of vaccination for admittance to all shows at Gateway Urban center Arts until farther notice. Results from a negative COVID test volition NOT exist accepted for entry. In addition, masks are required to be worn at all times while at the venue. You may pull your mask down when eating or drinking only.
Please bring your vaccination bill of fare, or a photo of it, along with a corresponding state or federal ID for entry.
Nosotros encourage anyone who has all the same to exist vaccinated to get their shots every bit soon as possible.
General admission standing room just.
The Happy Fits
https://world wide web.thehappyfits.com
In a fourth dimension where positivity is hard to come by, the Happy Fits are here with their transportive, sunny second album, What Could Be Meliorate.
Turning a dear for the Killers and Fierce Femmes into their ain compact pop songwriting, the New Bailiwick of jersey-based trio started as a casual summertime projection for high school friends Calvin Langman, Ross Monteith, and Luke Davis earlier going off to college. Later on their debut EP, 2016'southward Awfully Apeelin', took off on Spotify during their showtime semester, schoolhouse stopped looking similar the natural next pace.
"Honestly, nosotros didn't know we were going to be a band," guitarist Monteith says. "We came up with the championship to record those four songs on our EP, and nosotros thought that was going to be it, but once the songs got picked upwards and nosotros really started questioning information technology, that's when we decided to get for it and record the first album. When we left school was when nosotros officially became a band."
Following their 2018 full-length Concentrate, the Happy Fits accept further honed their ambition for What Could Be Better's collection of crowd-pleasers.
"Growing up, I was either in school, at domicile practicing, or at music school, and in that location was always this pressure to exist really productive," says main songwriter Langman, who dropped out of conservatory to pursue the band. "When I decided that I wanted to exercise this for a living, being productive meant a totally unlike matter, because now I have to create things that are just in my head and make them real. Measuring how productive that is in my life, information technology's hard to exercise that. At that place's a lot of dissatisfaction I experience. I write that into the songs, all of the guilt that I feel for non sticking with a normal plan."
From the stomping "No Instructions" to the album-endmost title rail, What Could Be Better channels youthful malaise into songs that need to be sung forth to. "Moving" deploys Embankment Boys-inspired harmonies for a classically feel-good audio, and the integration of Langman's classical cello training will appeal to fans of early Vampire Weekend. Far from cloying, the band's upbeat nature is rooted in a real want to connect with a world that sometimes seems afar.
On "What Could Be Better" Langman sings, "There'due south a hole in my consciousness where I feel I belong," a line inspired past his isolation as one of the few Asian-Americans in his hometown.
"I don't take crippling social anxiety, only I accept always felt like I'yard a chip different," Langman says. "I grew upwardly in rural New Bailiwick of jersey and was one of three Asian kids in my high school...Also, growing upwards, with Hollywood and TV shows, I didn't run into many people like me, peculiarly half-Filipinos."
As the band'due south stages become bigger, Langman knows he gets to be the role model he didn't have, saying, "It feels really skilful to be someone that Filipino kids growing up in America could await upward to."
The Happy Fits have brought their uplifting alive prove across the land on multiple headlining tours, as well as supporting acts like This Wild Life.
"Nosotros bring together a large age group," Davis, a former metalhead who started learning how to play drums from Rock Ring, says of immature fans who take their parents to shows. "I think 1 of the big connections is just when everyone'south at that place, it becomes this community where everyone can back up each other and are all enjoying the same things."
Known for their joyous, engaging performances, the band's sense of camaraderie is also reflected in the songs. All three members split song duties on "Floating," an urgent tribute to their long-distance relationships that emphasizes the collective nature of their journey.
"We simply take grown then much musically and every bit all-time friends that now nosotros accept this chemistry where we can really effigy out how to work with each other in the best fashion possible," Davis says. "Calvin's definitely the madman musical genius and Ross tin can write incredible parts. I don't know how it works, I'g lucky every day that I got to meet these guys. Having a remainder with them, information technology's non something we can brand upwardly, it has to come naturally."
Recorded over vi weeks at Diamond Metropolis Studio in Brooklyn, What Could Be Ameliorate is a charming, efficient mission argument that's meant to be shared, something Monteith already knows well.
"We desire people to feel good listening to our music, because that's what music does for people."
In the ix months since the albums release the ring saw it debut #4 on Billboard'southward Alternative New Artist Chart, and "Hold Me Downward" reach #thirty in the National Culling Radio Charts as well every bit #four on the Sirius Alt Nation's Alt eighteen. NPRs Ken Tucker ranked it #iii on his year finish listing and ended his glowing review live on "Fresh Air" with "What Could Be Better? I honestly don't know." Other writeups included Alternative Press, Dujour and Atwood Mag.

Advertisement

Where is it happening?

Gateway City Arts, 92 Race St, Holyoke, United States

Event Location & Nearby Stays:

Host or Publisher DSP Shows

willardhispout87.blogspot.com

Source: https://happeningnext.com/event/the-happy-fits-at-gateway-city-arts-holyoke-ma-eid3a08el6d6o

Share this post