What's Goin' on?

Well... We have a lot of pics, live recordings and hours of video that we are working us through at the moment... We don't know what will become of it at the moment... DVD? Posters? Live CD? Real wallpaper? Tile?

Speaking of tile, we're actually working on two brand new songs to glue onto it! They go under the provisional names: Payphone Confessions and King Of The Room. We are also (like last year) discussing a Happy Hippo Christmas Song.., We have been talking about a duet.., Just hope we can pull it through this year!

Hopefully the song that you guys tried to help us out with the lyrics to, will be up for a shave in short...

Thats all for now, but there are so much happening, you better click in here tomorrow as well!

Love

NEW SONG ON MYSPACE!!!

Hey! We're not gone, we've just been doin some gigs lately and Hoffa didn't recieve his iPhone until yesterday so we haven't been able to blog while we've been away from ma & pa. Nalle recently did a Triss (a Triss is to loose for example a camera, guitar or anything else on a random place) and lost his iPhone which really didn't make this blog-problem any easier to handle...

Well, I remember we told you about the Hultsfred gig and I have something more to say about that.

We just added the song

Strange Town (Live from Hultsfred)

on myspace! Check it out!

Hultsfred was hot, wet and bathing in sunlight when we said/mumbled good night and went to bed...

myspace.com/thehappyhippofamily

GIG @ Metropol, Hultsfred

Ok, we know it is quite late to announce a gig this weekend, but hey you guys can still fill up some groupie buses and join us for a trip to Swedens Rock City. Yes, we are talking about Hultsfred and yes, we're going to do another f*cking awesome gig!

Where? Metropol, Hultsfred
When? Saturday, 12th of September (This weekend!)
Ticket prize? Question right back in your face; Why would you care?
Why? Love, dance and nudity!

The guitar is back!

Well, as you may not know, our guitar ace Triss got his guitar stolen right after the video recording to Monaco, McGordon and Me.
Triss mourned his lost beauty for about two months until last week, when he recieved a strange telephone call. It was a nice sounding lady from the almighty police force in Hultsfred calling. They had finally caught the thief and found the lost treasure of his.

- Thank you nice sounding lady from the police force in Hultsfred. Triss thanked her and hung up with a wide smile on his god beloved face.

And as all other Happy Hippo stories, this one end up...Yes, happy as missisippi farmer!

* The model on the picture is getting payed for this, of course.

The Camera is back!

Do you remember this?




It was in october or november 2008.

Now, the 22nd of August 2009, the camera is finally found! And it was found in the same flat where it went missing. Does that mean almost a year without cleaning?
Anyway, it was Hoffa that found it. Unfortunately he found it in a place where no competitor in the "Find the camera competition" had guessed it would be found.

There will be no V.I.P experience for anyone but at least the competition have come to an end.

Here is a reconstruction of how it got found:

Written in 2006.

Hey there folks!
Rehearsal today, the last one in a couple of weeks actually. We´re all moving to different cities to spend the autumn but we just got ourselves a new rehearsal space in Orebro, so we will be back in town every now and then...

Just found a text about the idea behind The Happy Hippo Family Collective that later on went to become The Happy Hippo Family Band. It is quite fun reading because the ideas behind it feels so fuzzy and naive, yet still so true. Written in 2006, now presented officially for the first time, Here it is:

We love to dance. We love pop. We love to sing along with a bottle in our right hand. Those three things made us start this band. Well, actually, this is not a band..., It is more of a musical collective. A group of close friends, where a friend brings another friend, and so on. Few of us are skilled as musicians, fewer have good command of an instrument, but what is the point? Popmusic is all about feelings. We all have feelings. We feel when something is swinging, we feel when three simple words make a good line and we feel when something totally sucks. We use those feelings to express ourselves in a way that we want to. The thought of popmusic is a though of happiness, and the only assignment this band will try to accomplish is to make people feel that happiness. To make people dance and sing along. To meet. To talk and discuss pop, bands, songs, lyrics and sexual intercourse, maybe over a cold beer or a cup of coffée. This is our way to hold a rehearsal, and as long as we have fun and enjoy the life in a band, we will continue to rehearse this way.

We're on Spotify!

Now you're able to enjoy our new single "Monaco, McGordon and Me" on Spotify. So please, feel free to put it in your favourite playlist.


You can get the track here:

Monaco, McGordon and Me

Monaco, McGordon and Me

Monaco, McGordon and Me


If you don´t have a Spotify account, just leave a comment where you explain how much you love us and we'll give you an invite! Don't forget to leave your email address as well.

Love / THHF