Happyland

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Happy Land was also the name of a social club, the location of the infamous Happy Land Fire in 1990.

Happyland is also the title of a novel by American author J. Robert Lennon.

Welcome to Happyland album art

Happyland was an Australian band, whose music is best described as "pop but a little punky" or Art-Pop.

They were comprised of Spiderbait's bassist/vocalist Janet English and her boyfriend of the time, Quan Yeomans from Regurgitator and were originally intended to be named "The Shits", before deciding on Happyland...

Their only album, Welcome to Happyland, was released August 25, 1998, on the Polydor Australia label. They also released the track Tintarella di Luna on the Looking for Alibrandi soundtrack in 2000.

"Don't You Know Who I Am?", the single from Welcome to Happyland, came in at number 28 in Triple J's 1998 Hottest 100 music poll, while Hello! also made it in at number 71. Hello! was originally going to be released on Regurgitator's album Unit but apparently did not fit with the rest of the album's content.

Happyland toured Australia as part of the 1999 Big Day Out music festival, performing at shows on the Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide [1]. In their live shows, the band members dressed in fluffy animal costumes.

Quan mentioned in a 2001 interview in the Daily Telegraph that Happyland were working on another release (backed up by a comment made by Quan on Live.com.au). However, they have both since stated that this is unlikely, as they have since split up, but remain good friends; with Janet saying in 2004, "A Happyland comeback? (laughs) Is it was just the one off thing, just a bit of fun when we had time off from our respective bands."