David Tattersall - Happy For a While

DAVID TATTERSALL, the lead singer, guitarist and main songwriter from the WAVE PICTURES, releases his debut solo album “HAPPY FOR A WHILE” on wiaiwya records. It will be a limited edition vinyl only release, including a digital download of all the tracks. The album includes the first UK single release of 2010 “Happy For A While”, and the new single "Between My Ear And The Cradle" The album features guest appearances from long time Wave Pictures collaborator Stanley Brinks (AKA Andre Herman Dune), and Clemence Freschard, and was written and recorded last Spring in Berlin. Typically understated and downbeat - or what Nick Lowe described as the sound of “a man who has opted to plough a righteous but lonely furrow” – the title track’s signature lyric, “lonely but not alone”, sets up an album of outsider art, skewed views and bittersweet bedsit pop. Tattersall channels the disaffected spirit of Morrissey, the whip-smart pen of Edwyn Collins and the dusty outback of The Go-Betweens’ Before Hollywood. In a parallel universe, the bookies would already have stopped taking bets on HAPPY FOR A WHILE topping the end of year album polls. "Essential listening for miserablists everywhere" CMU. "The Wave Pictures are all about guitarist and singer David Tattersall, a waspish naif who wears his heart on his ragged sleeve. They owe a certain debt to the Smiths, and Tattersall has Morrissey's knack of marrying the ridiculous and the sublime in an exquisite, tautly turned phrase" the Guardian. Line up on the album : DAVID TATTERSALL – guitar and vocals, STANLEY BRINKS - bass, guitar, brass, vocals, CLEMENCE FRESCHARD - drums and vocals.

Track listing : the typewriter ribbon, a whister of smoke, i hear you, the old family, moorhens, happy for a while, aw your hair between the trees, static electricity, the long drive to the city, giraffe

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