Toodles & The Hectic Pity Reveal “The Enemies Of Happiness Are Not Napping!”

Bristol, UK folk-punk trio Toodles & The Hectic Pity have revealed their new single, The Enemies of Happiness Are Not Napping!, which is out now via Specialist Subject Records. The track is the latest to be taken from their debut album, Hold Onto Happiness With Both Hands, which will be released on the 23rd June. The trio will be playing shows with Live, Do Nothing in May 2023 including Marapalooza in Newcastle, and appearing at the 2000 Trees Festival in Cheltenham ahead of their own UK album tour dates in July 2023 which will include a special album release show on 27th July at Bristol’s The Mount Without, with support from Soot Sprite and Cosmit.

“The working title of this song was ‘Shut Up & Kiss Me’. It almost hit the chopping block several times because we all didn’t feel as though we could crack the ending, but we got there in the end! It’s in the liminal space between a venue and your own home and it’s about that kind of quiet anxious desperation of self-criticism that leads to an ‘Irish goodbye’ and self-enforced loneliness. It features cello by Ellis Morgan and trumpet from Danny Lester.” (frontman Callum McAllister)