The 1975 Announce North American Tour, Share New Single “Happiness”

The 1975 Announce North American Tour, Share New Single “Happiness”

The one and only 1975 have found “Happiness,” the latest single from their forthcoming album Being Funny in a Foreign Language (Oct. 14, Dirty Hit). Matty Healy and company have also set a fall North American tour, titled the At Their Very Best Tour.

“Happiness” is our second preview of Being Funny in a Foreign Language after lead single “Part of the Band,” which Paste just ranked among July’s best songs. The 1975 recorded their Notes on a Conditional Form follow-up with producer Jack Antonoff. 2023 will mark the band’s 20th anniversary.

Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 on Wednesday, Healy said of “Happiness”:

“Happiness” is like … there’s literally loads of us in the room on that track. Locked eyes … it doesn’t really have much structure. It came through like jamming. And we haven’t done that in years. So we just wanted this record to be really, like, a captured moment and not be too constructed [or] even produced that much … We did it in like a day or so. And it’s us having fun. And I think that there’s this real desire in art to see something remarkable with as little technology as possible. Do you know what I mean? Like, you don’t need, like, Paul Thomas Anderson to direct a hundred meters. Do you know what I mean?

Check out the “Happiness” video (dir. Samuel Bradley) and a 2013 performance by The 1975 from the Paste archives below, along with the band’s upcoming tour dates. You can preorder Being Funny in a Foreign Language here.

The 1975 Tour Dates:

November
03 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena
04 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway
07 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
09 – Camden, NJ @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
10 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem
12 – Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
13 – Nashville, TN @ Nashville Municipal Auditorium
15 – Grand Prairie, TX @ Texas Trust CU Theatre Grand Prairie
16 – Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall
17 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center
23 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre
25 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Theater at Virgin Hotels
26 – San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre
28 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum
29 – San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

December
01 – Portland, OR @ Moda Center – Theater of the Clouds
02 – Seattle, WA @ WaMu Theater
08 – Independence, MO @ Cable Dahmer Arena
10 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave/Eagles Club – Eagles Ballroom
12 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
16 – Cincinnati, OH @ Andrew J Brady ICON Music Center
17 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Robert Morris University – UPMC Events Center

 
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