Happyland were an Australian punk rock duo formed in Brisbane, Queensland in 1997 as a side project by Janet English on bass guitar and lead vocals (from Spiderbait) and her then-boyfriend, Quan Yeomans on lead guitar and vocals (from Regurgitator).
[1][2] As the Shits, English and Yeomans, provided the artwork for Regurgitor's album, Unit (November 1997);[3] at the ARIA Music Awards of 1998 the duo won the Best Cover Art category.
[6] AllMusic's Jody Macgregor opined that "The songs they recorded together combined the most hyper-kinetic and poppy sounds common to the two bands, with English's vocals at their most high-pitched and girlish, and Yeomans' melodies at their most twitchy and infectious.
", which did not peak in the ARIA Singles Chart top 50,[5] was proposed for Regurgitator's Unit but it did not fit with the rest of its content.
"[1] Happyland toured Australia as part of the 1999 Big Day Out music festival, in late January and early February, performing at the Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.
[3] They provided a cover version the Italian song, "Tintarella di luna" (written by Bruno de Filippi and Franco Migliacci), on the soundtrack for the feature film, Looking for Alibrandi, in 2000.
The way that the momentum is going on this stuff [Spiderbait commitments] overseas and Europe I can't imagine I'll have a lot of time to deal with anything like that.