Happy Yess

Saturday, 28 April, 9pm, $10 The Groupie Funkers formed in the swamps of Humpty Doo in the whiskey hazed past and fermented their first brand of folk punk into a potent potion. They then performed a series of high energy raids north of the Berrimah line chanting the moto ‘when you least expect it expect [...]

Thursday, 26 April, 7pm, entry by donation. Join artists David Wickens and Coco Meacham as they redecorate the Happy Yess with their cardboard creatures, objects and paste ups. Drop by for a live drawing battle, some sweet reggae tunes on vinyl and to pick up your own cardboard art for the home. With Djs Chedaranks [...]

Thursday, 19 April, 8:30, FREE! The monthly Happy Yess Original Open Mic and Jam Night continues. Leave your covers behind, trial some of your originals in front of a supportive audience or even better, jam out, warp things as much as possible and find some people to start a band with! The Happy Yess has [...]

Thursday, 5 April, Comedy 7pm by donation, Karaoke 9pm and FREE! Monthly dose of comedy from 7pm followed by karaoke from 9pm with prizes for the best made up words to known karaoke covers!

Friday 6 April, 7pm, $5 A heap of local new acts to kick off the easter long weekend.

Friday 27 April, 8pm, $10. Aaron Wales is a player with laconic intensity full of integrity very much himself, also a contained intensity that draws the listener into his very singable melodies. A great rhythmist with ease and strength in his guitar playing, in the end you feel like doing all the harmonies to his [...]

Friday 23 March, 9pm, $8. Originally from Darwin and following a tour of Broken Hill, Nannup Music Festival in WA, Adelaide and Perth, Ilona Harker brings her delicious Folk Noir and Border sounds to Darwin. Ilona has had crowds jumping at Blues and Roots Festival Byron Bay, the Big Day Out, and the Mullum Music [...]

Thursday, 15 March, 8pm, $10. Wendy Rule is a Melbourne based singer/songwriter who has released 6 major albums and numerous side projects, and toured Australia, the US and theUK extensively. Her songs are deep and soulful, but kind of uplifting and her live performance is a union of Music, Ritual and Mythology and Magic. She [...]

Art Exhibition – Kris Keogh – 1000 Monsters —6pm Thursday 8th March 2012 – All ages, all welcome.—-Kris brings Japanese artist Syougo Yoshikawa’s ’1000 Monsters’ project to Darwin, filling Happy Yess with 1000 monster portraits!————then….————– Happy Yess Lecture Series—– 8pm, 18+, by donation—— School’s in, and there’s a bar in the corner! Welcome to an [...]

Friday 16th March 9pm, $10, 18+, 9pm After powerful shows at the Tent Embassy in Canberra, June Mills returns to Happy Yess with her beautiful, moving songs, both personal and political. Red Plum & Snow (Gretchen Ennis & Kris Keogh) find themselves in the same city again, and get straight back to doing what they [...]