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On Friday (13 December) we're putting on quite the show with The Close Encounter Club at Battersea Arts Centre. In the thrilling, immersive style of a U.F.O.'s interior, a full audience will enter another world with us for a gig like no other. 

Up first, Fake Laugh will bring his innovative songs to the alien stage before Happyness hop on for a set of their old and new best. To put you on, we asked Happyness a couple of questions about aliens and gigantic squid...

Gigwise: If you were abducted by aliens, what would you do?

Happyness: I get abducted every 6 months for my routine tapeworm inspection.

GW: Have you had any close encounters of your own in your life?

H: Yeah loads

GW: How do you want your live shows to make people feel?

H: Warm and glowy and sick to their CORE.

GW: What have you been working on this year?

H: We’ve been getting a bunch of songs together and learning to play them with our new live band, shoutout Anna Vincent, Max Bloom and Scott Booker Roach! 

GW: How was your Visions Dog Show experience?

H: I was sidelined after a tragic incident involving a backwards roll and a big tree - Ash Kenazi pretty much alienated the entire East London dog community, it was fun!

GW: What have tracks and albums have you had on repeat this year?

H: Max Bloom - 'Call Me When It's Over’, Jai Paul - ‘Do You Love Her Now’, Heavy Heart - ‘Dowsabel’, Foster Sylvers - ‘Misdemeanour’, Hand Habits - ‘can't calm down’, Social Contract - ‘Common Tongue’, Letta Mbulu - ‘Nomalizo’ and Lazarus Kane - ‘Narcissus’

GW: What can people expect from your show at Battersea Arts Centre on 13th December?

H: We’re gonna have an indoor beach, we're gonna introduce the band one at a time with five kabuki drops, Ash Kenazi might have her Britney-python if she can remember where she left it. 

GW: What have you got planned for 2020?

H: Drop a gigantic squid on London that kills like loads of people but averts the threat of impending Brexit. 

More about: happynessThe Close Encounter Club