Mark

You Make My Heart Sing

A Sunday Kind Of Love

What A Difference A Song Makes!

Team Indie

From our new EP out on July 14th 2021, which comprises the already released hit singles 'You Cry' and 'Highly Sensitive' plus 2 new tracks. 

One is ‘Only When She's Gone’, that kicks off with feathery drums and a really hooky bass line and is a very personal song for Betty: ‘I made myself quite vulnerable with this one as it talks about my mother,’ she said. ‘Such lyrics are something I never would have done on previous recordings. This song helped me to identify the source of a lot of sadness and anger in my life.’

Read the complete review of the Ep by Sara at The Bucket Playlist on our bandcamp profile!

Vocals & Backing Vocals: Happy Betty
Guitars: Patrick Slowhand
Drums: Martin Luif
Bass: Danny Bianchi

All compositions by Happy Betty

Front sleeve conception by Happy Betty- cover layout by Werner Krause

Engineered and produced by Andy Abraham @ farbTON Studios, Vienna 2020-2021.

All trademarks and rights of the producer and of the owner of the recorded work reserved. Unauthorized copying, reproduction, hiring, lending and broadcasting prohibited.

You Cry

Only When She's Gone

Only When She's Gone (EP)

A tribute song to the late great George Harrison, my favourite Beatle and an inspiring songwriter and human!

More Than A Beatle

Funky feel good track from Sheffield Music producer Fonz Tramonto and Sarah B Ladybnow

Strong Again

"For freedom we'll bleed, for liars and thieves"

Unknown Album

Legacy of Pain

BlueStar - Love Has Just Walked By
A tale of summer love gone wrong
Found and lost your summer love?
Suffering the inevitable break up?
This is the song for you!

Love has Just Walked By  ©BlueStar 2022
Arr. and produced by BlueStar
Lyrics by J Mitchell
Music by J Mitchell
Tenor Guitar, fretless Bass, percussion, vocs: John Mitchell
BlueStar@thebluestar.co.uk

Now available on iTunes at:
http://itunes.apple.com/album/id/1628682099

Featuring the BlueStar band on resonator tenor guitar and Rickenbacker fretless bass.
BlueStar ©2022
bluestar@thebluestar.co.uk

Apple

Love has Just Walked By

#alternative rock tune about the place I and my friends grue up at. it started as always as a #singersongwriter bit and then developed in to something else in the #studio I have used both my #fender and a modified #epiphone on this one and the result is really something else. hope you enjoy listning as much as I did writing and #recording it!
#lofirock #emo #emovibe #indiemusic #lofi #emoguitar #indieguitar #indieguitars #harmonies #emomusic #emostory #life #newmusic #newmusicalert #newmusic22 #newmusicnow 

When It All Falls Down (Good Bye Valley Bay Road)

The song is about somebody wanting more from someone who just wants something casual and the general mixed emotions and confusion having a casual partner can create.

Bitter

Wild Horse - Bitter

Inspired by great 80s films like Mannequin and Secret of my success, Goonies and Weird Science, breakfast club and Ferris Bueller

A New York Fall (1987)

Song "Blanket of Ghosts" 2007 Originally by Dustin Kensrue , cover song performed by Robert Brogan! Thanks for listening!

Cover songs

Blanket Of Ghosts (Dustin Kensrue) Cover Song

Winners

Blue Skies

A happy, upbeat, pop song, sung by a female singer. Themes : love, disillusions, disappointment, friend zone, missed date.

Disappointed

A vocal but unspoken commentary on the state of the nation ❤️ॐ

Sunset Of The Great American Dream 2025

Love them or hate them, believe me or believe me not. Say what you think of this band who are like Marmite to many but gods to many more.
This certain band of late as reformed and caused hysteria in Great Britain with tickets selling out in hours with expectations, excitement and a need to see them live after 16 years. 
A songwriter that draws on his record collection to write incredible sing along anthems and a front man with attitude that’s pure rock n roll. 
Yes we are talking about Oasis!
My kids are in  their late 20s and a part of the GenZ generation and we’re only just born in the Britpop boom and me I was fronting my own band playing that style of music at that time.
The GenZ  age group don’t talk about The Beatles as the holy grail as many of my generation did. 
Their bands now are Oasis, Blur, The Verve,  Stone Roses etc. And like us with The Beatles we were too young to actually see them in their hay day. 
The GenZ generation have claimed Oasis for them for themselves and I think that is fantastic. My sons and his friends are idolising men who are the same age as their fathers. It’s funny but also weird that they don’t see their age they only see them as cool  with amazing  music.
I’ve seen all the bands they love and Oasis even played at a music venue in Birmingham called The Jug Of Ale that I played at. Oasis were supporting a local Birmingham band in 1994 to around 30 people. 
Ive watched the footage so far of Cardiff, Manchester & London and to be fair they sound fantastic in their 50s better than when I saw them in the the hay day of the 90s.
This song is just an expression of how a bunch of kids from a council estate who sat at the back of the class and are now in their fifty’s can make such an lasting effect on generations to come. 
This is just how me and maybe you got inspired when we were young to wanna be in a band. I definitely know I was a kid from the back of the class with hopes and dreams of being a rock star. 
Let’s hope by Inspiring the kids to pick up guitars and bring back real music that AI doesn’t take over the music industry like a recent AI band The Velvet Sundown!  
All I’ve heard is best gig ever from anyone who as been so far. So fair play Oasis for pulling off the biggest come back in music history. 
Conscience Of Kings gives you ….

These Are  The boys 

V1 
The council estate kings
With a soundtrack to our lives
Musical influence that just can’t be denied 
A pre social media age that was just a better time
From singing on the terraces
To rising  out the grime 

Chorus 
I told 
GenZ it’s all been said 
You claimed for yourselves instead 
These are the boys from the back of the class
Theses are the boys who are bringing it back x2

These are the boys…..they are your teachers,  your preachers 

V2
They broke through the dusty ceiling and shattered the glass
Like the icons before them they said it could never last
They made kids on council estates pick up guitars to thrash
Oh my son these are the boys from the back of the class

Chorus 

Into : 
These are the boys from the back of the class x4 

Lead break 

These are the boys from the back of the class 








These Are The Boys ~ Conscience Of Kings

Divinity

a cover of the classic song by Wild Cherry. for  a forthcoming project i may be doing.
Recorded in the monsterpop music kitchen, Glasgow

Play That Funky Music White Boy - monsterpop

Introduction

Far Side

Cover of Song penned by Buffalo Springfield (Steven Stills) - David Crosby is uncredited on their original track. My homage to a great Group where all of them eventually became in various Super Star Group Status in the early 70s. Hope you enjoy my take.

Mark Alexander Carroll Covers

Rock and Roll Woman

A Cover of The Beatles (John Lennon) 'You've Got To Hide Your Love Away' from their HELP Album. John wrote later that it was his homage to Bob Dylan. It's a very simple, minimal instrumentation, but very subtle. I added a high harmony to the vocal to make it slightly different. All instruments/recording by Mark Alexander Carroll - Hope you enjoy!

You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (Cover)

Yet another Cover of one of my Influencers over the years - Todd Rundgren. His Song "Heavy Metal Kids" is a caustic recording with lots of Guitar work and great lyrics. It has a timeless message and can be related to by any generation - especially the 'Rebel' with or without a cause!!! I attempted to duplicate the original with a combination of his In-house Recording on his "Todd" Album and his live performances with my version added in there. All instruments/recording by Mark Alexander Carroll - Hope you Enjoy!

Heavy Metal Kids (Cover)

This is an MP3 - in fact, all of my current uploads are - so the overall quality can be better, but don't let that stop you from putting your ear buds on and turning up the volume! This is the YouTube Link to The Video . . . youtu.be/RJ6bXfo6eos    This song is part of a Trilogy I have recorded regarding Wars. It doesn't matter what War, drafted or Professional Patriotic Warriors - 'They Did What They Were Told' - I have a great respect for all Service Men and Women. My real desire is Peace on this Earth (Would that not be a good thing?) As of 3/23/20, our war is against an invisible enemy and We, the World, Are All In This Together (at least we should be). Saving Grace for us all. Peace and Love to everyone. All instruments/voices/production by Mark Alexander Carroll (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved. This is the YouTube Link to The Video . . . https://youtu.be/RJ6bXfo6eos

These Words Remind

They Did What They Were Told

I Originally wrote this Song many years ago with the title "Can't You Feel The Same" . . . In recent times, I re-thought the theme and elected to re-arrange the music/instruments/vocals/lyrics making it an Angst of Love of WANT and Desire . . . a last plea 'Before The Music Fades Away' .
Rather it happens or not, it's Freedom of feelings for the best. Is it a beginning? or...is it for closure?  You decide. Thanks for your Time.

Before the Music Fades Away

OVER AND OUT!

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