Having spoken to the Honey Ants previously, I know that they only like to release stuff once they are entirely happy with it and so the news of a new single, the first in 4 years is something to celebrate. "Happy Now" will certainly sit perfectly among their small but perfectly formed repertoire. Instrumentation, initially at least, is as ever is pretty thin on the ground, there are some drums, a piano and a pedal steel guitar but you'll have forgotten how bare the start see

Taking to the stage in a black dress with a guitar and a trusty pint Rebecca Vaughans cheery stage patter was in direct contrast to a lot of the material that she would subsequently play but that is not to say it was not entertaining once you were tuned in to her somewhat unique phrasing where certain words would be sung decidedly louder than the rest as well her occasionally jazz like delivery. Take for example the opener "Getting High", where the word floor sounded like fl