Is Go Fun Yourself my kind of fun? The answer is firmly ?oh yes?! Now, the basis of that answer may lay in some of the musical relations TSHFC have. Being something of a fan of Plain White T?s I find myself in a favourable mood in picking up Go Fun Yourself as there?s several links in the TSHFC?s DNA to Plain White T?s and it shows in the music to. To be fair TSHFC are more punk-rock orientated that the T?s but the Chicago sound permeates. Comparisons, if that?s what you like, are drawn with Fall Out Boy, The Audition and The Academy.

My Life?s A Mess and Victims set out the Fun Club?s stall immediately leaving you in no doubt where they are coming from. This is proper upbeat feel good rock?n?roll as our cousins would say. The Fun Club are due to tour the UK and Europe as support for Medina Lake later in the year, so London is going to get ten Brit-crowd pleasing outings and justifiably so. Generation has single writ all over it, Billy The Entertainer doesn?t ? no surprise at only 42 seconds long! However, many bands would have ditched something that they couldn?t progress beyond that, the strength here is that The Fun Club saw that even at only 42 seconds Billy The Entertainer was worthy of its place.

The Super Happy Fun Club reveal not only a great sound here but ample skill in ensuring that songs are memorable and crowd pleasing ? there?s plenty of big sing-a-long choruses here as amply displayed in Partners In Crime. Light Pollution and Invincible close out a cracking first offering from The Fun Club. Based on Go Fun Yourself there?s great potential here and if the live shows deliver possibly some UK and European success to come. If they deliver on tour and they make it back for the festival season, who knows.

Go Fun Yourself ? well I did. The Super Happy Fun Club certainly live up to their name.

Reviewed by d-jaysea.

The Super Happy Fun Club's album Go Fun Yourself is out on 7 November 2011, for details of live shows pop over to our coverage at Grumpyrocker a couple of weeks ago.

Jimbo adds: Apologies to the band, but for the photo with this review I either chopped the bloke lying prostrate on the ground so that no-one would ever know they were there, or I did what I did.