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Mark Beaumont

"We were lying in a pool of money, wondering if we were gonna get shot:" Six things you need to know about Demob Happy

Demob Happy studio portrait

In the moment, Demob Happy argue, there’s something inherently hilarious about finding yourself in the middle of an armed siege, covered in money. 

“We were having the best time, just lying on the floor laughing,” says singer/bassist Matthew Marcantonio, recalling the time in the US when their tour bus swung into a motel parking lot, straight into a stand-off between shotgun-toting police in body armour and a live shooter in one of the rooms. “If he had come out and shot at the police, we were the biggest thing he could hit.” 

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