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The Hickey Underworld
Band Antwerp Belgium Formed 2005 Belgian rock band
The Hickey Underworld formed in 2005 in Antwerp, Belgium. The Hickey Underworld has 1 chart appearance on 1 radio countdown from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2009. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Future words”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #4. The station that charted The Hickey Underworld most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 1 appearance. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2009.
The Hickey Underworld came out of Antwerp in 2005 and took their name from a song on Plays Pretty for Baby, the album by Washington D.C. post-punks Nation of Ulysses, which tells you exactly where their heads were at. In 2006 they won Humo's Rock Rally, Belgium's big launch pad for new bands, and Play It Again Sam put out their self-titled debut in 2009.
"Future words" is its calling card: Younes Faltakh's vocals yelping and snarling over tense, jagged guitars from Faltakh and Jonas Govaerts, with Jimmy Wouters on drums and Yorgos Tsakiridis on bass keeping everything wound tight until it snaps. It is noisy, nervy and a lot of fun. I'm Under The House, I'm Dying followed in 2012 and Ill in 2015, with Tim Vanhamel joining on guitar along the way, and the core of Faltakh, Govaerts, Wouters and Tsakiridis was back together by 2023.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Hickey Underworld on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Future words | 1 | #4 | – | 2009 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 4 | Future words | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2009 |
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