The Hickey Underworld is a Belgian alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

/garage rock

Garage rock

Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name...

 band from Antwerp. The four members (Younes Faltakh, Jonas Govaerts, Jimmy Wouters & Georgios Tsakiridis) won the Humo's Rock Rally

Humo's Rock Rally

Humo's Rock Rally is a Belgian contest for rock bands, organized every second year since 1978. It is organized by the Belgian magazine HUMO.Every band that has not yet released an official recording, may enter the Rock Rally, by submitting a demo to HUMO. Humo then selects 100 bands to compete in...

 in 2006, and as a result of this achievement they played on the Belgian festival Pukkelpop

Pukkelpop

Pukkelpop is an annual music festival which takes place near the city of Hasselt, Belgium in mid-to-late August. It is held within a large enclosure of fields and woodland—between a dual carriageway called Kempische Steenweg—in the village of Kiewit, approximately 7 km north of Hasselt...

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In 2009 they released their first album "The Hickey Underworld".

The Hickey Underworld take their name from a song of the same name that appears on the album Plays Pretty for Baby

Plays Pretty for Baby

Plays Pretty for Baby is the second album by the American punk rock band Nation of Ulysses.Tracks 14-16 on the CD are not on the original album, and are taken from the 7" EP Birth of a Ulysses Aesthetic....

, by Washington D.C. post-punk rockers Nation of Ulysses

Nation of Ulysses

The Nation of Ulysses was an American punk rock band from Washington, D.C., formed in spring 1988 with four members. Originally known as simply "Ulysses," the first mark of the group consisted of Ian Svenonius on vocals and trumpet, Steve Kroner on guitar, Steve Gamboa on bass guitar, and James...

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