Happy Bivouac (named asHappy Bivouac on the Hillari Step on album sleeve, booklet and CD art) is an album released byJapanese bandthe pillows on December 2, 1999. It marks the band's first record with Jun Suzuki from The Chewinggum Weekend on bass, who would play with the pillows for over 15 years until his dismissal in 2015. The album was produced by Zin Yoshida ofSalon Music. As with its predecessorRunners High, several songs from the album were used for theanime seriesFLCL.

Happy Bivouac
Studio album by the pillows
Released	December 2, 1999
Studio	Aobadai Studio,Tokyo Freedom Studio, Tokyo
Genre	power pop jangle pop garage rock
Length	42:46
Label	KingKICS-758
Producer	Zin Yoshida
The pillows chronology
Runners High (1999) Happy Bivouac (1999) Fool on the Planet (2001)
Singles from Happy Bivouac
"Carnival" Released: July 28, 1999 "Rush" Released: October 27, 1999

Happy Bivouac contains several references to theAmerican bandPixies. Track 8 is named after Pixies bassistKim Deal and at the end of "Back Seat Dog", the pillows can be heard singing the chorus of "Here Comes Your Man" from the albumDoolittle. "Crazy Sunshine" and "Funny Bunny", had already been written during the production ofLITTLE BUSTERS, and producer Jin Yoshida had instructed to complete them with lyrics. However, Yamanaka was adamant that he couldn't fill in the lyrics in time, so the song was cancelled, and instead,Hello, Welcome to Bubbletown's Happy Zoo (instant show) andLITTLE BUSTERS, were used instead.

• Sawao Yamanaka —Guitar,vocals
• Yoshiaki Manabe —Guitar
• Shinichiro Sato —drums

Additional musicians

• Jun Suzuki -Bass

• Happy Bivouac at the pillows official web site