Mick J. Clark is not the kind of artist who makes music to impress critics. He makes music to connect with people, and the difference between those two goals is audible in everything he releases. The Croydon-based British musician has built a catalog across pop, rock, R&B, dance, Latin, and country, much of it produced by Martin Smith, who spent three years with ELO, and much of it carrying a specific purpose beyond entertainment. His empowering song for children against self-harming and bullying, Me My Body And I, was distributed to schools in Croydon by the local education department. His anti-smoking song You Don’t Look Cool was performed by students at the Brit School. When Clark says he makes music with a cause, he means it in the most practical sense possible.
Anuther Sunny Hulliday is not that kind of song. And that is exactly the point. Sometimes the cause is just joy, and this is a song about the uncomplicated happiness of going on holiday, whether by plane or boat, whether to clear blue seas or golden sands, whether you are seven years old or considerably older. The deliberately skewed spelling of the title, swapping the vowels for something that looks like it was written in crayon on a fridge note, sets the tone before a single note plays. This is a song that does not take itself seriously because it does not need to.
The Track
Anuther Sunny Hulliday opens with bright tick-tocking percussion and fast acoustic guitar strums that instantly conjure the image of sunlight on water. Clark’s thick, mellow voice enters with the ease of a storyteller in no rush to reach the punchline, delivering lines about tropical landscapes, palm trees, and the sheer bliss of escape with unrushed confidence and contagious optimism. When the chorus arrives with soaring female backing vocals and rich string arrangements, the emotional payoff is genuinely cinematic. It is a full-on sweep of warmth that could lift the most overcast mood.
The song is designed to be participatory, featuring a choreographed fun kids dance that children can perform while seated, which means it works in classrooms and living rooms as naturally as it does on a playlist. That inclusive design reflects Clark’s broader philosophy: music should meet people where they are and bring them something they needed without them knowing they needed it.
The track has already crossed 150,000 streams and comes with a colorful Parrot Dance music video that extends the song’s playful energy into visual territory. It is part of an ambitious box set of sixty tracks, plus three Christmas songs, that Clark released earlier, covering everything from pop and rock to ballads, R&B, dance, Latin, and country. Anuther Sunny Hulliday is, within that context, the most purely fun thing in the catalog, which is no small achievement for an artist whose work frequently carries heavier emotional purpose.
Final Thoughts
There is a specific skill in writing something this uncomplicated well. Mick J. Clark has it. Anuther Sunny Hulliday does not ask anything of you except that you let it do its job, which is to make you feel the way summer feels when you are actually in it rather than just waiting for it to arrive. In a world that often feels like it has forgotten how to simply enjoy something, that is not a small thing.
Anuther Sunny Hulliday is out now. Follow Mick J. Clark on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Stream on Spotify.
