A Conversation With Triggar Happy

For Triggar Happy, music means more than just sound. It’s about staying strong, being true to yourself, and not giving up when things get tough.Triggar Happy’s journey to becoming a singer-songwriter has been anything but typical. He grew up farming, writing songs, and performing, and his music blends classic rock, country, and the sounds he loved as a kid. Now, he’s making his mark with his own country-rock style. Over the years, he’s worked on 13 different farms and even owned three, including one in Tasmania. But music was always a part of his life. “I was always wishing I could be a singer-songwriter,” he explains.

Over the years, he wrote about 100 songs, saving them in notebooks and waiting for the right moment to chase his dream for real. That chance finally came after a big change in his life. When things changed for him and he found himself starting a new chapter, he decided it was time to stop waiting and go after his dream. “I got out of farming to pursue my career as Triggar Happy.”

He came up with the name in a dream. For him, it stands for determination, honesty, and being the kind of person who steps up when something needs to get done. Before he became Triggar Happy, he played hundreds of pub gigs as Regan Tucker, mostly singing cover songs. But after a while, he wanted to try something new. “I just said I’m gonna do all originals now and rename myself and reinvent myself.”

Reinventing himself marked the start of a new chapter. A big part of what makes Triggar Happy unique is how much of his real life shows up in his music. His song I Rock and Roll is a great example of this. The song was partly inspired by a tough experience he had in Tasmania years ago. It’s about standing your ground when life is hard, but it also carries a bigger message about resilience. “When things get hard every day… there’s always a way,” he says.

For Triggar Happy, that message isn’t just in one song. Most of his songwriting is about not giving up and encouraging others to keep going when things get tough. “I just hope that I can help somebody out there,” he says. Instead of pretending life is always easy, his music admits that things can be hard, but still encourages people to keep moving forward. Resilience has become a key part of what Triggar Happy is all about.

His musical influences are just as varied as his life experiences. As a kid, he listened to a lot of classic rock and roll like Elvis Presley, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Chuck Berry. His family played the Bee Gees, and when he was a teenager, he got into hip-hop, dancing, and skateboarding too. Later on, discovering Garth Brooks made him fall even more in love with country rock. All these influences have shaped the music he makes today. Even though his music is rooted in country rock, Triggar Happy likes to try out different sounds and pull from all the music that’s inspired him over the years. For Triggar Happy, being authentic isn’t just for show. That philosophy also sits behind the character of Triggar Happy himself. He says the Triggar Happy persona is about not pretending to be someone else or worrying about what others think.