The Housemartins

Soup is an album released in November 2007 by The Housemartins and The Beautiful South on Mercury Records. It is in effect a greatest hits album for both of the bands, the first seven tracks bracketed together as "The Housemartins Condensed"...

In this article: The Beautiful South, Soup, Solid Bronze, Paul Heaton, Manchester Evening News, Dave Hemingway, Mercury Records, and Now That's What I Call Quite Good

Live at the BBC is a compilation album of live tracks recorded for the BBC between 1985 and 1987 by The Housemartins. While most of the tracks included are session versions recorded for various BBC radio shows, the disc also features a...

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...studio, recording the band's second album, The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death. After the Housemartins disbanded, he and Housemartins founder Paul Heaton put together the Beautiful South from its ashes, featuring roadie and...

In this article: Dave Hemingway, Hugh Whitaker, Dave Rotheray, The Beautiful South, The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death, Itunes, Paul Heaton, Sean Welch, and Stan Cullimore

London 0 Hull 4 is a 1986 album by The Housemartins. It was their first album and contains the singles "Flag Day" (#58 in the UK), "Sheep" (#54 in the UK), "Happy Hour" (#3 in the UK) and "Think for a Minute" (#18 in the UK). The title...

In this article: London 0 Hull 4, Paul Heaton, London, UK, Hull, Massachusetts, and Christianity

...that he is an atheist. In 1988, Heaton formed The Beautiful South from the ashes of The Housemartins. It had Dave Rotheray on lead guitar, former Housemartins roadie Sean Welch on bass, David Stead on drums and probably most surprisingly,...

In this article: Paul Heaton, The Beautiful South, Fat Chance, The Cross Eyed Rambler, Dave Hemingway, Hugh Whitaker, and London 0 Hull 4

...tried to revive whatever amount of revolutionary spirit that punk rock stirred up the decade before. The first band that hooked me was The Housemartins, whose video for the jangly anthem "Happy Hour" used to be played regularly on Denver's...

In this article: Charley Varrick, New Wave, Itunes, Rick Geary, The A.V. Club, Hellraiser, and Remain in Light

...go for obscure deep cuts from the decade s truly alternative artists. My favorite is a reading of Sitting on a Fence by Fatboy Slim s old band The Housemartins. Shugabone (4:30 p.m., Allen Street stage): Bluesy funk with a name that s fun...

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...stalwart. The 1986 festival saw the likes of Level 42, Madness, Simply Red and The Cure grace the Pyramid Stage as well as The Housemartins, which included a certain Norman Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim. It was an experience filled with...

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...stand-out "anti-cool" look that first got The Proclaimers noticed. They were discovered when a fan sent their demo to Hull indie band The Housemartins, who then invited the brothers on their 1986 UK tour. It was in 1987, however, when they...

In this article: The Proclaimers, I'm Gonna Be, Sunshine on Leith, Leith, Comic Relief, Johnny Depp, Family Guy, and Benny & Joon

...City beat West Ham United tomorrow, it will be their fourth London scalp of the season, bringing glorious new meaning to the title of The Housemartins' 1986 album London 0 Hull 4. A couple of years ago I interviewed the band's former front...

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