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liner). The Beautiful South. Go! Discs. 1992. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) a b "My Ten Favorite Albums of the 1990s – Pansentient League". September 2012 . Retrieved 4 July 2016. Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The female vocalists. They started out with Briana Corrigan (redhead), later drafted Jacqui Abbott (brunette), and finally Alison Wheeler (blonde). Abbott reunited with Paul Heaton in June 2011 to perform in his musical The 8th, while in 2013 they recorded a new album What Have We Become?, released on 19 May 2014; it reached Number 3 in the UK album chart.

The 1996 album Blue Is the Colour sold over a million copies, and featured hit singles " Rotterdam" and " Don't Marry Her". The album demonstrated the band's gradual shift towards a country music sound, and was well received by the public and on BBC and commercial radio. [ citation needed] In 1997, the Beautiful South headlined stadium concerts for the first and last time, in Huddersfield and at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in London. Support for the Huddersfield concert was provided by Cast and the Lightning Seeds. [13] Quench [ edit ] On Sunday 29 June they appeared live on BBC Two at Glastonbury Festival performing acoustic versions of second single "Moulding Of A Fool" and a cover version of Dolly Parton's "Islands in the Stream". During the summer of 2014 Paul & Jacqui performed at a series of festivals across the UK and Ireland including Glastonbury Festival, Latitude Festival, V Festival and Festival No.6. The third initial bandmember was Dave Rotheray, a songwriting guitarist who'd previously played with Hemingway in two other Hull bands, The Newpolitans and The Velvetones. At the time Rotheray was studying for a PhD at the University of Hull and living on Grafton Street, where Heaton also lived. Rotheray and Heaton became the songwriting team for The Beautiful South, which was conceived as a quintet with Heaton and Hemingway (who was no longer drumming) as the two lead singers. The core band was completed by David Stead (ex-Luddites/Vicious Circle) on drums and former Housemartins roadie Sean Welch on bass guitar. Also important to the band's sound was studio keyboard player Damon Butcher - though never an official member of the group, he would end up playing virtually all the piano and keyboard parts on the band's albums. Debut album release Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (9 October 1995). "Carry on Up the Charts: The Best of the Beautiful South - The Beautiful South". AllMusic . Retrieved 28 February 2014.The band is best known for their biting wit and mastery of Lyrical Dissonance: Heaton and guitarist Dave Rotheray often wrote pleasant-sounding pop tunes paired with lyrics that were dark, satirical, political or otherwise atypical in some fashion. Depending on who you listen to, they were almost equally lauded and derided for this deployment of what was most frequently called "irony" under the cover of sweet melodies, leading to a not insubstantial Hate Dom as well as huge success. Heaton's second solo album The Cross Eyed Rambler was released on 7 July 2008, and was preceded by the single "Mermaids and Slaves" on 30 June, and he toured in support of it throughout July. The album charted at number 43. The album campaign saw the pair make publicity appearances on a variety of TV and radio programmes, including The One Show, Live at Edinburgh Castle, Sunday Night Live at the Palladium, and Aled Jones' ITV show Weekend, BBC Two at Glastonbury Festival performing acoustic versions of second single "Moulding Of A Fool" and a cover version of Dolly Parton's "Islands in the Stream", Channel 4's Sunday Brunch and Pointless Celebrities. David Rotheray

McMullen, Marion (16 May 2014). "Beautiful times are here again". Birmingham Mail . Retrieved 1 September 2014. Superbi is a more credible addition to the catalogue. Heaton’s “The Rose in My Cologne” shows a clear ’70s soul influence, while “Manchester” is a rousing tribute to his adopted hometown (“If rain makes Britain great / Then Manchester is greater”). Wheeler is in fine form on yet another alternating-vocalists duet, “When Romance Is Dead,” and there are other engaging moments in a more-of-the-same vein. The band’s stylistic sources remain British music hall, Bacharach, American soul and lite jazz, and Heaton’s lyrics invariably circle around the same topics.After disbanding England’s ironically poppy — and, at home, wildly popular — Housemartins in 1988, frontman Paul Heaton wasted little time in maintaining the Hull band’s chart momentum with the less jangly but similarly double-edged Beautiful South. (Another ex-member, Norman Cook, launched Beats International and subsequently became a massive star as Fatboy Slim.) Though the new combo replaced the Housemartins’ plangent guitars with a more mature, keyboard-driven MOR-pop sound, it maintained the pointed juxtaposition of attractively crafted tunes and Heaton’s barbed lyrical sentiments. In their mix of attractive arrangements and scabrous lyrics, the Beautiful South would bewilder and alienate its potential American audience while becoming enormous stars at home. With two lead singers, the Beautiful South emphasized vocal harmonies, especially between male and female vocalists. The first of these female co-leads was Northern Irish singer Briana Corrigan, who left after their third album, 0898 Beautiful South. Jacqui Abbott sang on the next four albums, while Alison Wheeler was a member for the final three. With three-part vocal harmonies and smooth playing from the band, the Beautiful South exhibited a honeyed sound that could mask very barbed lyrics. Inside a Wall: "Woman in the Wall" is about an alcoholic who kills his wife in a drunken rage and hides her body in the walls of their house, but is tormented by hearing her voice from the walls every night. In 2011, the Manchester International Festival endorsed the writing by Heaton of an anthology of songs based on the 7 deadly sins, to be called The 8th. The song was broken down into a section for each sin, which was to be performed by a different artist. The singers for the original piece were: Wayne Gidden, Aaron Wright, King Creosote, Simon Aldred, Cherry Ghost, Jacqui Abbott, Yvonne Shelton, and Mike Greaves. The individual sections were incorporated with a narration written by Che Walker. [16] The 8th debuted in July 2011 at the Festival Pavilion Theatre in Manchester's Albert Square. Although Heaton has led bands for decades, he’s released only one album as a solo artist, Fat Chance, under the name Biscuit Boy. [ Glenn Kenny / Scott Schinder / Michael Zwirn]

With the 2007 dissolution of The Beautiful South, Heaton formed a new band "The Sound of Paul Heaton". Taken up to eleven with "Hold Me Close (Underground)", where the singer promises that they'll carry on making love, even when they're dead. In 1990, the Beautiful South released their second album, Choke. Two singles—"My Book" and "Let Love Speak Up Itself"—charted outside the Top 40, but the album also provided the band's only Number 1 hit, a Hemingway/Corrigan duet called " A Little Time". The video, featuring the aftermath of a domestic fight, won the 1991 BRIT Award for Best Video. [3] Third album and Corrigan's departure [ edit ] is a song written by Paul Heaton and Dave Rotheray and performed by The Beautiful South. The song was originally found on the album 0898 Beautiful South and later appeared on two greatest hits compilations - 1994's Carry on up the Charts and 2007's Soup. As a single it reached no. 46 in the UK Singles Chart, spending two weeks in the Top 75 in 1992. The album version ran for 5 minutes 15 seconds. Power, Mark (28 July 2020). "When REM created a Monster: inside the tour that almost destroyed them". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 30 August 2023.The first six songs are so damn good that it's downright heartbreaking that the other six suffer terribly in comparison (even though most of them are decent enough), and ultimately despite my sentimental attachments I have to give the record a B+ (though it's close). Apparently some Paul Heaton fans consider 0898 something of a disappointment, but I'm not sure why; the good songs here are just as sly and disarming as the ones on the debut, and they have a much fuller and more colorful sound to boot, courtesy of producer Jon Kelly (who worked with Kate Bush on Never for Ever). Catchy in-song shifts of tone and tempo abound, plus the singing doesn't have any of the cloying qualities that ruined big chunks of Blue Is the Colour. The band broke up amicably in 2007, wittily subversive to the end by citing the cause as " musical similarities." Since then, members Hemingway, Wheeler and Dave Stead have toured with other musicians as The South and the New Beautiful South, Heaton has recorded several solo albums and also reconvened with Jacqui Abbott, leading to the pair recording and touring again as a duo. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Beautiful South – Artist Biography". AllMusic. All Media Network . Retrieved 27 April 2016. Quench falters, despite the funky Heaton-Abbott duet “Perfect 10,” which salutes plus-size romance and begs to be covered by an American R&B or hip-hop group. Abbott’s “How Long’s a Tear Take to Dry?” reconciles fueding lovers, and the album closer, “Your Father and I,” is one of Heaton’s most finely wrought duets of male/female relations, with alternating verses by Abbott and Heaton deflating one another’s pretensions. The rest of the album, however, is less catchy or profound than simply tedious. Alcohol is the dominant lyrical obsession —“Look What I Found in My Beer” tellingly offers a drinking problem history of Heaton (or someone very like him).

VR1058 I keep trying to ride the coattails of excitement that were created when I discovered The Beautiful South in 2010, and a lot of the excitement abuzz with this new discovery came from my Prefab Sprout craze. I hadn't heard another sophisti-pop band until my ears came into this second one, The Beautiful South. You can bet that Miaow was a Tallahasseean delight, though I walked around and had a really really sad (and it could have become sadder if the crime rate of that area had made me into a logical statistic, but it had not) night the first time I heard them. The transformation that this band, the feelings their music come alongside to my life, and the way that they conceive their trusty brand of sophisti-pop is so wonderful... sometimes. I think, though, that a lot of my love has worn off with that mentioned, the debut, and even Blue is the Colour which tries to be as accessibly jazzy and soulful as can be. An album like this one might seem a bit snide or exclusive in comparison. THE PUMPKIN (1992) Contains the band's first eight "music promos" and footage (*) from their March 1990 American tour. [23] Although 2000's Painting It Red album reached Number 2 in the UK charts, the band suffered difficulties in its promotion and in touring, and a substantial number of the CDs were faulty. Jacqui Abbott left the band in the same year, discouraged by the pressures of touring and needing to concentrate on looking after her son, who had just been diagnosed with autism. [15] [16] [17] After completing their tour obligations, the band marked time with a second greatest-hits album ( Solid Bronze) in 2001, and took time off to refresh themselves. Heaton embarked on a solo career under the Biscuit Boy (a.k.a. Crakerman) alias [18] and released the Fat Chance album in 2001. It did not sell well, despite being critically acclaimed, and was reissued under Heaton's own name the following year. On 11 November 2014, BBC Radio 2 broadcast a world premiere of "Real Hope", featuring The Grimethorpe Colliery Band, from the deluxe edition of What Have We Become?.Bell Bottomed Tear (liner). The Beautiful South. Go! Discs. 1992. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)