Why else would he be so upset?

Fun Facts about
The Beautiful South
and the Housemartins

(gleaned from lurking on
the List for Whoever)
Back to Delores and the Turtle The Beautiful South and The Housemartins When TBS was formed, PD Heaton was quoted as saying (paraphrased) :

"We are not going to be the Housemartins.  If someone in the crowd shouts 'Do Happy Hour', we'll go 'Right, that's one song fewer we're going to do tonight' "

-- M. McManus

On the Leeds Irish Centre CD (a private bootleg circulated to friends of the band), one of the tracks is simply PD taunting the crowd into shouting for HAPPY HOUR.

PD spends about 10 minutes insulting the crowd before finishing off saying the line:

"Wouldnt' I just love to sing that bastard.   You've had your fucking hour and I've had mine . . . It's nice to hear some new tunes isn't it?"

"Are you doing the same job you were doing fucking 10 years ago?"

This style of audience baiting was common during the encores of the FOUL LIZARD tour.

-- Northern Dry Grin & Arjan
PRS Cheques PRS stands for "Performing Rights Society". PRS cheques are the royalty cheques a songwriter gets.

Hence, in "Song for Whoever", Dave is thrilled not to be getting welfare cheques from his girlfriends, as I would be, but instead that he gets royalites from the songs he writes about them.

-- Steve the Vic
Danielle Steele TBS has never performed a HM song -- except "Danielle Steele" which was never released as a HM track but was written during that time

-- D. King
Runners Up . . . is the vocal version of what became "The Rising of Grafton Street."

The lyrics where dropped by the band during the recording of the song in the studio. The only two recordings which appear to still exist are the Choke demo recordings and a rehearsal room recording.

This track is available on a sometimes available cassette distributed by an LFW member named, mysteriously, "Jen"

Other unrelease tracks include "Let's Do it Again" and "Fame"
Briana Corrigan's
first band		 Briana was once in a band called The Anthill Runaways, formed in Newcastle when Briana was at University and working as a barmaid at a local pub called "The Strawberry," just off St. James' Park.

TAR never released any albums, other than a odd demo tape as they toured the local pubs.

No surprise, the demo is not something Briana has been willing to circulate.

-- I. Ridley
Fatboy Slim From the Music Blvd's Spin Magazine "Exposure- Loves and Hates" section, In the Loves category:

"FATBOY SLIM, formerly of the Housemartins, Beats International, and Mighty Dub Katz, Norman Cook is the drinking man's DJ, kicking happy-hour techno-funk that never fails to insult your intelligence. In a good way, of course." and makes mention of a new album, Rockafeller Skank due out June 9,1998.

-- PTKOLB
Stan Cullimore Is now a prolific writer of children's books
0898 In the U.S. the equivalent to 0898 Beautiful South would be 1-900-BEAUTIFUL SOUTH.

0898 was the prefix used for all types of pay calls used for all sorts of purposes but probably most infamously as phone sex lines

This prefix is no longer used
Mini Correct
(Demo version)
(b-side Good as Gold CD1)		 Was recorded before Jacqui joined the band, in Sheffield at Coggies party.

Three male singers were Paul, Dave, and "Coggy".

Don't ask me who Coggy is.
Why does "Song for Whoever" have an extended version on Welcome to... (and Live), and not on the single and COUTC? They cut it down for the single to make it more radio friendly (The original is 6 minutes long). COUTC has the short version since it's a singles collection. Similarly, We Are Each Other, I'll Sail This Ship Alone, LetLove Speak Up Itself, and Prettiest Eyes are represented by the single version rather than the album version on COUTC.

-- D. King
Alright, smarty, If COUTC has the single versions what about 36D and Bell Bottomed Tear? COUTC has the promo version of 36D (the UK single was longer) and the single version of Bell Bottomed Tear (the UK promo was shorter)?
Was Hugh in Prison? Yes. He became obsessive about a man who he felt stole 10,000 pounds from him, stalked him, and ultimately hit him in the head with an axe.

When he was found roaming Hull City Centre covered in blood, the police politely asked him to stop by their office for some tea.

Click here for Paul Heaton's recollection of the incident

What is the name of Hugh Whittaker's new band? Brady Hogg
What albums does Beats International have out? Album :

Let them eat bingo

Singles:

Blame it on the bassline
For spacious lies
Dub be good to me
Won't talk about it
Burundi blues.

Album :

Excursion on the version

Singles:

The sun doesn't shine
Echo chamber
In the ghetto
What does "if you pull a two and a six" in Domino Man mean? Fredmens thinks it means "2 and 6 means a 2-seater with 6-cylinders.(a sportscar)"

Not everyone agrees. As a matter of fact, it seems a lot more likely to have somthing to do with dominoes.
What Trivia has Andy Notman contributed?
Welcome.... and Choke both have 11 tracks, while 0898 & BITC both have 12
None of the song titles on 0898 contain brackets, the other three allcontain one song with brackets in it
0898 also has the only song title with a comma in it
0898 also has the only song title with a dash in it
Welcome has one song with numbers in the title.  0898 has 2 songs with numbers in the title
Welcome.... and Choke were produced by Mike Hedges (apart from one track on Welcome.... produced by John Rowley)
0898 & BITC were produced by Jon Kelly
What can A. Harrison tell us about the 1995 tour series? The absence of Jackie, who was pregnant at the time. The audience at the first Manchester gig went wild when Jackie (who lives nearby) came on and sang a few songs.

The 'Rotheray Can't Fly' incident at the NEC in Birmingham, after which they had to engage a bloke called Spike to play guitar at the second Manchester gig, prior to which Damon Butcher had worked through the night to write out the music (obviously TBS are not too hot on contingency management) - he needn't of bothered because Spike seemed to be having a bit of trouble reading Damon's transcription
How does TBS rank against the best selling British albums of all time? Courtesy of F.Conti:
  1. "The sound of music" soundtrack
  2. "South pacific" soundtrack
  3. "Bridge over troubled water" Simon & Garfunkel
  4. "West side story" soundtrack
  5. "Black & white Minstrel show" George Mitchell Minstrels
  6. "My fair lady" Broadway cast recording
  7. "Greatest hits" Simon & Garfunkel
  8. "Tubular bells" Mike Oldfield
  9. "Brother in arms" Dire Straits
  10. "Thriller" M. Jackson
  11. "Dark side of the moon" Pink Floyd
  12. "Gigi" soundtrack
  13. "Please please me" Beatles
  14. "The Buddy Holly story" Buddy Holly
  15. "The singles 69-73" Carpenters
  16. "The best of the Beach Boys" Beach Boys
  17. "Sgt. Pepper's..." Beatles
  18. "Bat out of hell" Meat Loaf
  19. "Rumours" Fleetwood Mac
  20. "Stars" Simply Red
  21. "Greatest Hits" Abba
  22. "(What's the story) Morning glory" Oasis
  23. "Greatest Hits" Queen
  24. "Mary Poppins" soundtrack
  25. "The best of the Seekers" The Seekers
  26. "Led Zeppelin II" Led Zeppelin
  27. "G.I. Blues" Elvis Presley
  28. "Going places" Herb Alpert
  29. "Band on the run" Paul Mc Cartney & Wings
  30. "Jagged little pill" Alanis Morissette

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134. "Carry on up the Charts"

200. "Blue is the colour"
What did Iris Dement sing instead of "The Woman You Laid" in BBT on the Jools Show? "This is the game that you played"?