The Housemartins
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Sep 11, 2026
Jon FowlerHOST
And...
Jon FowlerHOST
I guess if you are like that famous scenario of Paul Heaton, you know, Beautiful South, House Martins, Paul Heaton refused to charge his fans more than 35 quid.
Jon FowlerHOST
Now, it's different gravy, of course.
Jon FowlerHOST
He was probably playing a little haul or slightly not as big.
Richard OsmanGUEST
What was yours?
Jack MateHOST
Happy Hour by the House Martins.
Richard OsmanGUEST
Oh, my God, the best band ever.
Jack MateHOST
Yeah.
Richard OsmanGUEST
Of course, not me.
Jack MateHOST
Mm-hmm.
Richard OsmanGUEST
Uh, Bob, Paul Heaton from the House Martins.
Jack MateHOST
Really?
Gregor GallGUEST
Yeah.
David EastaughHOST
With like obviously the Housemartins is be- one, and then Easterhouse from, um, Manchester, and then from Sheffield we've got Heaven 17 as well.
David EastaughHOST
So very, four very different bands.
David EastaughHOST
I mean, I always would say the Redskins was like The Clash meets Motown, but I'm sure I've copied that somewhere else, haven't I? But, um, so yes, the Housemartins coming along was another sort of unexpected delight in our m- record collection, wasn't it?
Gregor GallGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
Gregor GallGUEST
Well, um, there's a whole bas- there's a whole chapter in the book on the Housemartins, um, prior to the three chapters on the Redskins, and then that is followed by a whole chapter on the Easterhouse- And the reason I choose those two bands is because The Housemartins were undoubtedly bar, you know, save, save the Style Council.
Gregor GallGUEST
The Housemartins was the most, uh, successfully both, you know, popularly a- as well as commercially successful, um, pop band in the early to mid-1980s that were of a left-wing bent, of a kind of radical left-wing bent.
Gregor GallGUEST
And so I use them as a comparator.
Raf BagdasarianHOST
Musical references, yeah.
Raf BagdasarianHOST
So in this one, at the end of the song where they're singing It's Happy Hour again, that's borrowed from the Housemartins' Happy Hours, the song Happy Hour, which is another comedian band.
Raf BagdasarianHOST
Yes, the Housemartins.
Dan FeidenHOST
Yeah, which is not a band that I know at all, but I do happen to know that J. William Hall is a huge House Martins fan.
Dan FeidenHOST
He should
Joe McGillHOST
Yeah.
Joe McGillHOST
And like a big star because he was the main singer and the House Martins.
Joe McGillHOST
And like they had Caravan of Love, you know, every woman, every man joined the caravan.
Joe McGillHOST
That was in 1986.
Cathy Rose O'BrienHOST
We have Dublin folk singer Magdara Yates, who unearths lost treasures from the National Library for the beautifully sung Mudlark ballads.
Cathy Rose O'BrienHOST
And Paul Heaton, the man behind The House Martins and The Beautiful South, returns with 15 new tracks of sharp, catchy pop on Genius.
Cathy Rose O'BrienHOST
So I'm joined by Lillian Smith and Ashley Keating.
Cathy Rose O'BrienHOST
As I said, we're going to start with Paul Heaton and his latest offering, Genius.
Cathy Rose O'BrienHOST
From the House Martins through to the Beautiful South and beyond, Paul Heaton has been writing clever, catchy pop tunes for decades.
Cathy Rose O'BrienHOST
Ashley, you go back a long way with Paul Heaton.
Cathy Rose O'BrienHOST
So the Frank and Walters were on the same label as the Beautiful South in the 90s.
Cathy Rose O'BrienHOST
And it was partly being fans of the House Martins, I understand, that drew you there in the first place.
PaulGUEST
I love the Smiths.
PaulGUEST
There's a band called the House Martins.
PaulGUEST
They were a British band.
PaulGUEST
I love them.
PJ CooganHOST
And we had the first announcement for the Marquee on Friday, just as we got off the air here.
PJ CooganHOST
Paul Heaton, he to have been lead singer with the House Martins and the Beautiful South and a bunch of solo stuff himself.
PJ CooganHOST
That will be a great gig.
PJ CooganHOST
Also announced, first announced for the Marquee 2027.
Jamie EastHOST
[upbeat music] Singer and songwriter Paul Heaton's been celebrating 40 years in the music business this summer.
Jamie EastHOST
He started with The Housemartins, went on to form The Beautiful South, and has had both solo success and a long-running partnership with Jacqui Abbott, which included a musical about the seven deadly sins.
Jamie EastHOST
The BBC aired a special tribute night to him in August, and he's kicking off an anniversary tour.
Jamie EastHOST
So he popped up on BBC Breakfast to chat about a life in song and how he's taking to other hobbies outside of music.
Tom YoungHOST
what they represent it's always been the case but it's it's kind of flipped around almost now is where I might love a band and then start to you know be anti-establishment or more left-leaning because they were but now it's kind of the other way around they say what they think first and you might follow them for that reason because of that and now everyone can have a voice
Keith WalshHOST
Interesting, actually, when I think about it now, I listen to a lot of people like Billy Bragg and the House Martins, who are very political.
Keith WalshHOST
And the House Martins brought out an album called The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death, which was a brilliant album, but a huge part of, say, British culture.
Keith WalshHOST
of the British population hated it because it was anti-royalist.
Keith WalshHOST
So they were basically attacking the queen and attacking society and attacking, you know, they have a song called Sheep and, you know, people just doing what everyone else is doing and grinning themselves to death.
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