The Beautiful South
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Live Review by Terry Staunton, New Musical Express, 21 October 1989
LA VIE EN ROSE(S) ...
The Beautiful South: Popping out for a bit
Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Face, December 1989
The Beautiful South: classic English pop or a bit boring, really? ...
The Beautiful South: Scallifornia Dreamin'
Report by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 12 May 1990
THINK CALIFORNIA and you'll think Beach Boys, suntanned nymphets in cut-offs, surf, soda and the therapy industry. Oh and possibly raisins. You won't be thinking ...
Review by Paul Sexton, Select, December 1990
IN THE 12 MONTHS since they bid us Welcome To The Beautiful South, the perplexing popsters have been pretty low-profile, taking a measured approach to ...
The Beautiful South: Vive La Slight Difference!
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, January 1991
AS THE Beautiful South's single ‘A Little Time’ slips down the UK charts from Number 1, in Germany it's starting to pick up sales. And ...
The Beautiful South: Sneaking Beauties
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Vox, May 1991
PAUL HEATON GLOWERS like Mister Punch's suicidally depressed uncle with a killer migraine and inflamed piles. He is not a happy man. ...
Wake Up… Time To Dial: The Beautiful South: 0898 (Go!)
Review by Terry Staunton, New Musical Express, 28 March 1992
"The perfect love song it has no words, it only has death threats/And you can tell a classic ballad by how threatening it gets." ...
Review by Ted Kessler, Select, May 1992
PAUL HEATON hasn't had a whiff of the much bandied about teen spirit since disbanding The Housemartins. When he ditched every thinking bank clerk's favourite ...
The Beautiful South: Civic Hall, Wolverhampton
Live Review by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, 9 May 1992
DEFENCE OF Paul Heaton, part three... ...
The Beautiful South: Assembly Rooms, Derby
Live Review by Mat Snow, Q, July 1992
IN THE FINAL of the Barclays' Football League programme for the 1991-92 season, The Beautiful South have deviated from the script that identifies them as ...
Zipless anoraks — The Beautiful South: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 2 November 1996
Their new album may have screamed in at number one but The Beautiful South are lousy live, says Caroline Sullivan ...
Paul Heaton: "I'm gonna vote Major!"
Interview by David Quantick, Q, December 1996
…fibs Paul Heaton, leader of The Beautiful South, who're following up the third most successful album of all time with what they would like to ...
Manic Street Preachers, Beautiful South et al: Hillsborough Justice Concert, Anfield, Liverpool
Live Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 17 May 1997
96 REASONS WHY ...
The Beautiful South: The Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, June 1997
PLAINLY NOT RUGGED T-SHIRT-IN-A-SNOW-storm northerners, The Beautiful South's vocal frontline take to the stage for their second night at the RAH in a winter collection ...
Interview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, March 1999
BLASTING INTO Munich airport for 24 hours on the road with the Beautiful South, the band’s publicist offers some sage advice: "Just don’t try to ...
The Beautiful South: Solid Bronze – Great Hits
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2001
New and improved greatest hits. Every pub should have one. ...
Interview by Dan Gennoe, Esquire, January 2002
BEAUTIFUL SOUTH singer Paul Heaton, is an unlikely popstar. He never wanted fame, riches or to sing, and formed his first band, the Housemartins with ...
Interview by Dan Gennoe, Red, 2004
"I'M A BIG FAN of black comedy," says Paul Heaton of the Beautiful South's latest album Golddiggas, Headnodders & Pholk Songs, a collection of cover ...
Paul Heaton: "Armed Revolution Is The Only Cure"
Interview by Rob Hughes, The Word, June 2012
Baleful tunesmith, habitual cyclist, pub-owner, radical — Paul Heaton puts a foot on the ball and surveys the pitch ...
see also Housemartins, The
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