The Housemartins

The Housemartins: If You Love Jesus

Interview by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 20 December 1986

FOR GOD'S SAKE, stop and think. When Christmas Day first strikes again – when you're reeling in the aisles, cock-eyed and carolling, desperate for a ...

The Housemartins: Rough Rumours

Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 13 June 1987

HOUNDED BY THE FLEET STREET RAGS, THE HOUSEMARTINS ALMOST THREW IN THE TOWEL AT THE TURN OF THE YEAR BUT NOW THEY'RE BACK WITH WHAT ...

The Housemartins: The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death (Go! Discs)

Review by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 26 September 1987

A NATION waits, breath caught in the throat with tension; the world's most commercial political pop group has released a second album, and who can ...

The Housemartins: London 0 Hull 4

Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, 24 May 2009

LIKE THE all-conquering Madness during the first half of the '80s, the Housemartins pulled off the admirable trick of shoehorning well-considered social comment into the ...