The Housemartins

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The Housemartins
General information
Genre (s) Indie pop
founding 1983
resolution 1988
Last occupation
Paul Heaton
Stan Cullimore
Norman Cook
Hugh Whitaker (until 1987)
Drums
 Dave Hemingway (from 1987)
former members
Drums
 Chris Lang
Ted Key

The Housemartins ( English house martin = House Martin ) was one of the northern English city of Kingston upon Hull Dating British Independent - Pop - band ; it existed from 1983 to 1988.

Band history

If the 1986 record company Chrysalis / Go! Discs spread genesis is not a legend that has been adopted by music editors (for example that of the Musikexpress ), a request for a musician stuck in the window of the singer Paul Heaton, who moved to Kingston upon Hull in the early 1980s, led to the acquaintance of the guitarist Stan Cullimore. The alternate version speaks of a newspaper advertisement. After initially being on the road as a street musician at the end of 1983 , they built up a full band by adding a rhythm section . Paul Heaton (vocals), Stan Cullimore ( guitar ), Ted Key ( bass ) and Chris Lang ( drums ) formed the Housemartins and received in 1985 her first record deal at the label Go! Discs. Only long and then Key already eliminated before the production of the first LP from. Lang was replaced by Hugh Whitaker, whom Cullimore knew from the local student union, while Key was replaced by Norman Cook, who played in the same band with Heaton during his school days in Reigate .

The guitar-oriented songs of the Housemartins, mostly penned by Heaton and Cullimore, were shaped by socially critical and political texts; nevertheless they reached a bigger audience and attention beyond England in 1986 with their single Happy Hour and the LP London 0 Hull 4 . Conservative circles tried again and again to discredit the left-wing band with a working-class background. The youth magazine Bravo picked up a campaign and reported in February 1987 about the well-protected sons of wealthy parents, and charged two who had actually changed their first names with an attempt to cover up. In an interview with the New Musical Express , they emphasized their frugality and modesty. Much of the working class image has been carried into the band.

Whitaker left the group in February 1987 because he wanted to concentrate on the music college . Through a middleman, he found a replacement, Dave Hemingway. He immediately took part in the recordings for the second LP The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death . The change was u. a. themed in the video for the hit Five Get over Excited . The band also worked with changing guest musicians for individual recordings. a. with Pete Wingfield ( piano on Bow Down , Build and Lean on Me ), Jeffrey Wood (piano on I'll Be Your Shelter ) and Guy Barker ( trumpet on Think for a Minute ).

Even if the Housemartins could only record a number one hit with the single Caravan of Love (originally by the trio Isley Jasper Isley ) , most of their singles reached at least top 40 positions in the British charts . Five Get over Excited , Me and the Farmer and Happy Hour are still played in some indie and Britpop disco today.

In the spring of 1988, to the surprise of many fans, the band split up at the height of their success, the musical differences between some of the members became too great. In addition, the Housemartins project was only planned for a few years from the start.

Heaton and Hemingway then founded The Beautiful South at the end of 1988 and gained even greater (Europe-wide) recognition with their new band, while Norman Cook turned to electronic dance music, first with a solo album, later with the projects Beats International , Freak Power , Mighty Dub Kats and Fatboy Slim even celebrated worldwide success.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE CH CH UK UK US US
1986 London 0 Hull 4 DE15 (14 weeks)
DE 		CH17 (5 weeks)
CH 		UK3
platinum
platinum

(41 weeks)UK 		US124 (14 weeks)
US
First published: June 1986
1987 People Who Grinned Themselves to Death DE30 (12 weeks)
DE 		- UK9
gold
gold

(18 weeks)UK 		US177 (6 weeks)
US
First published: September 1987

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE UK UK
1986 The Housemartins' Christmas Singles Box - UK84 (1 week)
UK
First published: November 1986
1988 Now That's What I Call Quite Good DE29 (7 weeks)
DE 		UK8th
gold
gold

(11 weeks)UK
First published: May 1988
2004 The best of - UK29
silver
silver

(3 weeks)UK
First published: March 2004
2007 Soup (The Housemartins Condensed,
The Cream of The Beautiful South) 		- UK15th
platinum
platinum

(24 weeks)UK
First published: November 2007
with The Beautiful South

More compilations

  • 1997: Raise the Flag (B-sides, live tracks and rarities)
  • 2006: Live at the BBC
  • 2011: Happy Hour - The Collection

Singles

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK
1986 Sheep
London 0 Hull 4 		DE54 (4 weeks)
DE 		- - UK56 (4 weeks)
UK
First published: February 1986
Happy Hour
London 0 Hull 4 		- - - UK3
silver
silver

(13 weeks)UK
First published: May 1986
Think for a Minute
London 0 Hull 4 		- - - UK18 (8 weeks)
UK
First published: September 1986
Caravan of Love
London 0 Hull 4 		DE2 (18 weeks)
DE 		AT7 (14 weeks)
AT 		CH2 (11 weeks)
CH 		UK1
gold
gold

(11 weeks)UK
First published: November 1986
1987 Five Get over Excited
The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death 		- - - UK11 (6 weeks)
UK
First published: May 1987
Me and the Farmer
The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death 		- - - UK15 (5 weeks)
UK
First published: August 1987
Build
The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death 		- - - UK15 (8 weeks)
UK
First published: November 1987
1988 There Is Always Something There to Remind Me
Now That's What I Call Quite Good 		- - - UK15 (8 weeks)
UK
First published: April 1988
2003 Change the world
 - - - UK51 (1 week)
UK
First published: April 2003
Dino Lenny vs. The Housemartins

More singles

  • 1985: Flag Day
  • 1987: The Housemartins (Interview with Stan Cullimore and We Are Not Going Back )

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  1. ↑ Hanns Peter Bushoff (responsible): The Housemartins . Ed .: Presse International and National Ariola-Eurodisc GmbH. Munich (no year [1986], promo sheet).
  2. ↑ a b (lz): The Housemartins. The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death . In: Musikexpress . November 1987, Plate of the Month, pp. ? .
  3. ^ A b c Vicky-Leigh Sayer: The Housemartins. The band. (No longer available online.) In: beautifulsouthfans.co.uk. Archived from the original on December 26, 2016 ; accessed on June 14, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.beautifulsouthfans.co.uk
  4. ↑ a b Housemartins. The "Caravan of Love" singers are poor eaters. The reality is different . In: Bravo . No. 9/1987 , February 19, 1987, pp. ? .
  5. ↑ You've come a long way, baby. (No longer available online.) In: about.brighton.ac.uk. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; accessed on June 14, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / about.brighton.ac.uk
  6. ↑ Barbara Ellen: Power, Corruption and Guys . In: New Musical Express . November 28, 1987, p. 18th f. and 53 .
  7. ^ Adrian Thrills: Goodbye to the House of Fun . In: New Musical Express . May 23, 1987, p. 25 and 41 .
  8. ↑ Sebastian Zabel: Housemartins. Don't dissolve tomorrow if you can dissolve today. The Housemartins go over little girl corpses . In: Spex . March 1988, p. 6 .
  9. ↑ a b c Chart sources: Singles Albums Billboard 200
  10. ↑ a b c Music Sales Awards: UK

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