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Paul Heaton Night on BBC2 later, everyone! #PaulHeaton #TheHousemartins #TheBeautifulSouth

Recorded #OnThisDay 41 years ago:

The Housemartins - Flag Day (Peel Session)

Flag Day by The Housemartins, taken from the Peel Session recorded on 21 July 1985.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBIIGXGatFk

#TheHousemartins #PeelSessions #IndieRock #OTD

And then, whilst supping a cup of tea with milk I think of this:

#thehousemartins

https://youtu.be/KfDoPEN7n5k

Half a lifetime away.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=zZfWq4p6NoA #TheHousemartins #music

#NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday

The Beautiful South - "From Under The Covers" (1989, Go! Discs)

#TheBeautifulSouth were one of the odder success stories in the history of #Britishpop. Literate, heavy-drinking northerners with roots in Hull's #TheHousemartins, they paired lightly soulful, near-MOR pop with some of the most bitterly vicious lyrics ever to burn up the charts. And burn 'em up they did: their best-of collection, Carry On Up The Charts, went #1 in 1994 and eventually 6x platinum. Sing along everyone:

"It's 7am, and we're coughing up the phlegm / Spitting out the taste of night before / And we'll vomit and we'll choke just to climb their tatty rope / Well, this city has its charm and its claw"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJAPvGHDHeI

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📻 Vortex WaveSpiral 🌀 (Post Punk & Classical New Wave)
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🎵 The Housemartins - Caravan Of Love

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🎵 The Housemartins - Happy Hour

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──────────────
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/386679/ The indie masterpiece that captured the north-south divide in the UK #Éire #Entertainment #hull #IE #Indie #Ireland #Music #TheHousemartins

The indie masterpiece that captured the north-south divide in the UK

(Credits: Far Out) Sat 14 March 2026 7:30, UK Since the dawn of Britain’s music scene, attention has…
#NewsBeep #News #Music #Entertainment #hull #Indie #thehousemartins #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/475096/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/825120/ The indie masterpiece that captured the north-south divide in the UK #Entertainment #Hull #Indie #music #TheHousemartins #UK #UnitedKingdom

The Housemartins - Now That's What I Call Quite Good - 1986
#Music #AlbumSuggestions #NowPlaying #NowListening
#TheHousemartins #NowThatsWhatICallQuiteGood

Amazing interview with Norman Cook on
The Retro Hour PodCast:
https://audioboom.com/posts/8835205

Media file: https://pdst.fm/e/arttrk.com/p/ABMA5/pscrb.fm/rss/p/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8835205.mp3?modified=1768556439&sid=4970769&source=rss

#fatBoySlim #normanCook #music #dj #theHouseMartins

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...

The Housemartins:
🎵 The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death

#NowPlaying #TheHousemartins

Recorded #OnThisDay 38 years ago:

The Housemartins - Peel Session 1987

The complete session recorded by The Housemartins on 3 November 1987 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 11th of that month.

Tracklist:

1. There Is Always Something There To Remind Me (0:07)
2. Sunday Isn't Sunday (3:38)
3. Build (5:44)

https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-housemartins-peel-session-1987.html

#TheHousemartins #PeelSessions #OTD

"Think for a minute" - The Housemartins

To promote this single, The Housemartins played a game of football and a concert at Sheffield United's Bramall Lane ground.

#TOTP #TheHousemartins #SheffieldUnited

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq The Housemartins: 🎵 Five Get Over Excited #6music #TheHousemartins ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify ▶️ Song on #Spotify:

Five Get Over Excited

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne The Housemartins: 🎵 Happy Hour #6music #TheHousemartins ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify ▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

The Housemartins - Happy Hour ...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens The Housemartins: 🎵 I Smell Winter #6music #TheHousemartins ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify ▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

Young Attenborough - I Smell W...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens The Housemartins: 🎵 Me And The Farmer #6music #TheHousemartins ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify ▶️ Song on #Bandcamp:

Me & The Farmer (Housemartins ...

Habe heute erstmals ein #TheSmiths Album (Best Of) angehört.

Ich dachte erst, ich bin abgerutscht und bei #TheHousemartins gelandet.

Ist mir ein bisschen zu jammerig. Davon brauche ich jetzt erstmal eine Pause.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles The Housemartins: 🎵 Happy Hour #6music #TheHousemartins ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify ▶️ Song on #Bandcamp:

Happy Hour (The Housemartins),...

On video, The Housemartins with the pub-and-plasticine video for "Happy hour".

Fun and poppy and optimistic, and behind the lyric is a withering attack on the pervasive office sexism of the time.

It's what Billy Bragg could be, if he set his talents to entertainment rather than agitprop. It's what Paul Weller could be, if he had an ounce of the Housemartins' talent.

#TOTP #TheHousemartins

Recorded #OnThisDay 39 years ago:

The Housemartins - Peel Session 1986

The complete session recorded by The Housemartins on 6 April 1986 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 14th of that month.

Tracklist:

1. Over There (0:07)
2. Happy Hour (3:00)
3. Get Up Off Our Knees (5:24)
4. Caravan Of Love (8:34)

https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-housemartins-peel-session-1986.html

#TheHousemartins #PeelSessions #OTD

“ MrMadPeanut” / “The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4 Short Film (Full Length, High Quality)” (1 user) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0f1Xx6VIco #TheHousemartins

In the studio, The Housemartins "Think for a minute". It's a song asking people to reflect on life as it is now, compare it to what had gone before, and see how things have been improved.

Once heard a station play this out of the 11 November silence, which is a power move.

#TOTP #TheHousemartins

Jangly pop time

https://youtu.be/_vk7gyKa5Js?si=9wF_wKSe_RuaDZ7A

#TheHousemartins #Anxious

The year is 1986; #Kodak drops its instant camera business after losing a patent battle with #Polaroid; Short Circuit is on at cinemas; #TheHousemartins release their debut album; Zammo says ‘just say no’; and you’re wearing your new Spantime Perpetual Calendar Calculator Watch.

Functions inc:
Time 12/24hr
Date (uniquely has the ability to switch format between US or EU)
Perpetual calendar (1901 to 2099 allowing you to scroll through any month during this period to find out the days and dates)
Stopwatch
Alarm
Calculator

#VintageWatch #VintageDigitalWatch #VintageTech

Check out the lyrics for the song “Build” by The Housemartins
#TheHousemartins #Build
https://daletra.com/the-housemartins/lyrics/build.html

As chosen by survey (the 30th album starting with ‘T’), today’s spotlight is on number 816 from The List, submitted by pjohanneson. Though perhaps “story” is a better word for it. Gather ’round, class…

Once upon a time, there was a group of Martins who decided to live in a House, instead of with a Ricky, or with a Dean (and certainly not with a Hannett). The group came to be known in the neighborhood as “the House Martins” (or, if one was in a hurry, “the Housemartins“).

These Martins liked to make a bunch of sounds together, and liked to give names to short collections of their sounds, like “Happy Hour”, “There Is Always Something There to Remind Me”, or “Think For A Minute”.

Then, one day, during happy hour, something there reminded one of the Martins, and he thought for a minute: “I’m far too Fat and far too Slim to be a Martin in a House. Perhaps I should instead live as a Boy, not in a House.” And so, the Fat Slim Boy (or, as the other Martins started to call him, “Fatboy Slim“) moved out of the House, and the Martins who still lived in the House stopped making a bunch of sounds together.

But then, perhaps again during happy hour, perhaps again because something there reminded them, two of the Martins who were left behind thought for a minute that they still really liked to make a bunch of sounds together. They had heard of a Beautiful place, somewhere down South, where they could continue to make a bunch of sounds together as ex-Martins, perhaps even with others who were not Martins. And so, the ex-Martins moved to the Beautiful South, where they joined some not-Martins, and continued to make a bunch of sounds together.

One day, this new group of ex-Martins and not-Martins decided to make an entire collection of short collections of sounds in honor of sex hotlines and sexy instruments such as the glockenspiel. To ensure the wrong idea was not given by this collection of sounds, they decided to give one short collection of sounds the name “36D”. However, in the end, this short collection of sounds made one of the not-Martins, who was called “Briana”, move away from the Beautiful South, to make her own bunch of sounds.

In 2007, the ex-Martins and not-Martins who were left behind would permanently move away from the Beautiful South, due to “musical similarities”.

• Songwhip: The Beautiful South – 0898 Beautiful South
• Discogs: The Beautiful South – 0898 Beautiful South
• Wikipedia: The Beautiful South – 0898 Beautiful South

((This ridiculous write-up is courtesy of my dog absolutely hating the song “36D” (or, more accurately, hating me singing the song “36D”). Well, that and me also not liking it/the album. And then me having a not-so-crisis-ey crisis in which I didn’t know if I should be sharing my opinion of albums I don’t like on The List. It is true that the lyrics of “36D” (and of some other songs) are partially to blame for Briana Corrigan leaving the band, as is the fact that the entire band has since stated that the song “36D” hasn’t dated well. But the album isn’t just one song, and the band isn’t just one album, and lots of bands/albums we love have cringe-y songs, and my tastes don’t necessarily reflect the quality of an album, etc., etc… And so, my only advice here is, if you’re a dog person, perhaps avoid singing “36D” to it.))

[Alt text for accompanying image: The album artwork is a perhaps a photo, featuring 5 doll faces with various expressions, with each face placed upwards on the back of a striped turtle. The album name is in black font at the top center, and there is a cream-colored background.]

https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/04/23/the-beautiful-south-0898-beautiful-south-1992-uk/

#1001OtherAlbums #1990s #altRock #Housemartins #janglePop #TheBeautifulSouth #TheHousemartins

https://youtu.be/tUn82f1-RNg?si=W2FczwHJkg1Vtq5O

#TheHousemartins #Song #Track

That's a pretty rare tape to find at resale. In this part of the world at least.
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#TheHouseMartins

#nowplaying #TheHousemartins #JukeboxFridayNight

https://open.spotify.com/track/0kpmeoNfuZ0cys5tCEBCXZ?si=UseN0h8JTxuJKIU6LUO1QQ

The Housemartins - Build

https://youtu.be/IMPMiLddsuE?si=EPSq_UywVdtMPaQX

#WeAreTheRadio #nowplaying #music #musica #musik #musique #pouetradio #tootradio #MastoMusic #TheHousemartins

From the archives:

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘀 - 𝗙𝗹𝗮𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝗣𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻)

Flag Day by The Housemartins, taken from the Peel Session recorded on 21 July 1985.

#TheHousemartins #PeelSessions

https://youtu.be/dBIIGXGatFk

redoing my #introduction because I have more characters now.

I'm Oscar, a high school student from #Croydon in #London. I'm hoping to go to the #BritSchool to study #ProductionArts. I'm a proficient #Python programmer and Linux user (#XMonad ftw!)

I listen to lots of music. Bands/artists I like include #ManicStreetPreachers, #FleetFoxes, #Radiohead, #Blur, #Placebo, #Pulp, #Elbow, #TheHousemartins, #CarterUSM and many, many more.

I'm a #LibSoc, member of #LabourUK (worst £3 I ever spent), #Atheist, #ActuallyAutistic and #Achillean. AMAB but could care less.

I am also a minor, albeit one who has heard, seen and done some shit. "minors dni" dni.

email/discord can be found on my web page.

happy to be here!

🔊 Auf #radioeins läuft...

The Housemartins:
🎵 Me And The Farmer

#NowPlaying #TheHousemartins

https://open.spotify.com/track/5QkIyKz0VEWjvRZwFf6lei

https://crummystuff.bandcamp.com/track/me-the-farmer-housemartins-cover

#Music #Musique #Música #Musique #Música #Rock #PopRock #Rock #MastoMusic #WeAreTheRadio #AlternativeMusic #CollegeRock #TheHousemartins #80sMusic

The Housemartins - The Mighty Ship 💃 ⛴️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwxSfZ9cpew

Gen X Music Lover: The Housemartins - Happy Hour
https://genxmusiclover.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-housemartins-happy-hour.html?spref=tw

#1980s, #1986, #80smusic, #IndieRock, #NormanCook, #PaulHeaton, #TheHousemartins

@DeufLeMoelleux
"When I was young, they used to get me counting sheep
But the counting I did was all in vain
Now when I'm tired and I'm tryna get to sleep
I count humans jumping onto trains"

#thehousemartins 🎤 🎶

https://youtu.be/mIWOhisqrP8

https://youtu.be/ggcKu6V43F8

La meva #CançóDelDia és avui de #TheHousemartins #Hull #IndieRock 😙!