Although Heaton has led bands for decades, he’s released only one album as a solo artist, Fat Chance, under the name Biscuit Boy. [ Glenn Kenny / Scott Schinder / Michael Zwirn] In 1990, the Beautiful South released their second album, Choke. Two singles—"My Book" and "Let Love Speak Up Itself"—charted outside the Top 40, but the album also provided the band's only Number 1 hit, a Hemingway/Corrigan duet called " A Little Time". The video, featuring the aftermath of a domestic fight, won the 1991 BRIT Award for Best Video. [3] Third album and Corrigan's departure [ edit ] The 1996 album Blue Is the Colour sold over a million copies and featured hit singles "Rotterdam" and "Don't Marry Her". The album demonstrated the band's gradual shift towards a country music sound, and was well received by the public and on BBC and commercial radio. In 1997 the Beautiful South headlined stadium concerts for the first and last time, in Huddersfield and at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in London. Support for the Huddersfield concert was provided by Cast and Lightning Seeds. [10] Quench With two lead singers, the Beautiful South emphasized vocal harmonies, especially between male and female vocalists. The first of these female co-leads was Northern Irish singer Briana Corrigan, who left after their third album, 0898 Beautiful South. Jacqui Abbott sang on the next four albums, while Alison Wheeler was a member for the final three. With three-part vocal harmonies and smooth playing from the band, the Beautiful South exhibited a honeyed sound that could mask very barbed lyrics.

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Smith, Robin (27 October 1990). "This Week - The Next Seven Days in View: Releases". Record Mirror. p.32. ISSN 0144-5804. The Beautiful South". Brit Awards. 19 February 2014. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013 . Retrieved 30 March 2014.

Cover Version: Their covers include Pebbles' "Girlfriend" and Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin'", already Covered Up by Harry Nilsson. Eventually the band released Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs, an (almost) note "This Old Skin" is presented as a cover of The Heppelbaums, who are actually The Beautiful South all-covers album, which featured songs by Willie Nelson ("Valentine"), Rufus Wainwright ("Rebel Prince"), The Ramones ("Blitzkrieg Bop") and Blue Öyster Cult ("Don't Fear the Reaper")!French album positions". infodisc.fr. Archived from the original on 20 August 2008 . Retrieved 1 March 2010. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "British certifications – Beautiful South". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 7 May 2023. Type Beautiful South in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.

The album Quench (1998) was released with similar commercial success, again reaching number one in the UK album charts. "Perfect 10", the first single to be released from the album, also provided the band with uncharacteristic singles chart success. The album is also notable for being more uptempo and being the first on which Heaton and Hemingway's former Housemartins colleague Norman Cook was used in a consultancy role. [11] Painting It Red release and Jacqui Abbott leaves As was their usual modus operandi, The Beautiful South included unreleased material on the B-sides of the singles taken from their albums. [51] Abbott toured the UK and Ireland with Heaton in May/June 2014 performing at sold shows including London Shepherd's Bush Empire, Salford Lowry and Hull City Hall. The tour was accompanied by publicity appearances on a variety of TV and radio programmes, including The One Show, Live at Edinburgh Castle, Sunday Night Live at the Palladium, and Aled Jones' ITV show Weekend. After a band meeting on 30 January 2007, they decided to split. [3] They released a statement on 31 January 2007, in which they joked that their reasons for splitting were "musical similarities" – an ironic reference to "musical differences" which are often cited as the reason for a band's split. "The band would like to thank everyone for their 19 wonderful years in music," the statement also said. VR1058 I keep trying to ride the coattails of excitement that were created when I discovered The Beautiful South in 2010, and a lot of the excitement abuzz with this new discovery came from my Prefab Sprout craze. I hadn't heard another sophisti-pop band until my ears came into this second one, The Beautiful South. You can bet that Miaow was a Tallahasseean delight, though I walked around and had a really really sad (and it could have become sadder if the crime rate of that area had made me into a logical statistic, but it had not) night the first time I heard them. The transformation that this band, the feelings their music come alongside to my life, and the way that they conceive their trusty brand of sophisti-pop is so wonderful... sometimes. I think, though, that a lot of my love has worn off with that mentioned, the debut, and even Blue is the Colour which tries to be as accessibly jazzy and soulful as can be. An album like this one might seem a bit snide or exclusive in comparison.a b c d e f g h i j k "BEAUTIFUL SOUTH – full Official Chart History – Official Charts Company". OfficialCharts.com . Retrieved 4 July 2016. This is one of those albums almost designed to put you off your stride, from the slightly sinister artwork of terrapins with human faces in place of their shells, to the point where no one seems to have ever made a definitive decision on whether the title for this album is 0898 or 0898 Beautiful South, there's a lot going on in and around this album beyond the music it contains. INTERVIEW: Beautiful South – Rey Roldan". Archived from the original on 7 March 2016 . Retrieved 4 July 2016. Sutherland, Ben (1 February 2007). "The South's bitter-sweet legacy". BBC News . Retrieved 28 February 2014. A Little Time", the band's sole UK Number One single, is a warm, soft 'love song' sung from the point of a man and a woman whose relationship is crumbling.

a b "My Ten Favorite Albums of the 1990s – Pansentient League". September 2012 . Retrieved 4 July 2016. Although 2000's Painting It Red (2000) made number two in the UK charts, the album suffered promotion and touring difficulties, and a substantial number of the CDs were faulty. Jacqui Abbott left the band in the same year, discouraged by the pressures of touring and needing to concentrate on looking after her son, who had just been diagnosed with autism. [12] [13] [14] After completing their tour obligations, the band marked time with a second greatest-hits album ( Solid Bronze) in 2001, and took time off to refresh themselves. Heaton embarked on a solo career under the Biscuit Boy (a.k.a. Crakerman) alias [15] and released the Fat Chance album in 2001. Although critically acclaimed, the album did not sell well and was reissued under Heaton's own name the following year. Gaze As was their usual modus operandi, The Beautiful South included unreleased material on the B-sides of the singles taken from their albums. [8]Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The female vocalists. They started out with Briana Corrigan (redhead), later drafted Jacqui Abbott (brunette), and finally Alison Wheeler (blonde). a b c d e f g "The Beautiful South – Carry On Up The Charts (album review ) – Sputnikmusic" . Retrieved 4 July 2016. Choke and "A Little Time": Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDFed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p.27. On 11 November 2014, BBC Radio 2 broadcast a world premiere of "Real Hope", featuring The Grimethorpe Colliery Band, from the deluxe edition of What Have We Become?. The album campaign saw the pair make publicity appearances on a variety of TV and radio programmes, including The One Show, Live at Edinburgh Castle, Sunday Night Live at the Palladium, and Aled Jones' ITV show Weekend, BBC Two at Glastonbury Festival performing acoustic versions of second single "Moulding Of A Fool" and a cover version of Dolly Parton's "Islands in the Stream", Channel 4's Sunday Brunch and Pointless Celebrities. David Rotheray