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: Now That's What I Call Quite Good (Go! Discs)

Review by Sylvia Patterson, Smash Hits, 18 May 1988

THEY CAME, they saw, they thought "Pthrthrthr! I'm off..."and they left. (Snirfle.) But not before they left us this — a double LP of the ...

Fatboy Slim: The Norman Conquest

Interview by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 19 April 1997

In the beginning, he was a Housemartin. In between, he's been Pizzaman and a Mighty Kat. Now he's FATBOY SLIM. But no matter what NORMAN ...

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 ...

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 ...