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It has been reported by the Hull Daily Mail that The Beautiful South are to reform, in fact they never “really split up”.  Read the full interview below:

HULL’S most successful band is to reform – relaunching with an intimate city gig.

Members of the Beautiful South, who announced a decision to split two years ago after 19 years together, are reforming under the name The New Beautiful South.

The Beautiful South shot to fame with A Little Time in 1990, their only number one single, and went on to become one of the UK’s biggest bands.

Singers David Hemingway and Alison Wheeler are teaming up with drummer David Stead for a gig at the Welly Club in Beverley Road, city centre, on March 29.

Original frontman Paul Heaton, guitarist David Rotheray and bassist Sean Welch have opted not to rejoin.

However, guitarist Phil Barton will complete the line-up with original backing musicians Gary Hammond, Damon Butcher, Tony Robinson and Kev Brown, and will play in Hull and King Tut’s in Glasgow before heading off on a UK tour later this year.

David Stead said: “We never really split up – all that happened was Paul made the decision to leave. But Dave, Alison and I wanted to continue. We’ve been twiddling our thumbs for a while, but this is what we do best.

“There are still an awful lot of people out there who want to hear our music and we still want to play it.

“We’re going to be playing all our greatest hits and the old favourites along with a few new songs.”

The Beautiful South was formed in 1989 from the ashes of The Housemartins and had a string of hits including Perfect 10, You Keep It All In and Old Red Eyes. The band’s album Carry On Up The Charts was one of the biggest sellers in British pop history.

However, their success waned in the years before the split, with later albums failing to achieve the commercial success of earlier offerings.

Paul Heaton dabbled in a solo career, recording under the guise of Biscuit Boy aka Crackerman, but made little impact on the charts.

Finally, in 2007, the band decided to split due to “musical similarities”.

In the meantime, Paul Heaton has relaunched his solo career, releasing his album The Cross–Eyed Rambler last summer.

David Rotheray also formed a new band, Homespun, and released three albums, warmly received by critics, but achieving little commercial success, and the band split last year.

Fan Elaine Ainsworth, who attended an exclusive Beautiful South gig at the Welly in 2003, said she was excited.

Elaine, 47, of Buttfield Road, Hessle, said: “I think it’s brilliant news. It’s a bit of a shock because I didn’t think they would get back together.”

Tickets for the Welly gig go on sale at 9am on Monday and are available from www.giveitsomewelly.com

Tickets are also available from The Chinese Laundry in Queens Gardens and from Beasley in the Hepworth Arcade.

What do you think – please let us know?

Well, it’s been a long time coming – and finally we’ve arrived at the release of a new album, with new material – no more hits collections, just new songs!  Here are samples of all tracks:

Tour Dates, New Songs and a Special Myspace to keep us all informed! Paul Heaton has been hard at work rehearsing his first new material as a solo artist since Fat Chance in 2002.  He’s also been busy blogging his life away over at MySpace! Below you’ll find 2 videos recorded during his rehearsal sessions and a list of dates when you can see him perform live, and judging by his Belfast venue – VERY intimately!  Enjoy – BTW there are more new song demos over on his MySpace page.

Everything is Everything

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November 2007 Tour Dates:

Nov 6 –  Fibbers, York
Nov 7 – Sugarmill, Stoke
Nov 8 –  Leadmill, Sheffield
Nov 9 – Carling Academy, 2 Oxford
Nov 11 – Whelans, Dublin
Nov 12 – Auntie Annie’s, Belfast
Nov 14 – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
Nov 15 – Carling Academy 2, Liverpool
Nov 16 – University, Hull
Nov 19 – Bush Hall, London
Nov 20 – Glee Club, Birmingham
Nov 21 – King Tut’s, Glasgow
Nov 22 – Club Academy, Manchester

A Good Old Fashioned Town

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Well it’s been A Long Time Coming – and eventually you have the first part of the results from our ultimate Poll – which album the almost 100 of you voted for as best!

The Rules:
Since we gave you the option of 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourite album we devised a method for creating a league table. Each vote for favourite got 10 points 2nd favourite gets 5 points and 3rd favourite 3 points. Also we left best-of’s out – these are just the studio albums.

The Results:

Album Title	Total Points
0898	288
Miaow	274
Quench	220
Welcome To	216
Gaze	149
Blue Is	135
Painting It Red	131
Superbi	124
Choke	115
Golddigas	19

Coming Soon – The Singles! The fave band member and fave female singer! Plus the announcement of the winner of the competition!

The Beautiful South may have split up – however it doesn’t mark the end of the road for the various members of the band.

Dave Hemingway released his solo album earlier this year and Homespun have made some new material available on their Myspace – news is also trickling in about a new album from Paul Heaton. He’s rehearsing some solo material with a view to releasing a full album of new material followed by a tour later this year.

Rumour has it that Alison is recording a solo album also – and self financing! More news as and when!

The Beautiful South would be entering their 20th year together this year (had they stuck it out) and to mark this The Suitable Mouth is starting an online gallery to which you can upload photos. We’d like to create a great big repository of pictures so get over to our PICTURE GALLERY and register and start uploading your pictures!

Well, they’ve gone, their new album has passed and the future looks pretty grim for any new meterial – fear not The Suitable Mouth has created a station over at pandora where you can discover a world of music that’s similar too (although nowhere near as good as of course) the South’s!

Just click on the box over on the right hand side and enjoy

The Ultimate Poll results will be published soon – promise, just as soon as we’ve had a chance to sit down and analyse the results!

Just when you thought it was all over a surprise new album has been announced. The album is called The BBC Sessions and will be released on 19th March 2007.

The Album will have 27 tracks all recorded live over the years at the BBC – and 3 versions of You Keep It All In – one for each female singer! Preorder your copy now by clicking the following link CLICK HERE