Taken from BASE magazine – Interview by Danny Brogan 

It’s been seventeen years since former Housemartins, Paul Heaton, and Dave Hemingway formed The Beautiful South, and thirteen albums later, they remain one of the UK’s most popular bands. The line up might have changed slightly over the years, but the Hull based band continue to produce contemporary, contagious classics. 

 

In 2003, the band recruited its latest vocalist and currently only female member, in the shape of Alison Wheeler. “Dave Hemmingway was recording a solo album. I was in a gospel choir, and three of us got asked to do a session for backing vocals for his album,” she explains. “He took me to one side and said, ‘I really like your voice. I think it would suit The Beautiful South, would you like me to recommend you?’ Which obviously I responded with ‘erm, let me think about this’,” laughs Wheeler. 

 

Continue reading Alison Wheeler — The Story of a Lady

Thanks to the wonders of modern technology it’s time to introduce a new feature!  Beautiful South Video of the Month aims to bring you the best clips from You Tube.

First up is part 1 of the infamous BBC Documentary Paul’s Gang which was aired just after Jacqui left the band – thanks to Jamie who uploaded the video

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Another new look for you all to devour – and to celebrate we’re making the classic B’Side available to PLAY NOW here on our homepage – We hope yuo enjoy – leave us your comments on what you think of our new look!

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If you’re having trouble opening the file go to B’Side of the Month

The Beautiful South wowed the fans in Belfast’s Ulster Hall on the 28th September this year – and now – just to get you Yankee Doodle Dandie’s who’ll see them November in the mood – here’s nearly 10 minutes of LIVE footage from that gig, recorded and edited by Yours Truly!

please forgive the out of sync-ness – just a consequence of the upload to YouTube

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Site registration has been reactivated – this is to allow users to comment and post on the guestbook and message boards.

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The Suitable Mouth has designed a range on goodies for your perusal – we’ve aslo manage to wangle a £2 discount off everything if it’s ordered before 30th November

CLICK HERE to see our stuff and use the voucher code: XMAS06 to get a discount off anything at all!

 

We’ve included a brand new version of our guestbook and you can sign it HERE – Let’s make the Beautiful South’s Fan Book a big one!

The Beautiful South are at their best live – use our Listen Now player to hear Jacqui sing I’ll Sail This Ship Alone – then go over to our Downloads section and get the entire October Bootleg!

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After a year since the last post on our old boards we thought it was worth trying something new!  Click here to have a look at our new boards, which we’ve now completely integrated into this site – no more external links for you to worry about!

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