{"id":159,"date":"2009-08-10T13:47:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T12:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suitablemouth.co.uk\/index\/?p=159"},"modified":"2009-08-10T13:47:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T12:47:06","slug":"mojo-housemartins-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/suitablemouth.co.uk\/index\/archives\/159","title":{"rendered":"Mojo Housemartins Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mojo Magazine have a great writeup on the recent reissue of “London 0 – Hull 4”\u00a0 Featuring clippings from Paul Heaton’s personal scrapbook you can relive a golden era when supporting the Miners made you gay (apparently)!<\/p>\n

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IN THEIR FIRST FOUR-CORNERED interview since the departure of drummer Hugh Whitaker called time on the band’s classic line-up, The Housemartins<\/strong> reform this month for MOJO<\/strong> magazine.<\/p>\n

Although their post-fame journeys were darkened by drummer Hugh Whitaker<\/strong>‘s five years in jail for an axe-assisted assault, singer Paul Heaton<\/strong>‘s alcoholism and bassist Norman “Fatboy Slim” Cook<\/strong>‘s troubled years of DJ infamy and tabloid intrusion, they insist that “nothing bad that happened in our subsequent lives can be blamed on the Housemartins”.<\/p>\n

The quartet took gospel harmonies and left-wing politics to the top of the charts between 1986 and 1988, and their musical legacy is confirmed with the re-release this month of their classic debut album, London 0 Hull 4<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But another angle on their story is provided by the diaries and scrapbooks kept by Heaton, a zealous collector with OCD tendendies. His 1986 diary testifies to the volume of work undertaken by the band (106 gigs in 1986), but also to the more prosaic realities of a lad in his early 20s: a preoccupation with Sheffield United jostling with the band’s chart positions and a record of his intake of pints.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The scrapbooks – a home for photos and cuttings documenting the band’s rise from their earliest musical stirrings – testify to Heaton’s drive, publicity-awareness and humour. They’re a Proustian rush for any pop fan active in the mid-’80s, or anyone curious about the pop biz as seen from the inside.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Get over to the Mojo site for clippings etc. Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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