Paul Heaton

I liked his album with Jacqui Abbott, Manchester Calling. Came out around COVID time I think. Always enjoyed their period together in that iteration of TBS.

 

Seen him many times and he’s always brilliant, strangest gig was a solo show at the Leadmill as “Biscuit Boy” promoting his first solo album, not one Housemartins or Beautiful South song but an absolutely bouncing atmosphere.

 

Last night was 2nd time I have seen Paul Heaton and was a last minute decision as I only got my ticket on thursday morning but he was great again. Along with shed seven and the lightning seeds.

 

Love 'em ..... is/wasn't he involved with the BBC? Those naughty chappies in designer clobber etc..

 

I was at that good day out

 

Don't forget Magnapop too

 

Absolutely scandalous service pal. I missed Shed7 cos I was at the bar 45 minutes..

 

Dont tell me I was the only one to look at transfermkt before opening the post. Not sure a 64 yr old centre forward is what we need.

 

Reading some of the comments about service at bar, I went once for a bottle of coke and there was not a que and alot of people around me were saying how quick the service was so not sure if it was particular areas that there were issues.

Also I should have added in my previous post how good Rianne Downey was as well.

 

I saw the Housemartins play at Bramall Lane in the late 80s, before Tony Currie’s testimonial. I guess I saw him play twice, as he then played in the game, as well as Stan and Fatboy Slim, alongside players like George Best, Geoff Hurst, Allan Clarke, Dennis Waterman, Joe Elliott, Mick Miller and Brian Tilsley off Coronation Street. Seeing the Housemartins was great, seeing Best score a wonder goal was great, but the highlight of the day was the soft penalty given to the Sheffield United all stars in injury time, to give Currie the chance to finish the game with a goal. Baldy Scouse comic Mick Miller saved it!

Loved the Housemartins’ first album, the second not so much and The Beautiful South not at all, apart from Old Red Eyes is Back. I saw them supporting REM at Huddersfield in the mid-90s though. Annoyingly I’d moved down from Liverpool to Brighton with the girlfriend, so it was a bit of a trek. We had tickets to see REM at Milton Keynes with Radiohead, but we split up and she got those (I kept the tickets for The Charlatans at Portsmouth Pyramid). So I went all the way up to Huddersfield, where I bizarrely bumped into one of the doctors from our A&E department in Brighton, who was doing the coast to coast and diverted to Huddersfield for the gig.

I used to see Heaton every day walking past our office in Goodge Street around 2000. I guess he was at one of the recording studios. Seems like a really decent bloke, but his music isn’t for me any more. My son went though and enjoyed it, especially hearing the Lightning Seeds singing ‘football’s coming home’ at Bramall Lane, the day after United lost ‘the richest game in, like, the whole world ever’ or something.

 

Shed 7 and all the crowd singing chasing rainbows was quite fitting at bramall lane..

 

My brother and his wife went and said it was superb. Shed Seven probably swapped heartache stories about the play offs as they're York City supporters