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In 1990, The Beautiful South released its second album, Choke. Two singles—"My Book" and "Let Love Speak Up Itself"—charted outside the Top 40, but the album also provided the band's only Number 1 hit, a Hemingway/Corrigan duet called "A Little Time". The video, featuring the aftermath of a domestic fight, won the 1991 BRIT Award for Best Video. [4] Third album and Corrigan's departure Quench falters, despite the funky Heaton-Abbott duet “Perfect 10,” which salutes plus-size romance and begs to be covered by an American R&B or hip-hop group. Abbott’s “How Long’s a Tear Take to Dry?” reconciles fueding lovers, and the album closer, “Your Father and I,” is one of Heaton’s most finely wrought duets of male/female relations, with alternating verses by Abbott and Heaton deflating one another’s pretensions. The rest of the album, however, is less catchy or profound than simply tedious. Alcohol is the dominant lyrical obsession —“Look What I Found in My Beer” tellingly offers a drinking problem history of Heaton (or someone very like him). French album positions". infodisc.fr. Archived from the original on 20 August 2008 . Retrieved 1 March 2010. After forming in 1989, the Beautiful South's debut album Welcome to the Beautiful South, released October the same year, was a major chart success, reaching number 2 in the UK Albums Chart and featuring two top 10 hits, " Song For Whoever" and " You Keep It All In". [8] Featuring Paul Heaton's witty lyrics and vocals from him, Dave Hemingway and Briana Corrigan, it was a critical success too, being widely hailed for "reinserting cynicism, doubt, and biting sarcasm into pop music." [9] The album was a transformation for lead singer and lyricist Paul Heaton after his previous band the Housemartins; according to Robert Christgau, he turned "his talents to the interpersonal. The surprise was that he didn't then cop out." [10] The third single from the album, " I'll Sail This Ship Alone", reached number 31. [8] The album Quench (1998) was released with similar commercial success, again reaching number one in the UK album charts. "Perfect 10", the first single to be released from the album, also provided the band with uncharacteristic singles chart success. The album is also notable for being more uptempo and being the first on which Heaton and Hemingway's former Housemartins colleague Norman Cook was used in a consultancy role. [11] Painting It Red release and Jacqui Abbott leaves

A few select Miaow tunes made it to the States via Carry on Up the Charts, a decent 15-song sampler that includes two new numbers (the anthemic “One Last Love Song” and a snappy Abbott-sung cover of the pop chestnut “Dream a Little Dream of Me”). The compilation was an enormous commercial success in the UK, reaching platinum faster than any album in British history, demonstrating the surprisingly vast audience for Heaton and Rotheray’s melodic misery. In November 2014 the pair toured the UK with sold out shows across the country, including at London's The Roundhouse Manchester Apollo and Sheffield City Hall. Dave Hemingway Inside a Wall: "Woman in the Wall" is about an alcoholic who kills his wife in a drunken rage and hides her body in the walls of their house, but is tormented by hearing her voice from the walls every night.Abbott toured the UK and Ireland with Heaton in May/June 2014 performing at sold shows including London Shepherd's Bush Empire, Salford Lowry and Hull City Hall. The tour was accompanied by publicity appearances on a variety of TV and radio programmes, including The One Show, Live at Edinburgh Castle, Sunday Night Live at the Palladium, and Aled Jones' ITV show Weekend. THE PUMPKIN (1992) Contains the band's first eight "music promos" and footage (*) from their March 1990 American tour. [23] The band broke up amicably in 2007, wittily subversive to the end by citing the cause as " musical similarities." Since then, members Hemingway, Wheeler and Dave Stead have toured with other musicians as The South and the New Beautiful South, Heaton has recorded several solo albums and also reconvened with Jacqui Abbott, leading to the pair recording and touring again as a duo. INTERVIEW: Beautiful South – Rey Roldan". Archived from the original on 7 March 2016 . Retrieved 4 July 2016. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Beautiful South – Artist Biography". AllMusic. All Media Network . Retrieved 27 April 2016.

The group were known for their wry and socially observant lyrics. They broke up in January 2007, claiming the split was due to "musical similarities", [2] having sold around 15 million records worldwide. Although 2000's Painting It Red (2000) made number two in the UK charts, the album suffered promotion and touring difficulties, and a substantial number of the CDs were faulty. Jacqui Abbott left the band in the same year, discouraged by the pressures of touring and needing to concentrate on looking after her son, who had just been diagnosed with autism. [12] [13] [14] After completing their tour obligations, the band marked time with a second greatest-hits album ( Solid Bronze) in 2001, and took time off to refresh themselves. Heaton embarked on a solo career under the Biscuit Boy (a.k.a. Crakerman) alias [15] and released the Fat Chance album in 2001. Although critically acclaimed, the album did not sell well and was reissued under Heaton's own name the following year. Gaze The third initial bandmember was Dave Rotheray, a songwriting guitarist who'd previously played with Hemingway in two other Hull bands, the Newpolitans and the Velvetones. At the time, Rotheray was studying for a PhD at the University of Hull and living on Grafton Street, where Heaton also lived. Rotheray and Heaton became the songwriting team for the Beautiful South, which was conceived as a quintet with Heaton and Hemingway (who was no longer drumming) as the two lead singers. The core band was completed by Dave Stead (ex-Luddites/Vicious Circle) on drums, and former Housemartins roadie Sean Welch on bass guitar. Also important to the band's sound was studio keyboard player Damon Butcher — though never an official member of the group, he would end up playing virtually all the piano and keyboard parts on the band's albums. The Beautiful South | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. We Are Each Other (liner). The Beautiful South. Go! Discs. 1992. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)Power, Mark (28 July 2020). "When REM created a Monster: inside the tour that almost destroyed them". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 30 August 2023. European platinum certificates: 1996". ifpi.org. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012 . Retrieved 1 March 2010. The album was a critical success, with reviewers praising its production, lyrics and distinct tone, although some critics recognise the album as being under-rated. The album appeared on numerous lists of the best albums of 1992; Vox ranked it 18th, [4] NME ranked it 44th [5] and Robert Christgau placed it 53rd. [6] The album was certified "Gold" by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for sales of over 200,000 copies. [7] Jacqui Abbott left the band in 2000, [12] [13] because of the pressure of touring, to concentrate on looking after her son, who had just been diagnosed with autism. [14] Taylor, Stella (14 June 2007). "A poignant musical dissertation on student life and dreams". Gazette and Herald . Retrieved 1 November 2019.

Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th edn) . London, UK: Omnibus Press. p.2006. The Beautiful South released a few singles throughout their career that were not on the official albums but were later released on compilations. All were written by Paul Heaton and Dave Rotheray unless noted. [21] The album Quench (1998) was released with similar commercial success, again reaching number one in the UK album charts. " Perfect 10", the first single to be released from the album, also provided the band with further singles chart success. The album is also notable for being more uptempo, and being the first on which Heaton and Hemingway's former Housemartins colleague Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) was used in a consultancy role. [14] Painting It Red release and Abbott's departure [ edit ]As was their usual modus operandi, The Beautiful South included unreleased material on the B-sides of the singles taken from their albums. [51] Cross-Referenced Titles: "I Love You (But You're Boring)" and "I Hate You (But You're Interesting)". In 2011, the Manchester International Festival endorsed the writing by Heaton of an anthology of songs based on the 7 deadly sins, to be called The 8th. The song was broken down into a section for each sin, which was to be performed by a different artist. The singers for the original piece were: Wayne Gidden, Aaron Wright, King Creosote, Simon Aldred, Cherry Ghost, Jacqui Abbott, Yvonne Shelton, and Mike Greaves. The individual sections were incorporated with a narration written by Che Walker. [16] The 8th debuted in July 2011 at the Festival Pavilion Theatre in Manchester's Albert Square. On 11 April 1992, 0898 Beautiful South entered in the UK Albums Chart at number 4, [8] which was considered something of a disappointment after the band's previous albums both reached number 2. [8] It stayed on the chart for 17 weeks, [8] and was later certified "Gold" by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for sales of over 200,000 copies. [7] The album peaked at number 47 on the Canadian Albums Chart, becoming their last album to chart there, [42] whilst on 20 April 1992, it entered the German Album Charts at number 40, becoming their first album to chart there. [43] Les Yeux Ouverts" (music by Fabian Andre& Wilbur Schwandt, French lyrics by Brice Homs & Kurin Ternovizeff) [3:23]*