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The South

The South

Thurs 20th May 2027
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8:30PM Stage Time, 7:30pm venue to open

1 hour extended set time. 

Ex members of The Beautiful South will be singing many of those hits including A Little Time, Don't Marry Her, Rotterdam, Good as Gold, Perfect 10 and many more from the back catalogue.

This 9 piece band will also be performing several songs from their wonderfully received debut album as The South, Sweet Refrains (available on iTunes and Amazon).

 

History - from The Housemartins to The Beautiful South to The South

Formed in 1988, The Beautiful South had a string of hit singles such as Old Red Eyes Is Back,

Rotterdam, Don't Marry Her, Perfect 10 and Number One single A Little Time. Their greatest hits

album, Carry On Up The Charts, was one of the fastest-selling albums in UK history, entering at

Number One and staying there for weeks, becoming one of the country's most popular albums ever.

After 20 years, ten studio albums, five greatest hits compilations, thirty-four chart singles, 15 million

record sales worldwide and performing in front of millions of fans, when time was called on The

Beautiful South in 2008, not everyone was ready to leave the party.

 

Dave Hemingway and Ali Wheeler, two of the three lead singers with the band, were having too much

fun to get out the pipe and slippers, and so The South was formed. Joining the duo were fellow

mainstays from the original touring band: keyboard wizard Damon Butcher and the potent horn section

of Gaz Birtles and Tony Robinson that brought so much to the live shows. Armed with a sensational

back catalogue of hits such as ‘Song For Whoever’, ‘Perfect Ten’, ‘Rotterdam’, ‘Don't Marry Her’, ‘You

Keep It All In’, ‘Old Red Eyes Is Back’ and many others, there is a long way to go on this particular

road.

 

This band has history and pedigree. Dave Hemingway’s musical career stretches back into the

Eighties. He became a founder member of The Beautiful South after the demise of The Housemartins,

who had enjoyed a sustained purple patch and many hits before calling it a day in 1988. Whilst bassist

Norman Cook went on to become superstar DJ Fat Boy Slim, Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway

proceeded to form the new band in December 1988. Right from the off, The Beautiful South seemed to

defy the normal logic associated with pop bands, not least for the fact that they stayed together for 20

years.

 

Over the life of the band, they produced many self-penned hits and had several number one albums –

they scored their only number one single with the Dave Hemingway / Briana Corrigan duet ‘A Little

Time’. A globally successful band, members of The South have performed these songs in front of

hordes of fans from Hull to Houston. They love the material and know what will keep the fans happy.

Still as Beautiful as they ever were, The South continue the legacy with their own vibrantly singable and

acerbically witty pop. As their critically acclaimed debut album Sweet Refrains, currently available on

Zoo Records, confirms.

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