◇ image via WikipediaThe Beautiful South
The Beautiful South is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Womack & Womack, Fred Neil, Harry Nilsson, The Housemartins and Iris DeMent. Those roots explain a lot about how The Beautiful South arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Housemartins, Deacon Blue, Del Amitri, Ocean Colour Scene and Kirsty MacColl, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Cast, The Lightning Seeds, Pete Wingfield, Los Campesinos! and Beth Orton, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 41 connections around The Beautiful South, reaching back through Womack & Womack and forward to Cast. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
The Beautiful South were an English pop rock group formed in 1988 by former Housemartins members Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway, both of whom performed lead and backing vocals. The other original members were guitarist Dave Rotheray, bassist Sean Welch, and drummer Dave Stead. All five original members remained with the band throughout its existence. The band's original material was written by Heaton and Rotheray.
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The Beautiful South connections
The Beautiful South grew out of Womack & Womack, Fred Neil, Harry Nilsson and The Housemartins, shares an orbit with The Housemartins, Deacon Blue, Del Amitri and Ocean Colour Scene, went on to shape Cast, The Lightning Seeds, Pete Wingfield and Los Campesinos!. 41 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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Sounds and acts that shaped The Beautiful South.
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