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The Housemartins is a Indie rock act. Their sound grew out of The Smiths, Fatboy Slim and Everything But the Girl. Those roots explain a lot about how The Housemartins arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Deacon Blue, Billy Bragg, Kirsty MacColl, The Wedding Present and The Christians, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Beautiful South, The Proclaimers, Los Campesinos!, Fatboy Slim and Pete Wingfield, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 29 connections around The Housemartins, reaching back through The Smiths and forward to The Beautiful South. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
The Housemartins were an English indie rock group formed in Hull in 1983. They released two studio albums, London 0 Hull 4 (1986) and The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death (1987), and the compilation album Now That's What I Call Quite Good (1988), all of which went top-ten in the UK. The band also achieved six UK top-twenty singles, including an a cappella cover version of "Caravan of Love" which reached number one in the UK in December 1986. Many of their lyrics conveyed a mixture of socialist politics and Christianity, reflecting the beliefs of the band.
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The Housemartins connections
The Housemartins grew out of The Smiths, Fatboy Slim and Everything But the Girl, shares an orbit with Deacon Blue, Billy Bragg, Kirsty MacColl and The Wedding Present, went on to shape The Beautiful South, The Proclaimers, Los Campesinos! and Fatboy Slim. 29 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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