Tag: Norman Cook

Fatboy Slim: ‘The Housemartins will only get back together if The Smiths reform’

Fatboy Slim: ‘The Housemartins will only get back together if The Smiths reform’

When The Housemartins split in 1988, the band vowed never to reunite. That remains as true, according to bassist Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, who this morning told a BBC radio interviewer that it would take an equally unlikely reunion of The Smiths to spur his bandmates into action.

Vintage Video: The Housemartins’ full ‘Hold Tight!’ TV special — first aired in 1986

Vintage Video: The Housemartins’ full ‘Hold Tight!’ TV special — first aired in 1986

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video we spotlight a band we don’t get to write about often enough on this site: The Housemartins, the self-declared ‘fourth best band in Hull.’ You can see the indie-pop band perform a 23-minute set for the ‘Hold Tight!’ program on the U.K.’s Granada Television in June 1986.

David Byrne and Fatboy Slim ready ‘Here Lies Love,’ their Imelda Marcos concept album

David Byrne and Fatboy Slim ready ‘Here Lies Love,’ their Imelda Marcos concept album

Tweet David Byrne and Fatboy Slim next month finally will release Here Lies Love, the duo’s long-gestating, star-laden 22-track concept album about former Filipino first […]

Expanded reissue of The Housemartins’ ‘London 0 Hull 4’ due out next month

Expanded reissue of The Housemartins’ ‘London 0 Hull 4’ due out next month

One of those acts better known for its progeny — Fatboy Slim and The Beautiful South — than its own output, the self-professed “fourth-best band […]