by Paul Heaton
Release Date: 21 August 2026
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Virgin EMI
£32.99
Paul Heaton Jenius Limited Gatefold White 180gram Vinyl 2LP Set
Overview:
This summer it’s 40 years since The Housemartins released their debut album, Hull: 0 London: 4, peaking at number 3 in Britain. Subsequently, he’s released, in various configurations – with The Housemartins and The Beautiful South, solo and with Jacqui Abbot, not to mention as Biscuit Boy –another 21 studio albums, plenty going gold, some multi-platinum, as they’ve risen to the charts’ highest reaches. For each, moreover, he’ll have written many many more songs than he’ll ever include. Now, less than two years since The Mighty Several – itself his sixth album to go Top 5 in a dozen years – this prolific, poetic observer of human nature is back with another fifteen gems. Ultimately, Heaton estimates he’s now written some four or five hundred songs. In so doing, he’s established – though he’s too self-deprecating to state this himself – his own distinctive, if unconventional brand of quasi-English folk. Moreover, these singular classics not only keep coming but somehow keep getting better.
Featured Tracks:
1. Can't Get Next To You
2. Favourite Kind Of Idiot
3. I Want The Job
4. Sad Songs And Lawsuits
5. She Ain't Pretty
6. One Eye Open
7. Send In The Clowns
8. Do Not Ask Me
9. Don't Lean On Me
10. Jet Black Sky
11. The Whisky Did
12. Before Before
13. Good For The Bees
14. Go Upstream
15. A Son A Father
Release Date: 21 August 2026
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Virgin EMI
£32.99
Release Date: 11 October 2024
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Emi
£27.99
Release Date: 11 October 2024
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Emi
£27.99
