Paul Heaton 
Maybe he has some redeeming features I’m unaware of but I hate him just as much now as I did then. That goes for the Housemartins full stop. Embarrassing BBC luvvies in full effect.
Paloma Faith
very average white girl with a host of black backing singers… talk about standing on the shoulders of others. I naively thought we’d got past that in 2024.
Never understood the appeal BITD at all
There’s a certain smugness that I can’t get past tbh.
She grew up in the Haribo ad and never left!
Paloma Faith is awful, the whole Cock-er-ney, cor blimey guvnor, fishwife act is like nails down a blackboard to me 
She was ubiquitous on TV for about 3 years over here. 
I’ve been told on numerous occasions I look like Paul Heaton. I was asked once if I was him 
Nail on the head.
I hate all the jingly-jangly 80’s British guitar bands. They represent the complete opposite of everything I loved in the 80s.
They aren’t my cup of tea but Paul Heaton seems like a proper nice fella.
Sorry my post wasn’t about him personally, I’m sure he’s a lovely chap. I just despise what he does and what they represent(ed).
My oldest pal studied in Hull and is obsessed with Heaton and Larkin. We spent much of our 20s in pubs arguing the indie v dance wars. The amount of time wasted down those cul-de-sacs. I think there was a section of the indie crowd who remained deeply suspicious of anything that wasn’t jangly - the Manics were like that too. Heavily political too and just heavy in general. There probably is a mellow Fug-style bally remix of the beautiful south’s Rotterdam waiting to happen but otherwise, it all leaves me very cold.
My first proper girlfriend liked Beautiful South, and to be romantic for our first time (and mine specifically) I put the CD on in her bedroom to create the mood (!)
Except I didn’t know how her CD/Radio thing worked and there was mood lighting, and I wasn’t invested enough.
I had set it to repeat one song.
Awful, awful mistake that I only realised once it was too late, and I couldn’t let on that I was listening to the music, if you know what I mean.
But I was…and now I can’t hear ‘Song for Whoever’ without cold sweats and chilling flashbacks. Looping and looping. The horror.
When background music goes wrong.
I get why people dont dig them but they arent BBC Luvvies
Teyr’e from Hull!
Apart from Quentin
Safe non confrontational ditsy no harm here move along guv lad pop from Hull? They may not have started out as BBC luvvies but it didn’t take long, at all.
I am having a bit of a chuckle here. If you’re taking the mick then fair enough But with the amount of absolute wrong ‘uns in the world at the moment, from pedo presenters to war mongering politicians, killer cops and conservative MPs to single out the inoffensive Paul Heaton seems a little unfair. I didn’t even realise he was still a thing,
Looking at the lyrics to Welcome To Heatongrad and he’s probably not going to be performing that on The One Show anytime soon
US Supreme Court and Trump’s partial immunity from prosecution whilst president.
So the c**t is above the law.
Whatever happened to public servants being subject to scrutiny?
Madness.
Reminds me of this (possibly apocryphal) story:
That negates the entire spirit of this thread ie a place to have a whinge about bullshit.