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Over its 40 years in business, PIAS has grown to be one of the largest independently-owned music groups in the world, carving out its own in-house recorded music division PIAS [Recordings]. Jacqui Abbottwas lead vocalist in The Beautiful South from ’94 to 2000 and she sang many of their signature hits including ‘Rotterdam’, ‘Perfect 10’, ‘Don’t Marry Her’ and ‘Dream A Little Dream’. K. Pop wouldn’t be a Heaton/Abbott album without some politics – the final track His Master’s Game is a timely number about government playing divide and rule, while Sunny Side Up employs a rockabilly riff to remind us that “the only real democracy sees the Eton mob in jail”. Recorded at Hive Mind Studios in Brooklyn, NY, with the help of producer/arrangers Mike Buckley and Vincent Chiarito (both members of Charles Bradley's Extraordinaires) and crack team of a-list musicians, his upcoming album blends heavy arrangements and introspective lyrics with sophistication, leaving the listener in a blissful wash of wonderment. Ahead of the album, Heaton and Abbott released the song “Still” in July, accompanied by a lyric video.

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Anyone who has had the pleasure of seeing Jalen perform live knows that he is one of the most captivating performers on today's soul scene. Comprised of various labels we know and love at Rough Trade (Bella Union, ATO, Speedy Wunderground, Phantasy, Heavenly, Mute and more) PIAS [Recordings] filter through some of the most diverse artistry to our racks, which we greatly enjoy digging into.It is the fifth UK number-one album for both overall, including their three number-one albums as part of the Beautiful South.

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K. Pop that stand squarely alongside some of Heaton's best" and that the "famous fire of his shows no sign of being extinguished". What sets him apart from those contemporaries is prolonged commercial success: a remarkable run of 16 albums to make the Top 10, with The Housemartins, The Beautiful South and, since 2014, in tandem with Jacqui Abbott. Paul Heaton was honoured at the Ivor Novello Awards 2022 with the ‘Outstanding Song Collection’, presented to him by long-time friend Peter Kay.

Will Young’s a royalist and I’m anti-royalist, and we’ve both been treated fairly well by the radio. A television documentary covering Paul Heaton's life and career was broadcast on Wednesday 12 December 2018 on Channel 4. There’s lashings of wry humour throughout, although the most affecting number may stop listeners in their tracks; Still is an extraordinary four-and-a-half minutes about coming to terms with miscarriage or the death of an infant.

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Now with a massively successful US tour opening for sweet soul darlings Thee Sacred Souls behind him, 2023 is sure to be a propitious year for Daptone's newest signee. The pair have shared the first taster from the record with the track ‘Still’, which aims to “raise awareness for folk who have lost a child, whether by miscarriage, stillbirth or in infancy”. The song was broken down into a section for each sin, which was to be performed by a different artist. Baby It’s Cold Inside may derive its title from the rather problematic Christmas song from the 1940s but is actually an incisive takedown of sexual predators and serial harassers. He is a keen collector and has a diverse range of collections including football memorabilia, crisp packets, beer mats, postcards and comics.

Right from the opening couplet (“Still got you with me, she’s still got the scar/Still got the child seat strapped in the car”) it’s a striking, heartbreaking but sensitively despatched portrait of loss it’s hard to imagine any other current pop star handling with such care and compassion. I started writing about how each wrinkle was because of having fun, but then twisted it and made it about my mum and dad and their happiness as they aged together. With the 2007 dissolution of the Beautiful South, Heaton formed a new band, The Sound of Paul Heaton. The album's title is "a typical Heaton joke, a sly crack at the overproduced super-slick youth-centric flashiness of fashionable K-pop", with Heaton's "humorously grouchy conceit" being "to ally himself with its exact opposite". While living in Sheffield, Heaton became interested in football, and while his elder brothers elected to watch Sheffield Wednesday, Heaton chose to support Sheffield United.