Although 2000's Painting It Red album reached Number 2 in the UK charts, the band suffered difficulties in its promotion and in touring, and a substantial number of the CDs were faulty. Jacqui Abbott left the band in the same year, discouraged by the pressures of touring and needing to concentrate on looking after her son, who had just been diagnosed with autism. [15] [16] [17] After completing their tour obligations, the band marked time with a second greatest-hits album ( Solid Bronze) in 2001, and took time off to refresh themselves. Heaton embarked on a solo career under the Biscuit Boy (a.k.a. Crakerman) alias [18] and released the Fat Chance album in 2001. It did not sell well, despite being critically acclaimed, and was reissued under Heaton's own name the following year.

Offiziellecharts.de – The Beautiful South – Carry On Up the Charts – The Best of the Beautiful South" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 17 October 2022. The sleeve of the album contains an introduction to it and a brief history of the band by long term friend and fan of the bands, journalist and radio DJ Stuart Maconie. It also contains artwork from throughout the bands' careers and gives the names of all the members of both bands throughout their duration. The album came into being as two of The Housemartins, Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway formed The Beautiful South upon the former's breakup in 1988. The Beautiful South therefore were seen as the next guise of The Housemartins. Both bands had already had two greatest hits albums: The Housemartins in 1988 ( Now That's What I Call Quite Good) and 2004 ( The Best of The Housemartins), and The Beautiful South in 1994 ( Carry on up the Charts) and 2001 ( Solid Bronze).The third initial bandmember was Dave Rotheray, a songwriting guitarist who'd previously played with Hemingway in two other Hull bands, the Newpolitans and the Velvetones. At the time, Rotheray was studying for a PhD at the University of Hull and living on Grafton Street, where Heaton also lived. Rotheray and Heaton became the songwriting team for the Beautiful South, which was conceived as a quintet with Heaton and Hemingway (who was no longer drumming) as the two lead singers. The core band was completed by Dave Stead (ex-Luddites/Vicious Circle) on drums, and former Housemartins roadie Sean Welch on bass guitar. Also important to the band's sound was studio keyboard player Damon Butcher — though never an official member of the group, he would end up playing virtually all the piano and keyboard parts on the band's albums. European platinum certificates: 1996". ifpi.org. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012 . Retrieved 1 March 2010. At Glastonbury, Heaton and Abbott will play a range of classics by The Beautiful South and from their career as a duo, as well as Housemartins anthems, likely to include songs such as Me and the Farmer, and Think For A Minute. Will The Beautiful South reform? This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

In 1990, the Beautiful South released their second album, Choke. Two singles—"My Book" and "Let Love Speak Up Itself"—charted outside the Top 40, but the album also provided the band's only Number 1 hit, a Hemingway/Corrigan duet called " A Little Time". The video, featuring the aftermath of a domestic fight, won the 1991 BRIT Award for Best Video. [3] Third album and Corrigan's departure [ edit ] However, in 2009, there was a reformation of sorts without Heaton. Under the moniker The New Beautiful South, Dave Hemingway, Alison Wheeler, David Stead and others sought to carry on the band's story. Famously, The Beautiful South blamed their split in 2007 on "musical similarities". It wasn't quite the end of the story however, as Heaton and Abbott reunited in 2013. Harris, Bill (17 November 2006). "Queen rules – in album sales". Jam!. Archived from the original on 29 June 2012 . Retrieved 18 July 2021. After a band meeting on 30 January 2007, the Beautiful South decided to split. They released a statement on 31 January 2007, in which they joked that their reasons for splitting were "musical similarities"—an ironic reference to "musical differences", which are often cited as the reason for a band's split. "The band would like to thank everyone for their 19 wonderful years in music", the statement also said. [2]Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (9 October 1995). "Carry on Up the Charts: The Best of the Beautiful South - The Beautiful South". AllMusic . Retrieved 28 February 2014. Bourne, Diane (15 February 2007). "Why does it always rain on us?". Manchester Evening News . Retrieved 29 August 2023. British album certifications – Beautiful South – Carry On Up The Charts - The Best Of". British Phonographic Industry. a b c Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Carry on Up the Charts: The Best of the Beautiful South – The Beautiful South". AllMusic . Retrieved 28 February 2014. We never really split up – all that happened was Paul made the decision to leave," Stead told The Hull Daily Mail at the time. "We're going to be playing all our greatest hits and the old favourites along with a few new songs."

It's All Two Beautiful". NME. 23 November 2000. Archived from the original on 29 January 2009 . Retrieved 14 August 2008. The Beautiful South". Brits.co.uk. 19 February 2014. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013 . Retrieved 30 March 2014.a b King, David. "The Beautiful South Discography". xmission.com. Archived from the original on 19 February 2012 . Retrieved 15 November 2014. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "British certifications – Beautiful South". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 7 May 2023. Type Beautiful South in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter. Clark, Graham (8 August 2022). "Interview With Dave Hemingway - Ex Beautiful South Singer". The Yorkshire Times . Retrieved 30 August 2023. In return, they will remind festival-goers of one of the great songbooks in British music. Heaton and Abbott were of course key members of The Beautiful South, one of the biggest-selling bands of the 1990s. The Japanese release also includes "Les Yeux Ouverts" (music by Fabian Andre& Wilbur Schwandt, French lyric by Brice Homs & Kurin Ternovizeff). Both it and " Dream a Little Dream" were recorded for the movie French Kiss. It was re-used in the film The Devil Wears Prada.

These days, Hemingway is playing with a new band, Sunbirds, who rolled up at The Adelphi earlier this year. Briana Corrigan, meanwhile, went on to release an acclaimed solo album before becoming a music teacher. Christgau, Robert (2000). "The Beautiful South: Carry On Up the Charts: The Best of the Beautiful South". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. St. Martin's Griffin. pp.21–22. ISBN 0-312-24560-2 . Retrieved 6 July 2022. It’s such a wonderful song and another which is body positive. This time about someone you love getting older but still finding them attractive, knowing that the lines on their face chart your history together.Carry On Up the Charts was released in November 1994, the same year as the band's previous album Miaow, with its only single, "One Last Love Song", being released in October 1994, only two months after "Prettiest Eyes"; the last single to be taken from Miaow. "One Last Love Song" reached number 14 in the UK Singles Chart.