Old music: The Housemartins – Sheep

The essence of 1986 lies in the comfy knitwear and jangling guitars of the Housemartins. How could they have happened?"Nothing, like something, happens anywhere."There was one reason I went to Hull University. It wasn't the Humber Bridge, nor the well-regarded drama department, nor even the ghost of Philip Larkin that took me there – though the hermit of Hull did excerpt some pull. There were, well, four reasons: Paul, Stan, Norman and Hugh (later Dave, so make that five). They were the Housem...

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