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Five hours of pints with Paul Heaton: ‘We’ve got distracted. Let’s get back to the album’
He topped the charts in the 80s and 90s, became a nobody, and is now filling arenas again. On a pub crawl in Manchester, Heaton discusses inebriation, insecurity – and why he doesn’t rip off his fans
Not gold discs as you might expect of a pop star, but football badges, toothbrushes, crisp packets, shoe horns, beer glasses. The subjects vary from bigotry about asylum seekers (Small Boats), to the romance of old, familiar love (After the Sugar Rush), and a man intent on suicide who fills his bath and plugs himself into the mains, only then there’s a power cut (Couldn’t Get Dead). The new album is called The Mighty Several because it features three other singers (23-year-old Rianne Downey, who played with him at Glastonbury, Yvonne Shelton and Danny Muldoon, whom he came across performing in a Manchester pub).
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