The Housemartins - Happy Hour - Top of the Pops 1986 

This song was brilliant to bounce around the dance-floor back then:>)

Absolutely despise my job but everytime this song comes on it puts a massive smile on my face. Love it!

This is classic, I remember this well, not only on TOTP but listening to David 'kid' Jensen on a Sunday afternoon!

I so freakin' LOVE the Housemartins!!

Hey this brings me back to stress free life living it up as a teenager in WEST LONDON. MANY THANKS for sharing it withme !!!!!

Infectious tune!

Brilliant band!

One of the anthems of it;s time. They dont make great bands like this in the Cowell fun factory!!

oh, i remember...nice song

this band is SOLID..

Awesome stuff here! Thanks for posting it!

Me fav Housemartins song (next would be Me and the Farmer) Brilliant songs !!!

love love love this

great 80s band

Love his voice! :)

what a tune

Brilliant song,just followed on from Madness

I was searching for this song damn long!!! :D now i have it!!! yeah!!!!1 its great!

THX andy. Love "Relax"

I dont' believe it was ever promoted as a single, however the album it was part of went to #1 in the UK.

Put a smile on my face everytime i hear it....

i miss top of the pops :(

Yup. Definitely.

heaton was in a pub in Leigh when sheff utd played wigan few years back he was bladdered but sound

the onlly band to ever wear billy bragg t shirts on stage. love em

this song makes me remember that on fridays I can take a beer @ 1:00 PM and enjoy the whole bottle...! "oh they open all your wallets and close all the minds (....)"

Bass player are Norman Cook (alias Fatboy Slim)!

I think the guitar guy with glasses has just writen a childrens book, Good Man!

@redhotsuperskunk one of the greatest pop songs ever

I agree

Great song and band, it was good to see Norman cook not doing DJing for once

What does it say on the drummer's shirt? Love this song. Thx for posting this live version.

so thats how the lead singer of the band hot chip started out he was the guitarist in the The Housemartins p.s hes the one on the right wearing classes LOL :))

a great band ftom hull

Any ideas what Hugh's T-shirt says? All I can make out is "Frankie says arm..."

Meanwhile back in Glasgow, Barrowlands, a crowd were kept waiting and waiting and waiting some more while the guys went on a jolly to mime for TOTP. Saw the first three songs before the place emptied - last bus home and all that. Indie sellouts.

the name of the song is: happy hour

come on PD!!!

Nice Bez dancing from Paul, I mean that in a good way!

In your cup final!30,000 for a city derby hahaha

is the full episode with this performance on youtube?

Was this the housemartins first ever performance on Top of the pops?

@redhotsuperskunk BANG ON!!

There is a very real connection with the Strangeways 2011 offering above!! But What is it????

what lol much more interesting than your previous comment

@redhotsuperskunk so true mate, great comment

Paul Heaton still tours with The Paul Heaton Band. Saw him perform at a charity event last week and he's still got it!

Actually, it's not a ripoff of the "I want the one I can't have" at all. Different chords, different key, different harmonic progression, different lyrical theme, different arrangement. The only thing that's similar between those songs is the beat. And that particular beat has been used in lots of other songs.

Do the housemartins still tour ?

Play Back

imagine these guys trying to sing a britany spears cover on a saturday night talent show ' i dont think they'ed make bootcamp . it shows how wroung things have become in the music world today , the house martins were fucking great

which song was it?

farmers will farmers piggys will be blade fans if we beat the blunts on 19thjan ill be grinning myself to death!;)

Au contraire my friend - one of the cool things about The Housemartins was that they completely rejected the rock'n'roll stereotypes. And if you can find better harmony singing from any 80's band, please let me know...

the bassist is Fatboy Slim

And one tap water please.

Big word that (if)

yes i am! do you? and that's not just my opinion... ...The Housemartins were compared by many to The Smiths. However the Smith's guitarist Johnny Marr was not impressed. He complained that "'Happy Hour' was a complete rip-off of 'I Want The One I Can't Have', and they've nicked others too."

well said redhotsuperskunk.todays music is a heep of crap the worst for years

privalage???

Listen to the song "I want the one I can't have" by The Smiths and tell me that "Happy Hour" isn't a ripoff of that song.

well if a ya say so! why were that ya 1st cup final! dont think youve been to too many recently. a wont get too carried away with attendences my friend see how many your get next season now that ya not goin up! hee hee2-0;)

@whitecloadsscareme1 he does sound like him actually.

he should wave some flowers or at least put them in his back pocket ;)

I'm only here because of David Tennant.

ENGLISH SUMMER ANTHEM

wednesday2-0morons

PIGGY BASTARD! UP THE OWLS!

Griswalds fans?

they do sound simliar don't they ? This bloke sounds awfull lot like morisey

Lors de leur passage à paris, paul heaton n'avait pas été très aimable avec le public.

Estoy de acuerdo con Veee8 La MUSICA HA MUERTO , casi desde 1994. nowadays music is a fucking shit

Wank quality

Surprising the record company didn't pay a few quid to give the lead singer basic dancing lessons. He looks like a dorky teenager at a house party...

TOTP= "the biggest show on Earth"??? I don't think so...there's a country called the U.S.A. and most of us here have never even heard of this show, no offense "mate"...

Copying the Smiths? Do you even listen to music properly?

housemartins are great band. but why so obvious copying the smiths?

rubbish kyle,it was all miming.but the kids didnt care,it was a privalage to mime on the biggest music show on earth.all the best bands were on it.....not the prodigy though

ha ha! isnt that cool dancing?

This song is a ripoff of The Smiths song "I want the one I can't have"

Yeah Fatboy Slim . . . pity he went downhill after the House Martins and produced crappy rubbish from then on.

Yawn

This is horrible. They are so stiff. He looks like an accountant. He's better at doing my taxes or programming than at singing that's for sure. The exact opposite of rock and roll. He doesn't have a hip bone in his body.