“There is Always Something There to Remind me” by The Housemartins

The Housemartins bowed out with "There Is Always Something There to Remind Me", their final single, issued by Go! Discs in April 1988 on seven-inch and 12-inch and kept off any album. Paul Heaton wrote the words and co-wrote the tune with Stan Cullimore, and he turns them on his own schooldays, recalled with about as much affection as the Smiths mustered for "The Headmaster Ritual". It got to No. 35 on the singles chart.

Heaton sings lead, Cullimore plays guitar, Norman Cook is on bass and Dave Hemingway on drums, and all four pile in on the backing vocals; Dale Griffin produced and Dave Dade engineered. The video dressed the band up as schoolteachers and was shot at the Bishop Douglass School in Finchley, while the sleeve came from Paul Warhurst, bassist with fellow Hull band the Gargoyles.

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