Reopening The House Of Love

I'm not entirely a fan of getting excited simply because a band has told us what the name of a forthcoming album might be, or shown us the cover art. It's like waiting for food in a restaurant but they bring you the plates out first - "see; we will serve it on this".

I'll make an exception, though, and give a mild squeak for the sighting of this:

Bickers. Chadwick. New House Of Love album next year. Squeee.

1988 Festive Fifty Weekend: Number one

So, here we are, then, as the Bank Holiday ticks away - the number one from 1988's Festive Fifty. Perhaps surprisingly - given that The House Of Love tend not to be the first band on people's lips when remembering the post-C86 era - it's Destroy The Heart which took the honour. Snub TV provides the footage:



Buy: The Creation Years

[Part of the 1988 Festive Fifty Weekend]

1988 Festive Fifty Weekend: Number nine

Christine, from the House of Love, which not only made number nine in the festive fifty, but went one place higher on the Billboard Modern Rock chart. Obviously when it was modern.

From the band's 2005 reunion tour:




Buy: The Complete Peel Sessions

[Part of the 1988 Festive Fifty Weekend]