IN February, with customary ever so slightly smug wit, Hull's socialist soul revue band The Beautiful South announced they were splitting "due to musical similarities".
You will find plenty of musical similarities on this double disc of 27 session and live recordings for the BBC, with two versions of Old Red Eyes Is Back and Good As Gold (Stupid As Mud), three of Everybody's Talkin' and four of You Keep It All In.
Yes, The Beautiful South truly have kept them all in, but while not of an archaeological significance to rival The Beatles' Anthology archives, they nevertheless give an insight to this pencil-sharp band's progress from near-demo roughness in 1989 to showband brass polish in a 1994 Christmas concert.
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