Watch Fatboy Slim reunite with his Housemartins bandmate Paul Heaton to play “Happy Hour” at Glastonbury
The 2024 edition of Glastonbury festival is underway on Worthy Farm and among Friday’s performers was Paul Heaton of The Housemartins and The Beautiful South who was playing the Pyramid Stage. He surprised the mid-afternoon crowd by bringing out his old Housemartins bandmate, Norman Cook (who is now better known as Fatboy Slim) to play bass on the band’s classic 1986 single (and #3 UK hit) “Happy Hour.” You can watch the full performance of that via BBC Music’s YouTube below.
Paul Heaton’s Glastonbury set also included The Housemartins’ “Five Get Over Excited” and their arrangement of Isley Jasper Isley’s “Caravan of Love” which was a #1 UK hit for The Housemartins in 1986. He also played a few Beautiful South songs, including “Old Red Eyes is Back,” “I’ll Sail This Ship Alone,” “You Keep it All In” and more. Check out his Glastonbury setlist below.
Fatboy Slim, meanwhile headlines Glastonbury’s Arcadia Stage tonight.
The Housemartins formed in Hull, UK in 1983, and Norman Cook replaced original bassist Ted Key in 1985, just in time for the band’s terrific debut album, London O, Hull 4, in 1986. The group were wildly successful in the UK but split up not long after releasing their second album, 1987’s The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death. Heaton and drummer Dave Hemingway went on to form very successful group The Beautiful South, while Cook become enamoured with the UK rave scene, forming Beats International, and then starting to make dance music as Fatboy Slim in 1996.
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SETLIST: Paul Heaton @ Glastonbury 2024
Old Red Eyes Is Back
I Gotta Praise
Fish ‘N’ Chip Supper
Play Video
I’ll Sail This Ship Alone
Five Get Over Excited
Play Video
D.I.Y.
Song for Whoever
I Don’t See Them
Happy Hour (with Norman Cook)
Play Video
Good as Gold (Stupid as Mud)
Perfect 10
Don’t Marry Her
You Keep It All In
Heatongrad
Rotterdam (Or Anywhere)
Caravan of Love (Isley Jasper Isley cover)
