Starting today, The Guardian are streaming the new Paul Heaton album ‘Paul Heaton presents The 8th’ on their website.
Released on 2nd July, the new album includes performances from the full original The 8th cast, The Southside Sinnaires featuring: Reg E Cathey from US hit series The Wire, Mercury music prize nominee King Creosote, Ivor Novello winning artist Cherry Ghost, ex Beautiful South singer Jacqui Abbott, as well as sweet soul singer Wayne Gidden, Scottish singer songwriter Aaron Wright, The Earlies Christian Madden, Hull country & western singer Mike Greaves and the wonderful Yvonne Shelton. The release also includes a full length DVD version of The 8th taken from last year’s Manchester International Festival 11 performance.
As well as appearing on BBC Breakfast earlier in the week, Paul will also be on BBC6 Music’s Radcliffe & Maconie show today between 1 – 4pm.
