For a time in the late 1980s The Housemartins were one of my favourite bands. This is reasonably unusual in their œuvre in having a tune that isn’t jaunty.

From their debut album London 0 Hull 4, it was their first ever single. It didn’t dent the charts.

The Housemartins: Flag Day

Having said there weren’€™t many protest songs in the 1980s this is another one – of sorts. It was performed by the Hull based Housemartins (out of whose demise came both The Beautiful South and Fat Boy Slim.)

The Housemartins: Build