Listen: Los Campesinos! Cover The Beautiful South

Last week, Los Campesinos! released a new and unheard cut from their ‘Hello Sadness’ sessions, entitled ‘Tiptoe Through The True Bits’ and now, you can hear a cover.

The band have recorded a special cover of The Beautiful South’s ‘I Love You (But You’re Boring)’, ahead of frontman Gareth Campesinos! plans to join Paul Heaton on a six-night tour of the latter’s ‘soul opera’ ‘The 8th’.

To hear the cover, head over to Pitchfork, and you can read a little more about the cover (thanks to Stereogum) below.

For as long as I’ve listened to music, my favourite band has been The Beautiful South. The way in which I’ve loved them has evolved and grown, but they have consistently been the band that I wanted to sing along to when I was young, and the lyrics that I have wanted to emulate since I began writing. The words of Paul Heaton, in The Beautiful South, The Housemartins and in his solo work have been the high-water level that I’ve attempted to breakthrough. More often than not, subtly, but very occasionally shamelessly (our song ‘Straight In At 101”s title is taken straight from The Beautiful South’s ‘Straight in at 37′, our “phallic cake” line in Romance Is Boring is actually Heaton’s line). We even went so far as to cover one of my favourite South songs ‘I Love You (But You’re Boring)’, and my “LOVE ME PLEASE” gesture of wearing a Beautiful South t-shirt on our Letterman performance.

It’s safe to say, if it were not for Paul Heaton, I would never have wanted to write lyrics.

I cannot emphasise enough how much of an honour this is for me to be a part of. To be recognised by somebody who I admire so much is truly humbling and I look forward to these run of shows with a real mix of excitement and nervousness. I’ve never considered myself much of a singer, but this is an opportunity for me to push myself and do something I’m really proud of.’

The tour dates at which Gareth will appear alongside Heaton are as follows.

JULY
05 London, England - Barbican Centre
06 Salford, England - Lyric Theatre The Lowry
07 Leeds, England - Harewood Hous (The M Fest)
10 Sheffield, England - Lyceum
11 Birmingham, England - St Paul’s Church
12 Southwold, England - Latitude Festival