Blue Is the Colour Blue Is the Colour Blue Is the Colour is the fifth studio album from English band The Beautiful South, released in October 1996 through Go! Discs and in America through Ark 21 Records. Following the two singles "Pretenders to the Throne" and "Dream a Little Dream", which never featured on any album until the release of the second greatest hits "Solid Bronze" in 2001, it was named after a pub in Sheffield. The album continued the melancholic tone of its predecessor "Miaow", and is generally considered to be the band's darkest effort, reflecting Heaton's life at the time. This comes
This Is Colour of this, the band went on to tour the album and remained a popular live heavy music act all over the UK and began to tour Europe, they shined particularly in Leeds and London. Following the release of No Brainer, This Is Colour released two singles, "Make The Most" (Recorded and produced by Keir Atkinson, Little Massingham, Norfolk, 2010) and "Exhausting The Resource" (Recorded and produced by Keir Atkinson, LP, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 2011), for which This Is Colour created their first music video, directed and edited by their guitarist Tom Cronin, with the help of photographer Jordan Green.