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 demo "First Steps (2005 demo)" at West Suffolk College, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, this recording was never physically released and only three of the tracks made it to the band's Myspace page (This Is Colour's main outlet for publicity at the time). The demo has since leaked, but even with intense Google searching, it is still hard to come by. Their first actual release, "A Brief Demonstration", recorded in Jason Naylor's shed, Glemsford, Suffolk, UK, was released in 2007. "A Brief Demonstration" grabbed the attention of promoters all over the UK, This Is Colour toured extensively, playing with the likes