Housemartins break up

The Housemartins broke up in 1988. Heaton and the drummer, Dave Hemingway , went on to form the Beautiful South , and Cook returned to Brighton to pursue dance music. He invested in equipment including a mixing console , an eight-track reel-to-reel , an Atari ST computer, an Akai S950 sampler and, later, a Roland TB-303 synthesiser. He released successful remixes such as “Blame It on the Bassline” with MC Wildski, which reached number 29 on the UK singles chart . He also formed a sound system collective, Beats International , with a collection of MCs and singers. Their single ” Dub Be Good to Me ” (1990) reached number one, but their second album, Excursion on the Version (1991), was a failure.