Flag Day (The Housemartins song)

"Flag Day"

from the album London 0 Hull 4

Length

5:24

The Housemartins singles chronology

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"Flag Day"

Flag Day was the first single released by The Housemartins. Released in 1985^[1], it peaked at #124 in the singles chart, and a re-recorded version of it appeared on the album London 0 Hull 4. Flag Day also appears on the compilations Now That's What I Call Quite Good, Soup and as a shorter live version on Live at the BBC.

The song was also sampled and used heavily on the dance music track "Change The World" by Dino Lenny ^[2].

Single details

The Housemartins

Norman Cook · Stan Cullimore · Paul Heaton · Dave Hemingway · Ted Key · Chris Lang · Hugh Whitaker

Studio albums	London 0 Hull 4 (1986) · The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death (1987)

Live albums	Live at the BBC (2006)

Compilation albums	Now That's What I Call Quite Good (1988) · Soup (2007) · Happy Hour: The Collection (2011)

Singles	"Flag Day" · "Sheep" · "Happy Hour" · "Think for a Minute" · "Caravan of Love" · "Five Get Over Excited" · "Me and the Farmer" · "Build" · "There Is Always Something There to Remind Me"