Flag Day (song)

Flag Day was the first single released by British Indie rock band 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

7" Flag Day / Stand At Ease (GOD7)
12" Flag Day / You / Stand At Ease / Coal Train To Hatfield Main (GODX7)

References

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"

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