The House Band was a musical group formed in Edinburgh in 1984 by musicians Ged Foley (vocals, guitar), Jimmy Young (smallpipes, flute, whistle), Iain Macleod (guitar, mandolin) and Chris Parkinson (melodeon, keyboards, piano accordion and harmonica).
On returning to the UK, Chris Parkinson and Ged Foley formed a new group with John Skelton and Brian Brooks, later billing themselves as The New House Band.
The photo for the sleeve of Stonetown was taken in Whitby, where Chris Parkinson was living at the time and is, coincidentally, the same street where Simply Red had filmed part of the video for their song "Holding Back the Years".
[citation needed] Following this, the band signed with Green Linnet Records, and in 1993 released a compilation of previous works entitled Groundwork.
Bernie Nau (piano) and Mark Hellenberg (percussion) worked with the band as session musicians during the recording of this album.
In 2009, "The Happy One-Step/Green Willis" from Word of Mouth, was included in Topic Records 70 year anniversary boxed set, Three Score and Ten, as track six on the seventh CD.