― mzui (mzui), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Ah, that is different!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
"Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. It goes on for two hours because we've got a new Moog."
― Gukbe (lokar), Friday, 19 August 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link
This is so true.
Currently:"If it's her desire, I'll put my fingers in the fire / 'Cos I've got Joy Division oven gloves"
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 20 August 2005 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link
I saw them the other month and Nigel preceded Vatican Broadside with a rather lovely version of Laughing Len Cohen's Hallelujah. There was also a bit of The Mercy Seat in the middle of 24 Hour Garage People.
the best HMHB lyric is whichever one you're listening to at the moment
Possibly the most OTM thing in the history of ILM.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link
If you're going going to quote from the Book of Revelation/ Don't go calling it the "Book of Revelations"/ There's no "s", it's the Book of Revelation/ As revealed to St John the Divine
Is your child hyperactive or is he just at twat?
I don't know what to do/ I've only got three bullets and there's four of Motley Crue
NICK FUCKING KNOWLES!
... and a pulled up at Bangor-On-Dee
Sometimes instead of Arthur Lee/ I'd much prefer some Arthur Lowe
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link
We all new somebody at primary school who had a very powerful magnet
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
See also Mary Hopkin/She must despair
xpost
― Ark Hopping (avoid80), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link
"I've died and gone to hell, and then I've fallen through a trapdoor and landed on planet progrock"
― Kester, Saturday, 1 April 2006 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link
"I asked if you would like to go along to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show/ You said you'd love to, so I murdered your family, because I hate the Rocky Horror Picture Show/ Besides, I'm going browsing around hardware shops"
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― darren (darren), Saturday, 15 July 2006 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Saturday, 15 July 2006 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam Harrison-Friday (AdamFriday), Sunday, 16 July 2006 00:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 16 July 2006 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Monday, 23 October 2006 09:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 23 October 2006 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link
'you're optimism strikes me like junk mail addressed to the dead'
'with my rugby shirt signed by justin hayward, i will rule the world....playing risk'
― Michael B (Michael B), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael B (Michael B), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― nate woolls (napawo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― aldo, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― everything, Sunday, 29 April 2007 05:15 (seventeen years ago) link
"It fills me with joy to see moshers out jogging"
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 27 May 2007 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link
"I can put a tennis racket up against my face and pretend that I am Kendo Nagasaki"
― ailsa, Sunday, 27 May 2007 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Look, my favourite song by them remains the one that caused me to fall in love with them in the first place "Reasons To Be Miserable". That doesn't mean I have a ready handy one-line quote from them, take pity on me, I'm an American. Thanks.
― Bimble, Sunday, 27 May 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
the best HMHB lyric is whichever one you're listening to at the moment.
This is true. I thank the people on this thread for giving me the joy of listening to all the albums again for two days straight.
I just wish they could be like the Bonzos and have some kind of random mega hit single and make LOADS AND LOADS of money. Like what they deserve.
― Debord, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 10:01 (seventeen years ago) link
"If you're going to quote the Book Of Revelation, don't go calling it the Book Of Revelations."
― aldo, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Nigel made enough money from that BP advert. Something like 100k.
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 11:12 (seventeen years ago) link
BP Advert? Do tell!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link
One of the BP adverts from the turn of the century (01?), the voiceover artist was Nigel Blackwell, for no real obvious reason. I think it was just someone in advertising was a massive HMHB fan and decided to get him a big payday.
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link
ah right! Nice one, advertising person!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link
There's an interview during one of the Kershaw sessions where Nigel says as long an album every couple of years is enough to keep him going. I'm assuming Neil does something else, since he didn't get a BP payday.
― aldo, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link
So I borrowed 'Four Lads...' and 'Voyage To...'. 'A Country Practice' is indeed masterful.
― Just got offed, Monday, 11 June 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link
"In the kingdom of the blind they say the one eyed man is king In the kingdom of the bland it's 9 pm on ITV"
― acrobat, Monday, 11 June 2007 08:08 (seventeen years ago) link
"The Y is for Yate, the kind of town that referees come from."
― Just got offed, Monday, 15 October 2007 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
"Deck quoits with the French trance vets, come one come all"
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 15 October 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
"A woman who described herself as 'a little bit Bridget, a little bit Ally, a little bit Sex In The City' and chose to call her baby boy Fred, as a childishly rebellious attempt at a clever reaction to those who might have expected her to call him Julian, or Rupert. Bit of advice: call him Rupert. It fits, and besides it's a good name. Don't be calling him Fred, or Archie, with all its cheeky but lovable working-class scamp connotations, unless you really do have plans for him to spend his life at William Hill, waiting for them to weigh in at Newton Abbot"
― Just got offed, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Well today I knocked upon their door And said that I was passing, And charlie launched a scathing attack. When I asked him what I'd done, he said "You stupid bastard! We live in a cul-de-sac!"
― aldo, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
No relationship to this thread at all, I'm sure: http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/staff_top_10/top-ten-half-man-half-biscuit-lyrics.htm
― everything, Monday, 15 October 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I could have put my head in a bucket full of porridge and moaned about the hospital parking scheme. I would have saved £14 that I just splashed out on your second album. Cause thats what its akin to, and further more...
You've got a shit arm, and thats a bad tattoo
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002L581I.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― everything, Monday, 15 October 2007 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
holy fuck i picked TWO of dom's top 10
psychic shit g'wan down here
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Dudes need a new album out asap
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I've actually decided that my favourite thing about "The Referee's Alphabet" is the wistful harmony of "Wouldn't it be fun...if they gave the ref a gun", over the outro.
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 00:12 (sixteen years ago) link
New album "early 2008", including the track "Bad Losers At Yahoo Chess"
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 9 December 2007 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link
anyone heard their recent Marc Riley session? or sharing it on slsk?
― Michael B, Saturday, 12 January 2008 12:34 (sixteen years ago) link
didn't know about that, but I'm hunting for it now.
Very much looking forward to new album, it's about bloody time.
Also, gig in striking distance of London please
― Porkpie, Saturday, 12 January 2008 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
since they never play over here, heres Irelands HMHB tribute act
http://www.halfarsedhalfbiscuit.com/
― Michael B, Saturday, 12 January 2008 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link