'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
which album should I get first?
― CaptainLorax, Saturday, 12 January 2008 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
All of them.
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 12 January 2008 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Although if you have to get just one, go with 1998's "Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral", and work backwards and forwards from there.
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 12 January 2008 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link
session
― zappi, Saturday, 12 January 2008 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I've got six of them, and they're all magnificent. I wouldn't describe this as my sort of thing at all on paper, but matches are never decided on paper, are they? Stick it on...a combination of deep-ingrained folk/church/terrace tunes, slyly intelligent (sometimes downright unpredictable) song-structures, and above all the best lyrics money can buy whisks you away into a place where England is a bit shitty but hey at least there's a lot to laugh at and besides you'll always find something to warm your heart. Listening hint: take each album in one whole go. You'll understand what's going on far more quickly.
I'd argue that of the ones I have, Trouble Over Bridgwater is the most wonderful. It's close, though.
― Just got offed, Saturday, 12 January 2008 23:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Man, just listening to "Totnes Bickering Fair": "I want a suntan/Not Vashti Bunyan"
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 12 January 2008 23:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't actually have that song. Albums I got are
Back In The DHSS Trouble Over Bridgwater Achtung Bono Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral Voyage To The Bottom Of The Road Cammel Laird Social Club
Favourite line atm probably a toss-up between "Chris De Burgh Sun Ra Del Amitri John Coltrane" and "I picked up all the elastic bands dropped by the postman on my driveway and took them up to the pub on a Thursday evening cos that's where he likes to go for the quiz. He believes he is needed for the music round; his friends obviously humour him. Anyway, I place myself at a nearby table and whenever he tries to light up a cigarette I fire it out of his mouth with one of the elastic bands, which he finds most annoying...most annoying."
― Just got offed, Sunday, 13 January 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
anyone think the newer stuffs better then the old stuff? sorry i know thats a horrible cliche...all their albums are great cept for 'mcintyre, treadmore and davitt' btw. fave is 'cammell laird' which just about edges 'trouble over bridgewater' (the 1st hmhb i heard)
― Michael B, Sunday, 13 January 2008 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link
MT&D is great! Outbreak of Vitas Gerulitas and pragvec at the melkweg are cracking
― Porkpie, Sunday, 13 January 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
HMHB are better as a folk act than as a quasi-punk act, this is true
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 13 January 2008 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
For a month I went all floppy just to see where I'd end up The morgue was my considered guess, or maybe Martinique Instead I stayed exactly where I was and suffered endless Feltz
What, only one line? Oh. Er... Love Froth Tuesday, Lime Sky Spooky Pills, or thereabouts, thanks.
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 13 January 2008 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh! Lovefroth Tuesday already claimed (but no Lime Sky Spooky Pills, guess I got the order wrong). Uh... "we'd better let him in, he's got a theremin"
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 13 January 2008 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
the Brampton session on the hmhb websitre is a good 'un, especially the 24 hour garage party people with added hal an tow and especially there stands the glass
― Porkpie, Sunday, 13 January 2008 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
'corgi registered friends' drips with so much anger. but its like yknow really really really funny and stuff. hmhb are offically my fave band. god i love em.
― Michael B, Sunday, 24 February 2008 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
also to reiterate doms statement new album now!
― Michael B, Sunday, 24 February 2008 01:52 (sixteen years ago) link
also the version of 'no regrets' is getting a lot of play too.
― Michael B, Sunday, 24 February 2008 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Look Dad No Tunes is still my favourite
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 24 February 2008 01:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Could anyone please re-up that Riley session, please, please, please...
― Debord, Sunday, 24 February 2008 01:59 (sixteen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 24 February 2008 02:01 (sixteen years ago) link