Half Man Half Biscuit

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

I hadn't heard anything from the Tranmere-loving indie funsters for a few years (not since "Trouble over Bridgwater") but I've recently got their EP "Saucy Haulage Ballads" and rather marvellous it is. I can highly recommend.

 

[attila]

'When I had my loft
converted back into a loft
the neighbours came around and scoffed
and called me retro'

Put them on in Southwick twice, hoping to again next year at Concorde 2

 

[Brovion]

"All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit"

 

[fatbadger]

"supercalifragilisticborussiamoenchengladbach"

saw them in the summer in Edinburgh - as brilliant as ever.

"when the light at the end of the tunnel,
is the light of an oncoming train..."

 

[Storer68]

There was one of the gang, who had Scalextric and because of that he thought he was better than you.
Every day after school,
You'd go around there to play it,
Hoping to compete for some kind of championship,
But it always took about 15 billion hours to set the track up.
And even when you did, the thing never seemed to work.
It was a dodgy transformer, again and again.
A dodgy transformer, again and again.
It was a dodgy transformer, again and again
A dodgy transformer that cost 3 pounds 10.

So he sent his doting mother
Up the stairs with the stepladder,
To get the Subutteo out of the loft.
It had all the accessories required for that big-match atmosphere.
The crowd and the dugout, and the floodlights, too.
And you'd always get palmed off
With a headless center-forward,
And a goal-keeper with no arms,
And a face like his.
And he'd managed to get hold of
A Dukla-Prague Away Kit,
His uncle owned a sports shop and he'd kept it to one side.
And after only five minutes
You'd be down to ten men,
And then he said sent off your right back for taking the base from under his left-winger.
Come to half-time, you were losing four-nil.
Each and every goal, a hotly disputed penalty
So you smash up the floodlights
And the game was abandoned,
And the dog would bark
And you'd be banned from his house.
And your travelling army
Of synthetic supporters
Would be taken away from you
And thrown in the bin.

And now he's working
In a job with a future.
He hands me my Giro (as in fortnightly govt unemployment handout) every two weeks.
And me I'm on the lookout
For a proper transformer.

Uh?!



GENIUS!!!!!!!

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Cammel Laird Social Club was the latest album (I think) - bit patchy but still not bad. Contains the great line "I'm going to see the Bootleg Beatles as the Bootleg Mark Chapman"

If Attilla can get them on down here would advise all to go along - saw them at Southwick a while back and was a great evening.

 

[Sussex on Leith]

"supercalifragilisticborussiamoenchengladbach"

saw them in the summer in Edinburgh - as brilliant as ever.

"when the light at the end of the tunnel,
is the light of an oncoming train..."

I was at that gig Fatbadger - first time I'd seen them, and thoroughly marvellous they were too. I was standing by the bar before the gig started, when they were just wandering about the stage looking nowhere near ready, and the very moment I turned to my flatmate and said "I hope they play Fuckin' Ell It's Fred Titmus", they launched straight into it.


"...I've asked everybody in Kazakhstan, but I still don't understand, Bob Wilson Anchorman..."

 

[REDLAND]

someone get a message through
To Captain Snow
That they better start assembling
The boys from the Balzac.
Keep Mrs. Honeyman right out of sight,
'Cause there's gonna be riot
Down in Trumpton Tonight.




BLOODY MARVELLOUS

 

[fatbadger]

I was at that gig Fatbadger - first time I'd seen them, and thoroughly marvellous they were too.

Did you see Dean Freidman? He was hanging about outside for a while, and then came in for the first half or so of the gig. I saw him outside, but not inside - but apparently he was hanging around at the back by the bar. I wonder what he thought of it all?

 

[Sussex on Leith]

Did you see Dean Freidman? He was hanging about outside for a while, and then came in for the first half or so of the gig. I saw him outside, but not inside - but apparently he was hanging around at the back by the bar. I wonder what he thought of it all?

No I didn't, but then I couldn't see much after my pre-gig drinking session in the Queen's Arms...ah, blissful IPA...

 

[Jambo Seagull]

Does anyone remember a HMHB song with the classic couplet:

"Oh my darling sugar honey
when we used to play Echo and the bunny.......men"

Also the legendary "everyone's doing the Len Ganley Stance". Happy (student) days.

 

[Sussex on Leith]

Does anyone remember a HMHB song with the classic couplet:

"Oh my darling sugar honey
when we used to play Echo and the bunny.......men"

Also the legendary "everyone's doing the Len Ganley Stance". Happy (student) days.

"...she worked in Marks and Spencers, la la la Lech Walesa..."

 

[Jambo Seagull]

"through garden gates she took me"

what was the song called?

 

[Sussex on Leith]

"through garden gates she took me"

what was the song called?

Reflections In A Flat

Apparently. I'd forgotten, to be honest, but checked it on HMHB's website:

http://cobweb.businesscollaborator.com/hmhb/

 

[Jambo Seagull]

Reflections In A Flat

Apparently. I'd forgotten, to be honest, but checked it on HMHB's website:

http://cobweb.businesscollaborator.com/hmhb/

That's it! My fsvourite HMHB song. Cheers SoL

 

[Sussex on Leith]

That's it! My fsvourite HMHB song. Cheers SoL

Leith/Gorgie co-operation, whatever next? Maybe the groundshare might have worked after all...

(not that I'm really a Hibee, as I think I said before)

 

[cheeseroll]

anyone for "I left my heart in Papworth general" ?

 

[fatbadger]

I'm gonna throw myself off the motorway bridge that says 'Gouranga'

 

[Jambo Seagull]

this has turned into a bit of a BHAlba thread! Maybe we should organise an EGM the next time hmhb are in town!

 

[fatbadger]

Great plan! Although we'll need to come up with some Tranmere Rovers songs to sing at them ("wheeeere's me hubcaps gone, where's me huuuuubcaps gone", perhaps?)