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Half Man Half Biscuit are an English rock band, formed in 1984 in Birkenhead, Merseyside.Known for their satirical, sardonic, and sometimes surreal songs, the band comprises lead singer and guitarist Nigel Blackwell, bassist and singer Neil Crossley, drummer Carl Henry, and guitarist Karl Benson.
No-One Cares About Your Creative Hub So Get Your Fuckin' Hedge Cut is the fourteenth album by Wirral-based rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, released on 18 May 2018 on Probe Plus Records. [1] [2] It is the highest-charting album in the band's history, reaching UK #33.
Back in the DHSS is the first album released by the UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit (HMHB), in 1985.. The album's title puns on that of the 1968 song "Back in the U.S.S.R." by The Beatles: referring to the high unemployment levels at the time of the album's release (the DHSS, Department of Health and Social Security, was the British institution which distributed unemployment benefit).
In a sense, Sleaford Mods belong to a long British post-punk tradition of bands like the Fall and Half Man Half Biscuit, with cerebral, political speak-singing over minimalist grooves.
As is usual with Half Man Half Biscuit, the songs contain multiple cultural references, often obscure. Those identified include: "The Trumpton Riots" imagines a violent civil insurrection in Trumpton, a fictional town inhabited by stop-motion characters which featured in BBC TV children's programmes of 1966–69; the song also mentions several of the best-known characters in those programmes.
The Voltarol Years is the fifteenth [1] album by Wirral-based rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, released on 25 February 2022 [2] on the band's own R. M. Qualtrough [3] label. It is their first album release since Probe Plus founder Geoff Davies announced his retirement and the shuttering of the label.
Achtung Bono is the tenth album by UK indie rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, released in 2005. [4]In 2010, a Facebook campaign was mounted with the aim of saving BBC 6 Music from threatened closure and, as a sign of protest, to get "Joy Division Oven Gloves" from Achtung Bono to No. 6 in the UK Singles Chart on 12 April 2010.
CSI:Ambleside is the eleventh album by Wirral-based UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit (HMHB), released in April 2008. [4] Critical reception.