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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.
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.
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.
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.
"Look Dad No Tunes" is a 1999 CD single by Birkenhead indie band Half Man Half Biscuit, released by Probe Plus Records, for whom they have always recorded. [1]John Peel (1939–2004; BBC Radio 1 DJ 1967–2004), who greatly admired the band, [2] included "Look Dad No Tunes" at No. 11 in his 1999 Festive Fifty.
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.
Stewart Mason, AllMusic: "Half Man Half Biscuit released this album within one calendar year of its predecessor, 1997's Voyage to the Bottom of the Road [...], and perhaps that accounts for the somewhat lackluster feel. [...] [T]here is enough of interest here to appeal to the converted, but newcomers should perhaps start elsewhere."
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