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3 | ->'''Andy Kershaw''': Can you make a living being Half Man Half Biscuit?\ |
4 | '''Nigel Blackwell''': Just about. But then again I'm not that materialistic, I can't drive, so I haven't got a car. I've never been on a plane so I don't go on foreign holidays, so as long as I've got enough money for a season ticket every season [for Tranmere Rovers] that's good enough for me really" |
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6 | Half Man Half Biscuit are an indie rock/folk band, with a big smattering of parody thrown in, from Birkenhead near UsefulNotes/{{Liverpool}}. Active since 1985, they have released 14 albums, two compilation albums and a number of singles / [=EPs=]. Their sound is a bit hard to describe, but is frequently a mix of PostPunk, folk, and JanglePop; they are cited as being a band in the "[=C86=]" movement, coined after a cassette tape released by [=NME=] which they were featured on. |
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8 | The band split up in 1986, citing "[[CreativeDifferences musical similarities]]", and reformed in 1990. After some EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, since 1996 the members of the band have been Nigel Blackwell, Neil Crossley, Carl Henry and Karl Benson. |
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10 | They have a pretty large cult following, but saying which of their songs is most famous is difficult, although the only one to chart is "Music/JoyDivision Oven Gloves", which reached #56 after a Facebook campaign. They even managed to get a ShoutOut on ''Series/{{EastEnders}}'', of all shows. |
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12 | Legendary DJ Creator/JohnPeel was a fan, and they recorded a number of sessions for his radio show. Andy Kershaw once called them "The most authentic English folk group since Music/TheClash". |
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14 | [[folder:Discography]] |
15 | * ''Back in the DHSS'' (1985) |
16 | * ''Back Again in the DHSS'' (1987) |
17 | * ''ACD'' (1989) (compilation) |
18 | * ''[=McIntyre=], Treadmore and Davitt'' (1991) |
19 | * ''This Leaden Pall'' (1993) |
20 | * ''Some Call It Godcore'' (1995) |
21 | * ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Road'' (1997) |
22 | * ''Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral'' (1998) |
23 | * ''Trouble over Bridgwater'' (2000) |
24 | * ''Cammell Laird Social Club'' (2002) |
25 | * ''Achtung Bono'' (2005) |
26 | * ''CSI:Ambleside'' (2008) |
27 | * ''90 Bisodol (Crimond)'' (2011) |
28 | * ''Urge for Offal'' (2014) |
29 | * ''And Some Fell on Stony Ground'' (2016) (compilation) |
30 | * ''No-One Cares About Your Creative Hub So Get Your Fuckin' Hedge Cut'' (2018) |
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33 | !!Half Tropes Half Biscuit: |
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35 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The line "There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets!" in "National Shite Day". |
36 | * AffectionateParody: Often. One example is "With {{Goth}} On Our Side", a parody of Music/BobDylan's "With God On Our Side". |
37 | * AntiChristmasSong: "It's Cliched to Be Cynical at Christmas" is an ''Anti-''Anti-Christmas Song. |
38 | * ChristmasSongs: "All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit", "It's Cliched To Be Cynical At Christmas". |
39 | * {{Defictionalization}}: Yes, you can buy your very own [[https://www.amazon.com/ChienAndalucia-Division-Oven-Gloves-Mitts/dp/B07SC9DNTG Joy Division oven gloves]]. |
40 | * FolkMusic: Is not a perfect description, but it will do, and they have covered folk songs in the past. |
41 | * FromBadToWorse: "National Shite Day" is an excellent example of all those petty (and not so petty - remember, there's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets!) annoyances slowly weighing you down until you blow your stack. |
42 | * GeorgeWashingtonSleptHere: Referenced in "Fix It So She Dreams Of Me": |
43 | --> And she lives somewhere you wouldn't wanna get stuck |
44 | --> That can't be found in the Domesday Book |
45 | --> Cromwell's troops never billeted there |
46 | --> Dick Turpin never had Bess shoed where |
47 | * IBangedYourMom: A variation in "The Referee's Alphabet": |
48 | --> The N is for the numbskull who, during the Boxing Day game, asks me what else I got for Christmas besides my whistle. An afternoon with your wife, mate. |
49 | * JoggersFindDeath: The suicide in "Stuck Up A Hornbeam" wonders if he'll be found by a dog-walker. |
50 | * ListSong: Quite a few. |
51 | * LiteraryAllusionTitle: The song "Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not" (a reference to ''Literature/TessOfTheDUrbervilles''), among others. |
52 | * NonAppearingTitle: A few. "Malayan Jelutong" has the refrain "When my grave's waist-deep in meadow grass" and "The Coroner's Footnote" is a description of the song, it doesn't appear in the lyrics. |
53 | * PunBasedTitle: Most of their albums, and a good number of their songs. |
54 | * ReferenceOverdosed: Good luck catching everything they mention, and not just lyrics either but sometimes tunes. A lot of them are explained on their website: http://www.hmhb.co.uk/ |
55 | * RefugeInAudacity: The narrator's flimsy cover story in "Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not" rests on this: |
56 | --> I'm going to be apprehended by some mandatory galoot with a handheld camera who will point it in my face and say: "Who are you, and what do you do?" And I'll say: "I'm a counterblast to agnosticism, how do you do?" And he'll go away immediately. |
57 | * SelfDeprecation: The lyrics of "Lord Hereford's Knob" assert that all their songs sound the same. As a demonstration, the song immediately and seamlessly segues into "Paradise Lost". |
58 | * TakeThat: Just as often as AffectionateParody. |
59 | * TeenageDeathSongs: "The Coroner's Footnote", although it's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin not from the perspective of one of the teens]]. |
60 | * WhamLine: At the end of "Paintball's Coming Home": |
61 | --> And if I'd have known they were coming, I'd have slashed my wrists. |
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