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Half Man Half Biscuit:
🎵 All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit

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https://campervanharlow.bandcamp.com/track/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-dukkla-prague-away-kit-half-man-half-biscuit

https://open.spotify.com/track/5xB1t4lQyQyNey5CabsSZ7
(There are still 20 days until 🎄 #Christmas)

“It’s Cliched To Be Cynical At Christmas”

Now how did I guess
You were going to express
Your disdain at the crane
With the bright fairy lights
And you’d moan at the snow
‘Cos your car wouldn’t go
Oh it’s cliched
To be cynical
At Christmas

You don’t have a tree
And your smile has a fee
All the same, here’s a card
For your boring facade
Jingle Bells, piney smells
All the boys and the girls
Say it’s cliched
To be cynical
At Christmas
Oh it’s cliched
To be cynical
At Christmas

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That's the ticket (and a hundred extra Ticketmaster fees) for #halfmanhalfbiscuit in Oxford.
New city to add to the list!
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Good morning. This young lady was so pleased with her Half Man Half Biscuit Musical Map of Great Britain that she also brought the new Sardines poster. Now she’s telling her WhatsApp group all about it. They think she’s a bit bonkers, but, you know, that’s Abigail all over. They’ll discuss it further when she brings them over to the pub tonight. xx

https://www.edwardphilips.co.uk

#art #wallart #sardines #design #humor #halfmanhalfbiscuit #pub

@anon_opin https://youtu.be/-YeqJCcHY4Y?si=HfADVFJ204FzziTT

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Ridiculous gates

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Today's random #Discogs choice Half Man Half Biscuit and The Trumpton Riots EP 1986. The 80s indie scene was awash with true genius. What a wonder this band is. Today's favourite is The Trumpton Riots, a song I've loved for many, many years.
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“I Love You Because (You Look Like Jim Reeves)”

My girlfriend looks like Peggy Mount
What am I supposed to do?
I’m up the creek and never mind the paddle boy
I haven’t even got a canoe

I sold my soul to an Arctic Roll
I went to hell on a red Ski-doo
I did the Shake’n’Vac and broke my fucking back
And now my library books are nine weeks overdue

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I’m pleased to announce that for the Half Man Half Biscuit fan who thinks they have everything,a new HMHB map of the UK has arrived with over 200 locations mentioned in their inimitable lyrics. Something for the weekend? Oh, yes, I think so. xx

#music #maps #wirral #halfmanhalfbiscuit #handmade #design #uk #punk #postpunk

“Swerving the Checkatrade”
Yeah, Swerving the Checkatrade
Swerving the Checkatrade
So we may get to bill and coo
I’ve weighed up all the pros and cons
Of watching under-21s
Swerving the Checkatrade with you
Oh let me gaze upon your curves
Instead of Ipswich Town reserves
Swerving the Checkatrade with you
Swerving the Checkatrade with you
Swerving the Checkatrade with you

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“Twenty Four Hour Garage People”
I fancy I’ll open a stationer’s
Stock quaint notepads for weekend pagans
While you were out at The Rollright Stones
I came and set fire to your shed
‘Cos you probably work at an all-night garage
You probably work at an all-night garage
You probably work at an all-night garage
With Talk Radio on

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Biscuits, pizza and Scottish culture

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#glasgow

“Keeping Two Chevrons Apart”
Well I’m not really worried about this
But could someone please answer me this:
Apart from on commentary
Where else on earth
Can you hear the word ‘aplomb’ being used?

I’m filling up at Rothersthorpe North
Good Girl has broken my heart
She took off with a youth
From Rothersthorpe South
Now she’s keeping two chevrons apart
Keeping two chevrons apart
She’s keeping two chevrons apart
They say “plenty more fish”
I say “Amoco Cadiz”
She’s keeping two chevrons apart
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“Albert Hammond bootleg”
Talking to a girl on the south coast of France
She was on an 18-30 but I still took a chance
But on the last night ‘neath the stars of Marseilles
She said that Robin Askwith was funny

Oh god how I longed for a dangerous wave
So I could surf myself towards an early grave
I would rather talk to plankton than to dance with you
I hope your plane back home’s a DC-10
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Recorded #OnThisDay 26 years ago:

Half Man Half Biscuit - Peel Session 1999

The complete session recorded by Half Man Half Biscuit on 25 August 1999 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on 9 September 1999.

Tracklist:

1. Uffington Wassail (2:19)
2. Gubba Look-alikes (5:55)
3. Bottleneck At Capel Curig (11:57)
4. Twenty Four Hour Garage People (15:07)

https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2019/08/half-man-half-biscuit-peel-session-1999.html

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“Shit Arm, Bad Tattoo”

If you’re going to quote from the Book of Revelation
Don’t keep calling it the Book of Revelations
There’s no “s”, it’s the Book of Revelation
As revealed to St John the Divine
See also Mary Hopkin
She must despair

You’ve got a shit arm, and that’s a bad tattoo

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“The referee’s alphabet”

K is for the kissing of the badge
How ridiculous that looks 6 months later when they’re at another club

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A night in the Devil's Arse with #halfmanhalfbiscuit
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Fresh bread, Kaleidoscope
Kinder Scout and Mam Tor

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#peakdistrict

CORGI Registered Friends

In the kingdom of the blind
It’s said the one-eyed man is king
And in the kingdom of the bland
It’s nine o’clock on ITV
I believe I’ve seen holograms
With more substance than you
Automatic doors don’t open for you
C-O-R-G-I (CORGI registered friends)
C-O-R-G-I (CORGI registered friends)
You meet up on a Monday with your
CORGI registered friends

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