Let it happen bass player (HMHB thread)

Knulpuk · **Posted:** 23 Mar 2011, 14:30

If HMHB ever sang about Liz Taylor we may have to involve the police.

murf · **Posted:** 23 Mar 2011, 14:58

Knulpuk wrote:

If HMHB ever sang about Liz Taylor we may have to involve the police.

She did star in Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wade! (or the prequel about Virginia Woolf anyway)

bluenosey · **Posted:** 23 Mar 2011, 20:35

Knulpuk wrote:

Oh Dracula comes from Transylvania
Stevie nicks books about kleptomania
Johnny looked out of his bedroom window
And shouted to his mum “Fred Titmus!”

RIP Fred

murf · **Posted:** 03 May 2011, 10:54

The Lux Familiar Cup has entered the Knockout Stages.
It is the World Cup of HMHB songs:

Hi All

Just a very short note to make sure you're aware of the
Lux Familiar Cup: our attempt to find the nation's favourite
Half Man Half Biscuit song, taking place *right now* at a
well-known website near you.

If you haven't been to the HMHB Lyrics Project recently, you
may not know that we've already had the qualifying rounds,
which saw the top songs from each album through to the last 32.

And now it gets serious.

The whole story is unfolding here:
http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/the-lux-f ... roduction/

There you'll see we already have the first two matches open
for voting. "Tour Jacket with Detachable Sleeves" or "Tending
The Wrong Grave For 23 Years"? You decide:
http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/the-lux-f ... 2-match-1/

"Evening Of Swing (Has Been Cancelled)" or "Bad Losers on
Yahoo Chess"? Again, it's up to you:
http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/the-lux-f ... 2-match-2/

There'll be a whole bunch more matches added in the next few
days.

My first votes went to Tending The Wrong Grave and Evening of Swing. Going to need a relisten for round 3 as I've not played Cammel Laird Social Club (for Them's The Vagaries) of late.

tedbull · **Posted:** 03 May 2011, 10:58

Same votes as me, murf. Comfortably the better 'songs' even if Tour Jacket is a masterpiece!

tedbull · **Posted:** 03 May 2011, 11:00

By the way, someone on that site claims that they managed a chat with Geoff Davies and was told that the album would be out sometime around July. :idea:

murf · **Posted:** 03 May 2011, 11:15

tedbull wrote:

By the way, someone on that site claims that they managed a chat with Geoff Davies and was told that the album would be out sometime around July. :idea:

Another (from last week) says September

......

http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/theyre-go ... ment-20515

tedbull · **Posted:** 03 May 2011, 12:19

All after NB said he'd hoped to have it all done by Christmas. I suppose he didn't say which year's Christmas he was talking about :lol:

snout · **Posted:** 06 May 2011, 11:21

I was at the Leicester gig last week, the first time I've seen HMHB in, errr, 24 or 25 years! :shock:

I was lucky enough to see them two or three times mid-eighties before the split up, One time at Dingwalls in Camden I remember as being the loudest gig I've ever been to. Gone to Earth (or maybe Jegsy Dodd and the Sons of Harry Cross) were support and the guy with the fiddle burst my eardrums, I'm sure of it.

Anyway, fastforward <ahem> years and there I was again. They seemed to come out of the blocks at a thousand miles an hours, rushing through the set list as fast as possible - maybe something to do with the support band going on late? Once they got to National Shite Day (dedicated to the next day) however, they were back in a proper rhythm. I enjoyed the chat between NB and the audience. Some lunatic bought some royal wedding oven gloves and gave them to NB!

My mate who I was staying with in Leicester bought Achutung Bono and CSI:Ambleside on the back of coming to the gig. CSI:A really is a fantastic album, possibly their best IMO. I was slightly disappointed at no "Bad Losers on Yahoo Chess" or "Took Problem Chimp to the Ideal Home Show" in Leicester but otherwise a good gig. Maybe they couldn't play the latter as they had no keyboards on stage?

murf · **Posted:** 06 May 2011, 11:32

You lucky git snout.

CSI is definitely the best album since the first one. In the Lux Familiar Cup I am generally voting for any early songs and the newer classics. Can't believe it is (not Focus) All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit vs. The Trumpton Riots in Round 1. I may have to abstain as they are possibly my favourite ever 2 songs.

murf · **Posted:** 13 Jul 2011, 12:37

OK, looking for HMHB place references for my FF team names.

Probably need 20 on an A-Z basis (A-T?)

Ambleside
Bridgwater
Chatteris
Dead Sea
Ely
Finland
Glasters
Hebden Bridge
Iceland
Jet Plane(?)
Knoydart
Lord Hereford's Knob (too long?, oo-er missus, :shock:

)
Monmore
N
Oxfam(?)
Pen-y-ghent
Quantocks
R
Stavanger
Trumpton

Help appreciated - can't believe I need an N and an R

tedbull · **Posted:** 13 Jul 2011, 12:58

Reykjavik (Where the Chief Executive is fresh from)

tedbull · **Posted:** 13 Jul 2011, 13:01

Newton Abbot

Knulpuk · **Posted:** 13 Jul 2011, 13:07

Z = Zeal Monachorum (Referees alphabet) - I had a caravan there (static) of course.

see also Yate

N= Nantwich

"I get feedback, in my bedroom in Nantwich.... song: Look Dad, No Tunes

Album: 'Trouble Over Bridgwater'

I'd also go for Diss over Dead Sea.

tedbull · **Posted:** 13 Jul 2011, 13:10

I'd opt for Ogwen Lake over Oxfam.

J's a struggle.

tedbull · **Posted:** 13 Jul 2011, 13:16

And continuing...

Uffington
Vatican, The
Wreckin, The
X ????????
Yate
Zeal Monachorum

murf · **Posted:** 13 Jul 2011, 14:02

Cheers haps, you will get a mention in my winners interview with TFF if your pick wins

Knulpuk wrote:

I'd also go for Diss over Dead Sea.

I was worried I was going a tad East Anglian - also worried there are too many hills etc form the climbing songs.

tedbull · **Posted:** 03 Aug 2011, 13:17

A nugget of album news from the HMHB Lyrics Project site...

Charles Exford wrote:

I didn’t realise nobody had fed back recently about their conversations with Probe Plus supremo Geoff Davies during the June/July tour. So whereas all previous guesses on release date were based on the naive pronouncements of the dreaming artistes themselves, and Mr. Davies remained aloof and unconvinced, the latest estimate of the album being “available at the next gig or the one after that” is based on the actual asurances of the beatnik businessman himself. Hence my confidence.

The tapes are in the bag, the masters have been remasterered, the lyrics have been checked by the lawyers, the artwork has been cobbled together and the band are on their jollies prior to autumn’s melancholy whirl of touring and promotion. Who knows maybe even another 6Music session.

Not long now. Cardiff hopefully. If not then the ‘Spa.

So that's mid-September at the latest.

http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/theyre-go ... z1Ty2sYm3a

murf · **Posted:** 03 Aug 2011, 14:46

Scary to think that session was a week shy of a year ago.....

tedbull · **Posted:** 18 Aug 2011, 13:59

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bisodol-Crimond ... 29&sr=1-17

murf · **Posted:** 18 Aug 2011, 14:13

Amazon (with 30 second samples) says 26th Sept, another site says the 19th.

Bisodol – indigestion relief tablets with a unique triple active formula which quickly and effectively neutralise excess acid in the stomach, it says here. Featured in the lyrics of “Tommy Walsh’s Eco House”: I’ve taken ninety Bisodol/I’ve had a bellyful of Tommy Walsh’s Eco House.

Crimond – hymn tune best known for its use with The Lord’s My Shepherd (Psalm 23). The tune titles are often put in brackets after the name of a psalm or hymn to let the congregation know what, er, tune it’s going to be sung to. So you see “The Lord’s My Shepherd (Crimond)“.

(still an awful title by their standards)

Knulpuk · **Posted:** 18 Aug 2011, 14:27

http://www.redbullracing.com/cs/Satelli ... 2990562393

tedbull · **Posted:** 11 Sep 2011, 12:39

Unveiling some new material...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... 7_09_2011/
23 mins in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... n_Hopkins/
10 mins in

The second one is a bit dark :shock:

Two weeks to go. 8-)

Billy Whiz · **Joined:** Thu Oct 13 2005 **Posts:** 5978

Knulpuk wrote:

Are these the most random lyrics ever - I was trying to make them out on the ipod this morning and looked them up.

Bleak cheap interview
Pool cue fancy pants
Chic Bates apricot
Short term sweat
Hamstring monument
Shark shit welterweight
Topsoil Chapterhouse
Christ-like mince

Pretty random, but John Lennon had been there before, eg on I am the Walrus (1967):

Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.
Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob g'goo... (etc.)

HMHB also remind me of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (whose heyday was the late Sixties), who wrote lyrics just as zany (Death Cab for Cutie are named after a Bonzo Dog song.) Then there's Captain Beefheart (unintelligible) and Frank Zappa (sample: There's a big dilemma/ About my big leg emma/ She was my steady date/ Until she put on weight .... :wink:

).

That's not to detract from HMHB, of course, who unlike any of the above are still going.

murf · **Posted:** 22 Sep 2011, 13:56

Reminder - new album released on Monday. Just ordered mine via Probe Plus "Pre-orders will be shipped on Friday 23rd September"

Gotta love em:

This transaction will appear on your bill as PayPal *GEOFF

tedbull · **Posted:** 25 Sep 2011, 03:25

On iTunes now - currently downloading.

Going to have to go for a few hours drive up the coast today :mrgreen:

Knulpuk · **Posted:** 30 Nov 2011, 09:42

Loving the "new" album.

You drink too much Oranjeboom
Your jaw juts out like Mart Poom
Dr. Desperate I presume?
You left these in the waiting room

murf · **Posted:** 30 Nov 2011, 10:12

Had it on yet again in the car yesterday. Was trying to figure out which are the best and worst tracks and came to the conclusion that I love all of them. That was partly because I had previously had to think of a couple to nominate for the FISO Song of the Year poll. I nominated 2 but only 1 made the cut

At least it won't split the vote!

tedbull · **Posted:** 01 Dec 2011, 13:15

It's a cracking album but that first verse of Rock and Roll is Full of Bad Wools is a massive highlight. :mrgreen:

Mike_ · **Posted:** 08 Mar 2012, 21:13

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