Half Man Half Biscuit’s “list songs” are always good, especially when – as with Breaking News – they give Nigel the chance to fit as many things as possible into three minutes which irritate him. And indeed, probably most of us. Actually, I have a friend and fellow Biscuit fan who called his son “Fred”, only a couple of years before this song came out. Which must have been embarrassing.
Rol
What an excellent site!
For what it’s worth, I gave you a plug on my own blog.
27 June 2008
Neil G
I just wanted to say, I love this ‘song’. I agree with the above comment, this is a very well designed website. Thanks for all the effort you must have put into it.
8 September 2008
Bill Stow
A couple of missing words in Breaking News:
Line 5 after ‘……Operation Less Pricks, and kindly granted… ‘
add ‘permission for’
keep up the good work
Bill
29 January 2009
Kimmy
I did these lyrics in 2007: http://thegrumblebunny.vox.com/library/post/breaking-news.html
10 April 2009
Chris The Siteowner
You did, and I made a few amendments in your comments section at the time – Chris (aka CherryHintonBlue)
10 April 2009
Matt
Just listened to this a few times, and I think it’s: ‘A man who informED people that he gets up at six am every morning and seemed to want a medal’
Not: ‘A man who informS…’ people.
The former makes better grammatical sense, and I think you can hear the ‘ed’ sound on the song. The relevant bit it as at 2:38.
2 March 2010
dagenham dave
Just had a listen to both versions, in the Peel session it sounds like “informed” but the LP one I’m sure is “informs”.
2 March 2010
Matt Lee
Newton Abbot has just the one T in each word.
9 May 2010
Matt Lee
Oh, and it’s “Sex and the City”
9 May 2010
Chris The Siteowner
Jeez. As someone who wears his pedantry with pride, every so often I feel completely humbled by you lot.
10 May 2010
Dick Drake
Using the pseudonym Edward-Ian Lhammpune, I emailed John Peel with my idea to create a tribute to HMHB in our woods in the Yorkshire Dales by erecting a lamp post in said woods with a tyre around its base. Mr Peel read out such nonsense and dedicated this tune to me. I cant find my recording of my 13.4 (probably) seconds of fame. Can anyone help? I still need to get out more!!!
Dick (Edward-Ian)
18 January 2011
lookdadnotunes
I remember John Peel reading that out Got that peel session on minidsic somewhere.
6 June 2012
MIKE IN COV
Shouldn’t it be Operation _Fewer_ Pricks? Of course not! These are people who proceed along the highway while the rest of us walk down the road.
Can’t find anything relevant about Sussex farms, tho’ there is a DCI Hibbert in the area, oddly enough.
No Swindon thugs either.
Icicles, bicycles, tricycles, testing, testing…
6 July 2012
MIKE IN COV
Oh, and allegedly people tried to feed sugarlumps to police horses and their riders during 60s demos. Maliciously. Q. What’s the only animal in the world with a sexual orifice halfway up its back?
6 July 2012
John Burscough
For those of you who haven’t been keeping up with MOTM @ The Megaphone, here’s an index of posts up to the end of last year. (Last month’s was, of course, the ElectroVoice EV RE320.)
http://xaudiaelektrik.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/microphone-of-month-index-of-posts.html
28 September 2012
Alastair
For the next album from his experimental side project ‘Atoms for Peace’, Thom Yorke will be entering “the song realm”.
18 January 2013