“Are you knackered, man?”
I’d saved doing the lyrics to Tour Jacket With Detachable Sleeves because it’s one of my favourite Half Man Half Biscuit songs, and I always thought the lyrics would look great, transcribed in full. I assumed others might have thought likewise, but how wrong I was – whereas there are hundreds of (bad) transcriptions of, say, The Trumpton Riots material on the web, Tour Jacket was nowhere to be found – so this is yet another first for this site. And what a first! A cautionary tale, in prose, full of marvellous references to obscure footy, prog rock and more, spoken in a way which would put many professional actors to shame (try reading it out loud yourself). And once again, an everyday tale which we can all relate to. Well, until the end. Genius.
See lyrics to Tour Jacket With Detachable Sleeves
12 Letters Sent:
Daryl
fantastic job
May 3rd, 2008
Munich
Love it! Well done.
Jan 1st, 2009
Bill Stow
‘Tour Jacket’ lyrics need an addition
After ‘..a Dogs D’amour concert’
add ‘ ..which she went to with her …’
Jan 14th, 2009
chesneywold
Almost a curse of HMHB bit but no one was injured.
Feb 1st, 2009
Bill Stow
Third verse line 7 – ‘it seemed like’ should be ‘ it seemed that’
Feb 13th, 2009
Daryl
I like to think that Nigel only had the knackered man/Jan Akkerman pun in the beginning. He then had to construct a convoluted tale about going to see prog rock tribute bands so he could get that brilliant line in and not have it be a complete non-sequitur.
Still would have been a fantastic non-sequitur, though…
Aug 25th, 2010
Shirley Dimensions
he trims his hedge with non-sequiturs. Now, where did I put that coat?
Aug 26th, 2010
Ceri
Since it’s a Kubrick reference, “real horror show” should read “real horrorshow”.
Mar 8th, 2011
Mr Larrington
I’d like to think it’s Burgess rather than Kubrick.
Mar 8th, 2011
Ceri
Of course.
Mar 9th, 2011
Dagenham dave
I can’t quite believe this but I’ve only just made sense of the ‘Travis by Cartel’ line, I really must pay more attention.
Jun 13th, 2011
Rubber Faced Irritant
The June issue of The Word has a letter from ‘Chris H’ citing Jan Akkerman as a noble and righteous cause that deserves championing. His website reveals he played Southampton in April and was an “intense and exciting treat”. I hope the attendees checked the credentials of the driver before boarding the bus home. More Jan Akkerman news at http://www.janakkerman.nl
Jul 13th, 2011
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