Euphemisms, Audrey, Euphemisms!

Asparagus Next Left suddenly transforms Half Man Half Biscuit into a public information service, warning that road signs on our country lanes may not be what they seem. Which we all know to be true. I’m not sure anybody knows who Phyllis Triggs is though.

30 Jan 200820 Comments

I’ve only got three bullets and there’s four of Motley Crue

Every Half Man Half Biscuit fan loves the “list songs” and 2005′s Achtung Bono CD didn’t disappoint. Upon Westminster Bridge is just a stream of consciousness list of stuff from everyday life in Britain in the early noughties. For no bloody reason whatsoever.

29 Oct 200719 Comments

While St Peter investigates the inevitable asterisk

Thanks to Sanchez from the genius which is pointlesswasteoftime.com for these lyrics from the odd but strangely compelling Achtung Bono track Surging Out Of Convalescence. I made a couple of small amendments and I think it’s spot-on now.

19 Sep 200744 Comments

A Market Town That Lacks Quintessence

The lyrics of For What is Chatteris… may well be my favourite in the whole Half Man Half Biscuit songbook. And not because the song refers to a village just up the road from here. The track from Achtung Bono famously generated a story in the Peterborough Evening Telegraph

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