Comments on: HMHB Lyrics Quoted in the Media

By: John Burscough

John Burscough — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:20:01 +0000

Marc Riley’s just played ‘Mr Cave’s A Window Cleaner Now’ from the Peel session on his R6M show (about 20 minutes in).
(First track was The Stooges’ ‘Search and Destroy’, which I would contend is the best programme opener of all time, with the possible exception of ‘Shake Some Action’.)

By: Roots Hall

Roots Hall — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:19:15 +0000

Nice mention in Live magazine today by Dylan Jones editor of something called GQ whatever that is.Claims to have seen the band in Bath 1985 no less.

By: RT17

RT17 — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:20:09 +0000

I’ve just got off a Singapore Airlines flight where the first track on the ‘Rock City’ inflight radio channel was Tommy Walsh’s Eco House…

By: Chris The Siteowner

Chris The Siteowner — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:32:41 +0000

Very good. Interestingly, Alan Garner's Elidor was written in 1962, so the original radio play and novel wouldn't have mentioned the band. It began as a radio play, now lost, and was subsequently published as a novel. There was a TV adaptation in the 1990s (which I haven't seen) that presumably introduced the HMHB reference - I found this discussion here mentioning it rather inconclusively. The current (new) radio production, which clearly attempts to be as up-to-date as possible (with references to mobile phones and broadband shoehorned into the first few minutes) retains the reference to the band, which seems as slightly awkward now as it appears to have been in the TV series. Why it should follow the TV series in that respect, rather than updating the reference to something more contemporary, or going back to whatever was in the original, I don't know. However, it goes no further than the kids looking for an HMHB T-shirt, whereas it looks as if the TV series had more of a discussion on the band.

By: andy

andy — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:53:41 +0000

The first 10mins of the Radio 4 Extra drama “Elidor” was more or less all about a young girl’s quest for a Half Man Half Biscuit T-shirt. It’s just been repeated and is on iPlayer for the next few days.

By: Jitsu.G

Jitsu.G — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:49:55 +0000

It’s about 1 hr 20 in for those listening again. Surely a phone call on Friday could see it being played on his all request radio 2 program

By: Paddy

Paddy — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:36:38 +0000

Sorry Bobbybottler. A complete fluke that I am working from home, something that I rarely ever do, with the radio on in the background. I was utterly stunned when he started quoting it, I think I may have started shaking a bit. What a great man.

By: bobbybottler

bobbybottler — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:32:03 +0000

you know that you’ve been on here too often when…..you hear Mayo and Kermode quoting “Chatteris” verbatim, and you feel compelled to get on here and let everyone know about it, and then you’re gutted because some other punter has got there first…

By: Paddy

Paddy — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:24:11 +0000

Simon Mayo just this second has recited some of “For What is Chatteris”

!!! Could have knocked me down

By: SPENCER THE HALFWIT

SPENCER THE HALFWIT — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:05:13 +0000

This month’s Word includes on the letters page a chapeau to Nigel for his use of the word “tantamount”. Also Bad Wools and Eco House made it into the readers’ Festive Fifty. No doubt there are scattered references elsewhere, as anyone who has listened to the podcast over years will have noted that Andrew Harrison always tries to mention them at least twice whenever he’s on it.