31 Oct 2008
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Excuse me for getting a bit excited, but every now and then you come across a Half Man Half Biscuit song which you’d sort of forgotten about, and which turns out to be brilliant. And Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not fits into that category. It’s the A Country Practice or National Shite Day of Cammell Laird Social Club and it contains so many great references, I don’t know where to start. So I won’t, I’ll just let you get on with it. Thanks to EskimoEric
See lyrics to Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not
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Fredorrarci
“…blag my way into the aftershow”
And maybe:
“Now the Britpop refugee…”
Agree completely about this song. The Ken Livingstone bit cracked me up something silly the first time I heard it.
Oct 31st, 2008
Ben
The bit from ‘Come saddle my milk white steed” through to the shouty coda, is about as angry as Blackwell has ever sounded, it’s also the most ’sing-alongy’ Biscuits bit till ‘Trad Arr Tune’ came along.
Anyone ever heard them do this live? I’d love to hear it ‘in a live environment’.
Oct 31st, 2008
Neil G
‘Come saddle my milk white steed’ comes from ‘Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard’, as performed by Martin Carthy on the album Prince Heathen. I recommend it highly. The line may have been used in other folk songs, I don’t know, but that’s the one that sticks in my mind. Actually, I’ve just been singing it to myself and it’s ‘Go saddle me my milk white steed’. How embarrassing. I shall never live this down. I wish I could go back in time and not press the SUBMIT button.
Oct 31st, 2008
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