Stuff.
- The Giant Set List Chart
22 years of set lists analysed - (It's a) Clear Day
An unreleased song from a 1992 BBC session - Frequent Electric Trains
A new song for a walk of Birkenhead in 2021 - The Lux Familiar Cup 2019
The Nation chooses its favourite HMHB song - The Lux Familiar Cup 2015
The Nation chooses its favourite HMHB song - The Lux Familiar Cup 2011
The Nation chooses its favourite HMHB song - Jingles for Dandelion Radio
Lux Inferior spotted some old jingles done by the band - New album for 2022
A page for general chat about the new album. Also a list of good places to get the CD from, or a legal download... - Track by Track: The Voltarol Years
Nigel Blackwell talks to Paddy Shennan about the 2022 album in 'delicious detail' - Half Man Half Biscuit and me
...and my book, featuring Half Man Half Biscuit – a Q&A with Paddy Shennan - Lists of stuff in HMHB songs
Beware of the fans who type out their lists - Shit Band, No Fans
The football chants sneaked into the songs - Kill, kill, kill, stab murder and dispatch
"but most people still just seem to quote the jokes" - With two pacy numbers, we'll open the show...
Discuss the best opening lines in the songbook - Nigel Blackwell on Protest Songs
BBC Radio Merseyside interview from 2011 - This sounds like a class rant
The politics of Half Man Half Biscuit - See what we've got in the pipeline
When we got to work on some songs not yet released - 25th Anniversary Chat
Celebrity readers queued up to pay tribute
More Stuff.
- Duone Viro Duone Biscuit
Translated classics. Like The Beatles in German. - It might sound bogus - but it's official
Exxo gets an audience with NB57 - Updated Introductions
We're rewriting some of the stuff on this site. - New album for 2018
Anticipatory chat around the Creative Hub album in 2018 - HMHB on "The Chain"
HMHB on the longest thematically linked sequence of musically based items on the radio. - 13 Across. Where was the clue?
Ongoing crossword-related intrigue from various contributors - Spending their life in William Hill's
Water-cooler stuff about sport and betting. - The difference between us and all the other bands
General stuff, including chat about other fine music. - Nigel on BBC Radio Cymru
NB10 was interviewed in Welsh on the BBC; Pirx The Purist translated it for us. - Half Man Half Biscuit at Spotify: the Analysis
All sorts of track details courtesy of the streaming service and its machine analysis. Data nerds: enjoy! - Opening and closing lines
What are the best? Just something else to think about. - Videos on this site
How and why we've added them - The BP Advert
Yes, NB10 supplied the voiceover to an advert once. - Gubba Gubba Hey
We put a whole team of cardboard Gubba lookalikes in the crowd at Prenton Park. Because we could. - Cover Versions
Discussing the Trad. Arr. Tunes heard live - Bicciepedia
The real stories behind the songs. Possibly. - Football references in the HMHB canon
Another one for the spreadsheet fans - Phil ‘Taylo’ Taylor RIP
We lost one of our own.
Elsewhere...
- Gez's "Half Man Half Biscuit Home Page"
The longest established HMHB fan site - "My night out with Half Man Half Biscuit’s fanatical followers"
"(Steve Hill) hits Holmfirth in his Dukla Prague away kit" — Guardian article from 2022 - "A Very British Odyssey"
Terrific 2016 Big Issue article by Peter Ross - "The Continuing Brilliance of Half Man Half Biscuit"
Excellent 2011 article by Taylor Parkes - "Risk it for a Biscuit"
Fine 2012 interview by Andy von Pip - "How Half Man Half Biscuit have forged a career mocking middle-class idiocy"
Julie Burchill in the New Statesman, March 2016 - "Just my cup of tea"
Robert Bathurst in The Oldie, Spring 2022 - All Half-Decent Articles about HMHB
The articles above, and others we've found - Live Performance downloads at Tarquin Live!
- Peel Session listings
- Stuart Vallantine's Half Map Half Biscuit
- halfmanhalfbikekit
Steve Harman and Nick Dawes cycled round lots of places mentioned in song - "HMHB Towns" photos on Flickr
- The Probe Plus Records history site
- Half Man Half Biscuit Lyric Machine on Twitter
- Half Man Half Biscuit on Spotify
- Half Man Half Biscuit Data Retrieval System
