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• Pre-Gig Chat (for any gig)
  Talk about tickets, meet-ups, etc
• Live Performance Downloads
  Listen to that gig one more time
• (It's a) Clear Day
  An unreleased song from a 1992 BBC session
• The Giant Set List Chart
  Set Lists from 2000 to 2020 analysed
• Videos on this site
  How and why we've added them
• 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
• No Longer In Need Of Season Tickets
  How did the "curse of HMHB" victims get on?
• See what we've got in the pipeline
  When we got to work on some songs not yet released
• Lists of stuff in HMHB songs
  including Biscuit Beer References
• 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
• 25th Anniversary Chat
  Celebrity readers queued up to pay tribute
• Cover Versions
  Discussing the Trad. Arr. Tunes heard live
• Bicciepedia
  The real stories behind the songs. Possibly.
• 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.
• HMHB on "The Chain"
  HMHB on the longest thematically linked sequence of musically based items on the radio.
• Thirteen Across...
  Three HMHB-themed crosswords submitted by readers.
• The NOCAYCHSGYFHC crossword ...solved?
  Dr D has a crack at the 'idiosyncratic' Creative Hub album sleeve crossword
• Spending their life in William Hill's
  Water-cooler stuff about sport and betting.
• The HMHB Friday Quiz
  Got its own page when it looked like becoming a tradition.
• 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.
• 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.

Elsewhere on the web

• Gez's "Half Man Half Biscuit Home Page"
  The longest established HMHB fan site
• "A Very British Odyssey"
  Terrific 2016 Big Issue article by Peter Ross
• "How Half Man Half Biscuit have forged a career mocking middle-class idiocy"
  Julie Burchill in the New Statesman, March 2016
• "Risk it for a Biscuit"
  Fine 2012 interview by Andy von Pip
• "The Continuing Brilliance of Half Man Half Biscuit"
  Excellent 2011 article by Taylor Parkes
• All Half-Decent Articles about HMHB
  The articles above, and others we've found
• Introductory video about the band
• Another video about the band
• Half Man Half Biscuit Appreciation Society Facebook page
• Live Performance downloads at Tarquin Live!
• Peel Session listings
• Stuart Vallantine's Half Map Half Biscuit
• halfmanhalfbikekit
  Steve Harman and Nick Dawes cycle round everywhere mentioned in song
• "HMHB Towns" photos on Flickr
• Word Clouds for every album
• Half Man Half Biscuit Halfhearted
• The Probe Plus Records history site
• Half Man Half Biscuit Lyric Machine on Twitter
• Half Man Half Biscuit on Spotify