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There are 14 Half Man Half Biscuit albums, plus two roundup compilations, as well as 4 EPs and a handful of one-off songs. No 'Greatest Hits'. Indulge yourself by starting here.
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Nigel Blackwell of Half Man Half Biscuit and record label boss Geoff Davies discuss the history of the band in 6 minutes.
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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? - From Verse To Hearse
Our very own death pool style chat. - 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!
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