HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT-National Shite Day

[TheUtubesuxass]

Thank god John Peel discovered and loved them :O)) Rest In Music John ;O))

[Oscar301]

the mocked up Patti Smith with Pam Ayers head cracks me every time

[zebraboy777]

Art & beauty, all together here.

[DavFin9]

@ countrochefort You may be right there,although 'Im a vendor of quack nostrums,born in a Kansas shack' runs it a close second. Personally I reckon HMHB say more about the human condition than Dark Side Of The Moon,In Utero and all my Smiths lps combined.A true national treasure

[g7txu]

Healthy

[countrochefort]

Pulling the ice axe from my leg, I staggered on - spindrift stinging my remaining eye,

Possibly the best song opener ever.

[tractordave]

I'm a bit curious why we keep on going back to a shot of a pub in Ambleside. I seem to remember that selling a decent pint, not shite at all.

[Pwecko]

@tractordave The name of the album that the song comes from is CSI: Ambleside.

[Zidane234]

@tractordave

Think it's more to do with that it's from the album CSI: Ambleside.

Gonna try hunting down that pub in particular just to see what it's like.

[sikmagpie]

@Zidane234 I've been in that Boozer...Don't bother!

[TLPhoto1]

Love them - a cross between the Clash and the Barron Knights with some of the lyrical genius of Fish from Marillion!

[Sapsche]

reminds me of Pixies

[Sapsche]

reminds me of the Pixies

[DrChalkwithering]

@Sapsche Both bands rose out of the whole 'post-punk' scene of the late-70s and very early-80s, so that's unsurprising.

[johnbarry1965]

Fat kids with sausage rolls, poor sods conducting polls.

[ty3165]

fucking brilliant

[timebandit90]

3 people need to meet the man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in millets

[lokiop345]

primark fm!!!

[nigezz]

pure quality. all the fookin poofs that luv x facta listen to this and bleed

[ElectricLabel]

Still the best!

[captaincreosote]

Top donkey ... if all songs were this good ... they would all be this good...

[joydivision808]

phil cool lol lol

[daryl1q1]

The Floaters reference is so damn funny and clever.

[daithesceptic]

I suppose that it should be called a train replacement service.

Embrace the margin, all:)

David B

[Yorkmackem]

Absolutely brilliant. Fall / VU

[TheBrautigans]

This is total genius

[gardenclaw82]

sounds scarily like minnesota by the dandy warhols at the start, but this song is about 82 times better.

[serveta71]

@gardenclaw82

Ash - Uncle Pat

[Tedunnizzlejiz]

This song is actually great

[Longniddrie]

@suffern I suppose thats that then. Think I'll have a cuppa.

[Longniddrie]

Whats really shite is when you spend all your time looking to see if anyone has replied to your comments on youtube videos. Now that is really British!

[suffern63]

@Longniddrie One reply

[racingsnake28]

Social angst and British humour,absolute class.

[toasterbottom]

@LunarEcli: I'm Canadian and don't get all the references, but I get enough of them to realize they're brilliant -- the rest I actually take the time to look up.

[DrChalkwithering]

@toasterbottom Millets is a camping store.  Hope this helped.

[toasterbottom]

@DrChalkwithering Thanks! That makes it even funnier.

[toasterbottom]

@DrChalkwithering ...now maybe you could tell me what "Primark FM" is. I've tried googling it thinking it was an English radio station, but couldn't find anything.

[DrChalkwithering]

@toasterbottom Primark is a budget women's clothing store. I assume that Primark, like many really bad stores, has an in-house radio station that broadcasts over the PA system in its stores.

[toasterbottom]

@DrChalkwithering Hahaha! Okay, that makes sense. That *would* be shite.

[garethrhysjones1]

@toasterbottom

I am a lifelong HMHB fan living in Toronto. NIce to see other Canadians care

[TheGorehound101]

BRILLIANT***********

[gary3640]

at 1.07 sitting on the bench at Prenton Park home of the famous TRFC

[Loobs666]

As opposed to National Shite-fuck-all Month... Ramadan.

[pikachops]

remember and sigh,wheres it all gone?

[PSRautoharp]

Oh what a discovery.

Love you fellas.

Oh Wiral at last you've come of age.

Tell me - what of dear Pensby?

Thanks

[brunosis]

@PSRautoharp Pensby Boys and Pensby Girls is soon to be Pensby Mixed - the scandal of it all.

[LegoStarWarsTrooper]

pmsl

[tantive4]

Stick it on your mp3 player and walk throug hSwindon town centre, classic

[cynicallaughter]

Cant fault HMHB....check out our vid and new song think you might like it

[ROCKONBEANIE]

makes me proud to be British!

[Polaris271]

this song captures perfectly everything that it is to be British. The lyrics, the riff, the references.... It's all so very good and yet so unfairly under-rated at the same time (bit like most of what Half Man Hal Biscuit did really!)

[davethetwat1]

@Polaris271 Not did ! They still do , go see em ...

[Polaris271]

@davethetwat1 It's definitely on the "to do" list... I've liked everything I've heard from them, I just need to find the time to appreciate them live!

[davethetwat1]

@Polaris271 Your missing out , Im going to see them in Preston on Friday night..

[davethetwat1]

@Polaris271 Your missing out ! Im going to see them in Preston on Friday night ....

[Polaris271]

@davethetwat1 Too short notice for me... work and missus and kids and way too much of everything else going on! Hope you have a great night though!

[trenchofstench]

The pride of Birkenhead. Sounds like Bone machine by the Pixies.

[struantheruin]

@trenchofstench Sounds like "This Nation's Saving Grace"-era Fall. That's no bad thing

[DaveShedMan]

Shite has to be one of the best words in the English language - congrats to HMHB for using it in a song title! Anyway, if they did have a National Shite Day in the UK, it probably would be shite, i.e. even the shite would be shite, making it shite shite.

Ô¿Ô

[nickos1882]

@DaveShedMan This song is about MY life story!!!'tug of love custody battle','rainbow,in black and white'!!!

[nickos1882]

@nickos1882 'GOD C.O.R.E.'

[Feisty1967]

I love this song! My only criticism is, i can't hear the words in the later part of the track cos they're drowned out by the guitars. Could anyone give me a transcript of the lyrics?

[Rodan100]

@Feisty1967

Damn to hell those noisy guitars disrupting ones enjoyment of a lyrical masterpiece!

If only there were a way of finding information on the internet!

Damn to hell the internet but may the lord have mercy on Stringy Bob.

Lycka till min vän!

[excrutiated]

feel like this every time i get off at birkenhead north

[nevereveranything]

James Joyce joins The Fall (with Kim Deal on bass).

[struantheruin]

@nevereveranything

hahhaha Yes!

[problemchimp2]

now that's what I call a nice song volume 1.

[mrmaje1]

Makes me so glad to be British......what other nation could do this stuff!!

[SuperChoronzon]

@mrmaje1 exactly m8, and i'm west coast Scots....HMHB is god-given fuckin genius in it's rawest form..."overhead a rainbow appears ....in Black and White"

'nuff sed, been quaffin JD's for past few hrs, just suppin' on this taste of my drug-induced youth...."u can guess the rest"

[LunarEcli]

@mrmaje1 I know what you mean...I don't think any other nation would get this humour.

[LiveAtReykjavik]

@mrmaje1 Yeah, you guys produce the best music ever.

[felunt]

@mrmaje1 The Irish ?  perhaps?

[PereUbu72]

@mrmaje1 But then again, what other nation could create such shite as to inspire this song in the first place?

[mrmaje1]

@PereUbu72 Fair comment indeed!

[DrChalkwithering]

@PereUbu72 Primark FM

*shudders*

[affectionatepunch]

The best thing to come out of birkenhead since pongo waring and the A41...

[AnElephantsChild]

That's EVERY day in Ellesmere Port - don't go there !

[jhanajc]

Manc 2002 what an awesome show that was! Great work on the vid.

[MrBigward25]

then i encounter primark fm.. lol

[ElectricLabel]

They've still got it!!!

[potato73]

The Biscuit slightly morph into The Fall

[andygoatboy]

Warning: Genius at work

[1etelfer]

1,752 views ???? This is HMHB at their finest.

[SantaSunday]

Float.....Float on....

[mikanoid]

Just when you think you've heard the best that the biscuits have to offer...they come up with this! "Is this your Sanderling?" Classic stuff.

[fakelegache]

nice one jeffo...good call.

[Oscar301]

over head a rainbow appears.... in black and white

[1stLadyLazarus]

yes indeedey hahaha

[markflynny1981]

theres a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in millets

[markb67]

@markflynny1981 class



[markb67]

@markflynny1981 sheer class

[Radar3333]

great!