HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT-DICKIE DAVIES EYES THE VIDEO

[lovelifewhy]

SOUND??

[74bomayemcfc]

one of the best bands to come out of england....seen them in manchester a few times...they never let you down.....

[RileyELFuk]

An entire career justified in the opening lines of this one song alone.

[alby614]

Ive just come back from shepards bush the entire audience looked like public sector employees a right shower of cunts

[joycejnn]

That's the Birkenhead park and the Swiss Bridge on the lake there.I grew up a stones throw from there.

[66peacelove]

Bought their first LP, Back in the DHSS, in1985 from Skeleton Records (Skellies) in Hamilton Square. 4 lads from Merseyside who shook the Wirral. Great days!

[MrGutley]

This is one of the most heartfelt tributes to the tedium and banality of ordinary life I have evr seen.

[garethrhysjones1]

Best band in the world

[malcolmcog]

I love Forton Services, now its a Moto services. Been renamed as Lancaster Services, fuck them twats at M6 services renaming. The weighing machines gone and been replaced by a lame sort of thing, thing.

[Howardfh]

@malcolmcog It always was, and always will be, Forton Services! Don't let it die!!

[zuton100]

You dont see birkeenhead park in many music vids

[Longniddrie]

The beginning to this song is out of this world. A brilliant introduction to oral sex in heaven. I'm going back to bed to await J-Lo's puffy lips around my cadbury's flake....

[problemchimp2]

a comment!

[amimillie]

A truly great track from a band that I think deserved more credit than they got. I saw this video originally on Channel 4's The Chart Show and watched it over and over, together with the original raw version of The Rattler by Goodbye Mr Mackenzie. How can you not admire a band who write songs with titles like The Bastard Son of Dean Friedman (HMHB, not GMM, of course).

[dee74raz]

@amimillie Yes that episode was broadcast on 10th October 1986, which had the Soup Dragons "Hang Ten" and Half Man Half Biscuit "Dickie Davies Eyes" played on the indie chart of the chart show. After playing Half Man Half Biscuit, which was at number 1 on the indie chart, they then played an indie exclusive of Goodbye Mr MacKenzie's The Rattler, featuring a young Shirley Manson playing the keyboards/vocals, who later on became the singer of Garbage !!!

[CrinkleCutBeatroot]

is that the cramps - psychedelic jungle he's perusing? I'm wearing my cramps jumper RIGHT NOW

[ThinYoghurt1]

Last night I dreamt that I wrote Lord of the Rings......turns out I was Tolkein in my sleep.

[johnp1970]

classic!

[colavfc70]

video is brilliant. ''but she's got dickie davies eyes'' lmao.

[MrBushytop]

And band referenced LOTR long before the films came out. Legendary band.

[fishingrhod]

@MrBushytop "Although known to many readers as a trilogy, the work was initially intended by Tolkien to be one volume of a two-volume set along with The Silmarillion; however, for economic reasons the publisher decided to omit the second volume, and published The Lord of the Rings itself in 1954–55 as three volumes rather than one."

[MrBushytop]

@fishingrhod how did Tolkien feel about that?

[fishingrhod]

@MrBushytop intensely flattered. quite tearful actually albeit a bit dead.

[MrBushytop]

@fishingrhod I get you. So they went in over his dead head. Must have been a relative who agreed to the trilogizing of the books so.

[willinglossop]

first time i heard this i was amazed and about a million times later i still am

its pure genious.

[Carliosity]

my nipples ache .

[Kevexation]

3.15. The Cramps. Psychedelic Jungle.

[dunkiep]

My fave song of theirs.

[palinlfc]

Moorcock, Moorcock, Michael Moorcock you fervently moan, absolute class.

[markbailey1970]

Loved this song since the day it came out, but first time I've seen the vid! Ace!

[Rubbalegz]

Is this video in mono or has my right speaker stopped working?

They're definitely out of warranty now too.

[visionstain]

Nice i love it thanks.

[charlton008]

Whatever happened to Dickie Davies?

[fifiragdoll]

Went to work for Sky and ESPN, And took a job on the board of a frozen food company.

[the1stuntmonkeyfive]

First time I have seen this vid...........Dead fuckin funny, still makes me laugh every time I play it...........

[EVibenstein]

Wow. I remember seeing this on The Chart Show in 1986 and my mum being disgusted by the idea of wiping snot on the arm of someone's chair. Good times. :-D

[ZINCOVIX]

god this brings back memories..loved this band as a young chap

[agghtee]

Thing is that I grew up 10 years after you should like HMHB, but was listening to John Peel, so felt obliged to. It shaped my formative yeats and made me want to realy understand who DICKIE DAVIES was

[castrilinfo]

HMHB have to be the 2nd best band ever, i´ludicrous being the best

[Rumpio]

Beatles fans might dispute that ranking :)

[newtrecords]

that's preposterous

[wistycastor]

Interesting footage of Birkenhead Grange Road in the 80's -everyone looking surprisingly spruce. Now 3 out of 5 are deformed and tripping over their bellies.

[jakthelad7]

i have hmhb on video somewhere on the wirral ill try and get it on here ....somehow

[4playfights]

i remember seeing them supporting china crisis

who btw way beyond shite

i left after watching hmhb

i bought a burger from a van outside the gig and got talking to neil crossley

who confirmed china crisis were indeed tossers!!

[agghtee]

I know that this has comments page has a lot of HMHB acolytes on it - so I'll probably have the piss taken out of me for this, but:

Why were HMHB not elevated to gods?

[redsboy38]

quite fantastic they played this live at bilston .. ... .. first time i heard it live ...... and it is excellent ??>>>

[scallyhunter]

lucky man!

dont think i ever saw them play this one. should be a live staple if you ask me.

[Kingers41]

Brian Moore's head looks uncannily like London Planetarium! Awesome. Haven't heard this for years! Cheers

[CLPache]

"Mention the Lord of the Rings just once more and I'll more than likely kill you".

HMHB's genius Wikipedia entry described this song as "surprisingly emotional". But someone took it down.

[richiesdog]

Not seen this for yeeears,  brilliant band, thanks for posting

[daryl1q1]

Best opening line to a song ever

[duklapragueawaykit]

dont the opening bars of this song make the hairs on the back of your neck just stand right up!

[spanishgull]

one of the best bands ever

[scallyhunter]

get in- loads of footage of birkenhead!!!!

[corkpunk]

Ahh yes! Newry town loves HMHB, and yes the 80s were more tuned in. Cheer up goth!

[bobbydriver]

Doesn't Neil look like Cheggers??

[rich31408]

Fantastic to see this, took me right back.

Never knew this vid existed, thanks for sharing

Cheers!

[M77174]

I'm so pleased to see this.  I did the offline edit on this video and I'm amazed it still exists. Jim Walli and Len, if you're tuning in, all the best.

Nic.

[Ezzie68]

I remember the free weekly Manchester paper (AM - at the end of the video) putting it on their front cover that they featured in the video on the day it was shown on C4's The Chart Show.

[neil73]

Thanks for posting.I was 75% sure that a video for this existed but because it's 22 years since 1986, someone put the elephant of doubt in my mind (see comments on my HMHB vid).

Thanks for proving them wrong! 5 Stars!

[arpharsed]

Ha Ha Ha! Class, Forton services, the angel of the north (west)! Love it, thank you.