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YouTube video by tbhoy66 Half Man Half Biscuit - It Makes The Room Look Bigger

Something for the weekend: It Makes The Room Look Bigger #HMHB youtu.be/1ZskwjqLJsw?...

'Courteous, friendly, jolly and fat
With a smile saying:
'Look, I know it's under the mat'
I don't give a fuck about your missing cat
B-O-G-U-S OFFCIAL' #HMHB

'"Veer Left For Marmalade"
I don't think so Joe
And why are "Tractors Turning"?
We really ought to know
So stay alert on the minor roads
Remember Phyllis Triggs?
' Oooh! "Rhubarb" ! Let's go!!'
She's still not been accounted for...' #HMHB

YouTube video by Phil from Portsmouth Half Man Half Biscuit, 'Roll Away the Stone'. Manchester, 30/01/2026

The triumphant finale to the recent Manchester #HMHB gig: 'Roll Away the Stone' (Mott the Hoople cover) with support band The Iconoclasts AKA Biscuitettes on backing vocals. 'Barry' also joins in, before finally being exorcised at the end. Then: 'Joy Division Oven Gloves'. youtu.be/8QckfHOIvt8?...

They’re gonna be unveiling some new material… – The Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project Half Man Half Biscuit do not "tour", but play one-off gigs throughout the year. Details of all upcoming dates are here, along with hundreds of gig reviews.

Breaking news: unfortunately upcoming Nottingham and London gigs this year now postponed due to health reasons (Nigel having a routine op.) News via the Lyrics Project. Wishing Nigel all the best.

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Smash Hits, February 12 - 25, 1986 Brian McCloskey: The Legenderry Boy In A Dress

Full Smash Hits edition available here www.flickr.com/photos/51106...

Old newspaper article on HMHB

Old newspaper article on HMHB

From the archives; an early #HMHB interview from Smash Hits 1986, source of the quote from Nigel that he's always either watching TV or 'listening to me Fall records.' Thanks to Brian McCloskey on Facebook.

YouTube video by Half Man Half Biscuit Half Man Half Biscuit - Every Time a Bell Rings [Official Audio]

Something for the weekend: Every Time A Bell Rings #HMHB youtu.be/WvRLMATPYHk?...

Factoid : at the Sleaford Mods gig in Manchester last Saturday, 'I Hate Nerys Hughes' was playing on the intro tape shortly before they took the stage #HMHB #SleafordMods

Half Man Half Biscuit Book Route are pleased announce the signing of Steve Hill’s book Friday Night Fever: Inside The Cult Of Half Man Half Biscuit.

News of a new #HMHB book, 'Friday Night Fever' by Steve Hill on the Route website. Would be the first full book on the band to date.
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YouTube video by Half Man Half Biscuit Half Man Half Biscuit - Look Dad No Tunes [Official Audio]

Something for the weekend: Look Dad No Tunes #HMHB youtu.be/HEf8ogERIhQ?...

Speaking of the cult of #HMHB, hats off to the guy in the Salisbury pre-gig on Friday sporting a customised leather jacket signed thus:
'Best Wishes
From your showbiz pal
Nigel Blackwell'

LIVE: Half Man Half Biscuit - O2 Ritz, Manchester, 30/01/2026 - God Is In The TV Some bands you see quite regularly, a few times a year at least. For myself and Half Man Half Biscuit, it’s more like the Olympics, as they only play live

Review of the Manchester #HMHB gig up on the God Is In The TV site www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2026/02/02/l...

Half Man Half Biscuit #HMHB, O2 Ritz Manchester, 30 January 2026 – “Falmouth Electrics”…

“Have you got any Gauhaus?”

Nigel with Barry for 'Falmouth Electrics' #HMHB

Photos from last night's excellent #HMHB Manchester gig (with thanks to John Burscough via Facebook).

Manchester: #HMHB due on stage 8:30.

Looking forward to a rare #HMHB home fixture on Fri. Last time at the Ritz, we'd reconvened in the Lass O'Gowrie & noticed 1 of our number was missing. After about 30 mins he emerged with signed 12" singles for all 5 of us. No mean feat as they're not a band who hang around the merch stall post-gig.

YouTube video by Laurie Johnson Half Man Half Biscuit - The Container Drivers

Looking forward to the return of #HMHB to Manchester this Friday, and also back to the time on a previous visit back in 2007, when they covered The Fall's 'The Container Drivers' (audio only) #TheFall

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'I should have just got a job on the bins
The pay's better and I'd know some hard blokes
And I wouldn't have to pretend that I know what' rhetorical' means....
I could have been like Lou Barlow
But I'm more like Ken Barlow....'
#HMHB

YouTube video by Half Man Half Biscuit Half Man Half Biscuit - The Bain of Constance [Official Audio]

Something for the weekend: The Bain of Constance #HMHB youtu.be/4CRdNCgPnvM?...

YouTube video by Automorph Half Man Half Biscuit - I'm Waiting for the Man - The Devil's Arse, Castleton, 25/7/25

' I'm Waiting For The Man' (Velvet Underground cover) live, Devil's Arse, Castleton 25/07/25

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'Next week I'm taking him up West
We've not seen Lord of the Dance.....' #HMHB #problemchimp

YouTube video by Half Man Half Biscuit Half Man Half Biscuit - Venus in Flares [Official Audio]

Something for the weekend: Venus In Flares #HMHB youtu.be/5j-HyUr6fqc?...

'She's got a Green Belt in Astrology
I've got a Black Belt in No-Can-Do' #HMHB

Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids? In 1986, the NME released a cassette that would shape music for years to come. A collection of 22 independently signed guitar-based bands, C86 was the sound and

Where you can buy the book mentioned yesterday; Nige Tassell's 'Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids', which features a chapter on #HMHB who featured in the eponymous NME compilation.

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LOOKING BACK: New book celebrates Half Man Half Biscuit's role in legendary NME tape THE crucial role played by Wirral band Half Man Half Biscuit in shaping the sound and ethos of indie music is examined in a new book.

From Wirral Globe 2022: a look at Nige Tassell's contemporaneous book 'Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids', which features a chapter on #HMHB, who featured in the eponymous NME compilation. The longest HMHB book treatment to date? www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/2062823...

YouTube video by Half Man Half Biscuit Half Man Half Biscuit - Paradise Lost (You're the Reason Why) [Official Audio]

Something for the weekend: Paradise Lost (You're The Reason Why)

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Back-to-back Cadfael!
#HMHB
#TommyWalshsEcoHouse

YouTube video by Automorph Half Man Half Biscuit - I'm Getting Buried In The Morning - Tramshed, Cardiff, 7/3/25

'I'm Getting Buried in the Morning' live at the Tramshed, Cardiff 07/03/25 #HMHB youtu.be/eRIOHpxd68U?...