Half Man Half Biscuit - National Shite Day [Official Audio]

[@michaeljohnson5370]

There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in millets.thats got to be one of the best lines in a song ever

[@peterjohnstone7006]

I disagree, it IS the best line in a song ever.

[@BushyHairedStranger]

Overhead a rainbow appears,………. in Black and White.

[@athalismagickinstitute4383]

french national, me thinking best line ever, deserves a translation though , God bless the Scouses ,

[@nomadisback5240]

Innit

[@MrDazzlerdarren]

@@athalismagickinstitute4383 Il y a un homme avec un mulet qui devient fou avec un maillet en millets

[@Pwecko]

"Pulling the ice axe from my leg, I staggered on, spindrift stinging my remaining eye". Genius.

[@thogdad1]

Every day is National Shite Day at the moment

[@charleshall6069]

The government wants pupils singing a tasteful little song called 'Strong Britain, Great Britain', which is basically 'Tomorrow Belongs to Me' with the production values of 'There's No-one Quite Like Grandma.' This is my counter-suggestion.

[@JustSad66]

Some of these chords do not exist!! Love them! I am 65. Seen them 4 times, got all the albums, but this song has to be one of their best!

[@donnyrover1]

I know , i,ve tried for ages

[@James-wj8eq]

Not if if u play by ear...

[@letstalk3265]

One of the GREAT British bands where dissonance reigns and reigns, poignant cutting clever lyrics keep you sharp and you wish they share forever. Amen.

[@Brascofarian]

but I find it hard to share with non-British friends, because it's so culture referent.

[@TheIkaraCult]

Every time i want to take myself too seriously I listen to HMHB Then i tell myself "That's not the point you silly sausage" And the arguement goes on

[@SirBorisHayter]

I will play this on coronation day

[@MsKray1000]

Great idea, I shall join you in that...!!

[@crummycarp6662]

Lmao

[@philipcurnow7990]

Did you play it? I did. Bastards.

[@Darrenski]

You may well be playing it again very soon then.

[@merlinadams8797]

I saw this band in a Somerset pub somewhere but I can't remember where I was out of my head on Magic Mushrooms. I think it was Bishop's Lydeard near Taunton 2017. I live in Taunton so it could well have been.

[@mattyblades7838]

Do you remener it pmsl

[@adammc1995]

Legend

[@sq1rlsqu4d]

I'll take your mushrooms in Somerset 2017 and raise you seeing them in Manc back in '86. I dropped a shitload of amyl nitrate and fucked my best mates girlfriend. Happy days.

[@grahambarber2766]

I was listening them on the train down to Devon to join the Royal Marines and during basic training 35 years ago!!

[@yakacm]

Please tell me you were listening to Time Flies, lol. Thank you for your service BTW.

[@richardjeffreys2437]

obviously NOT THE soldier required.....

[@el6178]

It's like rap but the stories are much more interesting.

[@darrenlamb5640]

And it's more gangster

[@stevebell9645]

The way he delivered the “Fat Kids with sausage rolls” always got me 😂

[@simonwalpole8037]

Good point. Why isn't it called a train replacement service?

[@sneakkiee4255]

if 2020 were a song...

[@el6178]

Awesome remark.

[@helenwaldron5858]

Send this kind of sense in an e mail to Nigel Blackwell.... Ha ha(die hard biscuit fan.. Forever!) XX🙏🙏😂😂🤣💋💋💋💋💋💋

[@j.fletcherskorpius551]

Pretty obvious

[@katevann157]

Theres a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Milletts

[@mikesed3956]

Uplifting. Poets for all the generations.

[@julieinwood10]

Has kept me going during lockdown. 🤣😊

[@donnyrover1]

Think Millets is no more , try and get a rhyme out of Mountain Warehouse...... great riff

[@gavinjones3933]

There’s one been closing down in Huddersfield for years.

[@yakacm]

This is the kind of music I could imagine the Sleaford Mods making if realised what fannies they are and stopped taking themselves seriously.

[@richardjeffreys2437]

cream required... BURNS!!!

[@billytheseagull]

been thinking for a while that they need to drop the beep beep machines and go full band. the mods are getting stale.

[@jolane8156]

No... HMHB and SM are both brilliant in their own way. Both have great lyrics, humour, integrity darkness and light. I saw HMHB yesterday at Leamington and definitely see a comparison. HMHB were brilliant and so we're the fans .. as is the case with SM. There's room for both. SM's collaboration with Coldwar Steve too...a visual artist with a similar aesthetic ( at risk of sounding like an art wanker). And I don't think SM take themselves any more seriously either. Not on them if other people do.

[@stuartchapman1131]

This is too true. I had a drink with them at Glasto one year and they’re daft bastards

[@stuartchapman1131]

Sleaford Mods I mean. It goes without saying that Nigel Blackwell is as daft as a brush

[@omnipop4936]

Love hearing a genteel phrase like "...without due care or attention" on top of such aggressive music. lol

[@keithreay767]

I know im not too pissed if i can say 'theres a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in millets. Seen em in fibbers, york, cant wait until next time !

[@clivemortimore8203]

"May the Lord have mercy on Stringy Bob"

[@PsyVen]

Great song from a band with a bizarre, witty take on the world. I propose that the UK and the rest of the Anglosphere adopt an official *National Shite Day*, to be held on the first Friday the 13th of every calendar year.

[@philipcurnow7990]

Not really. They wouldn't want it.

[@Darrenski]

Oh contrare. I beg to differ​@@philipcurnow7990

[@julieinwood10]

I wish he'd told us 'the rest ' after stringy Bob answered the advert in the music press. Haha!

[@Darrenski]

You mean you can't guess?

[@andysimpson6643]

He ended up in the farm

[@derekrushton1705]

Favourite HMHB song since the first time I heard John Peel play I Hate Nerys Hughes back in 1986. Seen them play Live on numerous times over the last 30 years. Massively underated.

[@sq1rlsqu4d]

Oh fuck, that takes me back. The music industry entered an irreparable downhill spiral on the day Peel died. Lamacq fights a brave fight and Iggy is still in our corner, but hard times are here to stay.

[@TanCoul]

Embrace the margin...

[@zeekthefreak]

Seriously one of my favourite bands of all time...this is brilliant

[@nrjan2916]

The whole song is a great poem in very English.

[@MysteryProductsLtd]

I was in the pub with Jeff from Probe just before lockdown started, so was not able to go on to exploit that opportunity for, say, a free t-shirt, nor, now I come to think of it can I gain any leverage or reflected glory from saying this anonymously on here.

[@hplovehandle]

Look, 13 of us are mildly impressed.

[@MysteryProductsLtd]

I wasn't. I'm barred from that pub for talking to a prostitute anyway.

[@Smuffthemagicdragon]

​@@hplovehandle make that 14

[@boris1873]

if 2021 were a song..

[@neilsun2521]

Can't even go into Millets to go mad with a mallet if i wanted to.

[@ivormectin9889]

“Is this your Sanderling”?

[@Pwecko]

I am listening to this again on Saturday May 6th 2023, the day of King Charles III's coronation. I propose that we declare this National Shite Day. I'll be back next year.

[@albysmith3747]

Bloody love half man half biscuit so many brilliant songs

[@smudgealdrin1512]

Why aint this never been a Xmas numby one ?? ffs Nows the time to put it there.

[@mintynovember8458]

It doesn't take more than a handfull of listens to gently realise that this is the greatest songs of any musical genre EVER written. A masterpiece.

[@leoniegray6404]

Good remedy for all those national shite days 😁😁😁❤

[@jamesfitzgerald6233]

"overheard a rainbow appears...in black and white" The absolute frustration and quiet despair in this lyric hits hard.

[@charliehaley3588]

Brilliant band. Saw these a few years back when I was like 15. Hilarious lyrics

[@TheTesemeau]

Thank you boys from Birkenhead or thereabouts, best comments ever also.

[@dawncooper1975]

Four lads who shook the wirral

[@oddespenjenssen2236]

Quite possibly the best song I've ever heard. (and that is saying something)

[@davidcoleman757]

Proof you can simultaneously feel young and very very old. At least some loves last you to a pension.

[@petereynon4913]

This is my favourite HMHB song

[@hexonatapeloop]

“Stringy Bob is the artist under different circumstances.” Discuss. #jesuisstringybob

[@marhaba400]

Terrific. Could be as well a song by the Fall

[@philipcurnow7990]

marhaba400 not really, float on ..

[@andyforsythe2565]

Sounds like a Fall song to me too.

[@fluoridator1264]

​@@andyforsythe2565 Then what's the use of having two bands, eh? LOL!! Love 'em both. The Fall has a broad sonic range that intersects with other artists but these two are absolutely distinct artists in the most significant ways. Hello to another fan. Peace.

[@dr.k.vogel.]

Big fan and I agree. The voice and type of humour are different, but the aesthetic is similar. Can't believe I just said that.

[@theshamanarchist5441]

Both bands are great observational story tellers. But you can tell them apart instantly. Listen to them both and enjoy.

[@mickshotton4196]

Karl Pilkington brought me here.

[@arstulex]

He's got currents for eyes!

[@stuartwilliams7912]

Loved the band ever since I saw them at Shelley's in Stoke just after Back in the Dhss came out.

[@robroden2831]

I was there too great night loved it a bit psychedelic. Up the Stokies

[@CouncilEstatePopMusic]

Songs with storytelling are awesome!

[@beancounter6560]

listening again, it really is a stone cold classic - ffs!

[@mlemmerman]

Do you think - if I start some GoFundMe kind of thing - I can raise enough money to pay for them to come play in Amsterdam?

[@alex-E7WHU]

Friday 28 April they are playing in hull, UK.... Just a ferry trip away from Rotterdam.👍

[@beancounter6560]

Excellent still - never ceases to amaze!

[@StandardGoose]

No bog roll

[@fluoridator1264]

Still? Wait. I don't wanna know.... :-O

[@MegaMissfitz]

It’s been a day & a half sarks I’m looking forward to getting my slippers on 😤😤😤

[@philipcurnow7990]

An ode to Grange Road precinct, Birkenhead.

[@db0800]

1/2 man, macc lads, viz and Mrs Kennedy from Oz.

[@Charlie-wr6dy]

T.I.S.M’s British rock and roll cousins.

[@YannFortnite]

"Is this your sanderling?" Heartbreaking.

[@thezebrafromheaven7568]

any chance for a new album?

[@redshift3]

Is this your sanderling?

[@omnipop4936]

Love hearing a genteel phrase like "...without due care or attention" on top of such aggressive music. lol

[@ggurks]

come on, let's just declare the national... !

[@pigknickers2975]

IS stringy Bob related to Skinny Bob? I want to know.

[@j.fletcherskorpius551]

"No bog roll"

[@M_Bamboozled]

Masterpiece 🙏

[@arstulex]

He can never go swimming

[@ioannismakris3392]

Hull tonight at welly

[@manoftrent71]

I've celebrated plenty of them.

[@southstandloyalblock40stok94]

mad lyrics

[@lolgrant]

Th Gift by VU

[@COL321]

"..but then I encountered Primark FM" made me laugh out loud

[@garylord5687]

Song for the summer 2022, except the shite happens every day. Tories out!

[@fraserthomson5766]

Some people just don't know pavement etiquette lol

[@Darrenski]

They lack the requisite due care or attention. Seen countless examples.

[@beancounter6560]

And you can guest the rest...

[@foz775]

Genius

[@cooliodee9033]

Reminds me of blur

[@sundaysloth4559]

Ye gey extra credits on Tesco

[@omnipop4936]

Love hearing a genteel phrase like "...without due care or attention" on top of such aggressive music. lol

[@bobnab1570]

what can you say wow . rewind select0r ahahha

[@joegalan6882]

May the lord have mercy on Stringy Bob

[@DaleSvibe]

Came here after looking for biscuit gifts for a mate. I seen an apron that said keep calm and listen to half man half biscuit. Here I am 😂

[@Darrenski]

Serendipity!

[@carelesshx]

It's called a Replacement Bus Service, being as it is a replacement for a train

[@Darrenski]

But it's replacing a train!

[@Darrenski]

And technically they do call it the 'bus replacement service'. The ex wife used to get it many times from Preston to Halifax, so I am somewhat of an authority on this matter.

[@chrissilver7719]

😂😂😂 its like a piss take of the Fall

[@joegalan6882]

No it's not

[@mrsmokestack1856]

Fuckin ace !!

[@redshift3]

Marsh fritillary

[@hectorkidds9840]

After Scotland leave we new national anthem, HMHB have to write it... Nobody else quite captures the beautiful shitness of England.

[@desmonddevlin4128]

Life in, Belfast, Peacetime.

[@robroden2831]

Wot a fucking tune❤

[@hexonatapeloop]

Who’s Barry Perkins?

[@philipcurnow7990]

Walk on!

[@TheDrugOfTheNation]

"Barry: Herpes" q.v. "Larry: Cancer" from "Float On".

[@wonkylommiter6364]

Very Pixies-esque guitar on this one!

[@StAlfonzo87]

The vocals on Indy City are also somewhat similar.