Hopefully in addition to SIMS T-Shirts, some bright spark could develop a SIMS game at a HMHB inspired theme park. Characters wandering round wearing Joy Division Oven Gloves being mildly impressed when they meet Brad Friedel – I’d buy that sort of thing. Yes, let joy be unconfined because, after more than three long years, a new Half Man Half Biscuit album – 90 Bisodol (Crimond) – will hit the shops in 12 days time. Lovely set tonight. Best gig since our first one in Llangollen. Nice to chat to everyone in the pub after, hopefully see you all at a gig next year! I did wonder who would be the first Lyrics Project contributor to adopt the pseudonym Iguana Andy. Didn’t expect it to be me, though)

After about 4 or 5 airings, I’ve come to the conclusion that “90 Bisodol” will number amongst the top 3 HMHB discs (with “Cammell Laird” and “Achtung Bono”). It might well be their most consistently good disc yet, as I’ve not found a song that doesn’t make the cut for me. Oh, sh*t. Is it that time already? It was ‘Fun day in the Park’ and I’d already missed it when I switched over. Btw we unknowingly ended up with two copies of the setlist as one fell off the stage into our bag. Perhaps we were too busy being attention seeking and gay to realise but hey ho.

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So basically they’re virtual t-shirts for dressing up your virtual dolls? It’s all very Gok Wan meets the Brownlows, really isn’t it? And no, I didn’t know who either of them were till recently either. I’m sure this ignorance of popular culture should qualify me to be an Old Bailey judge or something. Somebody gave me an i-Pod a few years ago but as yet I have no inclination to find out how it works – pleeeeease can I be a judge now? There was a musical mix-up. Nigel thanked everyone for coming out, and started playing Joy Division Oven Gloves, but the rest of the band knew that Take The Skinheads Bowling was still to be done. The cover version included the joke about dreaming that you have eaten a giant marshmallow. And then, in the morning, your pillow has disappeared. Joy Division Oven Gloves saw the Rossi/Parfitt manoeuvre between Nigel and Karl. Best t-shirt of the evening was worn by the guy in the Hall, Stairs & Landing number. Coincidentally, sword dancers traditionally compete for the Trevor Stone Memorial Trophy, named after the writer of the definitive history of longsword dancing, ‘Rattle Up, My Boys’.)

DS, that is quite awesome. (OK, I’ll come out. I am also a typographic and graphics nerd. There. I’ve said it.) For those that like quizzes, the walk on music (Nice one Cyril) was the first recoding by which well known drummer ? He’s still going strong 50 years later and I’m a big fan of his current band. I don’t think many others on here will be though. (Answer available on Google) I have to say I’m a mite disappointed that, even on 6music, HMHB are still considered to be ‘evening radio’.

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Looking forward to driving my wife even more bonkers than she already is. Apparently HMHB ‘don’t play proper music’. She’d much rather listen to Shane Richie. I don’t mind irking the purists, but that’s several steps too far. I’ll try not to spoil your fun Neil, though I’m pretty sure others will post their own particular refinements on John’s info about the dialect term. But if nobody gets it spot-on within a few weeks (including full etymology and differences in use between L’pool and Wirral), I might then, reluctantly you understand, have to step in. By the way, the Quietus article, in which Neil Crossley is described as “midfield general” is quite impressive, if anyone hasn’t yet read). Anyway – hooray, the lyrics aren’t all going to be that easy after all – even the bits I still don’t get are exactly the same bits they already were from the Shepherd’s Bush bootleg Depressed Beyond Tablets" is from a line in the "Crime" episode of Chris Morris's controversial TV comedy Brass Eye.

And I actually just wondered aloud – very loud – what relation Cyril was to Beyonce, enjoying that absurdity momentarily. I wasn’t quizzing NB in any way, but it was definitely one of the stupidest things I’ve ever said in public (when you consider the whole history of the American South), and thoroughly deserved the humiliation of Nigel’s “they’ve got the same surname, yeah.” As you may have guessed I am a bit of what’s become known round my way as a boffin wanker when it comes to the charts. I mean the idea of jumping off the roof could evoke a visual joke about creating your own chalk circle if you’d taken a huge overdose of Bisodol… Well, that was excellent. They played so many songs I thought there wasn’t going to be an encore, then they did one. Great stuff! As the place cleared, I had a chat with Miles on the merch stall. No new products available. Nothing new in the diary beyond Bristol, Wolverhampton, Holmfirth and Newcastle. That’s just four. Surely somewhere else will be added before long?Yep, at approximately five past midnight UK time down it came from iTunes. Currently enjoying third listen of it – greatly improving a dismal day in Wellington