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Half Mandolin Half Biscuit Feb 12, 2022 (2 years ago) The Shakespeare pub Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Partial review from Roger Green's HMHB review, from yesterdays gig.
Saturday afternoon, after a fine lunch at Cavells, saw an appearance at Shakespeare’s by the excellent Half Mandolin Half Biscuit, in the persons of Ian, Katie, Ed (wearing a Burberry fez), Teg, Trevor and Will. At various points I had chats with Katie, Ed and Trevor, agreeing that the songs showed their strength by being able to stand up to a “folkie” treatment. There was a raffle where they ran out of tickets, so you had to make up your own HMHB-related year as your ticket number. All to a good cause. The Declaration Of Arbroath got us second place, meaning we came home with some Nightjar brewery product, Half Can Half Biscuit. Good to see Steve, Phil and Tim there, and we also met Nick who is/was one half of Half Man Half Bikekit. Tony (Birmingham City v Luton Town) and Andrew (Lincoln City v Wycombe Wanderers) were otherwise detained. We left for our train home, not realising that the band still had one more set to go. So thanks to Phil for completing the list by text. It would be good to see this lot more often, but we’ll make do with every time in Sheffield for now. After Ed’s opening line, “You’re all in the right place, aren’t you?”, it went like this… Twenty-Seven Yards Of Dental Floss Irk The Purists 1966 And All That Bad Losers On Yahoo Chess The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is The Light Of An Oncoming Train Even Men With Steel Hearts Running Order Squabble Fest Lord Hereford’s Knob Uffington Wassail Fix It So She Dreams Of Me The second set was Gubba Lookalikes Knobheads On Quiz Shows L’Enfer C’Est Les Autres For What Is Chatteris Mod Diff V Diff Hard Severe Bad Review A Shropshire Lad (terrific performance from Ed here) Depressed Beyond Tablets Third Track Main Camera Four Minutes When I Look At My Baby (with a bit of 4AD3DCD added on) Look Dad No Tunes When The Evening Sun Goes Down Joy Division Oven Gloves And the third set Restless Legs Lock Up Your Mountain Bikes Vatican Broadside Keeping Two Chevrons Apart All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit With Goth On Our Side Bottleneck At Capel Curig RSVP Everything’s AOR What Made Colombia Famous Nice to see them sticking a new one in there. Looking forward to seeing HMHB again soon. Ta again to Phil, our man on the spot, for filling in the gaps. Also to Andrew and Tony, for technical advice at The Leadmill. And, of course to Karen, for not smashing my laptop over my head at various points over the weekend while I was typing up these notes. 13 February 2022
Alternative Rock, Anti-Folk, C86, Folk Punk, Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Punk, UK Post-Punk, and Australian Hardcore.
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