Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral explained
Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral is the seventh album by Wirral-based UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit (HMHB), released in June 1998.
Critical reception
- Stewart Mason, AllMusic: "Half Man Half Biscuit released this album within one calendar year of its predecessor, 1997's Voyage to the Bottom of the Road [...], and perhaps that accounts for the somewhat lackluster feel. [...] [T]here is enough of interest here to appeal to the converted, but newcomers should perhaps start elsewhere."
- Simon Williams, NME: "Chances of cracking open the notoriously fickle American market: slimmer than Lena Zavaroni's mop handle."
Notes
- The album title is a parody of a phrase associated with The Beatles, "Four lads who shook the world", referring instead to the band's origin in Wirral.
- Techstep is a subgenre of drum and bass that was popular in the late 1990s.
- Wensum is a river in Norfolk.
- A split single is a single which includes tracks by two or more separate artists.
- A Country Practice was a multi-Logie award-winning Australian television serial/drama series 198193.
- Goa is a state located in the southwestern region of India, formerly a Portuguese colony, known as a destination for hippies.
- "Keeping Two Chevrons Apart" refers to the official UK motorway road sign "Keep Apart 2 Chevrons", advising drivers of safe distances between vehicles;[1] the song title is quoted in "Lord Hereford's Knob" on the 2008 album .
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Know Your Traffic Signs . . 88 . 19 February 2016 .
