Saucy Haulage Ballads
EP by
Released4 August 2003 [1]
Recorded2003
StudioF.R.O.G. Studios, Warrington [2]
GenrePost-punk
Length18:55
LabelProbe Plus PP35
ProducerLocal schoolchildren
Half Man Half Biscuit chronology
Cammell Laird Social Club
(2002)
Saucy Haulage Ballads
(2003)
Achtung Bono
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Stylus MagazineA- [3]

Saucy Haulage Ballads is an extended play CD released by the Birkenhead-based British group Half Man Half Biscuit in August 2003.[4] A reviewer in Stylus Magazine remarked: "Saucy Haulage Ballads may only be a six-track EP, but it contains more ideas, insight and moments than most bands could manage in an entire career."[3]

According to English writer Julie Burchill, the lyrics of "Blood on the Quad" have a "pleasing whiff" of the finale of Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film if.....[5]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Jarg Armani"3:02
2."Tending the Wrong Grave for 23 Years"3:44
3."It Makes the Room Look Bigger"3:14
4."On Finding the Studio Banjo"3:30
5."Blood on the Quad"2:08
6."I Went to a Wedding..."3:17

Notes

References

  1. "Half Man Half Biscuit: Saucy Haulage Ballads". Last.fm. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  2. "Frog Recording Studios". Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  3. 1 2 Passantino, Dom (1 September 2003). "Half Man Half Biscuit: Saucy Haulage Ballads". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  4. Half Man Half Biscuit  Saucy Haulage Ballads at Discogs
  5. Burchill, Julie (3 March 2016). "How Half Man Half Biscuit have forged a career mocking middle-class idiocy". New Statesman. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  6. Guy, Peter (2 June 2015). "Liverpool sayings: Top 26 things only Scousers say – a guide to the Scouse dictionary". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
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