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Used To Be In Evil Gazebo

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Half Man Half Biscuit, often abbreviated to "HMHB", are an indie rock band from Birkenhead, England, active sporadically since the 1984, known for its satirical, sardonic, and sometimes surreal songs. The group consists of Nigel Blackwell (lead vocals, guitar), Neil Crossley (bass), Ken Hancock (lead guitar), and Carl Henry (drums). Throughout their career they have been signed to Probe Plus records.

The band's first single, The Trumpton Riots, topped the British Independent Chart in 1986

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Four years of hard work!

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[Introduction]

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I’m sitting in my Ladbroke Grove waiting for the NME;

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They’re coming down to interview me.

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But I haven’t told the others, ‘cos they’d mess about and burp, and tell the truth and laugh at me

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for drinking a classic red, bottled by a medal-winning estate on the banks of the Garonne.

[Interview monologue]

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So then Ben, it seems every track on the EP involves death, drunkenness, desperate poverty,

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diabolical dealings, incest, murder and abandonment. Does this reflect your current state of mind?

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Well, you know I have days. Those songs were written a few years back when I had a few problems

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with someone really close. Things started to weigh me down. And I generally don’t like to talk
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about it, you know.

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Okay, yeah – no problem.

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What it is you see, is that you can love someone and hate them at the same time, and I felt like
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I was on a tightrope – kind of like a precipice. It was all a bit deranged, and I guess that comes
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through in the music.

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Yeah, sure. Your guitarist used to be in Evil Gazebo. Has that been an influence on your sound
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Do you think?

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Well those particular songs were more about the descent into madness which I found myself
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falling into. So obviously I wrote those songs through nothing really to do with erm, this new
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guitarist, and er, it’s all to do with the ensuing psychiatric help. Which I suppose is in evidence
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within the lyrics. As I say, I don’t want to go into that too much.

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Right, yeah. Your ex-girlfriend informs us, erm, after her new band of course – Pankhurst, entered
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the charts last week, that your treatment as such was at a voluntary day ward and you went along
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there purely to get people into thinking you were the new Nick Drake.

[Chorus]

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I’ve been in a mental hospital, I’ve been in a mental hospital
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But I don’t like to talk about it, all the same.
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I’ve been in a mental hospital, I’ve been in a mental hospital
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I’ve been in a mental hospital, I’ve been in a mental hospital.

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[Monologue]

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I looked at the colour booklet they gave me in town; there was a picture of a young boy
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on the cover playing table tennis with a big friendly bear. An owl was umpiring and in the
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background The Tindersticks were opening the Hamilton Bland Memorial Swimming Pool.
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Behind an ancient oak, a figure stood with his head hung down in shame like an actress
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leaving a divorce court. He’d been found guilty of wearing a Brazilian shirt with a number
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ten on the back and swigging from a bottle of lager, whilst talking of the beautiful game.

[Bridge]

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Up on the beacon a balladeer with a big nose belted out a broadside.

[Chorus]

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Suspected murderer of Tupac murder suspect murdered.
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Suspected murderer of Tupac murder suspect murdered.
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Suspected murderer of Tupac murder suspect murdered.
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Murdered.
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Murdered.