Cammell Laird Social Club

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Cammell Laird Social Club
Studio album by Half Man Half Biscuit
Released	2002
Label	Probe Plus
Producer	Mark Walker (engineer)
Half Man Half Biscuit chronology
Trouble Over Bridgwater (2000) Cammell Laird Social Club (2002) Achtung Bono (2005)

Cammell Laird Social Club is the ninth album released by UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit in 2002.

The title is a pun on the title of the film and album Buena Vista Social Club about various Cuban musicians and was a project by Ry Cooder in 1999. Cammell Laird is the name of the company that owned the large shipyard in the band's native Birkenhead.

[edit] Track listing

• 1. "The Light at the End of the Tunnel (is the Light of an Oncoming Train)"
• 2. "When the Evening Sun Goes Down"
• 3. "San Antonio Foam Party"
• 4. "Them's the Vagaries"
• 5. "If I had Possession Over Pancake Day"
• 6. "The Referee's Alphabet"
• 7. "She's in Broadstairs"
• 8. "Tyrolean Knockabout"
• 9. "Breaking News"
• 10. "27 Yards of Dental Floss"
• 11. "Paradise Lost (You're the Reason Why)"
• 12. "Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not"
• 13. "Stavanger Töestub"

[edit] Cultural references in song titles

• 1. According to the HMHB website, the light at the end of the tunnel in this context, is what one sees as approaching death.
• 3. San Antonio is a resort in Ibiza. Eden being the home of a late night foam party.
• 5. The title is inspired by the song "If I had Possession Over Judgement Day" by the blues musician Robert Johnson.
• 7. The title is based on "She's in Parties" by Bauhaus (1983). Broadstairs is a quaint seaside resort near Ramsgate in Kent.
• 8. Tyrol is a region of Austria.
• 11. Paradise Lost is an epic poem by John Milton, published 1667.
• 12. The title is a quotation from Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
• 13. Stavanger is the fourth largest city in Norway. The toestub part may have something to do with aluminium smelting.

"The Referee's Alphabet" and "Breaking News" are spoken rather than sung.