Trouble Over Bridgwater

Trouble Over Bridgwater
Studio album by Half Man Half Biscuit
Released	2000
Label	Probe Plus
Half Man Half Biscuit chronology
Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral (1998) Trouble Over Bridgwater (2000) Cammell Laird Social Club (2002)

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Trouble Over Bridgwater is the eighth album by UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, released in 2000. The title is a play on words, based on the Simon & Garfunkel classic, "Bridge Over Troubled Water". Bridgwater is a town in Somerset, England, though the similarly named Bridgewater Canal runs near to the band's homebase of the Wirral.

Track listing

1. "Irk The Purists"
2. "Uffington Wassail"
3. "Third Track Main Camera Four Minutes"
4. "Nove On The Sly"
5. "Ballad Of Climie Fisher"
6. "Gubba Look-a-Likes"
7. "Mathematically Safe"
8. "With Goth On Our Side"
9. "Used To Be In Evil Gazebo"
10. "Slight Reprise"
11. "It's Clichéd To Be Cynical At Christmas"
12. "Visitor For Mr. Edmonds"
13. "Bottleneck At Capel Curig"
14. "Emerging From Gorse"
15. "Look Dad No Tunes"
16. "Twenty Four Hour Garage People"

Cultural References

Half Man Half Biscuit often reference other cultural touchstones in their music.

• "Irk the Purists" interpolates the hymn Oil in My Lamp, and references many credible bands and pop artists.
• "With Goth on Our Side" references the Bob Dylan song "With God on Our Side",
• "Slight Reprise" is a pun on the The Bluetones' Slight Return
• "Twenty Four Hour Garage People" is a pun on the Happy Mondays' 24 Hour Party People, and also contains the line "He went to play golf on a Sunday morn just a mile and a half from town, his head was found on the driving range and his body's never been found", which is a reference to the Lead Belly version of In the Pines.

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