Saucy Haulage Ballads

Saucy Haulage Ballads
EP by Half Man Half Biscuit
Released	4 August 2003 [1]
Recorded	2003
Studio	F.R.O.G. Studios, Warrington [2]
Genre	Post-punk
Length	18:55
Label	Probe Plus PP35
Producer	Local schoolchildren
Half Man Half Biscuit chronology
Cammell Laird Social Club (2002) Saucy Haulage Ballads (2003) Achtung Bono (2005)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Stylus Magazine	A- [3]

Saucy Haulage Ballads is an extended play CD released by Birkenhead 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.	Title	Length
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

• "Jarg" is a Merseyside slang word meaning "fake", sometimes applied to knock-off goods.^[6]
• Armani is an Italian fashion house.
• "On Finding the Studio Banjo" is a reworking of Half Man Half Biscuit's 1986 song "The Trumpton Riots", in a bluegrass style with banjo accompaniment.
• A quad is a courtyard, often at one of the older English universities.
• The title "I Went to a Wedding..." parodies that of the 1952 song "I Went to Your Wedding".

References

1. "Half Man Half Biscuit: Saucy Haulage Ballads". Last.fm. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
2. "Frog Recording Studios". Retrieved 25 February 2016.
3. 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.

External links

• "Saucy Haulage Ballads". Retrieved 25 February 2016. The oldest-established Half Man Half Biscuit fansite
• "Saucy Haulage Ballads". Retrieved 25 February 2016. The Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project