The Trumpton Riots EP

The Trumpton Riots E.P.
EP by Half Man Half Biscuit
Released 1986
Genre Post-punk
Length 13:14 / 16:24
Label Probe Plus TRUMP1 / TRUMX1
Producer Sam Davis and Geoff Davies
Half Man Half Biscuit chronology
Back in the DHSS
(1985)
The Trumpton Riots E.P.
(1986)
Back Again in the DHSS
(1987)

The Trumpton Riots E.P. is a 1986 12" 45½rpm [sic] vinyl EP by the English indie band Half Man Half Biscuit. The original release (TRUMP1) comprised the first four tracks listed below.[1][2] A re-release later that year (TRUMX1) included the fifth one also.[3]

  1. "The Trumpton Riots" (3:11) [4][5]
  2. "Architecture, Morality, Ted and Alice" (3:43) [6]
  3. "1966 and All That" (3:18)
  4. "Albert Hammond Bootleg" (3:02) [7]
  5. "All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit" (3:10) [8]

"The Trumpton Riots (Top 20 Mix)" and "All I Want For Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit" were released in 1986 on a 7" vinyl single (Probe Plus TRUM1-7"), before the release of the five-track EP.[9]

The EP was incorporated into the 2003 re-release on CD of the album Back in the DHSS. There, the title of the second song is given as "Architecture and Morality Ted and Alice".

In a 2001 appreciation of the band, music writer and novelist Kevin Sampson described the EP as "utterly marvellous".[10]

The following tracks have been said to have been recorded for this, their first, EP; but as of 2015 no trustworthy evidence, or even recordings, have been found:

  1. "More Brawn"
  2. "I’m Out on Bail"
  3. "She Looks Like Alan Gilzean"
  4. "No Spare”

Cultural references

As is usual with Half Man Half Biscuit, the songs contain multiple cultural references, often obscure. Those identified include:

A tea towel commemorating the 1981 wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer, of the kind referred to in "Architecture and Morality Ted and Alice"

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