Saucy Haulage Ballads

Saucy Haulage Ballads
EP by
Released4 August 2003 [1]
Recorded2003
StudioF.R.O.G. Studios, Warrington [2]
GenrePost-punk
Length18:55
LabelProbe Plus PP35
ProducerLocal schoolchildren
Half Man Half Biscuit chronology
Cammell Laird Social Club
(2002)
Saucy Haulage Ballads
(2003)
Achtung Bono
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Stylus MagazineA- [3]

Saucy Haulage Ballads is an extended play CD released by the Birkenhead-based British 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]

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