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Half Man Half Biscuit

Half Man Half Biscuit is a group from the UK, active since 1984.

Group GB since 1984 post-punk indie rock c86

TOTAL PLAYS

780

SONGS PLAYED

242

STATIONS

FIRST PLAYED

2005-02-16 07:10 · 6 Music — "Secret Gig"

LAST PLAYED

2 months ago · 6 Music — "Restless Legs"

BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026

70 53 35 18 0

'05 '08 '11 '14 '17 '20 '23 '26

◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 774 99%

Radio 2 6 1%

Radio 1 0 0%

1Xtra 0 0%

◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 21:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT

#TITLEPLAYSLAST

1 Joy Division Oven Gloves 84 2025-09-02

2 All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit 31 2025-12-05

3 It's Clichéd To Be Cynical At Christmas 18 2025-12-24

4 She's In Broadstairs 16 2024-11-05

5 Running Order Squabble Fest 16 2021-11-01

6 I Was A Teenage Armchair Honved Fan 14 2022-05-04

7 The Trumpton Riots 13 2025-11-02

8 Irk the Purists 13 2023-09-12

9 Dickie Davies Eyes 12 2020-05-20

10 The Best Things In Life 11 2023-03-29

11 It's Cliched To Be Cynical At Christmas 11 2015-12-24

12 A Lilac Harry Quinn 9 2025-06-26

◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-26 20:03 Restless Legs 6 Music

2026-05-11 16:08 Bad Losers On Yahoo! Chess 6 Music

2025-12-29 22:30 Falmouth Electrics 6 Music

2025-12-28 20:20 Falmouth Electrics 6 Music

2025-12-24 21:19 It's Clichéd To Be Cynical At Christmas 6 Music

2025-12-17 21:49 Falmouth Electrics 6 Music

2025-12-05 22:22 All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit 6 Music

2025-12-04 21:03 McCalliog and His Hens 6 Music

2025-11-02 15:00 The Trumpton Riots 6 Music

2025-10-26 12:08 Fix It So She Dreams Of Me 6 Music

2025-09-16 21:27 No-One Likes A Polymath 6 Music

2025-09-02 20:04 Falmouth Electrics 6 Music

◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

242 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z

BAR ▶

1966 And All That —

2 2018-06-11 ▶

24 hour garage —

1 2013-08-08 ▶

24 Hour Garage People —

1 2014-08-03 ▶

27 Yards Of Dental Floss (CH) —

1 2011-07-28 ▶

4 Skinny Indian Kids 1998 —

2 2005-02-27 ▶

4 Skinny Indie Kids —

4 2021-11-01 ▶

4 Skinny Indie Kids 1998 —

2 2008-03-05 ▶

4AD 3D CD —

3 2021-11-01 ▶

4Ad 3Dcd —

1 2010-12-14 ▶

4Ad 3Dcd 1998 —

5 2010-11-02 ▶

4Ad 3Dcd (98) —

1 2006-08-03 ▶

4AD3DCD —

1 2018-11-02 ▶

4Ad3dcd. —

1 2020-01-09 ▶

99% Of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd —

2 2013-08-30 ▶

99% of Gargoyles Look Like Look Like Bob Todd —

1 2007-01-13 ▶

A Country Practice —

1 2020-05-07 ▶

A Lilac Harry Quinn —

9 2025-06-26 ▶

A Shropshire Lad —

1 2014-02-21 ▶

Adam Boyle Has Cast Lad Rock Aside —

5 2015-02-16 ▶

Akward Sean —

1 2022-03-06 ▶

Alehouse Futsal —

2 2018-06-05 ▶

All I Want for Christmas - BBC Session 10/11/1985 —

1 2021-12-22 ▶

All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit —

31 2025-12-05 ▶

All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit (John Peel Session 1985) —

1 2014-08-31 ▶

All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit (John Peel Session, 10 Nov 1985) —

5 2022-12-19 ▶

All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit (Liv —

1 2013-02-16 ▶

All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit : Session 10/11/85 —

1 2018-07-07 ▶

All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Praque Away Kit —

1 2007-12-25 ▶

All I Want For Christmas Is Dukla Prague Away Kit —

1 2010-01-26 ▶

All I want For Xmas is a Dukla Prague away Kit —

2 2013-12-20 ▶

Architecture, Morality, Ted & Alice —

1 2012-01-31 ▶

Arthur's Farm / All I Want For Christmas (John Peel session 10th Nov 1985) —

1 2017-04-05 ▶

Arthur's Farm / All I Want For Christmas - BBC Session 10/11/1985 —

4 2013-10-09 ▶

Asparagus Next Left —

5 2021-02-05 ▶

Awkward Sean —

3 2022-12-19 ▶

Bad Losers on Yahoo Chess —

6 2015-03-24 ▶

Bad Losers On Yahoo! Chess —

7 2026-05-11 ▶

Bad Review —

5 2021-11-01 ▶

Bad Review 1998 —

5 2010-11-02 ▶

Baguette Dilemma For The Booker Prize Guy —

1 2014-11-04 ▶

Best things in life —

3 2015-02-03 ▶

Best Things In Life (Radio 1 Session, 31 Aug 1986) —

2 2024-07-24 ▶

Best Things In Life - BBC Session —

2 2008-02-13 ▶

Blue Badge - 6Music Session —

1 2008-11-27 ▶

Bottle Neck At Capel Curig —

1 2011-10-18 ▶

Bottleneck At Capel Curig —

2 2009-09-11 ▶

Bottleneck At Capel Curig (John Peel Session 25 Aug 1999) —

1 2018-09-03 ▶

Bottleneck At Capel Curig (Radio 1 Session, 25 Aug 1999) —

4 2023-03-29 ▶

Bottleneck At Capel Curig - BBC Session 25/08/1999 —

1 2008-05-04 ▶

Breaking News —

1 2015-01-20 ▶

Busy Little Market Town —

1 2015-12-02 ▶

C.A.M.R.A Man —

1 2014-10-30 ▶

C.A.M.R.A. Man —

2 2020-10-08 ▶

Country Practice 1998 —

2 2005-02-27 ▶

Country Pratice —

1 2010-12-14 ▶

D'Ye Ken Ted Moult —

1 2014-01-17 ▶

D'ye Ken Ted Moult - BBC Session 10/11/1985 —

5 2013-10-09 ▶

D'ye Ken Ted Moult? (John Peel Session, 10 Nov 1985) —

4 2021-03-18 ▶

David Wainwright's Feet —

3 2021-12-27 ▶

Deep House Victims Minibus Appeal —

3 2019-10-17 ▶

Deep House Victims Minibus Appeal 1998 —

4 2010-11-02 ▶

Descent Of The Stiperstones —

3 2015-10-10 ▶

Dickie Davies Eyes —

12 2020-05-20 ▶

Dickie Davies Eyes (Radio 1 Session, 31 Aug 1986) —

7 2023-02-22 ▶

Dickie Davies Eyes - BBC Session —

3 2008-07-11 ▶

Dickie Davies Eyes - BBC Session 31/08/1986 —

1 2008-09-21 ▶

Emergency Locksmith —

1 2019-01-06 ▶

Eno Collaboration —

5 2016-05-14 ▶

Eno Collaboration (Remix) —

2 2021-11-17 ▶

Evening Of Swing (Has Been Cancelled) —

1 2015-03-11 ▶

Everything's A.O.R. —

6 2020-12-15 ▶

Everything's AOR —

1 2014-10-16 ▶

Falmouth Electrics —

7 2025-12-29 ▶

False Grit —

5 2016-02-03 ▶

Fear My Wrath —

1 2022-03-17 ▶

Fix It So She Dreams Of Me —

2 2025-10-26 ▶

Footprints —

2 2022-10-02 ▶

For What Is Chatteris —

5 2016-08-24 ▶

For What Is Chatteris... —

9 2023-08-03 ▶

For What Is Chatteris....... —

1 2014-06-16 ▶

For What It Is Chatteris —

1 2008-06-15 ▶

Four Skinny Indie Kids —

1 2020-03-05 ▶

Four Skinny Indie Kids Drinking Weak Lager... (John Peel session.1.2.1998) —

1 2014-08-04 ▶

Fun Day In The Park —

3 2012-01-02 ▶

Get Kramer (John Peel session 11/7/1995) —

1 2012-01-25 ▶

Give Us Bubblewrap —

1 2008-04-11 ▶

Goodbye Sam, Hello Samaritans —

2 2025-06-09 ▶

Grafting Haddock in the George —

3 2023-02-23 ▶

Gubba Look-a-Likes —

2 2009-09-11 ▶

Gubba Lookalikes —

2 2009-09-11 ▶

Gubba Lookalikes (John Peel Session, 25 Aug 1999) —

3 2023-03-29 ▶

Gubba Lookalikes (Radio 1 Session, 25 Aug 1999) —

2 2015-07-23 ▶

Gubba Lookalikes - BBC Session 25/08/1999 —

1 2008-04-25 ▶

Hair Like Brian May —

1 2007-05-13 ▶

Hair Like Brian May Blues —

4 2022-05-26 ▶

Harsh Times in Umberstone Covert —

6 2018-12-10 ▶

He Who Would Valium Take —

2 2012-12-13 ▶

He Who Would Valium Take (Radio 1 Session, 12 Jan 1997) —

2 2020-05-26 ▶

Hedley Verityesque —

2 2013-07-21 ▶

I Hate Nerys Hughes —

1 2014-12-19 ▶

I Was A Teenage Armchair Honved Fan —

14 2022-05-04 ▶

I Was A Teenage Armchair Honved Fan (Radio 1 Session, 31 Aug 1986) —

1 2016-08-31 ▶

I Was A Teenage Armchair Honved Fan - BBC Session —

1 2007-05-11 ▶

I went to a wedding —

2 2016-11-23 ▶

I'm Going Out of My Mind Trying to Get Into Yours —

2 2025-06-09 ▶

If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day —

1 2021-02-16 ▶

If I Had Possession Over Pancake Day —

4 2025-03-04 ▶

In A Suffolk Ditch —

1 2022-06-08 ▶

Irk the Purists —

13 2023-09-12 ▶

It Makes The Room Look Bigger —

1 2017-10-01 ▶

It's Cliched To Be Cynical At Christmas —

11 2015-12-24 ▶

It's ClichÃ©d To Be Cynical At Christmas —

5 2010-12-23 ▶

It's Clichéd To Be Cynical At Christmas —

18 2025-12-24 ▶

Joy Division —

3 2009-03-14 ▶

Joy Division Oven Gloves —

84 2025-09-02 ▶

Joy Divison - 6Music Session —

1 2008-11-27 ▶

Joy Divison Oven Gloves —

1 2012-04-28 ▶

K***heads On Quiz Shows —

2 2018-07-29 ▶

King Of Hi Vis —

1 2019-06-05 ▶

King Of Hi-Vis —

1 2016-12-08 ▶

L'Enfer C'Est Les Autres —

1 2010-08-11 ▶

Lark Descending —

1 2016-11-01 ▶

Left Lyrics In The Practice Room —

8 2023-08-22 ▶

Left Lyrics in the Practice Room (6 Music Session, 11 Aug 2010) —

2 2020-10-21 ▶

Left Lyrics in the Practice Room - 6 Music Session 110810 —

1 2012-04-16 ▶

Left Lyrics in the Practice Room - 6 Music Session for Marc Riley 110810 —

1 2017-01-23 ▶

Left Lyrics In The Practise Room —

1 2022-03-06 ▶

Little In The Way Of Sunshine —

2 2024-03-21 ▶

Lock Up Your Mountain Bikes —

1 2022-03-27 ▶

M-6-Ster —

1 2013-11-29 ▶

Man of Constant Sorrow —

2 2018-05-17 ▶

Man of Constant Sorrow (With a Garage in Constant Use) —

5 2021-01-26 ▶

Man Of Constant Sorrow (With A Garage In Contant Use) —

1 2018-11-06 ▶

McCalliog and His Hens —

3 2025-12-04 ▶

Monomore Hare's Running —

4 2012-12-12 ▶

Monomore Hare's Running (Radio 1 Session, 12 Jan 1997) —

3 2020-12-07 ▶

Moody Chops (John Peel session 1..2.1999) —

1 2014-08-07 ▶

Mr Cave's a Window Cleaner Now (John Peel session 11 July 1995) —

1 2012-01-24 ▶

My Outstretched Arms —

1 2014-10-15 ▶

National Shite Day —

2 2019-03-28 ▶

New York Skiffle —

1 2007-08-04 ▶

No-One Likes A Polymath —

2 2025-09-16 ▶

Oblong of Deams —

1 2023-11-14 ▶

Oblong Of Dreams —

3 2024-06-06 ▶

Ode To Joyce —

2 2020-07-24 ▶

Ol'tige - BBC Session 10/11/1985 —

4 2013-10-09 ▶

Old Age Killed My Teenage Bride —

2 2017-05-06 ▶

Old Tige (John Peel Session, 10 Nov 1985) —

1 2017-09-21 ▶

Outbreak Of Vitas Gerulaitis —

3 2022-09-29 ▶

Paintball's Coming Home —

3 2021-02-28 ▶

Paintball’s Coming Home —

1 2013-08-07 ▶

Persian Rug Sale At The URC —

1 2022-03-03 ▶

Petty Session —

1 2008-04-10 ▶

Petty Sessions —

9 2023-01-16 ▶

Possible Side Effects —

1 2025-07-13 ▶

Prag Vec at the Milkweg —

1 2020-07-16 ▶

PRS Yearbook Quick the Drawbridge —

4 2012-12-10 ▶

PRS Yearbook Quick The Drawbridge (Radio 1 Session, 12 Jan 1997) —

3 2020-12-07 ▶

Rawlplugs Of Yesteryear —

1 2025-06-01 ▶

Ready Steady Goa —

1 2016-05-10 ▶

Reasons To Be Miserable Pt 10 —

1 2016-12-21 ▶

Record Store Day —

3 2025-08-12 ▶

Referee's Alphabet —

1 2014-06-11 ▶

Reflections In A Flat —

4 2021-07-05 ▶

Restless Legs —

7 2026-05-26 ▶

Rock n Roll Is Full Of Bad Wools —

1 2012-03-09 ▶

Rod Hull Is Alive...Why ? (Radio 1 Session, 31 Aug 1986) —

2 2018-08-31 ▶

Rogation Sunday's Here Again! —

2 2022-03-09 ▶

RSVP ( 6 Music Session 11th Aug 2010) —

1 2019-02-12 ▶

RSVP - 6 Music Session for Marc Riley110810 —

1 2017-01-23 ▶

Running Order Squabble Fest —

16 2021-11-01 ▶

Running Order Squabble Fest - 1998 —

3 2008-06-26 ▶

Running Order Squable Fest - 1998 —

3 2005-04-17 ▶

San Antonio Foam Party —

2 2016-03-22 ▶

Seal Clubbing —

1 2013-01-09 ▶

Secret Gig —

6 2025-05-25 ▶

Secret Gig (John Peel session 1.2.1998) —

1 2014-08-06 ▶

See That My Bike Is Kept Clean —

3 2015-07-02 ▶

See That My Bike's Kept Clean —

5 2023-06-29 ▶

Sensitive Outsider —

1 2015-06-15 ▶

She's In Broadstairs —

16 2024-11-05 ▶

Shes in Broadstairs —

1 2008-10-21 ▶

Something's Rotten In The Back Of Iceland —

3 2011-10-28 ▶

Song Of Encouragement For The Orme Ascent (John Peel session 11/7/1995) —

1 2012-01-23 ▶

Split Single With Happy Lounge Labelmates - —

3 2008-09-09 ▶

Sponsoring The Moshpits —

1 2017-09-17 ▶

Stuck Up A Hornbeam —

2 2014-10-21 ▶

Swerving the Checkatrade —

1 2018-05-04 ▶

Swerving the Checktrade —

1 2018-05-15 ▶

Tending The Wrong Grave For 23 Years —

2 2023-12-13 ▶

Tess Of The Dormobiles —

6 2022-03-22 ▶

The Announcement —

2 2018-06-04 ▶

The Ballad Of Climie Fisher —

1 2011-09-17 ▶

The Bastard Son Of Dean Friedman —

1 2017-06-05 ▶

The Bastard Son Of Dean Friedman - Session 23/02/86 —

1 2008-02-27 ▶

The Best Things In Life —

11 2023-03-29 ▶

The Bliss of the Hereafter —

2 2025-06-08 ▶

The Blues of the Hereafter —

1 2025-05-28 ▶

The Len Ganley Stance —

9 2023-10-05 ▶

The Light At The End Of The Tunnel —

4 2024-04-02 ▶

The Light At The End Of The Tunnel (Is The Light Of An Oncoming Train) —

3 2023-03-17 ▶

The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is The Light Of An Oncoming Train —

1 2017-08-26 ▶

The Trumpton Riots —

13 2025-11-02 ▶

The Trumpton Riots (John Peel Session, 10 Nov 1985) —

5 2022-12-19 ▶

The Trumpton Riots (Radio 1 Session, 10 Nov 1985) —

1 2024-10-24 ▶

The Trumpton Riots - BBC Session 10/11/1985 —

6 2013-10-09 ▶

Them's The Vagaries —

1 2014-01-24 ▶

This One's For Now —

2 2014-10-20 ▶

Time Flies By (When You're The Driver Of A Train) —

3 2022-02-03 ▶

Tommy Walsh's Eco House —

3 2023-05-09 ▶

Tommy Walsh's Eco House ( 6 Music Session 11th Aug 2010) —

1 2019-02-11 ▶

Tommy Walsh's Eco House (6 Music Session 11 Aug 2010) —

1 2020-10-21 ▶

Tommy Walsh's Eco House - 6 Music Session for Marc Riley 110810 —

1 2017-01-23 ▶

Tonight Matthew I'm Going To Be With J —

1 2012-12-11 ▶

Tonight Matthew I'm Going To Be With J (Radio 1 Session, 12 Jan 1997) —

2 2020-12-07 ▶

Took Problem Chimp To Ideal Home Show —

2 2017-12-01 ▶

Totnes Bickering —

2 2009-11-13 ▶

Totnes Bickering Fair —

4 2022-10-06 ▶

Tour Jacket With Detachable Sleeves —

1 2014-09-25 ▶

Trumpton Riots —

6 2018-08-11 ▶

Turned Up Clocked On Laid Off —

1 2018-12-17 ▶

Twenty Four —

1 2013-09-16 ▶

Twenty Four Hour Garage People —

4 2024-01-01 ▶

Twenty Four Hour Garage People (John Peel Session 25 Aug 1999) —

1 2018-09-04 ▶

Twenty Four Hour Garage People - BBC Session 25/08/1999 —

1 2017-05-16 ▶

Twenty Four Hour Party People —

6 2010-02-23 ▶

Twenty Four Hour Party People (Radio 1 Session, 25 Aug 1999) —

2 2021-04-15 ▶

Twenty Four Hour Party People - BBC Session 25/08/1999 —

1 2008-05-04 ▶

Uffington Wassail —

5 2013-10-17 ▶

Uffington Wassail (John Peel Session, 25 Aug 1999) —

2 2019-08-25 ▶

Uffington Wassail (Radio 1 Session, 25 Aug 1999) —

1 2014-08-28 ▶

Uffington Wassail - BBC Session 25/08/1999 —

2 2008-05-04 ▶

Venus In Flares —

5 2023-08-29 ▶

We Built This Village on a Trad. Arr. Tune —

1 2013-10-11 ▶

Westward Ho! Massive Let-Down —

1 2015-03-11 ▶

Westward Ho! Massive Letdown —

1 2015-06-20 ▶

Westward Ho!-Massive Letdown —

4 2023-04-20 ▶

What Is Chatterisa —

1 2013-09-24 ▶

Whit Week Malarkey —

1 2016-05-04 ▶

With Goth On Our Side —

1 2010-01-25 ▶

You're Hard (John Peel Show 1.2.1998) —

1 2014-08-05 ▶

You're Hard 1998 —

2 2005-02-27 ▶