Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral is the seventh album by Wirral-based UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit (HMHB), released in June 1998.
Critical reception Stewart Mason, AllMusic: "Half Man Half Biscuit released this album within one calendar year of its predecessor, 1997's Voyage to the Bottom of the Road [...], and perhaps that accounts for the somewhat lackluster feel. [...] [T]here is enough of interest here to appeal to the converted, but newcomers should perhaps start elsewhere." Simon Williams, NME: "Chances of cracking open the notoriously fickle American market: slimmer than Lena Zavaroni's mop handle."
Track listing
Notes The album title is a parody of a phrase associated with The Beatles, "Four lads who shook the world", referring instead to the band's origin in Wirral. Techstep is a subgenre of drum and bass that was popular in the late 1990s. Wensum is a river in Norfolk. A split single is a single which includes tracks by two or more separate artists. A Country Practice was a multi-Logie award-winning Australian television serial/drama series 198193. Goa is a state located in the southwestern region of India, formerly a Portuguese colony, known as a destination for hippies. "Keeping Two Chevrons Apart" refers to the official UK motorway road sign "Keep Apart 2 Chevrons", advising drivers of safe distances between vehicles; the song title is quoted in "Lord Hereford's Knob" on the 2008 album CSI:Ambleside.
References
External links Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral at the longest-established fan website Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral at the Half man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project