Trouble Over Bridgwater | ||||
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Released | 25 April 2000 | |||
Label | Probe Plus | |||
Half Man Half Biscuit chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
NME | 7/10 [2] |
Spike Magazine | [3] |
Trouble over Bridgwater is the eighth album by UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, released in 2000. The title is a play on words, based on the Simon and Garfunkel classic, "Bridge over Troubled Water". Bridgwater is a town in Somerset, England, but the similarly named Bridgewater Canal runs nearby the band's home of the Wirral.
The single "Look Dad No Tunes" released by Probe Plus Records on 3 September 1999. [4]
John Peel, who admired the band, [5] included "Look Dad No Tunes" at No. 11 in his 1999 Festive Fifty. [6]
"Lock Up Your Mountain Bikes" parodies the traditional song "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain".[ citation needed ]
Half Man Half Biscuit often make sly or direct references to celebrities, TV programmes, sportspeople, and to other tunes, lyrics and even literary classics. On this album, those identified include: