Trouble Over Bridgwater
Studio album by Half Man Half Biscuit
Released	25 April 2000
Label	Probe Plus
Half Man Half Biscuit chronology
Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral (1998) Trouble Over Bridgwater (2000) Editor's Recommendation (2001)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
NME	7/10[2]
Spike Magazine	[3]

Trouble over Bridgwater is the eighth album by UK rock bandHalf Man Half Biscuit, released in 2000. The title is a play on words, based on theSimon and Garfunkel classic, "Bridge over Troubled Water".Bridgwater is a town inSomerset, England, but the similarly namedBridgewater Canal runs nearby the band's home ofthe Wirral.

1. "Irk the Purists"
2. "UffingtonWassail"
3. "Third Track Main Camera Four Minutes"
4. "Nove on the Sly"
5. "Ballad ofClimie Fisher"
6. "Gubba Look-a-Likes"
7. "Mathematically Safe"
8. "WithGoth on Our Side"
9. "Used to Be in Evil Gazebo"
10. "Slight Reprise"
11. "It's Clichéd to Be Cynical at Christmas"
12. "Visitor forMr Edmonds"
13. "Bottleneck atCapel Curig"
14. "Emerging from Gorse"
15. "Look Dad No Tunes"
16. "Twenty Four Hour Garage People"

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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:

• The CD inlay reproduces the title page ofOld English Songs by thefolk song collectorJohn Broadwood (1798–1864)
• "Irk the Purists" interpolates thehymnOil in My Lamp and theBlack Lace songAgadoo, and references many credible bands and pop artists
• "Third Track Main Camera Four Minutes" quotes fromThomas Hardy'sThe Return of the Native
• "Gubba Lookalikes" is a reference toTony Gubba (1943–2013), a British sports commentator, best known for his football commentaries onBBC'sMatch of the Day in the 1980s and 1990s.
• "With Goth on Our Side" references theBob Dylan song "With God on Our Side".
• "Used to Be in Evil Gazebo" referencesNick Drake,Tindersticks, themurder of Tupac Shakur, and a non-credible band
• "Slight Reprise" is a pun onThe Bluetones' "Slight Return" andJimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
• The title "Twenty Four Hour Garage People" is a pun onHappy Mondays' "24 Hour Party People". The middle section of the song parodies "Rock Island Line"; and the conclusion,Lead Belly's version of "In the Pines"

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• The Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project

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