Cammell Laird Social Club

Cammell Laird Social Club

Infobox Album | Name = Cammell Laird Social Club
Type = Album
Artist = Half Man Half Biscuit


Released = 2002
Label = Probe Plus
Producer = Mark Walker (engineer)
Last album = "Trouble Over Bridgwater" (2000)
This album = "Cammell Laird Social Club" (2002)
Next album = "Achtung Bono" (2005)

"Cammell Laird Social Club" is the ninth album released by UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit in 2002.

The title is a pun on the title of the film and album "Buena Vista Social Club" about various Cuban musicians and was a project by Ry Cooder in 1999. Cammell Laird is the name of the company that owned the large shipyard in the band's native Birkenhead.

Track listing

*1. "The Light at the End of the Tunnel (is the Light of an Oncoming Train)"
*2. "When the Evening Sun Goes Down"
*3. "San Antonio Foam Party"
*4. "Them's the Vagaries"
*5. "If I had Possession Over Pancake Day"
*6. "The Referee's Alphabet"
*7. "She's in Broadstairs"
*8. "Tyrolean Knockabout"
*9. "Breaking News"
*10. "27 Yards of Dental Floss"
*11. "Paradise Lost (You're the Reason Why)"
*12. "Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not"
*13. "Stavanger Töestub"

Cultural references in song titles

*1. According to the HMHB website, the light at the end of the tunnel in this context, is what one sees as approaching death.
*3. San Antonio is a resort in Ibiza. Eden being the home of a late night foam party.
*5. The title is inspired by the song "If I had Possession Over Judgement Day" by the blues musician Robert Johnson.
*7. The title is based on "She's in Parties" by Bauhaus (1983). Broadstairs is a quaint seaside resort near Ramsgate in Kent.
*8. Tyrol is a region of Austria.
*11. "Paradise Lost" is an epic poem by John Milton, published 1667.
*12. The title is a quotation from Thomas Hardy's novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles".
*13. Stavanger is the fourth largest city in Norway. The toestub part may have something to do with aluminium smelting.

"The Referee's Alphabet" and "Breaking News" are spoken rather than sung.


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