Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral

Released

29 June 1998

Recorded

Bus Stop Studios, Leigh ^[1]

Length

41:25

HMHB and Geoff Davies

Voyage to the Bottom of the Road
(1997)

Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral
(1998)

Trouble over Bridgwater
(2000)

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.^[3]

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."^[2]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Children of Apocalyptic Techstep"	2:51
2.	"Four Skinny Indie Kids"	2:35
3.	"You're Hard"	2:13
4.	"On Reaching the Wensum"	3:02
5.	"Moody Chops"	2:39
6.	"Turn a Blind Eye"	2:25
7.	"Split Single with Happy Lounge Labelmates"	2:11
8.	"A Country Practice"	6:34
9.	"Secret Gig"	3:06
10.	"Soft Verges"	5:37
11.	"Multitude"	2:46
12.	"Ready Steady Goa"	3:36
13.	"Keeping Two Chevrons Apart"	1:50

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 1981–93
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;^[4] the song title is quoted in "Lord Hereford's Knob" on the 2008 album CSI:Ambleside

Half Man Half Biscuit

Albums	Back in the DHSS (1985) Back Again in the DHSS (1987) ACD (1989) McIntyre, Treadmore and Davitt (1991) This Leaden Pall (1993) Some Call It Godcore (1995) Voyage to the Bottom of the Road (1997) Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral (1998) Trouble over Bridgwater (2000) Cammell Laird Social Club (2002) Achtung Bono (2005) CSI:Ambleside (2008) 90 Bisodol (Crimond) (2011) Urge for Offal (2014) And Some Fell on Stony Ground (2016)

Singles/EPs	The Trumpton Riots EP (1986) Dickie Davies Eyes The Peel Sessions Let's Not (1990) No Regrets Eno Collaboration (1996) Look Dad No Tunes (1999) Editor's Recommendation (2001) Saucy Haulage Ballads (2003)

Related articles	Probe Plus Birkenhead Category:Half Man Half Biscuit

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