Cammell Laird Social Club

2002 studio album by Half Man Half Biscuit

Studio album by

Released

23 September 2002

Recorded

Frog Studios, Warrington ^[1]

Genre

Post-punk, indie rock

Length

41:35

Label

Probe Plus PROBE 52

Producer

Mark Walker (engineer)

Editor's Recommendation
(2001)

Cammell Laird Social Club
(2002)

Saucy Haulage Ballads
(2003)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Cammell Laird Social Club is the ninth album released by Birkenhead-based UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, in September 2002.^[2]^[3]

Critical reception

Stewart Mason, AllMusic: "Cammell Laird Social Club is proof that for all their supposed indolence, Half Man Half Biscuit remain one of the sharpest and most satisfying bands in the U.K. indie scene".^[2]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Light at the End of the Tunnel (Is the Light of an Oncoming Train)"	2:32
2.	"When the Evening Sun Goes Down"	3:32
3.	"San Antonio Foam Party"	3:25
4.	"Them's the Vagaries"	3:28
5.	"If I Had Possession over Pancake Day"	2:14
6.	"The Referee's Alphabet"	4:32
7.	"She's in Broadstairs"	3:38
8.	"Tyrolean Knockabout"	3:24
9.	"Breaking News"	3:07
10.	"27 Yards of Dental Floss"	2:36
11.	"Paradise Lost (You're the Reason Why)"	2:28
12.	"Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not"	6:23
13.	"Stavanger Töestub"	0:25

The album title parodies those of the film and album Buena Vista Social Club, a 1999 project by Ry Cooder about a group of Cuban musicians
Cammell Laird, formerly a major shipbuilder, is a company located in Birkenhead.
Cammell Laird Social Club is a working men's club located in Rock Ferry, near Birkenhead.^[4]
"The Light at the End of the Tunnel (Is the Light of an Oncoming Train)" is a near-quotation from the poem "Since 1939" by the American poet Robert Lowell: "If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of an oncoming train".^[5]^[6]
San Antonio is a town in Ibiza, Spain known for its clubbing scene.
A foam party is a social event in which participants dance to music on a floor covered in several feet of foam.
"If I Had Possession over Pancake Day" parodies the song "If I Had Possession over Judgment Day" by bluesman Robert Johnson.
The title "She's in Broadstairs" parodies that of the 1983 song by "She's in Parties" by Bauhaus.
Broadstairs is a quaint seaside resort near Ramsgate in Kent, England.
Tyrol is a region of Austria.
Paradise Lost is an epic poem by John Milton, published 1667.
The title "Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not" is a quotation from Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles;^[7] which is itself an adaptation of the Second Epistle of Peter at 2:3: "Their damnation slumbereth not".
Stavanger is the fourth largest city in Norway.

^ "Frog Recording Studios". Retrieved 25 February 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c Mason, Stewart. Half Man Half Biscuit: Cammell Laird Social Club at AllMusic. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
^ Half Man Half Biscuit – Cammell Laird Social Club at Discogs
^ "Cammell Lairds Sports And Social Club". Archived from the original on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
^ "Robert Lowell (1917–1977)". The Guardian. 22 July 2008. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
^ "Robert Lowell, Jr., Additional Information". britannica.com. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
^ Hardy, Thomas (1891). Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Chapter 12. Retrieved 21 February 2015.

Cammell Laird Social Club at the longest-established Half Man Half Biscuit fan site
Cammell Laird Social Club at the Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project

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