I did promise that Half Man Half Biscuit would feature prominently in this occasional series. This is a belter from their 2022 album, The Voltarol Years. A sing-a-long number which could easily have been a hit in the music-hall era.
mp3: Half Man Half Biscuit – When I Look At My Baby
No real cultural references in this one for fiktiv to concern himself with, other than ‘Silver Cross’ being a famous UK manufacturer of baby transport. Oh, and Garstang being a small market town in north-west England.
When I look at my baby
All I see is Richie Stephens
It’s got the same uneven eyebrows
And the snidey little mouth
And it reminds me of the evening
When you said you’d been to Garstang
You’d gone to see Amanda Warhurst
About a Silver Cross pram
But there was never any Garstang
And there’s no Amanda Warhurst
You were in the Coach and Horses
With that low-down, no-good
Pig-thick waster Richie Stephens
And his weird uneven eyebrows
And his snidey little mouth which
I’d like to see leave town
JC
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
When I first heard this, it seemed so full realised, I too wondered if it was an old music hall song they’d updated. Such is the talent of Mr. Blackwell.
I thought I’d liked a Ramones under 2 minute song about sniffing glue was gonna Comment but its disappeared?