OK, not quite.
A nice surprise came to me this morning in one of the free papers on the 220 service towards Stalybridge railway station. I was reading the Metro when turning towards ‘The Ridiculant’ page I found that one of my side projects was listed.
As advertised elsewhere within East of the M60, I created a Google map on the places namechecked by Half Man Half Biscuit entitled (ahem) ‘Half Map Half Biscuit’ (don’t you just love the wordplay).
Top of the list under a section entitled ‘Check These Ones Out’ was… Half Map Half Biscuit!
Fame at last I thought. Quoting from the Metro, The Ridiculant stated:
“At long last someone has created a Google map of every place ever mentioned in a Half Man Half Biscuit song. You young ‘uns probably don’t even know who the band HMHB are, do you? Shame on you.”
Click on the link to The Ridiculant to see the map itself, some comments and other goodies.
At this time of writing, some 6,927 people have seen the map – not bad for a Google map anyway, but one that has only been up for one day more than a month! Feel free to contribute the map itself. Please note that entries may be edited for spelling and grammatical errors.
S.V., 18 February 2009
