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Half Man Half Biscuit, China Crisis, the Farm, June 1986

Half Man Half Biscuit, China Crisis, the Farm, June 1986

The Typhoo Tea Music Festival. But they forgot to put their product in the hospitality tent.

Penny Kiley
Jun 21, 2024
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Nigel from Half Man Half Biscuit on stage. He’s wearing a Residents T-shirt.
Nigel from Half Man Half Biscuit. Photo © Gary Lornie

Festivals – all-dayers or all-weekenders – can be a bit of an endurance test when you’re there to review them. Sometimes it feels like an event, like the Futurama festival. And sometimes, like this one, it’s definitely a non-event.

It looks as if they had a pretty good cross-section of the happening ba…

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