Saucy Haulage Ballads is an
extended play CD released by the
Birkenhead-based British group
Half Man Half Biscuit in August 2003.[4] A reviewer in
Stylus Magazine remarked: "Saucy Haulage Ballads may only be a six-track EP, but it contains more ideas, insight and moments than most bands could manage in an entire career."[3]
According to English writer
Julie Burchill, the lyrics of "Blood on the Quad" have a "pleasing whiff" of the finale of
Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film if.....[5]
"On Finding the Studio Banjo" is a reworking of Half Man Half Biscuit's 1986 song "
The Trumpton Riots", in a
bluegrass style with
banjo accompaniment.
A
quad is a courtyard, often at one of the older English universities.
The title "I Went to a Wedding..." parodies that of the 1952 song "
I Went to Your Wedding".