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"Look Dad No Tunes"
Single by Half Man Half Biscuit
B-side	"Ecclesiastical Perks" / "Lock Up Your Mountain Bikes"
Released	3 September 1999 (1999-09-03)
Recorded	Bus Stop Studios, Leigh
Genre	Post-punk
Length	8:59
Label	Probe Plus PP31
Producer(s)	1: Geoff Davies/HMHB 2–3: HMHB
Half Man Half Biscuit singles chronology
"Let's Not" (1990) "Look Dad No Tunes" (1999)

"Look Dad No Tunes" is a 1999 CD single by Birkenhead indie band Half Man Half Biscuit, released by Probe Plus Records, for whom they have always recorded.

John Peel (1939–2004; BBC Radio 1 DJ 1967–2004), who greatly admired the band, included "Look Dad No Tunes" at No. 11 in his 1999 Festive Fifty.

Track listing

1. "Look Dad No Tunes" (4:43)
2. "Ecclesiastical Perks" (2:39)
3. "Lock Up Your Mountain Bikes" (1:37)

Notes

• "Look Dad No Tunes" is also included on the 2000 album Trouble over Bridgwater.
• "Lock Up Your Mountain Bikes" parodies the traditional song "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain".

References

1. "Half Man Half Biscuit – Look Dad No Tunes" at Discogs
2. H is for... Half Man Half Biscuit on YouTube Official video by John Peel's widow, Sheila.
3. "Keeping It Peel: Festive 50 1999". BBC. Retrieved 25 February 2016.

External links

• "Look Dad No Tunes". Retrieved 25 February 2016. The oldest-established Half Man Half Biscuit fansite.
• "Look Dad No Tunes". Retrieved 25 February 2016. The Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project.

• 1999 songs
• Half Man Half Biscuit songs