A Hard Days Pint
Album: A Hard Day’s Pint
Label: Townsend Records
Rating: 3/5
The Lancashire Hotpots are a very unlikely success story. After singing a couple of ditties about the joys of fish and chips and the dangers of your friends turning ‘emo’, the flat cap wearing group became a hit online, with a debut album secured shortly after.
Since then they’ve clocked up another four albums and amassed a huge group of fans, including the likes of Steve Lamacq and TV’s Paddy McGuinness.
The St Helen’s based band have returned with yet another collection of comedy tunes, although this time, they’re staying in the pub, with Hard Day’s Pint giving us songs about all the aspects of a good night out on the lash.
With songs like Did You Spill My Pint and If I Had a TARDIS, the Hotpots have definitely kept their trademark dry and down to earth humour, providing the laugh out loud moments that have become part of the group’s music.
The bouncing musical accompaniment is a joy as well, a light hearted excursion into a world of accordions and shanties that’s all but confined to the comedy genre.
Hard Day’s Pint’s biggest failing is its single mindedness. By solely focussing on their public house escapades, The Hotpot’s latest record loses the wandering openness of their previous work. The repetition of tracks from previous albums is also slightly disappointing.
While still funny enough for a Hotpots album, the variety that has made their gentle rants and observations so approachable and all-encompassing has been sadly lost and leaves little for those not looking at bar-derived humour.
The Lancashire Hotpots - A Hard Day’s Pint is out July 9th
MaleExtra Cameron Smith