[4] The album title is a reference to Horace Batchelor, a football pools predictor from Keynsham who regularly advertised his service on pop music radio broadcasts in the early 1960s.

The solo tracks are performed by Vivian Stanshall & Kilgaron, Neil Innes, Roger Ruskin Spear, and Topo D. Bil (a pseudonym of "Legs" Larry Smith.)

Reviewing the album for AllMusic, David Cleary said: "The delightfully clever humor of the Bonzo Dog Band's prior releases almost totally eludes the group on this record.

Lyrics and performances are bland and pedestrian by past group standards, and a noticeable lack of enthusiasm permeates this disc.

"[3] Trouser Press wrote that "Keynsham goes over familiar ground without laying much new sod (other than [Roger] Spear’s wiggly theremin solo on 'Noises for the Leg').