Big Hard Excellent Fish has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 18 November 2016. Big Hard Excellent Fish's music has been featured on 17 episodes.

A side-project from Pete Wylie, best known as singer and guitarist from wah! / the mighty wah!. In 1990 he released under the moniker "Big Hard Excellent Fish" the single 'Imperfect List'. The spoken-word track is a list of 64 least favourite people and things read by Josie Jones. The list was written by Wylie and the track was recorded by Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins, although Wylie is not credited on the record. The list ranges from 'Adolf Hitler' to 'lost keys'. In 2004 “Imperfect List” was used by Morrissey at shows prior to his appearance on stage. The track appears on Morrissey’s video of live performance “Who put the M in Manchester?”.