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hecklerspray Meets The Go! Team

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As you may have noticed from browsing around hecklerspray, we quite like The Go! Team. Actually we like the Go! Team a lot, and when we heard that they were playing at Newcastle’s finest free festival – the Orange Evolution – we all decided it would be another brilliant opportunity to pick their brains a little bit more.

We visited The Go! Team to ask main man Ian Parton and front lady Ninja about Rainbow characters, The A Team, tea, oh and a few questions about their music too.

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Singles Reviews: Keane! Prince! Pink!

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Keane
Is It Any Wonder?
Island

Keane’s debut album shifted five million ‘units’ worldwide; they won two Brit Awards and opened for U2. Hurrah! Champagne all round? Err, not quite. Lots of people in skinny jeans with penchants for asymmetric haircuts called them “bland”, “weedy” and- gasp!- “bedwetters”. They weren’t entirely wrong. But Is It Any Wonder, the lead single from the band’s upcoming Under The Iron Sea album, is a big fat slap round the chops for all the haters. It features electric guitar! It sounds a bit like A-Ha! The chorus is bigger than Lea from Big Brother’s chest pillows! That’s right, Keane’s balls have dropped and it damn well suits them.

Hey Mister! You likey singles reviews? Singles reviews from LeAnn Rimes, Prince, Corinne Bailey Rae, Ronan Keating featuring Kate Rusby and Pink after the jump! Best price!

Keane Is It Any Wonder? Island Keane’s debut album shifted five million ‘units’ worldwide; they won two Brit Awards and opened for U2. Hurrah! Champagne all round? Err, not quite. Lots of people in skinny jeans with penchants for asymmetric haircuts called them “bland”, “weedy” and- gasp!- “bedwetters”. They weren’t entirely wrong. But Is It Any Wonder, the lead single from the band’s upcoming Under The Iron Sea album, is a big fat slap round the chops for all the haters. It features electric guitar! It sounds a bit like A-Ha! The chorus is bigger than Lea from Big Brother’s chest pillows! That’s right, Keane’s balls have dropped and it damn well suits them. Hey Mister! You likey singles reviews? Singles reviews from LeAnn Rimes, Prince, Corinne Bailey Rae, Ronan Keating featuring Kate Rusby and Pink after the jump! Best price!
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SLACKERJACK – Nex Game

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Nex Game is simple, addictive and involves a man punching his way through walls of ice. What’s not to like?

Okay, so Nex Game is part of a promotional package for Pepsi, but let’s just ignore that little fact. Nex Game is a ridiculously simple flash game that requires nothing other than the well timed click of a mouse. A motion-captured man runs along your screen and every so often a large ice wall will approach. Click your mouse at just the right moment and he’ll punch his way through it, and then keep running till the next one.

You’ll be rewarded with some super funky music and some nice victory animations when your man manages to get through a wall. But watch out, the walls keep coming quick and fast in Nex Game. If you time it wrong he’ll thud headlong into the wall in an animation that will have you grimacing in sympathy. Be warned: the last Nex Game wall is double thickness and the only way through is a headbutt! This requires timing your click later than you have done for the previous walls and will probably take you quite a few goes to get right. Or maybe a day or two. But just imagine the sense of achievement!

Go on. Give Nex Game a go. You know you want to.

Play Nex Game now

Nex Game is simple, addictive and involves a man punching his way through walls of ice. What's not to like? Okay, so Nex Game is part of a promotional package for Pepsi, but let's just ignore that little fact. Nex Game is a ridiculously simple flash game that requires nothing other than the well timed click of a mouse. A motion-captured man runs along your screen and every so often a large ice wall will approach. Click your mouse at just the right moment and he'll punch his way through it, and then keep running till the next one. You'll be rewarded with some super funky music and some nice victory animations when your man manages to get through a wall. But watch out, the walls keep coming quick and fast in Nex Game. If you time it wrong he'll thud headlong into the wall in an animation that will have you grimacing in sympathy. Be warned: the last Nex Game wall is double thickness and the only way through is a headbutt! This requires timing your click later than you have done for the previous walls and will probably take you quite a few goes to get right. Or maybe a day or two. But just imagine the sense of achievement! Go on. Give Nex Game a go. You know you want to. Play Nex Game now
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The Da Vinci Code Goes To Cannes – Finally Facing Its Waterloo

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The Da Vinci Code bandwagon took on a more literal form Tuesday morning as various members of the big screen team hopped on a Eurostar from London to Cannes.

The journey was masquerading as an attempt to break the record for The Longest Non-Stop International Train Journey. No doubt Audrey Tautou felt a little nervous when informed she was going to be trapped on a moving vehicle for an indeterminate amount of time with the scariest ginger beard in history. Happily the elfin beauty will be back among her countrymen for the Da Vinci Code World Premiere on Wednesday night, and can leave the frenzied press barrage to her more geeky colleagues.

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Vinnie Jones To Star In Unwanted New Carry On Movie

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In the most shocking and horrific announcement of the week, it has been revealed that a new Carry On film is in pre-production.

It’s to be called Carry On London and will tell the – no doubt hilarious – story of chauffeur company Lenny’s Limos. The plot centres around Lenny and the night his company handles driving celebrities to “the Herberts,” which are apparently a clever parody of the Oscars.

Wait, we think our sides just probably split.

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PS3: Has Sony Blown It?

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Look at any computer game site or technology review and you will see that Sony, the company everyone expected to walk away with E3 this year, in fact had the poorest showing in LA last week.

PS3 fansites are awash with anger and bile as Playstation fanatics vent their spleen at Sony’s E3 announcements. The key source of gripe? Since the release of its tech specs at E3 last year the rumour mill has been constantly churning as to what price Sony will put on their next gen behemoth, the PS3.

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Singles Reviews: Sheryl Crow, Christina Milian, The Like…

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Sheryl Crow featuring Sting

Always On Your Side

A&M

Remember when Sheryl Crow wrote Stonesy rockers brimming with pop culture references like There Goes The Neighbourhood and If It Makes You Happy? Remember when the mere mention of Sting’s name didn’t bring you out in a cold sweat? Nah, we’re all too young for that. Always On Your Side – released to plug a reissue of Crow’s flop Wildflower album, last chance saloon-spotters – is a schmaltzy piano ballad rendered teeth-grinding by a horribly dated drum loop and some truly heinous lyrics. (Our pick: “You were always waiting to be picked to play the game, but when your name was called, you found a place to hide”). It’s like that decade-old tin of treacle you found in Auntie Ethel’s attic after she’d died: saccharine, gloopy and utterly stale.

Thank the Lord above that dreary old Sheryl Crow and her rubbish music isn’t the only singer with a new single out this week. More singles reviews from Christina Milian, Lil’ Kim, Angels & Airwaves, Morning Runner and The Like after the jump…

Sheryl Crow featuring Sting Always On Your Side A&M Remember when Sheryl Crow wrote Stonesy rockers brimming with pop culture references like There Goes The Neighbourhood and If It Makes You Happy? Remember when the mere mention of Sting’s name didn’t bring you out in a cold sweat? Nah, we’re all too young for that. Always On Your Side - released to plug a reissue of Crow’s flop Wildflower album, last chance saloon-spotters - is a schmaltzy piano ballad rendered teeth-grinding by a horribly dated drum loop and some truly heinous lyrics. (Our pick: “You were always waiting to be picked to play the game, but when your name was called, you found a place to hide”). It’s like that decade-old tin of treacle you found in Auntie Ethel’s attic after she’d died: saccharine, gloopy and utterly stale. Thank the Lord above that dreary old Sheryl Crow and her rubbish music isn't the only singer with a new single out this week. More singles reviews from Christina Milian, Lil' Kim, Angels & Airwaves, Morning Runner and The Like after the jump...
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Halo 3 – It’s Official

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It may be the most obvious and unnecessary launch of all time, but yesterday at Microsoft’s pre-E3 keynote speech Halo 3 was officially announced.

Not only this, but a teaser Halo 3 trailer was screened to a hushed audience and then immediately released onto Xbox Live for download by salivating fans. So huge and rabid is the demand for anything Halo 3 that Microsoft’s Xbox Live service (designed to cope with millions of people online at once) promptly buckled under the weight of traffic for the trailer. Any other than the most lucky had their attempts to download continuously disconnected as everyone and his dog rushed for a taste of the mighty Halo bone.

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Pretend Lost Character Writes Real-Life Bestseller

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Anyone who’s seen the hit ABC show Lostt (now entering its second season in the UK) knows that calling it frustrating and inconclusive is akin to calling Hitler a bit of a shit.

Lost is, in fact, a show which delights in refusing to actually deal with, or resolve, any of its manifold plot threads. Millions of viewers find it bastard annoying, but they still watch it in the blind hope that at some point Lost is actually going to have to be specific about something. If the second season ends as inconclusively as the first we’re fairly certain that we’ll go postal out of sheer frustration. And Bad Twin, a new book by Lost character Gary Troup, isn’t exactly helping.

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Singles Reviews: LL Cool J, Pet Shop Boys, Daz Sampson…

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LL Cool J featuring Jennifer Lopez

Control Myself

Mercury

Oh Jennifer, did it have to come to this? After last year’s Rebirth album bombed, the pelt-sporting, scent-flogging, movie-cursing Latino diva is reduced to a cameo spot on a record by a rent-a-rapper. Thing is, this single might just save Lopez the way Mariah Carey’s collaboration with Busta Rhymes- I Know What You Want, name fans- saved her. For Control Myself is Sharon Stone circa 1992 sexy: a lascivious slice of electro R&B which, at times, threatens to break into the Eurythmics’ Here Comes The Rain Again. And, you know what, even Lopez’s Fergie-off-of-Black Eyed Peas impression is kinda appealing. Expect a blockbuster comeback album, The Liberation of J.Lo, early in 2007.

More? More singles reviews? More singles reviews by Daz Sampson, The Beautiful South, Hot Chip, Gear, Neil Leyton, Pet Shop Boys and Boy Kill Boy? After the jump? OK then…

LL Cool J featuring Jennifer Lopez Control Myself Mercury Oh Jennifer, did it have to come to this? After last year’s Rebirth album bombed, the pelt-sporting, scent-flogging, movie-cursing Latino diva is reduced to a cameo spot on a record by a rent-a-rapper. Thing is, this single might just save Lopez the way Mariah Carey’s collaboration with Busta Rhymes- I Know What You Want, name fans- saved her. For Control Myself is Sharon Stone circa 1992 sexy: a lascivious slice of electro R&B which, at times, threatens to break into the Eurythmics’ Here Comes The Rain Again. And, you know what, even Lopez’s Fergie-off-of-Black Eyed Peas impression is kinda appealing. Expect a blockbuster comeback album, The Liberation of J.Lo, early in 2007. More? More singles reviews? More singles reviews by Daz Sampson, The Beautiful South, Hot Chip, Gear, Neil Leyton, Pet Shop Boys and Boy Kill Boy? After the jump? OK then...
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