This week, MySpace Trawl offers something totally different to our previous discoveries. We’ve gone off the electronica-edged artists and this week’s offer is some good old Scottish folk music. King Creosote be his name, and Fife is where his lovely music is made.

We can imagine what you’re thinking. Folk music! Boo! That’s not very hip or cool. Folk music is what 50-year-old men listen to whilst they sit round campfires late at night and sing about saving the earth from its immediate threat. Hopefully by the end of this, you’ll come to realise it’s not like that at all.

Kenny Anderson, aka King Creosote is someone who’s not at all new to the music world. For over a decade now he’s been making music in various ways, be it on his own, as part of bands, or overseeing it. Mr Creosote set up and runs the Fence record label, housing some of the finest names in folk music.

This week’s MySpace trawl through the vastness of rubbish music leads us to Seattle, Washington where we have discovered Marshall Watson.

It may same as strange to you as it does to us, but an American making electronic music? Crikey, who would have thought that happened over there? Here at hecklerspray towers, we all just assumed that our buddies across the pond just listened to the Dixie Chicks, 50 Cent and Beyonce. Looks like we’re wrong again. Like usual.

Like most people with a computer, we’ve all got one of these MySpace accounts where you can see how popular you are against everyone else in the world. For instance, look at Tom, we don’t even know who he is, but he likes us and is our friend. So that makes us feel special.

Here at hecklerspray, we can’t be arsed with people winging for us to like them. We know what we like and don’t like. So we’ve decided to take a stance against the overwhelming amount of crap bands who constantly spam with their rubbish music and offers of friendship. In an attempt to guide you towards the goodness of unsigned acts and people we think deserve more recognition, here’s MySpace Trawl; where we show you that there is some decent stuff in the world of MySpace.

The first band we’ve discovered hail from Glasgow, and we don’t just like them because of their name. Gay Against You are a duo who make music that can only be described as breaking the boundaries between electronic music and total chaos. Forget all your rubbish pop dance music that samples Michael Jackson. Gay Against You use something else to create the sounds they make. Gameboys.

There are a lot of people from Essex who aren’t chavs, and Blah Blah Blah are a fine example. In their current state as a two-piece Blah Blah Blah are Loughton’s answer to Nizlopi. Anti-chav, and anti-indie disco. But then they’re such nice guys, they probably aren’t anti-anything.

Discovering great new music (of the refreshing and genuinely good kind) is usually a happy accident these days, rather than having someone ranting on about it. So forgive us for stopping to rant about it here. They’re the very same reasons that people urged us to check out these guys who come with the memorable name of Blah Blah Blah.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.