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Britain’s Got Talent, Series 4, Semi Final #1: Spelbound, Olivia Archbold, Kevin Cruise

by Paul Gibson

It seems to have been a longer ride this year, but we’re there at last: the Britain’s Got Talent Semi-Finals. Maybe the sheen is beginning to tarnish: once you’ve seen one terrifyingly stentorian middle-aged lady making an abused border collie do some ballet for a molecule of bacon, you’ve seen them all. Or perhaps we’re [...]

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Britain’s Got Talent Season 4: Michael Fayombo Jnr and Snr, Liam McNally, James Shields

by Paul Gibson

Week 6 of the auditions for Britain’s Got Talent, and boy are the producers really sorting the wheat from the chaff now. And then, for some odd reason, sticking the chaff onto their stage, filming it and directing the footage to our telly screens. We simply do not believe that this week’s auditions failed to [...]

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Futureheads, Widespread Panic, Hank Williams III, Sleigh Bells

by Paul Gibson

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of the next fortnight’s major label releases. Okay, Mangons, there’s a ton of stuff to get through this week. That means no dicking around, no rambling introduction about such irrelevant topics as politics (if you pressed a thumbtack into David Cameron‘s face, would his over-inflated [...]

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Radvertising: Orkin’s Cockroach

by Paul Gibson

The yin to Badvertising’s yang. Or possibly the other way round, we’re not sure. Either way, here we bring you one of the funniest commercials on telly at the moment: it’s for a pest control company, it features a six-foot tall naked cockroach, and it has caused a stupid lady in Florida to throw a [...]

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Band Of Horses, Mary Gauthier, Exodus, Tracey Thorn

by Paul Gibson

It’s all over. The UK has a new Government, the pound is rampaging though the world’s currency markets like a coked-up Chuck Norris, and next week each citizen will be receiving an ingot of gold and a box of Mr Kipling’s French Fancies through the post. Alternatively… the UK has a new government, the pound [...]

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Britain’s Got Talent Season 5: Twist And Pulse, Paul Burling, Mark James, Alyn James

by Paul Gibson

It’s season five of Britain’s Got Talent, and we’re still looking for real contenders. Oh sure, we’ve had the S&M parents, the singing dust statue, and the insufferably posh kids (name of their violin player? Lara Le Cort De Billo). But we’ve all been waiting for something new. Something exciting. Something to really get Simon [...]

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Britain’s Got Talent: Othelio, Myztikal, Janey Cutler, The Chippendoubles

by Paul Gibson

Welcome to The Future. The Brave New World. Eternal Peace And Harmony And Free Unicorns For Everyone. Or – depending on your political views – to The Future. The Destruction Of Our Beloved Old World. Eternal War And Sadness And Free Colonic Irrigations With Powdered Glass For Everyone. Yes, the country has voted. But because [...]

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Slash, Jennifer Knapp, The National

by Paul Gibson

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week’s major label releases. Tired of all the political nonsense? Course you are. Well, come on in here, pull up a chair and take a slice out of our fruity flesh. Go on: cut us. Cut us like you’re Danny Dyer and we’re [...]

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Hecklerspray’s Tuesday Tune Tangerine: New Pornographers, Minus The Bear, Josh Ritter

by Paul Gibson

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh segments from the stone pips and skin of this week’s major label releases. Banks. Say what you like about them – that they’re malicious, predatory beasts whose owners derive actual, physical enjoyment from bullying scared old ladies – but they are kind to us once in a while. Which is [...]

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Britain’s Got Talent: The Regurgitator, The Arrangement And The Transvestite

by Paul Gibson

Week two of the auditions, and we’re all still waiting for this year’s *wow* moment. Would we see it this week? Almost. When “51″-year-old Christine Wilkes came on stage, you could feel the country’s indrawn breath: here was an ugly woman in ugly clothes, who was surely – for such is the classic BGT narrative [...]

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