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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Sting, Bryn Terfel, Brett Anderson
Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week’s major label releases. There have been many songs written about Monday, but they all seem to use the working week's start as a metaphor for sadness, despair, and classroom shooting rampages. Well, no more: your Mango thinks this is a pretty damn fine day, actually (much better than stupid Thursday. More like 'Turdday' if you ask us) and we have done a little song of our own to show you how brilliant it is. Come follow us to the post-jump world, where we'll show it off...
Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week’s major label releases. There have been many songs written about Monday, but they all seem to use the working week's start as a metaphor for sadness, despair, and classroom shooting rampages. Well, no more: your Mango thinks this is a pretty damn fine day, actually (much better than stupid Thursday. More like 'Turdday' if you ask us) and we have done a little song of our own to show you how brilliant it is. Come follow us to the post-jump world, where we'll show it off...
Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Wolfmother, Soldiers, Madness
Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week’s major label releases. Yes, yes, we know you've missed us. We are well aware of the weeping, the wailing, and the mass suicides. But quit it already, because we're back after a brief and unexplainable (without breaking certain injunctions which were secured "in the interests of national security") holiday. It's your Mango!
Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week’s major label releases. Yes, yes, we know you've missed us. We are well aware of the weeping, the wailing, and the mass suicides. But quit it already, because we're back after a brief and unexplainable (without breaking certain injunctions which were secured "in the interests of national security") holiday. It's your Mango!
MySpace Trawl – Nedry
We seem to have neglected the wonderful world of glitch recently. To a lot of people, it sounds like a needle has been dragged across a record and the results recorded. We like the sound of something that sounds a bit raw, uncommercial and generally exciting. Fuck your cleanly polished studio sounding production where the vocal goes through seventy two filters to make it sound as clean as a whistle. Going through various stages, there is everything here from Nedry. Sassy sounding vocals go alongside the sweeping sounding electronics that slowly build momentum before crashing in to one final rhythm.
We seem to have neglected the wonderful world of glitch recently. To a lot of people, it sounds like a needle has been dragged across a record and the results recorded. We like the sound of something that sounds a bit raw, uncommercial and generally exciting. Fuck your cleanly polished studio sounding production where the vocal goes through seventy two filters to make it sound as clean as a whistle. Going through various stages, there is everything here from Nedry. Sassy sounding vocals go alongside the sweeping sounding electronics that slowly build momentum before crashing in to one final rhythm.
Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Bruce Springsteen, Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs
Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week's major label releases. It's Monday. We feel your pain. But as you waddle into work, weighed down by the enormous turdload you have spent the weekend saving so that you may spend an hour of the boss's time reading a newspaper this morning, do not despair. Because when you make it back to your desk, feeling like Octomom after she pumped out her kids, there'll be a nice little surprise waiting for you. Here's your Mango!
Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week's major label releases. It's Monday. We feel your pain. But as you waddle into work, weighed down by the enormous turdload you have spent the weekend saving so that you may spend an hour of the boss's time reading a newspaper this morning, do not despair. Because when you make it back to your desk, feeling like Octomom after she pumped out her kids, there'll be a nice little surprise waiting for you. Here's your Mango!
Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Julian Plenti, Modest Mouse
Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week's major label releases. It's important to start every day with a good breakfast. A fry-up has its place, but to have one every day would be foolish and lead inevitably to you becoming fat, wheezy and Scottish. No. So how do we fuel ourselves on the bacon 'n' eggs off-days? With a lovely bowl of hot and steaming Ready Brek, of course. Stir in some fruit slices, and you've got a meal that'll keep you full, satisfied and surrounded by a disconcerting orange glow for hours. Our favourite Ready Brek topping? Mango.
Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week's major label releases. It's important to start every day with a good breakfast. A fry-up has its place, but to have one every day would be foolish and lead inevitably to you becoming fat, wheezy and Scottish. No. So how do we fuel ourselves on the bacon 'n' eggs off-days? With a lovely bowl of hot and steaming Ready Brek, of course. Stir in some fruit slices, and you've got a meal that'll keep you full, satisfied and surrounded by a disconcerting orange glow for hours. Our favourite Ready Brek topping? Mango.
Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Florence And The Machine, Duckworth Lewis Method, Benny Andersson Band
Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week’s major label releases. You may have heard that Michael Jackson, King Of Pop and Prince Of Perverts, moonwalked off this mortal coil recently. Or you may not; for all we know, you could be a clam surviving in a deep ocean vent on a diet of plankton and whale poop. But then you wouldn't be reading this, unless there's some seriously freaky evolution going on down there, away from the eyes of humanity. This is getting confusing: Jacko's dead, but the world is still producing music. It's your mango!
Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week’s major label releases. You may have heard that Michael Jackson, King Of Pop and Prince Of Perverts, moonwalked off this mortal coil recently. Or you may not; for all we know, you could be a clam surviving in a deep ocean vent on a diet of plankton and whale poop. But then you wouldn't be reading this, unless there's some seriously freaky evolution going on down there, away from the eyes of humanity. This is getting confusing: Jacko's dead, but the world is still producing music. It's your mango!
Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Cortney Tidwell, Fanny, Dinosaur Jr.
Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week's major label releases. It's Monday, which means back to work and all those people you'd prefer not to spend time with. Apart from that new Belgian lass that's just started on the second floor, we heard she'll do it in the cleaner's closet for a fiver and a waffle. It's the Mango! The best disease-free way to start your week. Three new releases coming up this week. Reviewed and then represented as a thought, for all the obvious reasons.
Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week's major label releases. It's Monday, which means back to work and all those people you'd prefer not to spend time with. Apart from that new Belgian lass that's just started on the second floor, we heard she'll do it in the cleaner's closet for a fiver and a waffle. It's the Mango! The best disease-free way to start your week. Three new releases coming up this week. Reviewed and then represented as a thought, for all the obvious reasons.
REVIEW: Pixies’ Secret Gig At Village Underground
Last night Pixies played a secret gig at Village Underground in Shoreditch to support the launch of the Minotaur box set. It was an invite-only affair and there were only about 300 lucky people allowed to witness the event. Hecklerspray was invited to attend, and we took a few readers with us. Our collective ears are still buzzing.
