Music Reviews / Previews
Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Sonic Youth, Black Eyed Peas, Orbital
Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week’s major label releases. Planes are falling from the skies, the government is shrivelling up like a salted slug, and Brangelina are rumoured to be living separately. All unmistakable signs of an impending Apocalypse. But fear not: hecklerspray presents the music which this week will be arriving to make your lives wonderful. Better. Marginally more bearable. Slightly less of an endless dreary drag towards the inevitable end, and eternity spent in a pauper's grave. It's the Monday Music Mango! Whoot!
Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week’s major label releases. Planes are falling from the skies, the government is shrivelling up like a salted slug, and Brangelina are rumoured to be living separately. All unmistakable signs of an impending Apocalypse. But fear not: hecklerspray presents the music which this week will be arriving to make your lives wonderful. Better. Marginally more bearable. Slightly less of an endless dreary drag towards the inevitable end, and eternity spent in a pauper's grave. It's the Monday Music Mango! Whoot!
Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Kasabian, Michelle Shocked, Paul Potts
Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week's major label releases. You'll have noticed there's a worldwide financial crisis going on. Well don't worry, because we've generously picked out three of this week's new music releases to uplift your spirits. Or else confirm your belief that the world is going to hell, and fast. Whichever. All releases are represented by a thought which might be thinked by the thinkers who buy them.
Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week's major label releases. You'll have noticed there's a worldwide financial crisis going on. Well don't worry, because we've generously picked out three of this week's new music releases to uplift your spirits. Or else confirm your belief that the world is going to hell, and fast. Whichever. All releases are represented by a thought which might be thinked by the thinkers who buy them.
Album Review: The Lovely Eggs – If You Were Fruit
Aimlessly listening to daytime Radio 1 can sometimes cause the tear ducts in your eyes to open and cover you in salty water. The endless supply of diluted American hip-hop does nothing but confuse and annoy us. Instead of chugging down a bottle of $1000 champagne, we have to do with buy one get one free Lucozade. Failing that, we’ll be presented with another new indie band who’ll take their influences from the exact same acts as everyone else. Original? No not, really. If anything it makes us look further afield for albums that aren’t afraid to do something different from the norm. Like, say, If You Were Fruit by The Lovely Eggs.
Aimlessly listening to daytime Radio 1 can sometimes cause the tear ducts in your eyes to open and cover you in salty water. The endless supply of diluted American hip-hop does nothing but confuse and annoy us. Instead of chugging down a bottle of $1000 champagne, we have to do with buy one get one free Lucozade. Failing that, we’ll be presented with another new indie band who’ll take their influences from the exact same acts as everyone else. Original? No not, really. If anything it makes us look further afield for albums that aren’t afraid to do something different from the norm. Like, say, If You Were Fruit by The Lovely Eggs.
Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Iron Maiden, Marilyn Manson, Folk
Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week's major label releases. Welcome, hecklerspray devotees - and those unfortunates who have stumbled in while searching for information on New Kids On The Block/menopause symptoms - to a shiny new, weekly look at what aural filth the major record labels are going to be flinging at us in the coming week. In typically amateurish 'spray fashion, of course, this inaugural Monday feature is actually appearing on a Tuesday. We so bad.
Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week's major label releases. Welcome, hecklerspray devotees - and those unfortunates who have stumbled in while searching for information on New Kids On The Block/menopause symptoms - to a shiny new, weekly look at what aural filth the major record labels are going to be flinging at us in the coming week. In typically amateurish 'spray fashion, of course, this inaugural Monday feature is actually appearing on a Tuesday. We so bad.
Behold! The Hecklerspray Eurovision 2009 Liveblog!
Here it is, the moment literally nobody on Earth has been waiting for - the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. This year, Eurovision is coming all the way from Moscow. We're not, by the way. We're sitting on a sofa in what appears to be a US military-approved stress position hammering away on a grossly underpowered laptop. But that's beside the point. Can the UK win Eurovision this year? No. No we can't. But join us back here at 8pm so we can all watch the spectacular failure together. The liveblog's ready for you after the jump, incidentally. What are you waiting for?
Here it is, the moment literally nobody on Earth has been waiting for - the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. This year, Eurovision is coming all the way from Moscow. We're not, by the way. We're sitting on a sofa in what appears to be a US military-approved stress position hammering away on a grossly underpowered laptop. But that's beside the point. Can the UK win Eurovision this year? No. No we can't. But join us back here at 8pm so we can all watch the spectacular failure together. The liveblog's ready for you after the jump, incidentally. What are you waiting for?
You People! Eurovision Liveblog Here! Tomorrow!
We may have mentioned this three or four billion times in the last three days, but when has that ever stopped us repeating ourselves? Tomorrow evening at 8pm we're going to be liveblogging the Eurovision Song Contest. Why? Because after taking a year off in 2008 we've apparently forgotten how utterly hellish it is to liveblog Eurovision. But that's not the point ...
We may have mentioned this three or four billion times in the last three days, but when has that ever stopped us repeating ourselves? Tomorrow evening at 8pm we're going to be liveblogging the Eurovision Song Contest. Why? Because after taking a year off in 2008 we've apparently forgotten how utterly hellish it is to liveblog Eurovision. But that's not the point ...
Eurovision 2009: Jade Ewen, UK
So this is it. It's been a while - a bit too much of a while, according to our weakened mindstate - but we've finally profiled all but one of the Eurovision entries this year. That leaves us with just one to do - for some poxy little island called 'the UK' - before our great big Eurovision 2009 liveblog. Tomorrow evening, at 8pm, we're going to be liveblogging the arse off the Eurovision Song Contest, either until it finishes or until we have a stress-related nosebleed. Don't bet against the latter. Anyway, our point is this - be there. So, finally, here is the Eurovision 2009 profile for Jade Ewen from the UK...
So this is it. It's been a while - a bit too much of a while, according to our weakened mindstate - but we've finally profiled all but one of the Eurovision entries this year. That leaves us with just one to do - for some poxy little island called 'the UK' - before our great big Eurovision 2009 liveblog. Tomorrow evening, at 8pm, we're going to be liveblogging the arse off the Eurovision Song Contest, either until it finishes or until we have a stress-related nosebleed. Don't bet against the latter. Anyway, our point is this - be there. So, finally, here is the Eurovision 2009 profile for Jade Ewen from the UK...
Eurovision 2009: Svetlana Loboda, Ukraine
Eurovision 2009 is only two days away now. It's exciting stuff, not least because it means all this is nearly finished. It's been a while, hasn't it? And, for the penultimate time, we'd like to remind you that we're going to be covering the Eurovision Song Contest live right here, this Saturday at 8pm. And if you do one thing this weekend, make sure you read it and comment and stuff. It's very important that you do, because otherwise we'll cry. And nobody wants to see that. But first, here's the Eurovision 2009 rundown for Svetlana Loboda from the Ukraine...
Eurovision 2009 is only two days away now. It's exciting stuff, not least because it means all this is nearly finished. It's been a while, hasn't it? And, for the penultimate time, we'd like to remind you that we're going to be covering the Eurovision Song Contest live right here, this Saturday at 8pm. And if you do one thing this weekend, make sure you read it and comment and stuff. It's very important that you do, because otherwise we'll cry. And nobody wants to see that. But first, here's the Eurovision 2009 rundown for Svetlana Loboda from the Ukraine...
