by Stuart Heritage
Think of French music and images of Serge Gainsbourg gazing impassively at a group of dancing girls, or coquettish Brigitte Bardot purring lasciviously though Un Jour Comme Un Autre, spring to mind – but get ready to have your perceptions shattered.
When The Libertines visited Paris in 2003, they left behind a group of young rock and roll disciples, and the fruits of their efforts have all been combined into the Paris Calling compilation. Paris Calling has taken the finest bands of this prickly Parisian guitar scene and launched them into the midst of an unsuspecting world. And we’ve got a top-notch Paris Calling album sampler here, just for you.
We don’t want to spoil too many of the surprises held within Paris Calling, just the biggest one – Paris Calling is good. Unbelievably good. Click on the Paris Calling album sampler now and let Les Shades gently woo you before our new favourite dumb rock band The Hellboys punch your teeth out. Twice. Finally, a warning – listening to the Paris Calling album sampler might trigger a spontaneous imported French album spending frenzy.
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by Stuart Heritage
It’s usual that athletes have been trained so hard to follow instructions that none of them actually have a personality to share between them – fancy an evening in shooting the breeze with Tim Henman? Of course not – but Mike Tyson is the exception.
Yes, Mike Tyson, the potential man-whore with a giant cuddly crush on Aisleyne from Big Brother. Mike Tyson is a man made of pure undiluted personality – it’s just a shame that the personality in question is that of a dead-eyed serial killer with a nasty habit of verbalising his desire to rape women indiscriminately. Thanks to a tip from one of our beautiful readers, we’ve got a video of just about every terrifying quote to have come out of Mike Tyson’s mouth over the last few years. And it’s hilarious. Well, hilarious and blood-chilling in equal measure. The scary thing is – if Mike Tyson can say “I wish one of you guys had children so I could kick them in the fucking head or stamp on their testicles so you could feel my pain,” out loud, imagine the stuff that he keeps in his brain.
There’s a bunch of these videos over at Uber.com too – it was a close-run thing between us showing you this video and one of Mike Tyson performing Monster Mash with Bobby Brown dressed up as spooky monsters.
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A Tribute To Mike Tyson – Uber.com
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