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HecklerPlay: Interpol- Live in Manchester

by Si Sharp

Unlike their fellow New Yorkers that broke at the start of the last decade, Interpol have run a marathon rather than a sprint. The Strokes were the band of their generation with the sound of the time, and their subsequent career is often looked, unfairly, through the prism of that brief moment when they were [...]

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Listen To Michael Jackson’s Utterly Feeble New Single ‘Hold My Hand’

by Mof Gimmers

All new Michael Jackson releases will be subjected to the same question – Is that really him singing? On the strength of new single, ‘Hold My Hand’, fans really should be crossing their fingers and saying “I hope to fuck it isn’t!” Seriously. Forgetting Jackson’s turbulent personal life for a moment, Michael was a man [...]

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HecklerPlay: Frightened Rabbit

by Si Sharp

There’s a tired cliché that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Obviously it’s not. It’s like writing about architecture. But with less focus on health and safety legislation. And architecture journalists probably don’t come out with trite descriptions like “Richard Rogers’ Pompidou Centre is architecture of the high-tech style… ON ACID!” However the [...]

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Hecklerplay: Pat Dam Smyth – Good Time Rockin’ Folk

by Matthew Laidlow

Music has a special place in the hearts of the writers of hecklerspray. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to block out the shriek from protesting nut job fans outside our office. Some of us are even externally employed by naïve club promoters to spin vinyl discs and cause disco inferno via booty shaking antics. [...]

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Gig Review: Jim Noir @ The Ruby Lounge, Manchester

by Mof Gimmers

“What’s up with you lot? You seem more nervous than me and I’m nervous as fuck!” It’s not often someone takes to the stage with that level of naked honesty and self-deprecation who has seen success like Jim Noir. Hailing from Manchester, it’d be easy (and frighteningly lazy) to lump Noir in with a whole [...]

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HecklerPlay: Wheels – New Hip Gun Slingers

by Matthew Laidlow

Prior to Wheels, the only time you’d have thought about this object musically would be the lyrics to “wheels on the bus”, which isn’t cool at all. Don’t worry; we’re not going to give you a 2010 dubstep remix complete with reggae vocals. Instead, we want to turn our attention to some young guns called [...]

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New Michael Jackson Track, ‘Breaking News’, In Quite Good Shocker

by Mof Gimmers

Even Michael Jackson haters must be intrigued as to what the recently deceased pop-stars new single was going to sound like. There was a very good chance it wasn’t going to be very good, what with MJ not being around long enough to completely finish it and polish it to an androgynous sheen. And so, [...]

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Gig Review: Linkin Park, Who Cares Where It Was? It Could’ve Been Anywhere…

by hecklerspray staff

Week after week they shuffle into the stadium. Their team no longer have anything in common with them. The ticket prices go up and up and the only thing that improves are the salaries of the players, subsidised by people who could be doing something better with the money. Their loyalty to the brand is [...]

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HecklerPlay: Music Review – Cheapskate’s ‘Knock Knock Knock’ EP

by Mof Gimmers

When the men of Britain retreat to their sheds, they like to tinker with things. And quite possibly read bongo magazines. While the majority of shed dwellers come out reeking of oil, Mr Cheapskate comes out covered in melodies and wry, sideways glaces at the world. See, Cheapskate is a purveyor of shed-pop complete with [...]

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HecklerPlay: Beastie Boys’ ‘Hello Nasty’

by Mof Gimmers

Back in ’98, the world was faced with a really weird pop landscape. Britpop was dead and nothing from the  world of rock was willing or able to come and take its place. We were left with a sea of beige rockers and the first spurts of an acoustic movement (NAM) that would ultimately prove [...]

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