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Music Review: The Vaselines ‘Sex With An X’

by Mof Gimmers

It’s almost impossible to write about The Vaselines without mentioning Nirvana. Kurt Cobain called the Scottish group his “most favourite song writers in the whole world.” He loved them so much that he took ‘em on tour, covered their songs (‘Molly’s Lips’, ‘Son of a Gun’ and ‘Jesus Don’t Want Me For a Sunbeam’) and named his daughter after Frances McKee.

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Katie Melua, Arcade Fire, Gaelic Storm

by Paul Gibson

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of upcoming major label releases. We think that we’ve picked out a nicely diverse collection of albums this week. We’re not overly fond of all of them, but, hey: we call things as we hear them and then allow you to decide (except for the [...]

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Menomena, Sky Sailing, Jorn, Seu Jorge

by Paul Gibson

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of upcoming major label releases. Another busy week for music. This time: we have some lovely, dreamy Indie tunes (from Menomena and from Sky Sailing); a tribute album to Ronnie James Dio (you read that right, and it’s from Jorn); and a Brazilian man makes [...]

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Album Review: Richard Ashcroft – United Nations Of Sound

by Matthew Laidlow

Hey look! It’s him out of The Verve. You know, the band that shifted the opinions of a nation full of lager swilling blokes in to opening up their emotions after hearing a small piece of orchestral music sampled from a Stones cover. Whilst we’re all for musical diversity and the like, it annoyingly made for pointless singalongs at festivals and woke thousands up when morons sang the melody through the quiet evening streets.

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Sheryl Crow, David Garrett

by Paul Gibson

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of upcoming major label releases.

This week, your Mango has something for everybody.

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Hellyeah, In This Moment, Jerrod Nieman, Audrey Assad, Great Big Sea

by Paul Gibson

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of upcoming major label releases. It’s a very busy week for music. Maybe the record companies have had the corporate poop scared out of them by Prince‘s declaration that all electronic media is dead, and have thus thrown out everything with a chance at making [...]

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Pintsized Popper Prince Pushes Pap In Paper, Proves Past Peak

by Randy Figgins

My early years took place in that terrible time of flux as the 80s closed and the 90s opened up. The Berlin Wall was crumbling, Thatcher was on her way out, the greed-is-good years were still in full swing. So how the hell did the grown-ups of this era not do better than Saved by [...]

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Texas Hippie Coalition, Trailer Choir, Cyndi Lauper

by Paul Gibson

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of upcoming major-label releases. Today is the fifth of July and, in America, a national holiday. We believe it has something to do with a decision the American people once made about wanting to be disrespectful to their elders and betters, and literally biting the [...]

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Gig Review: Paul McCartney, Hard Rock Calling

by Iain Haywood

I should preface this. I should preface a lot of things in fact, usually with “She was already dead”, but in this case, I need only disclose that I’m not a critic. Critics are invariably asteroidal pricks, and I’m not. I really am just the world’s greatest. So it was my birthday, see, and I [...]

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: The Gaslight Anthem, Drake, Now That’s What I Call The USA

by Paul Gibson

Ouch. It was a bad performance overall, made somewhat worse by that moment, and – for us – the pain was doubled by the fact that we watched the match in the presence of Americans, Italians, Germans and – worst of all – Scottishes. This meant that it felt exactly like watching a re-run of [...]

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