Stuart Heritage

Stuart Heritage is the editor of hecklerspray, and has been since 2005. In the intervening years he’s got slightly fatter, worried more frequently about the onset of male pattern baldness, won various awards and plaudits for hecklerspray, adopted the exact wrong tone when discussing dead marine animals on live television discussion shows for hecklerspray and has never made his mother proud once. Aside from hecklerspray, Stuart dabbles in writing for The Guardian, other magazines and a load of TV shows you either didn’t like or didn’t watch.

Shawn Lindseth

Shawn enjoys taking long romantic walks on moonlit beaches made entirely of the bloodied skulls of his enemies. He is also the self proclaimed world’s second best half-horse cartoonist (http://swazilandairtours.250free.com), he has trouble typing with his hooves, and doesn’t pay child support to women whose children he’s not related to.

Matthew Laidlow

Hecklerspray gave birth to Matthew. Well, not really, that’s physically impossible, but they did give him his first proper writing job. Due to this, he’s contractually obliged to kiss the feet of senior management on a daily basis. So now instead of delivering the news or alternatively dumping newspapers in a local ditch, he can write stories with vague truth attached to them. Currently working as a writer, for various publications, and a sketch show project with a university friend, one day he aims to retire to his mansion where every meal will be eaten off a naked model’s body. Crowning achievements so far include being a vague internet celebrity and upsetting legions of Blue and Skins fans. Living in the apparent grim North of England, Matthew can frequently be seen downing pints of real ale, losing at every card game known to man and going through every emotion possible whilst supporting Newcastle United.
Twitter.com/MatthewLaidlow

Chris Laverty

Editor of Clothes on Film. Expert cocktail maker

Josh Burt

Joshua has now spent so much of his life being sarcastic that even he can’t tell when he’s being serious. Which is just brilliant. Aside from that, he likes to commit great big portions of the day to staring silently into the eyes of celebrities to see what might make them tick – he then scurries home to write about it. Once of FHM, once of The Sun Online, once of more! magazine for women, once of Harvey’s sandwich shop in Oxford, he is now of Interestment.co.uk, a website that speaks mainly from the heart. Enjoy him.

Amy Grindhouse

This highly strung menace to society is often thought to be a danger to herself and others. She spends undue amounts of time talking celebrity smack online and some would say that she has a little too much time on her hands. This is probably true, as she not only runs her own site at AmyGrindhouse.com but she also contributes to the giant pile of awesome that is Hecklerspray.

Rather than live a quiet life of abject poverty in colour-coordinated squalor, this snarky young lady whiles away the hours lightly toasting and then skewering celebs from A-Z list.

You are more than welcome to bear witness to her ramblings at either AmyGrindhouse.com or on Twitter using @AmyGrindhouse

Ian Dransfield

Ian Dransfield is a man who needs no introduction, but also one who needs to validate himself in 150-word intros on websites. He is tall, has a decent beer physique and glasses like that Gok Wan fella. He also obsesses over video games and is trying to turn hecklerspray into a shrine to all things joypaddy and waggley, thus taking it away from Stu’s One True Vision of Miley Cyrus-o-rama (the original title for the ‘spray).

Ian took over for a few weeks once and the site didn’t (a) spontaneously combust, (b) get taken over by the KKK or (c) markedly improve. He saw this as a shame. If there is a next time, there will be some Obama-style CHAAAANGE.

Check him out on www.kikizo.com, where he rarely gets things to review, www.4ortherecord.com, where he talks about music you probably don’t like and www.thewaterboarder.com, where he makes himself laugh.

Gibbo

Gibbo lives in Memphis at the moment (don’t bother, it’s a bit poo). He has vague intentions of someday moving to a place where the people are a little less right wing: 1940s Berlin, perhaps. Originally from England, Gibbo was tempted to the US five years ago by promises of hot ladies, lots of money and a satisfying career. Empty promises, as it turned out. So very empty.

He misses many things from the homeland: Cheshire cheese; Warbuton’s White Toaster Bread; his parents’ golden retrievers; and Ready Brek. If you were to send him any of these, he would be your BFF. For a bit. Hecklerspray is Gibbo’s first and so far only writing job, though he remains open to offers. Particularly any which pay more than hecklerspray (he’s a greedy chap). If you’d like Gibbo to muck around with the words in his head, and vomit some of them onto your website, you should try contacting him at TheGibbo@gmail.com.

Keith Emmerson

Keith is a man who likes very little. Fortunately for him, this provides a wealth of things to dislike, which in turn provides plentiful writing ammunition. To compare him with Narcissus wouldn’t really do him justice. So obsessed is he with his own image that he now only sees himself in psychiatrists’ inkblots. This of course led to the infamous lawsuit with Warner Brothers where Keith sued the movie studio for casting him in the film Watchmen without even telling him. Keith one day hopes to be the voice behind the Mastercard adverts and to meet his hero, Roger Moore.

Nik Johnson

Nik leads a fulfilling life being sarcastic on the Internet. Aside from Hecklerspray and his website, http://shoutingatco.ws (a triumph of buying a vaguely amusing URL before knowing what to do with it) he’s written for various magazines and once got a letter published in the Beano. Always keen for money, Nik is available to be serious or sarcastic for your publication and would one day like to be on the radio. If you’ve seen him, you’ll know why his aspirations stop at radio and not TV, and also why he uses the Guy Smilie avatar.

He has never thrown 180 in darts, despite pretending to be alright at it, can make his fingers do weird clicking noises by pushing on them and once saw Tony Hadley through a shop window.

You can bother him on twitter at http://twitter.com/iamnotsteve

Stuart Waterman

Stuart is the editor of supposedly humourous music site My Chemical Toilet. Stuart likes pancakes, milkshakes and videos of kittens. Stuart dislikes Akon, the word “supper” and many, many other things. Stuart has a completely harmless fascination with serial killers. Stuart is an Aries. Stuart is a very good whistler. Stuart once set his shirt on fire while he was wearing it. Stuart’s name is spelled S-T-U-A-R-T. Stuart can also be found on Twitter.

C J Davies

C J Davies is a freelance producer, screenwriter and journalist presently hovering around London. He has written for Hecklerspray since the site began, during which time he has been sent crates of crisps for no reason, offended entire religions, been labelled a ‘cutie’ in alarmingly detailed gay fanmail, and has referred to Jodie Marsh as a ‘Brundlefly with tits’ more times than he can count. He can often be seen wandering the streets of Stoke Newington and Shoreditch, sometimes even with a destination in mind.
CJDavies.com