Article Archive for March 2005
Now for some Unoriginal Trash designed to get the kids in on a Saturday night. Prepare for the worst, reader: there's no talking Italian going on in this banal shocker featuring Robert De Niro...
hecklerspray incorrectly assumed that the rapidly-declining NME had reached its nadir upon devoting an entire feature to a 'special' new haircut (the Bloc Head, in case anyone's interested). We own up: we got it wrong. Because today, the situation worsened.
'Home Entertainment'. You know, in your Grandad's day, this probably meant whittling down some scrap iron while Vera Lynn shat her lungs out on the 'wireless'.
My, how we've changed. How we've come on in leaps and bounds. How Grandpa would have wept with gratitude for this fine selection of brand new DVDs ...
Excellent fun for any bored call centre operatives or suchlike, this link will take you a mind-crushing 270 question music quiz.
Simply look at the images, identify and write the name of the artist in the appropriate boxes (spelling is crucial).
At the time of writing hecklerspray has a score of 141/134, with a few typos to correct, so we're heading for
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M83...
They’re something of a hecklerspray office favourite. Their unique French brand of mind-warping electronica (or 'Gallictronica', as some idiot Nathan Barley figure at the likes of Dazed And Confused might like to call it) puts most high-profile British bands to shame right now.
Which is why even a cynical bunch of misanthropes like ourselves have been sent all a-quiver.
M83, you see, are about to kick off a three-date tour of the UK, calling at Leeds, Oxford and London, as ‘special guests’ to The Secret Machines.
Doubtless they’ll be playing lots of lovely new stuff from their new album Before The Dawn Heals Us.
Of course, you could always go and watch Keane instead ...
Around 20 years ago people were terrified of the potential of computers. Movies such as Tron gave the general population the impression that you could actually get sucked into a computer and be made to fight weird sort of motorbike things...
The continual travesty in commercial production that is the Elephant.co.uk television advertising campaign continues to puzzle scientists and UK consumers alike.
Featuring what appears to be a pretentious loser and a man dressed in an elephant’s costume, hecklerspray wonders whether the creative strategy was the result of some form of primary school competition...
More high speed celebrity news birds smashing into the patio door of your brains...
...Robbie Williams plans to emulate the success of Ray Charles and release a duets album. Hopefully this will also extend to Robbie going blind and dying...
...John Travolta sleeps during the day because he says "In the daytime I get recognised". At night-time however, people just think he's another ordinary smug overweight arsefaced pilot...
