From the monthly archives:

May 2005

Legend of The Fall Mark E Smith aims Spinal Tap glove at Robert Plant

by 586 MEDIA

Friday night’s Later With Jools Holland show began in the usual fashion. An ‘impromptu’ jam occured. As ever it was dull affair involving blues-like noodling and no doubt a Boogie Woogie (TM, J.Holland) piano from Jools. The camera panned anti-clockwise, first revealing apparent Coldplay-enthusiasts Athlete (CDs), playing along. Jesus, God. But then appeared a strange [...]

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Eurovision Odds – Ukraine and United Kingdom

by Stuart Heritage

Today is the last time hecklerspray and Betfair.com (click for latest odds) will profile countries for Eurovision Song Contest special betting. If you haven’t yet had a punt then take advantage of our Eurovision offer: click here to open an account at Betfair and enter the promotional code WEB111 during sign-up for £10 free, or [...]

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Eurovision betting long shot – hedging bets on Ukraine

by 586 MEDIA

Ukraine are hosting the Eurovision Final 2005 but they are massive outsiders in the betting. So we have taken a punt and backed Ukraine at odds of between 230 and 250. Go Ukraine! This is our long shot bet. We’re doing it to try and hedge our bets, if the betting goes in our favour, [...]

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Eurovision odds + how to bet on Betfair

by 586 MEDIA

The betting on Eurovision is hotting up folks. Betfair has taken more than £400,000 in Eurovision bets. For the latest Betfair Eurovision odds click here. Otherwise read on for a tutorial on using Betfair. It will teach you how to back (placing a bet) as well as how to lay (aka offering a bet). This [...]

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Avril Lavigne Drinks Too Much

by Chris Laverty

Legally she’s still too young to drink anything more than Um Bongo in public, yet that hasn’t stopped sweaty rock chick Avril Lavigne (CDs) from chasing Courtney Love’s (CDs ) title of ‘Most Missed at the Nunnery’. “Avril’s drinking is getting worse and worse. She’s always liked to party but recently all she wants to do [...]

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Schwarzenegger To Make True Lies 2

by Chris Laverty

King of the homoerotic action movie Arnold Schwarzenegger (DVDs) is set to return to the big screen as Harry Tasker – a James Bond-esque spy with pumped up biceps bigger than his head – in True Lies 2. With James Cameron (DVDs) directing and most of the original cast at least ready to talk about [...]

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Sold – Suffrajets Play Download

by Stuart Heritage

Did you see the documentary on Channel 4 the other night, Stalking Pete Doherty? If you didn’t, this is roughly what happened: A man follows Pete Doherty and his band Babyshambles around, falling slowly and obsessively in love with him. When the love isn’t reciprocated, the man has a breakdown of sorts and sells pictures [...]

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Christopher Eccleston To Become Big Brother Contestant

by C J Davies

If you’d like hecklerspray’s opinion – and while you’re here, that’s all you’re going to get – the new Doctor Who (DVDs) series has been something of a hit and miss affair. For every annihilated Big Ben or amusing Christopher Eccleston (DVDs) quip, there’s been a crap ‘surprise guest star’ or Billie-Piper-powered swerve into Hollyoaks [...]

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Eurovision Odds Semi-Final Special – Finalists Revealed

by Stuart Heritage

If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll have seen that over the last three weeks, we’ve been profiling each contender for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005. That’s 39 singers singing 39 songs. Now, if the main event had 39 different countries, it’d go on forever and everyone would feel like slashing their throats by the end [...]

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Eurovision Odds – Switzerland and Turkey

by Stuart Heritage

It’s the penultimate day of the hecklerspray and Betfair.com Eurovision Song Contest special betting rundown. Tomorrow night, the contestants will be trying their best to match up to all the past Eurovision winners, such as Johnny Logan, Dana, Johnny Logan, Dana International and Bobbysocks, the 1985 Norwegian winner. Today, we’ll be looking at Switzerland and [...]

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