hecklerspray has been working on a revised dictionary.

You see, in this ever-changin' world in which we live in, the meaning of words can change at such at an alarming rate that no-one can quite keep up with them. Take this one for example:

guestlist  Pronunciation: (gest'list") —n.
a list of guests invited to attend a social function.

Little did hecklerspray expect then – upon being invited to review a band – that by late October 2006 the meaning of the term would have changed to this:

guestlist  Pronunciation: (gest'list") —n.

Arriving at a venue to be told that 'everybody is on the guestlist,' which therefore negates any chance of getting inside the place (despite promises having been made by the artists management) which then necessities joining an arcing queue of similarly bored-looking people – also 'guestlisted' – for an hour of your precious life, until someone comes out and informs you not to expect to get into said venue because entry is 'always hit-and-miss.' 

Ergo: The Noisettes. We're sure they're brilliant. It would have been nice to actually see them, but then that's an old reviewer's quirk of ours.

If you'd like to find out more, here's the Noisettes website. It's well-structured, informative and – unlike their performances – easy to access.