hecklerspary Gig Guide: Ian Brown, Darkness, Bon Jovi…

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We’ve got a corking line-up of live music and concerts in this week’s hecklerspray Gig Guide. Provided you’ve got a thing for bad hair, widdly-wee guitars or old gameshow hosts, that is.

We’re just kidding. Aren’t we? Well, kind of - the hecklerspray Gig Guide this week features some outstanding forthcoming performances from Bon Jovi, The Darkness, Download, Prince Paul, Ed Tudor Pole, El Presidente, Ian Brown, Sparks and the magnificently-named Dead! Dead! Dead! And if that hasn’t whetted your appetite, you don’t have an appetite…

Bon Jovi - It would have been too easy for Bon Jovi to have all died
in that Canadian plane crash a few weeks ago. But Bon Jovi don’t do
easy - they won’t sleep until they’re dead! Or somesuch other rubbish
faux-inspirational lyric from their mindless songs. Click for Bon Jovi dates and tickets

The Darkness - Think what you like about The Darkness, as far as
watching rat-faced balding men playing endless joke guitar solos goes,
there is no better ticket all week. Click for The Darkness dates and tickets

Download - One of the most viciously rocking festivals of the whole
year, with performances confirmed from The Prodigy, Bullet For My
Valentine and some other band we’ve never heard of. It will violently
rock you. So why call it Download? That’s like having a Norwegian
death metal festival called the Recursive Function Festival. Click for Download dates and tickets

Prince Paul - Prince Paul is one of the most important men in all of
hip-hop, from his groundbreaking work with De La Soul, Handsome Boy
Modelling School and, um The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, and these are
dates not to be missed. Click for Prince Paul dates and tickets

Ed Tudor Pole - Ed Tudor Pole? Who he? Well, he was the performer of
genius 1979 number six mega-hit Who Killed Bambi; he was the lead
singer of The Sex Pistols after Johnny Rotten left; he was the
presenter of The Crystal Maze after Richard O’Brien left. The man is a
walking legend, people. Click for Ed Tudor Pole dates and tickets

El Presidente - That’s The Mighty El Presidente to you. You want
glam? You want excitement? You want songs that stay in your head for
months? You want to see pretty girls in a band. You, as Burger King
says, got it. Click for El Presidente dates and tickets

Ian Brown - Weird to think that Ian Brown is now thought of as the
intelligent elder statesman of British music, and all because his last
album was called The Greatest. Skinny Old Bloke Mumbling About Fucking
Dolphins would be closer to the truth, if we’re honest. Click for Ian Brown dates and tickets

Sparks - Proving once and for all that there’s more to them than
This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us, Sparks return to
showcase songs from their latest album like Dick Around. Click for Sparks dates and tickets

Dead!
Dead! Dead! - What do we know about Dead! Dead! Dead!? Not a bleeding
thing. But, c’mon, they’re called Dead! Dead! Dead! What’s not to love?
Click for Dead! Dead! Dead! dates and tickets