hecklerspray On The Radio… Listen
One of the best things about working for hecklerspray – apart from the misspelled threats of violence by people who like 30 Seconds To Mars – is that from time to time big media organisations call us up to be experts on celebrity culture.
And this happened earlier today, when Marco Werman from the BBC/ PRI/ Boston WGBH co-production news show The World asked us (well, Stu) to go on air and basically slag off Sting for getting nominated for a Classical Brit Award a bit. That'd be the same The World that's syndicated to hundreds of American radio stations and the same The World that's listened to by two million people, then. Lucky we discovered that after we did our piece, otherwise we'd have been even more cripplingly nervous than we already were.
Anyway, big thanks to Marco for editing our spewed-out semi-comprehensible ill-informed garble into something almost normal-sounding. You can listen to Stu's Sting rant on The World here or, if you have a little more time, you can listen to today's edition of The World in its entirety here – and you really should, because it's a peerless, remarkably even-handed and wide-ranging look at global current events. With a confusing attack on Sting by an sarcastic-sounding British boy tagged onto the end.
Stuart,
I must confess to a moment of heightened amusment at your painfully true comments about “Staing’s” habits, viz.
performing mostly to console himself. Ha ha!
Alas!
It is just one Brit’s opinion, of course, as Werman reminds us.
Stu,
I heard ya, because I listen to “The World” and read hecklerspray regularly. Apart from the truth in what you said, and the dry sarcastic wit we have all grown to love, it was enough to hear someone with an English accent on American radio slagging of a couple of over hyped Brittish rock stars. As an American musician, I can tell you that that is a rare and welcomed occasion indeed!
big ups!
Well, well. You’re a bonafide expert consultant now. It was funny to hear you, though. And the bits I heard of Stings’ “work” sounded like some almighty shite.