we're fairly sure something ?big? has happened this week, but remembering what that is, is killing us. It may have in fact just been the Mercury Music Prize, but we lost interest in that the second that feather-headed, bed sheet wearing, double barrel named, ?artist? won.
No, news has happened this week right? Is Gaddafi doing things involving fleeing national hate campaigns? Did someone die?? People are always dying; someone must have gone and bought some brown bread. The world has basically plodded along all week, even the BBC has had to stoop to stories about calorie counting and Strictly Come Dancing while The Sun has run the story about a ?thug? winning money on a programme based around the concept of colour so many times that they have run out of puns; literally a giant tumbleweed is blowing across the earth.
There is music to digest however.
These serene and peaceful times are however, likely to be a publicity stunt for the new Sigur Ros video.
?Klippa? isn't so much a song as the faintest hint of musical accompaniment to a short film which is squarely modern and undoubtedly reflects the frailty of life in the 21st century.? The Sarah Hopper directed clip, despite lacking in any live material, is thought to be promo for their new release Inni.? From a band who don't have the word ?hate? never mind ?war? in their vocabulary, you can watch some people dance slowly through a thinly veiled veil as others cut fabric, iron fabric, wear fabric, and other fabric based tomfoolery. Look it's not even on Youtube the poncy Icelandic?we can't even be rude to them, they propel insults.
Klippa from Sigur R?s on Vimeo.
In these desolate days the world have been severely lacking a dance bands take on the economic crisis. Finally, about eight years after we called for it, Justice have only gone and bloody done it with their new track ?Audio, Video, Disco?.? The song itself might not tackle the issue head on, though it's right there in the name of the song that was so head-on they named it thrice. The video is where the cheap Parisian (they're from France i.e. Paris) noise makers get to the heart of the matter. They have made a video in the recording studio that they use for their Audio and while they are there they have a Christmas tree whose lights serve as a Disco. Do you see what they did the smug gits?? They aren't wearing stripes, they don't have bread, cheese, garlic, or wine, and they aren't smoking, but they do all look a little bit like Serge from Kasabian, so there's that.
Now, we don't know who Eat More Cake is and we don't like his music very much, but his brand message really reaches out and fills that void in your stomach, so you should probably get on that.? You didn't even know you had that hunger inside did you? Not until you saw what Eat More Cake had to offer and that's why we're giving him this free publicity.? His new video for ?Smoke and Mirrors? is what you could call low-budget and we just did.? It does nothing other than heavily feature libraries and the use of stop motion and there isn't even a witty line about how libraries are just an illusion, or something, like smoke and mirrors, you know?? It's what we expect from artists who try to be like Mike Skinner and we won't be satisfied until we get it. Sort it out by Eating More Cake.
The problem with the new Snow Patrol song is that it's 4 minutes and 25 seconds too long; even for your dad, or increasingly middle aged older brother.? While Gary Lightbody might be upset about not being in Elbow it means that his band have successfully travelled into the future before Guy Garvey and co by grasping the concept of meta, point and case. Yes their new music video isn't just a music video, it's actually about Snow Patrol making a music video for their new song ?Called Out in the Dark? and if you thought it couldn't possibly get better then you are very much mistaken, it stars Jack Davenport.? If you're a 15 year old then he's the nasty one trying to stop Jack Sparrow in the franchise about the quirky pirates, if you're a bitter 22 year old with only one functioning Kidney then he's Steve from Coupling; either way we all regret what has to happen in a man?s life for him to win a Gary Lightbody lookalike contest.? Snow Patrol get it right in the end by wheeling out the young folk in their knackers.
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