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Festival Review: Download 2011 Saturday

August 5th, 2012 By Si Sharp

Why are metal bands of such a high quality when playing live? We've lost count of the mind-numbing quantity of indie bands we've seen over the years that sounded passable on record but dreary once they sheepishly shuffle onto a stage.

Benji Webb knows how to work a crowd and Skindred are an amazing vehicle for his talent. The self-styled ?ragga-metal? [Jesus fucking Christ, really? – Ed.] band understand completely the musical forms with which they are playing.

Webb?s versatile vocals (roots crooning, rapping, metal roaring) allow the songs to change tempo all over the place so they are free to drop drum and bass rhythms without it sounding in the least bit contrived. Extra bonus points for getting a metal crowd doing the robot.

Facebook Goes Down and Not In The Good Way

September 24th, 2010 By Kris Silver

Facebook, the social networking site that knows just a little too much about you (like some sort of creepy stalker that waits until you're wandering down an alleyway, alone, at night to creep up behind you and strike), crashed for something like 2 hours. Apparently this is news.

I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say the streets literally ran red with blood after people realised they couldn't access the online behemoth and took to the streets in a horrifying and violent rage. What's that you say? Only a few people on Twitter and Tumblr cared enough to mention it? Oh?

Hecklerspray Down This Weekend (We Mean It This Time)

August 7th, 2012 By Stuart Heritage

Hello all. Some of you may have seen the quickly-deleted post we published yesterday informing you that hecklerspray wouldn’t be working today. Well, look, it is. Woo.

Our scheduled server switch got nudged back a few hours, which is why we managed to sneak a handful of glorious stories up today. However, we are definitely changing our server this weekend, and that means that hecklerspray might be inaccessible from time to time over the next couple of days.

Don’t worry, though, because we’ll be back in full working order on Monday. And, as a kind of apology, here is THE SINGLE GREATEST YOUTUBE VIDEO YOU WILL EVER SEE:

Someone Burns Down 50 Cent’s House, Probably

March 24th, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

Just a hunch, but we imagine that 50 Cent’s next album will be called Switch Off Your Electrical Appliances At Night Or Suffer Smoke Inhalation Trying.

That’s because 50 Cent’s house has just spectacularly and completely burnt to the ground. But don’t worry – 50 Cent is fine. The house that burnt down wasn’t the house he lives in, just the house that his ex-girlfriend and their 10-year-old son live in. Phew! Panic over.

They’re both OK as well, by the way – but that hasn’t stopped a fireman calling the blaze ‘suspicious’, not least because 50 Cent has been trying to evict his ex-girlfriend and son from the property for a while now. Still, if we know anything about the hip-hop community, it’s that it’s full of exemplary citizens who like nothing more than to cooperate with potentially criminal investigations by the authorities.

Everyone Hates Christina Aguilera’s Stupid Baby

March 31st, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

One of the perks of being a famous woman is that if you ever have a baby, magazines will pay you millions of dollars to take photos of it.

And that's true whether you have an adorable baby or an angry pink monster with freakish little grasping fingers that creep you out every time you look at them. Like Christina Aguilera's baby.

Now before you get upset, remember that we're not the ones saying that. People magazine paid $1.5 million for exclusive photos of Christina Aguilera and her new baby Max, but since hardly anyone bought the issue, it's basically you who are saying that Christina Aguilera's baby is a ridiculous, funny-to-look-at waste of everyone's time. And you should be ashamed, damn you.

Flea’s House Gets Red Hot & Burns Down

March 31st, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

It looks like the latest wildfires to hit California might be an act of God, in which case we can assume that God dislikes the Red Hot Chili Peppers almost as much as we do.

That's because Flea, the man responsible for all of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' interminable bass solos, is the highest-profile victim of the wildfires that swept through Malibu this weekend. According to Flea himself, his $4.8 million Malibu mansion has been "burnt to a crisp." It's a tragic situation for Flea to be in, because not only was he forced to witness the total destruction of his house, but he's now also been forced into emergency accommodation in the form of the other $10 million mansion he also owns in Malibu. We sense the next Red Hot Chili Peppers album might be quite heavy on the bass-led ballads about how crap it is to only have one multi-million dollar Malibu mansion instead of two, you know.