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HecklerPlay: The Stranger Side Of Music Merchandise

August 7th, 2012 By Matthew Laidlow

Picture the scene. You're in a band and just finished recording an album that in your opinion might just bring every music fan to their knees, trembling in awestruck appreciation of what's just entered their eardrums.

The record company mightn?t however appreciate the effort which has cost thousands to record and produce. So another cash cow is needed to claw back the money; merchandise.

We've all done it when going through the phase of loving one particular band a little too much. Posters, clothes, and stickers are the norm for pop acts, but for artists a little bit more experimental, all sorts of weird and wonderful extras can be found either with the record itself, or as part of a lavish boxset.

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Creased Or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You The Way It Is

August 7th, 2012 By Michael Park

Cosmo or Compo?

Folded

  • Vote ‘Spray! – We’re nominated for a Cosmopolitan Blog Award and sure, usually we’re not interested in accolades but… well… actually… yeah. We’re total award whores. Vote for us under the ‘Celebrity’ category. Go now… go on… we’ll wait.
  • Stickman – Draw a stickman and follow a wonderful little story through to its logical conclusion.
  • The Best Video Ever – Sure, it might be cruel but you can’t say it’s not bloody impressive.
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Creased Or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You The Way It Is.

August 7th, 2012 By Michael Park

Art School or Smart Fool?

Folded

  • The Pomegranate – The best phone ever made?
  • Smash Google – Have you ever wanted to mangle Google for no other reason than the fact that you’re a violent sociopath? Well now you can!
  • The Perry Bible Fellowship – A wonderful web comic that we’d all-but forgotten about.
  • Slutwalk Photos – We’re suckers for a pithy placard.
  • Alan Partridge On Twitter – No, seriously.

Creased

  • BBC?News -?hecklerspray posted Scarlett Johansson’s naked pictures at 10.15am. Still, they like our pals at?Holy Moly better than us.
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Awesome Or Off-Putting: Some Guys Have Bigfoot In A Freezer

March 25th, 2009 By Shawn Lindseth

Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, myths, ancient artifacts, religion, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable.

Dear everybody,

Well, they found Bigfoot’s body, and it’s currently being kept in a freezer. The long question of whether the thing exists or not is finally answered.

Or so say the two guys with the freezer.

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Roger Waters Loses His Giant Blow-Up Pig, Then Finds It

March 25th, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

Coachella was all about one thing this year – a dreary old man forcing a crowd to stand up for three hours while he played songs that your Dad likes.

But Roger Waters‘ Coachella set was livened up by one tiny thing – the moment when his giant inflatable pig broke free and blew off. Blew off into the desert. Get your minds out of the gutter. Cuh!

And the escape of Roger Waters’ big pig has been the talk of the town ever since, with extensive discussions in the press and monetary rewards being offered to whoever recovered it first. Anything, in fact, to take people’s minds off the fact that they’d just basically exchanged $270 for a week of agonising lower back pain and an eighth of a day spent listening to an old posho bleat on about Southampton.

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