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Gig Review: Dum Dum Girls & Mazes, Manchester Deaf Institute

by Mof Gimmers

Gigs are boring aren’t they? Middle aged blokes with backpacks on throwing their arms around and singing all the words to the b-sides planted squarely in the middle of a throng of disaffected teens who aren’t sure whether to look like disaffected teens or really let loose and throw their bap and go nuts. Such [...]

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HecklerPlay: Interpol- Live in Manchester

by Si Sharp

Unlike their fellow New Yorkers that broke at the start of the last decade, Interpol have run a marathon rather than a sprint. The Strokes were the band of their generation with the sound of the time, and their subsequent career is often looked, unfairly, through the prism of that brief moment when they were [...]

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Gig Review: Jim Noir @ The Ruby Lounge, Manchester

by Mof Gimmers

“What’s up with you lot? You seem more nervous than me and I’m nervous as fuck!” It’s not often someone takes to the stage with that level of naked honesty and self-deprecation who has seen success like Jim Noir. Hailing from Manchester, it’d be easy (and frighteningly lazy) to lump Noir in with a whole [...]

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Gig Review: Linkin Park, Who Cares Where It Was? It Could’ve Been Anywhere…

by hecklerspray staff

Week after week they shuffle into the stadium. Their team no longer have anything in common with them. The ticket prices go up and up and the only thing that improves are the salaries of the players, subsidised by people who could be doing something better with the money. Their loyalty to the brand is [...]

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Hipster Diary: Manchester’s In The City Festival

by hecklerspray staff

So, yeah. In the City is happening this week in Manchester. It’s like totally an important festival about music. I work in ‘media’ so managed to get a press pass for it. I hate saying it, but I’m famous on Twitter. I get spotted all the time, so the festival will do well by having [...]

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Usher Tries Not To Be Unfaithful

by Chris Laverty

Usher, or Raymond when he wears those plaid jackets, is struggling not to bonk everything that moves now he is married and has a baby son to bring up. Poor, rich bastard. Whether you like Usher‘s music or not, it must be said that the boy can dance; predominantly he dances like a spaz, but [...]

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Usher Gets Booed For Being An Idiot

by Stuart Heritage

What’s the first thing you should do when you play a concert, other than plug stuff in and check your flies?

That’s right, you work out which town you’re playing. The fastest way to alienate any crowd is to go onstage, mistakenly blurt out a greeting meant for another town located more than 250 miles away and get booed by the crowd because you’re obviously a dick.

Perhaps someone should have pointed this out to Usher before his performance at the Radio 1 Big Weekend festival in Maidstone, where he bounded out onstage and bellowed “Hello Manchester!” to a chorus of boos. Usher should be thankful he got away that lightly. This was Maidstone, after all – he’s lucky a pregnant 12-year-old didn’t stab him in the eye with a sawn-off bottle of Bacardi Breezer.

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