Articles tagged with: MySpace Trawl
When we look at bands being all moody, we’ve come to realise something. Where have all the girls with attitude gone?
Hecklerspray knows that there are plenty of girly singers around at the moment, but they all seem to be weeping over a dead plant or delivering a turbo-charged period rant about their boyfriend being a twat.
Wracking our brains, we can’t think of any female solo artists out there making music that aren't a) the eye candy in the band (Abi from The Zutons) b) taking their clothes off to sell music (most crap generic dance songs) c) developing some sort of rebellious attitude (Peaches or M.I.A). So imagine our joy to discover Wroooaar! - a female who is making music doing none of the above! And to make things better, it’s one of our favorite styles of electronic music – chiptune!
Simple things please the simplest of people, and in our case it really couldn’t be any truer. The thrill of finding £1 down the back of the sofa despite it being caked in dust and mouldy chocolate often sends us in to a spiral of glee for days on end.
Other crap we get kicks from are buy one get free offers from Asda and a game of Uno. Who needs a console named after piss and the thrill of playing tennis with your remote control? But what we do like is music. Ah yes, without the chirps and bleeps coming from the office stereo, we’d actually have to talk to each other. Instead, when communication is needed, we just tap away on MSN to each other and display our emotions in the form of :- ) :- ( or :-------------------------. Work the last one out for yourself. 2007 saw a lot of music come, go, get laughed at or just plain confuse us.
Just like sitcoms when they run out of ideas run one week, we're going back in time to look at some of our favourite moments from last year.
Silent Night, Away In A Manger and Oh Come All Ye Faithful are the traditional songs that annoying children will sing to you if you are dumb enough to answer your door at any given frozen night about this time of year.
We don’t like these songs very much, they're not very energetic and quite frankly they're not worth giving any money to. But will carol singers sing on our door for free? Will they bollocks. Because we’re miserable old bastards and wish death and destruction over Christmas instead of peace, love and bird flu-free turkey, we thought we’d give you some very nontraditional Christmas music. There’s nothing like roasting chestnuts over a fire whilst listening to the relaxing beats and melodies of Polish Drum & Bass artist Bogdan Raczynski. Polish!
We head over to Scandinavia – a place we have visited on previous occasions - to bring you this week’s offering. In particular we are looking at this Danish artist Jong Pang who is, um, amazingly from Denmark.
Like the majority of people who aren’t from this a particular part of the world – or maybe it's just the ignorant English - we don’t know much about Danish music. Well, that is a lie. Remember the Danish bacon advert? A stone-cold classic in the making and one that was never given a proper release. Every time we munch on a bacon roll the song enters our minds. So fingers crossed that the work of Jong Pong will become our new favourite Danish sound, relegating a song about slaughtered pigs into second place.
