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MySpace Trawl – DJ Donna Summer

by Matthew Laidlow

Some of you might be pondering this week’s choice. Why would be telling you to listen to someone who is dubbed “the queen of disco”? Has hecklerspray just caught up with this so called disco fad?

No, we are aware of this genre of music. Sadly though, our days of tight flare wearing are over. What we do find funny is one man recording as Donna Summer. Even though Donna Summer hasn’t let him do so.

And in an even more ironic twist of luck, the style of music that Jason Forrest is releasing under the icons name is nothing of the disco sort. Very easily put, it is quite likely to get your booty shaking and the police round for a visit if you turn the volume up loud enough. We’ll let you go blind on this one. Think of it as our Easter gift to you. Just without the chocolate.

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DJ Donna Summer MySpace

Some of you might be pondering this week’s choice. Why would be telling you to listen to someone who is dubbed “the queen of disco”? Has hecklerspray just caught up with this so called disco fad? No, we are aware of this genre of music. Sadly though, our days of tight flare wearing are over. What we do find funny is one man recording as Donna Summer. Even though Donna Summer hasn’t let him do so. And in an even more ironic twist of luck, the style of music that Jason Forrest is releasing under the icons name is nothing of the disco sort. Very easily put, it is quite likely to get your booty shaking and the police round for a visit if you turn the volume up loud enough. We’ll let you go blind on this one. Think of it as our Easter gift to you. Just without the chocolate. Read more: DJ Donna Summer MySpace
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MySpace Trawl – Beth Rowley

by Matthew Laidlow

This week we’ve broken one of our golden rules: don’t include artists/band that randomly try to add us as friends.

Usually they’re just rubbish and just want to boost their friend numbers to look popular. Most of the time we skip the requests of said people. But with Beth Rowley’s friend request, we even got a little message attached: “Hey, saw the music you liked on your profile and thought you might like to check out the music on my page.” We were touched that someone went to all that trouble to communicate with us. And out of curiosity, we decided to take a gamble on her music. It could have been anything – death metal, digital feedback, good old fashioned rock n roll – but alas, it was none of those. Instead we got bluesy laid-back guitar sounds laced with stunning female vocals.

Go Beth Rowley go!

This week we’ve broken one of our golden rules: don’t include artists/band that randomly try to add us as friends. Usually they're just rubbish and just want to boost their friend numbers to look popular. Most of the time we skip the requests of said people. But with Beth Rowley’s friend request, we even got a little message attached: “Hey, saw the music you liked on your profile and thought you might like to check out the music on my page.” We were touched that someone went to all that trouble to communicate with us. And out of curiosity, we decided to take a gamble on her music. It could have been anything - death metal, digital feedback, good old fashioned rock n roll - but alas, it was none of those. Instead we got bluesy laid-back guitar sounds laced with stunning female vocals. Go Beth Rowley go!
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Myspace Trawl – Yoav

by Matthew Laidlow

Originally, the artist featured in this week’s trawl was actually going to be lumped into a gig review.

But then we realised we’d already reviewed Underworld in October, so doing it a few months later would be daft. And we couldn’t be bothered with the random and strange abusive comments we’d probably be left. But that’s a slight lie. This briefer-than-normal trawl will bang on a bit about our live encounter with Yoav.

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MySpace Trawl: TV Off

by Matthew Laidlow

There seems to be too many awards ceremonies. And they all have loads in common,like being uninspiring, dull and rigged. Allegedly.

This last month alone has seen the Brit awards reward all the people from its academy, the Grammys bore us to death with so many categories that we were amazed we didn’t win one, and the NME awards, which attempt to booze up young indie boys and the odd indie girl into doing something rock and roll, like leaving the toilet seat up and not replacing the loo roll.

Award shows, it seems, only benefit the people who are never off the cover of Q or who are relentlessly played on local radio. Maybe one day hecklerspray will launch its own awards ceremony. But don’t expect decent trophies. Instead we’ll take some glue, foil and glitter and make a pretty figurine. In the mean time, we fight on to find undiscovered talent for your benefit. Like TV Off.

There seems to be too many awards ceremonies. And they all have loads in common,like being uninspiring, dull and rigged. Allegedly. This last month alone has seen the Brit awards reward all the people from its academy, the Grammys bore us to death with so many categories that we were amazed we didn’t win one, and the NME awards, which attempt to booze up young indie boys and the odd indie girl into doing something rock and roll, like leaving the toilet seat up and not replacing the loo roll. Award shows, it seems, only benefit the people who are never off the cover of Q or who are relentlessly played on local radio. Maybe one day hecklerspray will launch its own awards ceremony. But don’t expect decent trophies. Instead we’ll take some glue, foil and glitter and make a pretty figurine. In the mean time, we fight on to find undiscovered talent for your benefit. Like TV Off.
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MySpace Trawl – Betamaxx

by Matthew Laidlow

It’s odd what you find by mistake. Whilst looking for the remote control the other day, we managed to find a few weapons of mass destruction, five pencils complete with chew marks and a sandwich.

It wasn’t what we were looking for, but it was as a pleasant surprise. Apart from the WMDs though, we are now sprouting unusual amounts of body hair and we’ve have had the UN round for a chat over a pot of herbal tea.

Anyway, we were recently searching Google for ‘betamax’ for a completely random reason, and up popped a link to the band Betamaxx. And they’re ace. Yay.

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MySpace Trawl – The Soul’s Release

by Matthew Laidlow

Sometimes you just that special time to relax, unwind and forget about everything.

Wouldn’t it be ideal just to pause everything that’s going on around you and just sit in silence whilst reflecting the world around you? We can’t quite do that due to the staff at hecklerspray not quite cracking the secret of time travel, but we can offer you some sort of soothing and calming alternative.

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MySpace Trawl – Cassetteboy

by Matthew Laidlow

For a change this week, we thought we’d get away from the usual music lark and instead offer you something a bit different.

Obviously this is a music feature and some of you may be left scratching your head until sparks appear and burn down your house. There is music involved in what we have found, but it’s not the main focus of what’s going on. In what can only be described as comedy cut and paste tape music, we have stumbled head first in to the hilarious work of Cassetteboy.

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MySpace Trawl – Unicorn Dream Attack

by Matthew Laidlow

Honestly we haven’t been picking bands based on their name over the last few weeks. It just seems that the people out there with the more bonkers names are capturing our attention.

We’re sure that if someone decided to call themselves Generic Sounding Indie we’d listen too. We’re nice people and we give everyone a fair chance. After last week’s look into the world of the cover version, we’ve gone back to look at some music which makes us want to dance in the street and force others to join us. Sadly we were detained by the police for grabbing people and waving their arms frantically around. Some call that partial assault but we call it a discothèque groovetastic move.

But who could blame us when we were listening to Unicorn Dream Attack.

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MySpace Trawl – Richard Cheese

by Matthew Laidlow

OK, we admit this is the first time we haven’t featured an original artist on this well respected and inspirational page. So what gives?

Has our Amy Winehouse-esque crack cocaine lifestyle finally caught up with us, reducing us to report nothing but rubbish? Don’t be silly. We would never do such a thing. Well, at least not yet anyway.

This week, we’ve decided to give a cover singer some limelight – but, as you’re soon to hear, Richard Cheese is a genius.

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MySpace Trawl – Robot Ninja Dinosaur Bastards

by Matthew Laidlow

This could be a first – a band that’s crossed our path on MySpace has managed to utterly confuse us.

Known as the Robot Ninja Dinosaur Bastards, this bonkers trio make music snatches with elements of old-school electronica and then paste it together with the frenzied genre of Grindcore that we all know and love.

Of course the songs are all short and to the point. If you’re still confused by our description, maybe their own biography will help you:

“Three stupid idiots went berserk and killed people. Found some more idiots….one a girl…..the other…a boy…Throwing people into the sky. Then the Idiots They fall into toxic waste. They grow into Dinosaurs. With Robotic Limbs. A Ninja trained them in the Dark Arts. They find Keyboards. They Find Guitar. They Find Synth. They Kill more People. They can’t wait to do poo poos on PEOPLE. They like the woofing dog. Get Us A Robo rape.”

Or maybe not.

However, you look at the Robot Ninja Dinosaur Bastards, be it through crossed eyes or genuine excitement – their own brand of craziness will surely convert people or have them screaming on the floor wishing for it to stop.

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Robot Ninja Dinosaur Bastards – MySpace

This could be a first - a band that's crossed our path on MySpace has managed to utterly confuse us. Known as the Robot Ninja Dinosaur Bastards, this bonkers trio make music snatches with elements of old-school electronica and then paste it together with the frenzied genre of Grindcore that we all know and love. Of course the songs are all short and to the point. If you’re still confused by our description, maybe their own biography will help you: “Three stupid idiots went berserk and killed people. Found some more idiots....one a girl.....the other...a boy...Throwing people into the sky. Then the Idiots They fall into toxic waste. They grow into Dinosaurs. With Robotic Limbs. A Ninja trained them in the Dark Arts. They find Keyboards. They Find Guitar. They Find Synth. They Kill more People. They can't wait to do poo poos on PEOPLE. They like the woofing dog. Get Us A Robo rape.” Or maybe not. However, you look at the Robot Ninja Dinosaur Bastards, be it through crossed eyes or genuine excitement - their own brand of craziness will surely convert people or have them screaming on the floor wishing for it to stop. Read more: Robot Ninja Dinosaur Bastards - MySpace
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