Nominations - HecklerSpray

BRIT Awards Nomination Sadness: Ed Sheeran Still Horrendous

August 7th, 2012 By Euan L Davidson

The annual circle-jerking of overrated, but cosy, inoffensive British acts on major labels are all getting a trophy and a party bag. The Wanker Olympics Category Thing – or the BRIT Award Nominations as they’re more commonly known – have been announced, much to the chagrin of anyone with the remotest taste in music.

Sub-Jack-Johnson-and-no-really-there-are-worse-people-than-Jack-Johnson ginger Ed Sheeran has been nominated for 4 awards; if you don’t know Sheeran, he makes sickly, boring ballads for drunk, fat people to sing at 3am outside clubs, and all of his fans are terrible. It’s even worse when he tries rapping.

James Blake was nominated for British Male Solo Artist along with Noel Gallagher, Professor Green and others, which is insulting, because James Blake is genuinely talented [if you like drip-hop that has all the verve and guile of a life-support machine slowly dying itself, that is – Ed].

Meryl Streep Thinks Everyone Hates Margaret Thatcher Because She’s A Woman, Rather Than A Ghoul

December 20th, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

Playing Margaret Thatcher must be great for an actress like Meryl Streep. Thesps just love it when they get the chance to play vile people from history. Murderers, rapists, sex offenders and the like give an actor the opportunity to feel brave and bold.

And ol’ Streepy knew too well that pretty much everyone on Earth hates Thatcher. This is something that made her ”more interested” in portraying the heartless witch in ‘The Iron Lady’.

And Meryl has some theories on why everyone despised her so much and… well… she’s off the mark really.

Meryl Streep Is Surprisingly Not Killed As She Appears In Manchester Dressed As Margaret Thatcher

December 2nd, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

The North of England hates Margaret Thatcher almost unreservedly. Seriously. Being a Tory in Ultra-Labourite Manchester is akin to being a leper. A leper who likes the music of James Blunt. A James Blunt loving leper in a Liverpool FC shirt.

And so, when Meryl Streep appeared randomly at Freya and Graham McAnally’s wedding at Manchester town hall, you’d have to assume only one thing…

…that locals gathered ’round Streep, figured she was the closest thing they’d get to seeing Thatcher in the flesh, and kicked her to death.

Meryl Streep To Bag Oscar For Margaret Thatcher Role (Brad Pitt To Play Norman Tebbit In 2014)

December 1st, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

The best way to win the respect of your acting peers is to go ugly. Monstrously ugly. For example, people fawn over those brave enough to play Hitler. Or a wife-beater. Or some kind of sex offender.

In the case of Meryl Streep, she’s being touted as a likely Oscar winner for her turn as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.

It takes nerve to play the biggest on-screen monster since Cloverfield.

MOBO Awards 2011 Is Dead Thanks To Dominance By Jessie J

August 7th, 2012 By Mof Gimmers

Black culture has always been the musical innovator, just waiting for everyone else to start ripping it off. The black community can sit smug, safe in the knowledge that they invented rock ‘n’ roll, the blues, jazz, hip hop, soul, reggae, dance music… and not country and western.

And so, with that, the MOBO Awards have always been a showcase for the things everyone else is going to ride the coattails of next year.

Not if you include the 2011 nominees though. Why? Because it’s a terrible list of nominations utterly dominated by Jessie J and other dross.

HecklerPlay: MTV Continue To Depress Music With The 2011 VMA Nominations

August 7th, 2012 By Matthew Laidlow

Back when we were just writing swear words on our parent?s walls in crayon, MTV did provide us with some light musical relief. Alongside the mundane pop dross, there were some gems to be found. The programme most likely to fill you with a mix of Scandanavian indie and wobbly acid grooves was 120 Minutes. Only problem was that it was broadcast in the early hours of Sunday morning.

So for the insomniacs, 120 Minutes was a mix of uncommercial sounds and experimental videos that wouldn't have been broadcast during the day. Just look at certain Sqaurepusher and Mogwai promos.

In an age where music is being broadcast to a wider audience via the internet, you'd expect MTV to do the same. But no, they instead decided to shun the show for moronic programming which, over time, has diluted the channel to such an extent that hardly any music videos are played. But this hasn't stopped the network from holding its annual VMA ceremony.

Mercury Music Nominees Announced With Predictable Snark And Sighs

August 7th, 2012 By Lauren Mullineaux

Today we bring to you a witty take on the Mercury Music Prize Nominees before anyone else and you should thank us, because we have endured listening to Ms. Dynamite on the Lauren Laverne show to do this; there was terrible music and hateful voices everywhere. We really do not look forward to watching them on TV, when we will be forced to stare into her dead eyes while Jools Holland carries on regardless in the background.

As some clever sod said on twitter, The Mercury?s are the private school of awards, which is probably why anyone who wins goes on to do nothing of any importance with the money.

Feel free to disagree with that previous statement, but just know we have tricks up our designer sleeves. Pulp did alright didn't they? Arguably so did Dizzee Rascal, except now he touts CBBC theme music – you could say all of these things but then we would say Speech Debelle and you would lose.

A Not Entirely Serious Look At Who Won At The 2011 Oscars

February 28th, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

The stupid Oscars have been and gone, with only a very select few giving the remotest of shits. Those that include themselves in that number are the people who will be making posters of all of Colin Firth’s new films and the simpering, worthy smug git who condescends the Davina McCall lookalike on the BBC’s Film show.

Oh, and we imagine there’ll be a whole host of stupid fashion writers all squeeing over various items of clothing, mixed with tubby women widening their eyes at people who have made a fashion faux-pas.

And so, because we’re legally obliged to announce the winners of the Oscars 2011, we’ve copy and pasted the list from somewhere else and replaced all the names of the winners with videos so you can try and work out who won yourself.

A Boring List Of Stupid Films Have Been Showered With Vague Praise In Oscar Nominations Thing

January 25th, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

Oh deep bloody joy. The Oscars have announced their nominations for films which they think are better than other films which they may or may not have seen. Fantastic news. Cocaine dealers and chandelier menders, brace yourself for some action soon.

That’s right. An arbitrarily picked bunch of films are all being put forward as being really great, which of course, means that people who make posters for films will now be getting ready to cut and paste the words “Oscar nominated” on films starring Colin Firth or directed by Jeff Cronenweth.

We can barely contain our irritation.

HecklerPlay: Brit Award Nominations Announced, UK Music Curls Up And Dies

August 7th, 2012 By Matthew Laidlow

Once upon a time, bands and artists were nominated for musical awards based on the merit of the audio they committed to LPs. Now, it seems that you can predict the nominees for ceremonies months in advance. Lady Gaga could release an album where she tapes herself constructing a shelf. It could sell bugger-all, but if a good marketing campaign backs it up, then some idiot will buy it.

Hooray for the humble PR team, the people who are paid to promote artists and generate advertising for them at inappropriate times ? such as Take That on every single TV show and advert when opportunity becomes available.

Given that, let us offer our worthless opinion for this year?s nominations that had a great marketing team, appeared at festivals or featured in trashy magazines.