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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.

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.

HecklerPlay Competition! Win Tickets To Global Gathering 2011!

August 7th, 2012 By Matthew Laidlow

Like coffee shops and vintage clothing boutiques, UK festivals are cropping up all over the place. The modern day music lover is literally spoilt for choice in terms of who they want to see perform in a muddy field. While festivals such as Glastonbury, T in the Park and V offer a mixed bag of artists, more genre themed events have emerged that include rock at Download, indie at Reading & Leeds and electronic at Global Gathering.

Now in its tenth year, Global Gathering has always pushed the boundaries of innovation to make sure it tops the previous year with an ever expanding range of electronic genres are being for catered for.

Well known and underground artists from the world of dubstep, drum & bass and electro have been recruited to make sure that no-one attending is standing still for more than five seconds. If you missed out on tickets, fear not, we've got our grubby paws on a pair and we really want you to have them.

Lucozade Make Us Think Of Best Trios Ever

April 28th, 2011 By hecklerspray staff

Three. It’s a special number isn’t it? It is saucier than two, despite people saying that it’s a ‘crowd’. What the devil is wrong with a crowd? Nothing. Crowds are fun. Anyway, there’s a plethora of fine trios in the world which make us very happy.

And why are we talking about threesomes (stop being dirty)? Well, Lucozade have a film/adspot out called ‘YES’ which features the trio of Travis Barker, Tinie Tempah and Katie Taylor

Two of them make a racket while the other shadowboxes like she’s the GZA from Wu Tang Clan. Doing a rousing reworking of ‘Simply Unstoppable’, they got us thinking of the ace trios that exist in the world.

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.

JLS Bag MOBO Awards Despite Being Really Awful

October 21st, 2010 By Mof Gimmers

hecklerspray is not anti-pop by any stretch of the imagination, but it is completely fair to say that we just don’t understand the appeal of JLS. Maybe it’s because they’ve invented a new type of soul music that can only be described as Aww ‘n’ B, leaving people wanting to mother their wholesome little faces.

The cutesy foursome of Aston Merrygold, Oritse Williams, Marvin Humes and Jonathan Gill are doing alright for themselves and last night, managed to win Best Album and the Best UK Act at the MOBO awards.

Yes, it’s MOBO time again, where people take an interest while others tut and mutter “How would they like it if we had a music for white people, eh?” ‘They’, of course, being an imagined enemy. And of course, there is a music for white artists. It’s called The Q Awards.

Tinie Tempah Bags Four Mobo Awards Nominations

September 9th, 2010 By Mof Gimmers

The Mobo Awards is imminent again, leaving thought-void simpletons to once again muse on the fact that all music is of ‘black origin’ or, worse, complaining about the whole thing because ‘people would go mad if there was a white-only awards ceremony!’ Suck it up, gimps.

Anyway, the Mobos have announced who is in with a chance of winning an award and, bafflingly, this year seems to belong to the distinctly average Tinie Tempah who has bagged himself four nominations for this year’s show.

So who else is in with a shot at landing a trophy that may well end up in the? downstairs toilet?