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HecklerPlay Review: Yuck In Manchester

August 5th, 2012 By Si Sharp

Effortlessness is of course the cornerstone of cool.

That's why the Chesterfield hanging out of the corner of James Dean?s mouth is better than the Benson being desperately tugged on by the 14 yr old on the corner of your street. It's why more guitarists want to be Hendrix than Angus Young. It's why every indie rocker in the late 80s wanted to be J Mascis.

And with that Dinosaur Jr reference we?ll move clumsily and rather obviously onto Yuck, a band who seemingly can't be described by writers outside of the context of their apparent influences. Which is a pity since Yuck?s crime isn't sounding derivative, it ?s sounding authentic.

Professor Green To Take His Horrible Quacking Voice Around On Dreadful Tour

November 21st, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

Professor Green as, despite forever sounding like he’s in a headlock, managed to forge a career as a rapper. At least he’s managed to answer the question: What would Nelson Mandela sound like if he went into hip hop?

Anyway, Professor Green (Professor in sounding like he’s got a wasp trapped in his windpipe while looking despairingly gormless, if you were wondering) is currently in the middle of a tour where he performs for Guardian readers and other people who afraid of non-whites on the sly.

And get this! You yoghurt plaiting gimps can catch him some more as he’s announced dates for a brand new UK tour in April 2012! AMAZING NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE THEIR RAPPERS TO SOUND LIKE CUDDLES THE MONKEY!

Jay And Silent Bob To Tour The UK With Live Show, Right?

September 8th, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes made millions of stoners chuckle nacho crumbs into their bellybuttons are their alter-egos Jay and Silent Bob. Littered with pop-culture and sci-fi references, they were always going to achieve cult-herodom.

And now, you’ll get to slap your glazed eyeballs on them in the flesh as they’ve announced a tour of the UK this February.

They’ll be performing the successful comedy podcast Jay and Silent Bob Get Old right before your very eyes. It’ll be like Charlie Sheen’s tour, only good.

As Erasure Announce UK Tour, We Turn Into Sycophantic Idiots

August 7th, 2012 By Mof Gimmers

When people think of Great British Synthpop, Erasure are often cruelly overlooked by virtue of the fact that they seemed to be having too much fun and embraced their pop-sensibilities with too much gusto.

Basically, po-faced art-schoolers are held up for their future-thinking while Erasure unashamedly went straight for Smash Hits! and Top of the Pops. Of course, Heaven 17, Soft Cell, Human League and Depeche Mode all had big pop hits, but they retained a certain aloofness which made them more credible for some stupid reason.

And with Erasure announcing a new album and an autumn UK tour, it is high time we reminded ourselves just how brilliant they are.

New Imelda May Single And Tour – Start Dribbling Now

August 27th, 2010 By Mof Gimmers

Imelda May is the siren of sleaze, bringing finger snapping rhythm and booze back from the brink of boring, linear pedestrian choogle. Yessir, with hips that mesmerise and a face you could stalk, Imelda has a new single out and a tour to announce. Start penning depraved fanboy and fangirl letters post-haste!

May first hit the radar after appearing on Jools Holland (and wisely ignoring his advances to sit in on piano) with the ace ‘Johnny Got A Boom Boom’, alerting those with ears that she had a fine, fine LP out called ‘Love Tattoo’.

After her last single, ‘Psycho’,vamped up garage punk, she’s now back with a new brassy-broad number, ‘?Mayhem’, which is released on 13th September on Decca Records. And we have the video for you to ogle.

Free MP3 and Tour Dates from Fuzztastic Black Angels!

August 5th, 2012 By Mof Gimmers

If you like all things sixties, particularly the bands that employed fuzz pedals and heavy use of hallucinogens, then you’ll like the dead-eyed dronerock of the Black Angels. No really. This isn’t being written in a sarcastic tone. The good news is that they’re giving away a track from their new LP!

The Black Angels third album is called ‘Phosphene Dream’ and will be coming out in September.

The Austin-based fuzz-cadets still pushing their take on ’60s psychedelia (in a much better and more authentic way than other supposed psych-revivalists around at the moment) and will be hitting the road later in the year.