Can pop music get any worse than Hero & Leander?

Your most succesful heckle at a live show.

http://vimeo.com/71066820

Does this one work in the US?

yeah! that ad is pretty awful

like what's up with the "rapper" over the very white happy families? I mean, is it trying to be edgy or racially inclusive or something?

Wolfe Hogan on 27 October 2013 at 1:32 pm said:
This is a particularly nasty and cynical piece of ad exec manipulation. The whole point of advertising is to engage with a broad demographic and evoke an emotional response on a sub-conscious level. Notice how the protagonist family is young, white and middle-class- they are “cool” enthusiastic youth football supporters who go to imaginary festivals and do crosswords in their bare feet. The vocals are fake working-class London youth but the music itself is girly acoustic pop, aping The Lumineers. I find it disingenuous to say it’s “inspired” by Ian Dury when it’s only ripping his original concept (they’re actually lucky he’s dead). I can believe that people might actually like the music since our appreciation for real music has been very deliberately sucked dry. Dumbing-down a nation’s appreciation of the arts is a conscious ploy (heralded by people like Simon Cowell and advertising execs) so that they can sell you shit- like this car.

xp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQe4XVrJFGQ

carl on 24 October 2013 at 7:40 am said:
Well this advert confirms that the people who drive shitty cars like this are brain dead idiots. Vauxhall are targeting this group of people, the same low IQ fools that speak with a Jamaican accent even tho they are white and from Oxfordshire, the type that watch Eastenders” and model their lives on it, the type that watch the x factor instead of educating their snivelling kids Oh and the “Rapper” that is squirting this diarrhea out has the worst vocals I’ve ever heard. Get this crap off my TV!!.

People who enjoy Sense are bad people.

Are there any black ppl in the ad apart from the guy in the penguin outfit and the lady on the bench?

J
on 27 October 2013 at 2:04 pm said:
Carl, my comments were not an attack on you. I was trying to raise your awareness of throwing stones whilst living in glass houses!
I graduated with a First Class Honours Degree from Cambridge University (Clare College) in 1998, having read (and thoroughly enjoyed) English Language. I was known as ‘The Princess of Parenthesis’.
I do hope you find this information of value, and perhaps even find this presents an opportunity for you to learn a little more about how our wonderful language is, and can be, constructed in a variety of ways.
Your observation of the time I last posted is accurate regarding the hour, however your assumptive suggestion is way off the mark!!! There are many appropriate sayings I could reference: ‘Time waits for no man’ springs to mind immediately. Yet I feel this, an ancient Chinese saying (roughly translated) may provoke useful thoughts:
‘The man who lives by the watch, misses seeing so very much’.
I wish you well and hope you have a great day; I’m off for a spin on my Honda Fireblade (not an ounce of Astra rust in sight!!!)

the question is.....who is sense? can we get some information on this estimable rapper?

Do any of the comments mention hero and leander in comparison?

No.

I was known as ‘The Princess of Parenthesis’.

sense rapper

the most 'just broke the algorithm' search results in google history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmmqtAQj3WQ

Is this him?

A completely unique artist in his field, Sense is now widely perceived as one of the true pioneers of conscious lyricism within Drum and Bass music working with a wide variety of artists including Lynx, Zero T, Vicious Circle,Alix Pirez and many more.

An unusual and potent combination of heartfelt poetry, social commentary and a complete disregard for convention or the rule-book has gained him a cult following worldwide.

Sense is also a veteran of London’s pirate radio scene having appeared on more or less every influential station over the last decade including Don FM, Ruud Awakening and his now regular haunt on the resurgent Flex FM 99.7 where he can be found most Friday nights (8-10pm GMT) alongside his partner in crime Billion as half of the ‘Fathom Audio’ team (www.fathomaudio.com).
Having retired from ‘professional’ Drum and Bass MC’ing in 2008 due to a spinal injury and subsequent surgeries he has since been concentrating on other parts of his craft including acoustic songwriting, poetry and writing a series of books for children. He has also been influential within UK Hip Hop appearing on releases alongside the likes of KRS-1, Rodney P and Skinnyman.

Recently he has decided to give all his Hip Hop tunes away for free download (www.soundcloud.com/billion) and the videos are available on Youtube.

Sense is a founder member of the Grass Roots Family who are independantly releasing their long awaited debut later this year.
In reality, Sense could not be further away from most people’s view of a stereotypical D’n'B MC.
A fierce commitment to lyrical content and originality ensures this is likely to be the case for a while to come yet….

that seems to be him

Three of H&L's last 5 gigs have been in the same pub, why not go along and heckle?

(The Wenlock & Essex, Islington)

the Wenlock didn't get closed down? this is great news

kept alive by the good vibes of hero & leander.

I dont get why ineloquentwow wants people to heckle them. I don't like them but I'd not want anyone to spoil their gigs of those who do.

SKY FERREIRA

the wenlock /= wenlock & essex

:( aw

has anyone here heckled a band?

Only by giving honest response to a direct question. Or booing homophobia / racism / sexism if that counts.

well that's different. Of course you should shout back. Its not the heckling kind mentioned itt

I meant like "are you having fun out there?" "Not in the slightest."

I saw Momus perform in Manchester and I think there were some sarcastic shouts of 'yes' when he asked if Morrissey was in the audience. (Morrissey wasn't really in the audience.)

He asked whether Howard Devoto and Dick Witts were in the audience as well.

pretty sure you can always find Dick Witts at a Momus gig

better a dicky witt than a ...

I booed at the end of the film Inception and during a Kanye West video shoot/show when he was two hours late coming on stage but I kind of think it's bad form normally. I saw Magick Markers get booed so hard they just stopped playing and slunk off stage. It was pretty brutal. I mean, they weren't very good admittedly but if you're watching so-called 'out there' music you've got to take a leap of the imagination/have an open mind or whatever.

I saw this American improv jazz saxophonist guy play a gig at a small venue once, he sort of made noises with the saxophone without 'playing' it, making clackerty clackerty noise with the keys, making slurpy blowing noises with the reed etc. I was on my own and there were only six other people in audience, two older people who seemed into it, who I think knew him or worked at the venue, and four student age people who spent the whole performance trying to half heartedly suppress their laughter and increasing incredulity that this was the performance. They didn't heckle but they kind of got a fit of the giggles and gave up trying to stop laughing after a certain point.

I can't remember the saxophonist's name, I think the performance went over my head though.

Did anyone else in cinema join you in booing at the end of Inception? (I'm assuming you were watching it in a cinema and not just watching the DVD on your couch or something)

Were you seeing Inception with friends or were you alone? I usually only go to the cinema alone and I would feel awkward booing a film if I was sitting on my own.

i thought i booed at the end of Inception but it turns out i dreamt it

LOL

Soref: It was out of character for me. Even when I was drinking heavily it's not the sort of thing I'd would normally do. I think there was applause at the end of it. Now, I miss people clapping at the end of films (and when planes land successfully) - I think it's charming. But I was so incensed at how utterly terrible I perceived the film to be, in this instance the applause rubbed me up the wrong way. So I made an ineffectual protest by booing. I don't think that many people noticed. My girlfriend and her friend, thankfully thought my irritation was funny rather than the cause for angrily telling me to shut up.

"I would"

these guys seem pretty good

yikes @ that de la cover

no scrubs isnt much better

youtube keeps recommending this to me, presumably because I watched the Hero & Leander video, I would posit that this is worse than Hero & Leander

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rzPmH0cdDo

i think the key issue here is there shd probably be some sort of moratorium on cover versions. especially by indies.

I saw this American improv jazz saxophonist guy play a gig at a small venue once, he sort of made noises with the saxophone without 'playing' it, making clackerty clackerty noise with the keys, making slurpy blowing noises with the reed etc

this is pretty standard free improv. I wish you remembered who he was though.

Did you watch the video? It's not just a cover it's a MASH UP.

i've heard bastille and without viewing that i'm guessing that you're v correct.

i'm not really sure what makes hero & leander stand out from the thousands of other chirpy innocent smoothies twee bands of the last eight years or so, if someone would like to outline it in a 5,000 word post i will definitely read it.