Hey Everybody! Its been silent on the Blog front for sometime but we're hoping to make up for that now.

We have some very exciting news for y'all

HECK will be performing 3 songs live on BBC Radio 6, Monday 14th July on Marc Riley's Brain Surgery...please listen in (I think you can hear it on channel 909 on Virgin TV and on-line if you don't have a Digital Radio.

We'd like to say a big big thanks to Sweet Baboo who recommended us!!!

We can't wait!

We're also playing in Clwb Ifor Bach on Wed 16th July, hope you can make it?!

OK HECKERS--we've added a new track taken from the session tracks we did for Adam Waltons radio show broadcast last Sunday night (20th May)!

I'll add more over the next few days including spanking new versions of "Powers" and "Skate" also taken from that session.

Mike x

When you start a band there are usually a few things you want to achieve, and more often than not you set your sights quite low - you might want to play a gig at a venue that has monitors, or one day be asked if you'd like to put your girlfriend on the guestlist. Happily, after three gigs Heck have achieved all this (Clwb has monitors and in Bristol we got Mark from Attack and Defend and his missus in for nothing).

However. Supporting one of the reasons you got into music in the first place is setting your sights quite high if you ask me, but The Fall certainly come under that category. I personally can't wait - saying hello to Mark E Smith, him calling me 'a cunt' back, singing along to Hit The North and Cruiser's Creek, doing my customary pre-gig puke in the plush surroundings of The Point, and being able to satisfy my post gig hunger in one of the bay's many fine restaurants ('hey, we just supported The Fall - let's go and eat some Dim Sum! Wooh!' etc.)

Wish us luck. And before you ask - there's no guestlist.

elis

YEP-its HECK!  hear us on RADIO 1 EVE SESSION tonight Thurs 22nd Feb,

Fellow Hecklers

You could be lucky enough to be somewhere on a truly historic occasion, maybe once or twice at most during your life. You might have been at Old Trafford for George Best's debut, you might have been present the first time Richard Burton decided to give 'acting a go,' either way – if you listen to the evening session with Beth and Huw tonight you'll hear Heck on Radio 1 for the first time. Ever. ( approx sometime after 8.15pm)

Now obviously, our demo being on 'play my track damnit' is quite significant, so we decided to bring some other significant dates in history to your attention. After all – we're that sort of band.

In 1906 Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War. Heck are currently pondering the offer of becoming diplomats for UNICEF.

In 1988 Justin Fashanu revealed that he was gay, becoming the first athlete in a team sport to come out during his sporting career, and still the only British footballer to have come out publicly (Ashley Cole doesn't count, Arsenal fans).

In 1799 Count de Grisley becomes the first magician to perform the trick of sawing a woman in half . Heck will be doing this to Jemma at their gig in Bristol on March 11^th.

In 1809 Mary Kies became the first woman to be issued a US patent. Kies was granted a patent for the rights to a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread to make bonnets. If you can think if a way to make this relevant to an art-rock band from Cardiff by all means send us a myspace message.

In 1875 Matthew Webb becomes the first known person to swim across the English Channel. (He drowned in 1883 after unsuccessfully trying to swim across the whirlpools and rapids beneath Niagara Falls.) Elis the guitarist is actually petrified of swimming, a fear which is bound to manifest itself through the medium of song in the near future.