This week on GameStarz SPOnG managed to collar one of the UK’s hottest new up-and-coming noisy rock bands, Trash Money. It seems that frontman Joe Wilson (ex Sneaker Pimps, pictured far right) and freaky dancing lead singer Chris Tate (pictured far left) are both keen gamers, although SPOnG can tell that they are muso’s purely by the fact that they seem to play some games on Macs!
Trash Money are about to launch their eponymously-titled debut album onto an unsuspecting world and have been described as ‘genius’ by XFM sex-kitten Lauren Laverne and as ‘magnificently malevolent sleaze-rock’ by music weekly Smash Hits, sorry, NME. SPOnG has trouble telling the difference these days.
It seems that Trash Money have been making something of a noise on Myspace over the last few months, gaining thousands of online fans. Perhaps they will become ‘the new Arctic Monkeys’? Who knows? Who cares? Who dares to dream? Well SPOnG likes the sound of what we’ve heard so far on Myspace here at and on their own website here - particularly the sure-to-soon-be-overplayed on XFM '747'. We know all about misbehavin' on airplane flights!
See what you reckon and let us know your thoughts in the forums below. In the meantime, here’s a few of their thoughts and opinions on gaming for you to be going on with.
SPOnG: What are your favourite games of the last year or two? And why?
Joe Wilson: Doom 3 on the Mac, because it managed to retain the original grimness of the first game, with a new goth viciousness. Shadow of Rome on the PS2, because it is good to hit people with the stumps of their own arms.
SPOnG: What are your top three favourite games of all time? Any particular memories they evoke?
JW: ICO on the PS2, which has still to be beaten by any game. Deus Ex on a PC was always good, and reminds of a time when I could have been drunk all the time. The first Tomb Raider on the PS1 because you could play it in a group of people shouting at you. I used to play it in a friends flat over Christmas, and it was as near as we got to a notion of family. It was a game that you could play till dawn, even with girls in the room.
SPOnG: What's your earliest memory of playing video games?
JW: Intellevision, round a posh kid's house called Matthew It seemed very advanced, but then so was Matthew.
SPOnG: Xbox, PlayStation, PC or Gamecube? Any preferences, and if so can you say why?
JW: Playstation 2, but one of my controllers has gone batty, which has meant that erroneous information is continually being sent to the console. PC’s are always embarrassing, but PC first person shooters can't be beaten. I always have been surprised by the graphic violence of something like Soldier of Fortune. I must be old.
SPOnG: Unless you are one of the lucky few who already has an Xbox 360, will you buy a next-generation console in 2006? And if so, which one ? Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 or Nintendo Revolution?
JW: No, cos I am broke.
SPOnG: When you are buying a new game how do you make the decision what to buy? Magazines? Word of mouth? Pot luck?
JW: Magazines and word of mouth. Never pot luck? Who does that? Richard Branson?
SPOnG: Do you play games alone, online with others or multiplayer with your partner, family and/or friends?
JW: Never family. It is my guilty secret. I would rather admit to masturbating on the top deck of a bus. Even these questions are making me feel a bit clammy.
SPOnG: If you were given carte blanche to design the game of your dreams, what would it be?
JW: It would be a first person shooter in the style of Half Life, but with the calm atmosphere of ICO ("deriver" I believe is the technical term, according to Jonathan Ross)
SPOnG: What kind of games do you think Trash Money's sound would lend itself to as a soundtrack?
JW: Trash Money is a bit of a riot of sound, so probably not one of those boring football manager games, which are always played by people in IT who are trying to look street. Trash Money would be good for one of those Japanese dancing around games or a heavy metal shoot em up.
SPOnG: What movie license(s) would you like to see videogame versions of?
JW: There was a great version of "The Thing" on PS2, but it was really unfairly treated. I would like to see Logan's Run or French Connection 2 being made into a video game. You could tap the buttons really fast to make Popeye Doyle come through cold turkey, a la Daley Thompson’s Decathalon.
Trash Money play London’s Borderline Club on the 27th January. SPOnG will see you there. Their debut album will be out in March.
Trash Money are about to launch their eponymously-titled debut album onto an unsuspecting world and have been described as ‘genius’ by XFM sex-kitten Lauren Laverne and as ‘magnificently malevolent sleaze-rock’ by music weekly Smash Hits, sorry, NME. SPOnG has trouble telling the difference these days.
It seems that Trash Money have been making something of a noise on Myspace over the last few months, gaining thousands of online fans. Perhaps they will become ‘the new Arctic Monkeys’? Who knows? Who cares? Who dares to dream? Well SPOnG likes the sound of what we’ve heard so far on Myspace here at and on their own website here - particularly the sure-to-soon-be-overplayed on XFM '747'. We know all about misbehavin' on airplane flights!
See what you reckon and let us know your thoughts in the forums below. In the meantime, here’s a few of their thoughts and opinions on gaming for you to be going on with.
SPOnG: What are your favourite games of the last year or two? And why?
Joe Wilson: Doom 3 on the Mac, because it managed to retain the original grimness of the first game, with a new goth viciousness. Shadow of Rome on the PS2, because it is good to hit people with the stumps of their own arms.
SPOnG: What are your top three favourite games of all time? Any particular memories they evoke?
JW: ICO on the PS2, which has still to be beaten by any game. Deus Ex on a PC was always good, and reminds of a time when I could have been drunk all the time. The first Tomb Raider on the PS1 because you could play it in a group of people shouting at you. I used to play it in a friends flat over Christmas, and it was as near as we got to a notion of family. It was a game that you could play till dawn, even with girls in the room.
SPOnG: What's your earliest memory of playing video games?
JW: Intellevision, round a posh kid's house called Matthew It seemed very advanced, but then so was Matthew.
SPOnG: Xbox, PlayStation, PC or Gamecube? Any preferences, and if so can you say why?
JW: Playstation 2, but one of my controllers has gone batty, which has meant that erroneous information is continually being sent to the console. PC’s are always embarrassing, but PC first person shooters can't be beaten. I always have been surprised by the graphic violence of something like Soldier of Fortune. I must be old.
SPOnG: Unless you are one of the lucky few who already has an Xbox 360, will you buy a next-generation console in 2006? And if so, which one ? Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 or Nintendo Revolution?
JW: No, cos I am broke.
SPOnG: When you are buying a new game how do you make the decision what to buy? Magazines? Word of mouth? Pot luck?
JW: Magazines and word of mouth. Never pot luck? Who does that? Richard Branson?
SPOnG: Do you play games alone, online with others or multiplayer with your partner, family and/or friends?
JW: Never family. It is my guilty secret. I would rather admit to masturbating on the top deck of a bus. Even these questions are making me feel a bit clammy.
SPOnG: If you were given carte blanche to design the game of your dreams, what would it be?
JW: It would be a first person shooter in the style of Half Life, but with the calm atmosphere of ICO ("deriver" I believe is the technical term, according to Jonathan Ross)
SPOnG: What kind of games do you think Trash Money's sound would lend itself to as a soundtrack?
JW: Trash Money is a bit of a riot of sound, so probably not one of those boring football manager games, which are always played by people in IT who are trying to look street. Trash Money would be good for one of those Japanese dancing around games or a heavy metal shoot em up.
SPOnG: What movie license(s) would you like to see videogame versions of?
JW: There was a great version of "The Thing" on PS2, but it was really unfairly treated. I would like to see Logan's Run or French Connection 2 being made into a video game. You could tap the buttons really fast to make Popeye Doyle come through cold turkey, a la Daley Thompson’s Decathalon.
Trash Money play London’s Borderline Club on the 27th January. SPOnG will see you there. Their debut album will be out in March.
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DoctorDee 13 Jan 2006 09:01
1/10
Given that Logan's Run is currenty being made into a movie, I think it's a fair bet that we'll see a tepid FPS/adventure involving Francis chasing Jessica and Logan to Sanctuary.
SPInGSPOnG 13 Jan 2006 09:15
2/10
DoctorDee wrote:
Given that Logan's Run is currenty being made into a movie
I wonder if we'll get an excellent hot Box scene like the original had. Or if they'll aim this one at kids, and cut it out.
Who is playing Jessica, btw?
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Mendez 13 Jan 2006 09:31
3/10
Jonathan Ross would never use the word "deriver", though "dewiver" is clearly in his vocab
VastikRoot 13 Jan 2006 11:53
4/10
What a wierd coincidence - just finished reading the book (been a fan of the film for years) and said to a friend yesterday that it'd be great if someone made a film of it again but made it closer to the book's darker and grittier story line (glass house please ;) Lo and behold I read Spong today and find out someone is! It better be a 15 at least...can't see a film featuring teenage sex and drug use being a 12A. If they make a game i guess a Riddick: escape from butcher bay type game might work...
DoctorDee 13 Jan 2006 15:48
5/10
VastikRoot wrote:
What a wierd coincidence - just finished reading the book (been a fan of the film for years) and said to a friend yesterday that it'd be great if someone made a film of it again but made it closer to the book's darker and grittier story line
The new film will suck. This recent spate of remakes have. Kong was s**t, Rollerball was apalling. The original was a swipe at corporate and media power, since the remake was made by exactly the type of company the original villified, they changed the enemies to nameless faceless Russian mafia types, thus removing any message the film had. Stepford wives - ditto.
There should be a law preventing the remaking of films. But Hollywood has run out of ideas, so all it does it eat itself, and remake (and ruin) asian movies.
ohms 13 Jan 2006 16:41
6/10
DoctorDee wrote:
Kong was s**t.
Glad there's someone else with sense out there. The way everyone was raving about Kong, it was like Peter Jackson could do no wrong, but it sucked balls, and the effects were'nt much to write home about either.
VastikRoot 13 Jan 2006 17:19
7/10
DoctorDee wrote:
The new film will suck. This recent spate of remakes have. Kong was s**t, Rollerball was apalling. The original was a swipe at corporate and media power, since the remake was made by exactly the type of company the original villified, they changed the enemies to nameless faceless Russian mafia types, thus removing any message the film had. Stepford wives - ditto.
There should be a law preventing the remaking of films. But Hollywood has run out of ideas, so all it does it eat itself, and remake (and ruin) asian movies.
There should be a law preventing the remaking of films. But Hollywood has run out of ideas, so all it does it eat itself, and remake (and ruin) asian movies.
Agree with you totally but was hoping for a version of the book as opposed to a remake of the film which was quite different. Won't get what I want though. And it won't have Jenny Agutter in it either ;)
DoctorDee 13 Jan 2006 18:06
8/10
VastikRoot wrote:
Agree with you totally but was hoping for a version of the book as opposed to a remake of the film which was quite different.
I don't remember it that way. I may need to re-read it, but I remember the original film as being basically true to the book. Sure the book was nastier and edgier, and Carousel was at 21, not 30. But I remember it otherwise basically faithful to the book. I'll re-read the book this weekend...
tyrion 14 Jan 2006 12:23
9/10
ohms wrote:
Glad there's someone else with sense out there. The way everyone was raving about Kong, it was like Peter Jackson could do no wrong, but it sucked balls, and the effects were'nt much to write home about either.
I'm a big fan of Peter Jackson, going all the way back to Bad Taste and Brain Dead, I really enjoyed the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, but Kong was not his best film, by far.
First up, the film could have been half the length if it was all shot at normal speed. The number of slow-mo shots put a library if John Woo films to shame.
There was no thought at all given to physics in the entire film.
Kong picks up Ann who is tied to the sacrificial lowering device, why weren't her arms ripped off?
Kong runs through the jungle, leaping from rock to rock with Ann in his hand, why wasn't her neck broken? Not to mention the number of times she was thrown around, dropped and caught during the overly-long T-Rex fight.
Speaking of T-Rexes, why would they be bothered at all with a tiny morsel like Ann when there were huge lizards to eat? Sure they may have chased her out of instinct, but fighting Kong to get at her is just stupid.
And speaking of eating, how much would Kong have had to eat to stay alive? The little bit of bamboo or twigs we see him munch wouldn't have sustained him for two minutes!
Granted we are talking about a fantasy film with a 25-foot high gorilla, but come on! Give us something we can believe in, not just a love triangle between two people and an over-sized ape!
majin dboy 16 Jan 2006 00:24
10/10
i also hated King Kong.My God,the first hour how boring was that,and the ape's stupid laugh when that blonde girl was soing her "routine",give me a break.
The worst examples of the realism was
i)when that blonde girl was hanging onto T-rexs tooth.
(and the part that really annoyed me...)
ii)the running through the stampeading brontasourases legs and kicking T-rexs in the race.
The worst examples of the realism was
i)when that blonde girl was hanging onto T-rexs tooth.
(and the part that really annoyed me...)
ii)the running through the stampeading brontasourases legs and kicking T-rexs in the race.