Dean Heslop is an English performer, musician and conceptual artist, best known for his resonating choruses and soaring electronic melodies which have caught the zeitgeist of the early Tweens, Heslop's musical influences have been notoriously difficult to pin down, but have probably been best described as a "post-pop rock electro settlement".
Say You're Sorry and Critical Acclaim
Arguably, Heslop's greatest musical project is the "Say you're sorry" video, a moving tribute to the twentieth century's interpretation of love and mourning, and how these themes have been shaped by the de-industrialisation of Teeside and its surrounding hinterland. Heslop, adopting a pantheon of voices reminiscent of T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" muses on the disturbing manner in which the identity of his native Redcar has shifted, imploring us to understand that "I [Heslop] know you [Redcar], yes I do", whilst grimacing in a visual manner that suggests a visceral realisation that the truth is some what different: his time in Cardiff has seen him drift apart from his instinctive home.
Reda Khan has essentially summarised this view of Heslop's works with the pithy "seen blood, innit".
Dean Heslop is also a known associate of bald headed east London intellectual Toby Roebuck, and is rumoured to have once posted Roebuck's arch nemesis, Mick Hucknall, a pound of rotten haddock.