-Raz- has written the following articles:
From Manchester via Wales via a couple of other bands has come Tricky Nixon. Ploughing through the Manchester unsigned scene in a blaze of Pixies and Ash, they played the first DiS Manchester show of the year and stormed it, absolutely ripped it apart.»
Inside you will find Hollywood Ending's glorious three-way extremo melodies and harmonies conforming and contorting every EmOtherapy trademark riff you’ll have ever heard.»
Hello! I would like you to read this article because it tells you about cool stuff like the best monthly gig night in Manchester, which is on THIS FRIDAY MARCH 26, as well as one of the best new bands around! How awesome does that sound?! This also helps detail my whereabouts for any stalkers out there. CLICKY! CLICKY! FRIDAY!»
Those crazy Japanese, object-munching mentallers Electric Eel Shock have confirmed the tour dates of a massive tour they're doing on this side of the world.»
Two of the bands for 2004. Drive Like You Stole It and Amplifier have been honing their talents to the max, releasing their debut albums in the coming weeks. They are at the top of their games and there's a girl in one of the bands!»
DiS Manchester is STILL going THIS FRIDAY. We ain't gone bust! Nor have we got Busted. For that I am sorry. They said it was cos they don't sell a pineapple squash in Night&Day! How rude! Last Friday of the month. THIS FRIDAY!. You will come and have fun again. Click the strange picture to find out moooore...»
It’s another Funeral song that’s been released again. It’s still the best sing-along tune you’ll find this year.»
Tip for '04 And so it’s the latest in a wide batch of post-everything screw-rock students. Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies are an angular band, dripping all over the computers they got their student loans for, bleeping and faux-angst screaming their way to stardom... a beautifully deserved stardom.»
THIS is the first great single from 2004. It’s actually released a week before that Les Ferdinand pap. It’s Sean Paul’s and it’s Great!»
"Wahey!" you say as you hear that DiS Manchester is on THIS FRIDAY! In collaboration with the mighty Captains of Industry record label we have brought you a couple of the finest bands of 2003 and some for 2004 as well. A night of frolickery and debauchery and all things ROCK, you can be comfortably assured. Drink well. Prepare.»
America's 20m record selling geek-metallers, Linkin Park traipse through the country taking Welsh nu-stadium metallers LostProphets and Manichester punks Kinesis with them.»
It’s a sad fact that many people despise the trendy Welsh post-hardcore-metal (ExtrEmO) outfit known fondly as LostProphets and less fondly as “that f*cking Welsh boy band with guitars”. It’s true!»
DiS Manchester is all go. A grand evening even more North London than Camden. A night of frolickery and debauchery, I am comfortably assured. This splendid occasion will be the premiere of the monthly nights which will is already becoming the biggest night in Manchester. Club RaZdangooooo...»
Remember what it was to hear that snarl; the dirt and grime emanating from that rotten, red-necked gorge. It was beautiful... There’s something about this record that can never love you. You will love it to death. It won’t even look back at your rancid insides.»
So it’s the tour all the goth-gypsy-hippies have been waiting for. You see all the freaks out tonight waiting to see their rubber-clad idols of piercèd nipples and straining pectorals: the girl with the bejewelled lips and the roses shoved all the way down her panties; the dwarf wearing nothing but a bed of tattoos and more lusciously piercèd nipples; the late-to-arrive-on-the-freak-scene student who clutches his 30-minute beer tenaciously.»
Mummy's gone to Iceland... and she ain't coming back, but those kerrraazzzy fellows from the Icy Isle of Iceland, Mínus, are long-hauling all their frozen goodies to our own sodden isle. Bless 'em. And hopefully they won't have lost any more wayward bassists in the meantime!»
There is no prologue to this record. I have but a handful of EPs and live viewings to compare this opus to. Despite my experiences of Oceansize dating back a year and a half yonder and considering all my prior hyperbole and superlative, this full-length album still held revelations within. There is a delicate»
It’s difficult to understand why it has taken Engerica so long to release this gem of a single. Their peers of recent months have almost left them behind, but a slow start is better than a total withdrawal. With three tracks of wondrously tainted urgency pulsing at you, this single must be the start of som»
Alien Ant Farm, huh? Whip the boy to hell, huh? Everyone else has done and show no sign of stopping. It’s not like they’ve done anything to garner my respect now is it? But being the nice guy that I am, I find it only fair to sit down and listen… and ignoring the suitably worrying cRaZy title, this record ain»
So we got the motor/rail equivalent of a slave boat and packed in as many DiS writers as we could [Sean Adams, Ollie Appleby, Gareth Dobson, Ellen Forster, Andy Future, Matt Gregory, Mat Hocking, Sara Lovejoy, James Meehan, Ed Mellett, Kate Price, Raziq Rauf, Ollie Russian, Jo Sutton, George Terry, Peter »
DiS went in 2003. This is what we thought...»
CARLING WEEKENDER 2003: RADIO 1 STAGE REVIEWS
Getting lost and getting spaced out by invisible somersaulters in a smokey twin peaked thunderdome were:
Sean Adams (Sean)
Oliver Appleby (»
CARLING WEEKENDER 2003: CONCRETE JUNGLE STAGE REVIEWS
Crunching their puny bodices into a mangled punk hovel of =SuPa=EmO= Blink-uniformed bikini jailbait:
Ellen Forster (EF)
Mathew Hocking (»
CARLING WEEKENDER 2003: CARLING STAGE REVIEWS
Wandering through and under the meagre canopies of the Carling Tent were:
Sean Adams (Sean)
Oliver Appleby (»
I’m on a boat, cruising down the Thames and it’s wetter than it should be. This is some sort of party: booze, music, peanuts, sexy ladies. Mmmm, dig those shins. Tonight kicks off with The Loose Shoes who are apparently “soulful country - a soundtrack to the sunset”. I am sorry to say that the sun»
From the ashes of seminal Texan punks At The Drive-In rose two blocs: The Hair and The Rest. It wasn't a union to form ever again and so they went their separate ways. The Hair always seemed to be the spine of the group and continued to experiment, refusing to conform to any expectations or ideals. »
YET I'M NOTHING MORE THAN A LINE IN YOUR BOO-OOH-UK! It's been a great year for the Welsh boyos and DiS has been there all the way along the track. With the mainstream press now firmly caught up and East West working overtime to blow them into the next stratosphere, 2004 is gonna be a great year for them too. Single of the Year 2003?»
Those crazy Welsh metallers in Good Charlotte t-shirts are plying their massive stuff in tiny venues just before rockin' oot on Reading's Main Stage. With brand spankin' new [fuckin' metal] material set to be previewed at all these (muthafuckin') shows the Eric Valentine (QotSA, Good Charlotte hehe) record»
Ten years. Make it sound like zero. This was the mission Jane’s Addiction had in hand when they reformed last year: recapture the unwieldy spirit of the years of yore. The infinite idiosyncrasies, 4-minute-brewed with the jazzed up heavy rock that decisively sliced through the music world with that remarkable»
Chicagoan emo-pop-punk-rock Alkaline Trio’s new album ‘Good Mourning’ is the “record Topshop will be playing the day the planes crash into their flagship store” and worryingly, they have been said to closely resemble dead rock »
