Our Friends In The North: DiS Does Leeds Festival 2017
Despite a few hairy moments, this festival still has it»
Articles
LukeBeardsworth has written the following articles:
Sharon van Etten - (It Was) Because I Was In Love
Her most affecting material»
Sam Smith - The Thrill of It All
Nobody expected Smith to reinvent the wheel on his second album, but anything is better than limping along on a flat tyre»
Wolf Alice - Visions of a Life
Visions of a Lifeis a phenomenal achievement»
Enter Shikari - The Spark
A brilliant, imperfect record that affects you in ways Enter Shikari never have before»
DiS Does Kendal Calling 2017
There's a reason people come back here year after year»
The Fangasm: Origin Of Symmetry by Muse
It comes across like a band losing their minds, partly because they were»
Kendal Calling 2017: The DiS Preview
We're off to the land of lakes»
BST Hyde Park 2017: The Killers Live
The Las Vegas quartet are the perfect band for this sort of gig»
"This time round we know how it works": DiS Meets Royal Blood
We talk to the duo ahead of the release of their much anticipated second album»
Four Simple Nights: Frank Turner's Lost Evenings
We get lost in a mini-festival dedicated to all things Frank»
"I'm a work in progress": DiS Meets Frank Turner
We chat to the outspoken artist ahead of his four-night run at the Camden Roundhouse»
Kasabian - For Crying Out Loud
If this was the album to save guitar music from the abyss, then we might as well nudge it over the edge»
Phantogram - Three
Three feels like a record designed to make you move, rather than move you»
Slaves - Take Control
It’s still simplistic and limited but it’s meant to be»
DiS Does Leeds Festival 2016
This was one of the strongest line-ups in years. Just look after people a little more next time, yeah?»
Jamie T - Trick
Trick is comfortably Jamie T’s best album so far»
Leeds Festival 2016 Preview
This is why we can’t wait for Leeds Festival 2016.»
DiS Does Kendal Calling 2016
There's just so much to love at Lowther Deer Park.»
Kendal Calling 2016: The DiS Preview
Here are the reasons you should be heading to the Lake District.»
"Brexit is an absolute fucking shambles!" DiS Meets Biffy Clyro
Luke Beardsworth finds the Scottish trio in bullish mood ahead of their headline appearance at Reading & Leeds.»
Biffy Clyro - Ellipsis
Takes the formula they used in the latter part of their career and refines it with shades of the quirks and weirdness of their early days»
Live review: Muse, Manchester Arena, 08/04/16
Here I am, gig 18, back in love with them…»
The Joy Formidable - Hitch
Hitch doesn’t reinvent The Joy Formidable wheel but it refines everything they’ve done until this point and presents their most complete package yet»
Visuals, Vision and the EU Referendum: ENTER SHIKARI chat to DiS
‘People still think we have a degree of prestige that other countries don’t and it’s so embarrassing.’»
Frank Turner - Mittens
A small chance at redemption»
Yacht - I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler
Some very solid pop tunes»
El Vy live at Manchester Gorilla, 12/12/2016
You don’t just become a fan of The National. You either find their music a little sleep-inducing and spurn it altogether or you fall completely in love.»
Beans On Toast - Rolling Up the Hill
You know exactly what you’re going to get when you listen to Beans on Toast»
Sam Smith - In the Lonely Hour (Drowning Shadows Edition)
The success of Smith remains a mystery»