The Great Escape 2008: the DiS review
From the archive... Amazing scenes on the south coast as DiS descends upon the annual beachside fest that is The Great Escape, catching the cream of its crop»
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Field Day 2008: DiS's highlights
From the archive... The rain fell all day, but spirits at Field Day 2008, held in London's Victoria Park, couldn't completely be dampened. Here are our highlights»
In Photos: DiS Stage @ Summer Sundae 2008 Weekender
DiS popped along to the annual Summer Sundae Weekender last weekend, held in Leicester, and curated Friday's Rising Stage line-up»
Primavera Sound: DiS' 2008 festival highlights
From the archive... Team DiS picks its highlights of Primavera Sound 2008; invites fellow attendees to give us your top bands of the fest held in Barcelona»
Green Man 2008: DiS's festival highs (and lows)
A couple of weekends ago, DiS ventured to Wales to brave the incessant downpour for the sixth annual Green Man Festival. Here's some of what we saw»
Summer Sundae Weekender: DiS's highlights
If there’s one thing DiS loves this time of year it’s festivals, and the Summer Sundae Weekender is among our favourites. Highlights, here»
Green Man 2008: DiS's five festival picks
DiS is getting more and more excited about the sixth annual Green Man Festival - here, we pick five must-see acts playing over the weekend»
Lovebox 2008: the DiS review
Another year, another Lovebox, and another fine opportunity for Groove Armada to be the two words on everyone's lips»
Latitude 2008: DiS's festival picks
The third annual Latitude Festival took place over the weekend in Suffolk. DiS picks its ten highlights, and shows off its flashy photo skills here»
Dot To Dot 2008: the DiS review
DiS heads to Nottingham for the third annual Dot To Dot festival; proceeds to pick its best, and worst, bands of the weekend»
Explosions' ATP: the DiS review
DiS does ATP for a second weekend, this time boarding the Minehead train for Explosions In The Sky's little lot, including De La Soul, Battles and Mono»
In Photos special: The Great Escape 2008
DiS didn’t just have a crack team of scribes on the loose in Brighton for this year’s The Great Escape, oh no. We had a happy snapper, too»
The Weekly DiScussion: the greatest bands to have never played at ATP
With ATP firmly on DiS's agenda for the next two weekends, we invite some industry types to suggest their favourite acts yet to play the celebrated festival, and you to DiScuss the potentials»
Sweet dreams or haunting horrors: ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas in summary
This December’s Nightmare Before Christmas – ATP’s now-annual end-of-year blow-out, helmed by one prominent figure or other orbiting alternative music circles – filled a fair few DiSsers with not a little fear: with Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore at the controls, any semblance of melody, anything resembling a tune you could hum, looked certain to be blown to smithereens by noise bloody noise. DiS reports back from the warzone...»
Iceland Airwaves 2006: Bands
DiS has been to Iceland! Actually, we've been to Iceland for the past three Airwaves Festivals, but this year one was really different. For a start it was the second excursion of 2006 after April's debaucherous trip for the Rite of Spring Festival, and also because we had a whole night of DiS-sponsored fun. Also, we did a blog and generally pissed around...»
Iceland Airwaves 2006: Stuff
While you may have been intrigued as to how we justified spending a million pounds on carting a bunch of us DiS writers off to Iceland in this article (that's another link), you're probably less intrigued as to the other stuff we did. We were in an apartment, we cooked bacon and eggs. As if you'd wanna read about that...»
Carling Weekend 2006 - Sunday
Drowned in Sound's coverage of The Carling Weekend 2006 has come to you courtesy of Sean Adams, Sam Corbett, Jordan Dowling, Chris Harris, Ben Jones, Kev Kharas, Christopher Knight, Ben Marwood, Raziq Rauf, Rob Webb and Gary Wolstenholme.»
Carling Weekend 2006 - Saturday
Drowned in Sound's coverage of The Carling Weekend 2006 has come to you courtesy of Sean Adams, Sam Corbett, Jordan Dowling, Chris Harris, Ben Jones, Kev Kharas, Christopher Knight, Ben Marwood, Raziq Rauf, Rob Webb and Gary Wolstenholme.»
Carling Weekend 2006 - Friday
Drowned in Sound's coverage of The Carling Weekend 2006 has come to you courtesy of Sean Adams, Sam Corbett, Jordan Dowling, Chris Harris, Ben Jones, Kev Kharas, Christopher Knight, Ben Marwood, Raziq Rauf, Rob Webb and Gary Wolstenholme.»
The Green Man Festival
DiS arrives on site Friday through a tiny castle-shaped guard house over a burbling river. Tents are set up in a storm that fully justifies the use of the word 'torrential' before we trudge through the mud...»
Camden Crawl 2006
The Camden Crawl™ is an incessant pitch of desperate dreams and stained ale teeth; a rotter’s journey to the centre of the Dublin Castle [indie development hell] that celebrates punctuality and order over diminished responsibility and leather jackets. A playground for the sensible band warrior, offering Joe Punter the opportunity to see all his favourite junior artists in one long stretch, over a concrete path of Converse-tread doom. »
DiS does ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas
The road was both long and winding – and not even a road but a railway line, if we’re being entirely accurate – but DiS finally made it back from The Mars Volta-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties festival, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Only now have we regained strength enough to put our experiences into words; to reassemble the muddled memories into some kind of coherent piece...»
Reading/Leeds: Review
It’s that time of Summer again where those of us who don’t want to celebrate Jamaica on the streets of Notting Hill migrate to fields at the Rivermead Leisure Centre and Bramham Park to hang out with black-topped rock-kids and a lot of drunken fools (some of which include members of team DiS). A full review, replete with photographs and humour.»
Reading/Leeds: Main Stage
Funeral for a Friend, Queens of the Stone Age, Alkaline Trio, Iron Maiden, Foo Fighters, Incubus, Marilyn Manson, Goldie Lookin' Chain, Biffy Clyro, Dinosaur Jr., Iggy and The Stooges, Pixies.»
Reading/Leeds: Radio 1 Stage
The Rakes, The Futureheads, Blood Brothers, Hot Hot Heat, Babyshambles, The Cribs, Death from Above 1979, Yourcodenameis: Milo, Editors, The Cooper Temple Clause, Maximo Park, The Duke Spirit, The Arcade Fire.»
Leeds: Error in Movies
Saul Williams, Type2error, Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies, Neon Productions»
Reading/Leeds: The Other Stages
thisGIRL, iForward, Russia!, iLiKETRAiNS, 65daysofstatic, Future Ex-Wife, Mystery Jets, Million Dead, Komakino, Sleater-Kinney, Blackalicious, Amusement Parks on Fire, Buck 65, Test Icicles, The Go! Team, Saul Williams.»