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Guildford (or Guilfest as it's now known) ain't just 3 days of 3-scousers doing covers yuhknow, there's some alright stuff goin' down too.. "Alright"? Well, more like ideal festival acts, playing Stoke Park on July 4th, 5th and 6th, like the Patti-Smith'ish brummy singersongwriterstar Carina Roun»
Our Polly is melting our hearts again this summer, with a few festival appearances, previewing her new album, amid all this mobile phone tv advert exposure... PJ Harvey's performing @ The Eden Project 2003, in Cornwall on August 15th. This is one of her first shows since The Big Day Out, down under,»
That gang of guys who rant about Nafta and kicked off 2003 playing a DiS tour, well, they are back out on the road... Their debut album release isn't too far away and when DiS last caught up with one-time contributor Conor, he said it's sounding really amazing, better than they imagined, and all that. This»
Insensitive headlines aside, this is a good gig, for a good cause. A rock show with lots of noize and helping people with mental health hardly seem like a match made in heaven, but on Sunday 11th May @ Chinnerys in Southend-on-Sea, they're doing just that. Headlining, as seen playing DiS shows with t»
As you may have noticed, we're currently in the process of shifting servers... It's not exactly the most interesting thang in the world, but it'll mean the site is faster and we can sort out some of the technical glitches, like the user area»
Bad news for pant-wearing hairy men fans.. Scantily-clad Har Mar Superstar has had to cancel his UK tour in support of Hot Hot Heat which was meant to start tomorrow. Why? Answer from the ego itself: "Apparently I've got a pirate's disease called shingles. I'm really sorry I »
We want icons and we want some now!
Thou must not mention she looks like Shakira mixed with a bitta Aguilera.
Thou shall not be swayed by the cover art - s'all headflicks and eyeliner. And
the back is even worse: strappy panties, seedy black'n'white-tography.
Looks ain't
everything yuhknow, nor »
Just when you thought it was all about taking drugs in a field, Glastonbury gets a few bands worth watching...
Quite a few good 'uns announced.
Friday 27th June:
The Cooper Temple Clause who are also slutting themselves around Isle of Wight and Reading Festivals, play on the Other Stage»
Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley.. How many deaths will it take 'til people wake up?
There's a DCV (deadly comprehension virus) going around that's robbing us of genius. We only worship, respect and want to look after these prophets when they're long gone. Y'see, or rather you don’t see, these people who understan»
DiS tour starts this week, but one of the dates has changed... Apologies to anyone coming to the Oceansize gig at Middlesborough Arena on Saturday 10th May. The venue is having an "urgent refurbishment" so the gig has been cancelled, I suspect this may affect a few other gigs there too»
When Chan comes to London town, ya'll better be there.. We love Cat Power! You should too. Her latest LP 'You Are Free' features some Grohl drumming and there's some Eddie Vedder slipped in there too. Not that these names should affect y»
MAY BANK HOLIDAY "SONIC" ALLDAYER
@ The Underworld, Camden, London.
DATE: Monday May 5th
PRICE: £6adv / £8 on the night
TIME: 5pm - 11pm(ish)
OCEANSIZE
Four Day Hombre
Mínus
Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia..
Tyler
Seachange
Summary: E»
'Cus the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town...a gymnasium of eyes staring at him! Poet, indie-god, genius, Conor Oberst aka Bright Eyes has been in the tabloids and you can't fault his taste in women. There's a picture in American mag The People and also in Tuesdays»
Another DiS tour is hitting somewhere near(ish) to you very soon, here's who's playing.. As reported a week or so ago, the fourth Drowned in Sound tour of 2003 will feature Oceansize and we're very pleased to announce supports split between two of our favourite and most important new bands around. »
So those 'secret' guests for our Good Friday alldayer are... One of the UK's finest rock bands: Crackout! They've literally just finished recording their second album over in Ireland [in the same studio as Muse, fact fans!] and this show, from a bunch of guys who "religously read" DiS, will b»
Last minute show you might like to know about.. Before heading off on a co-headline UK tour with The Wildhearts, Casey and co have added a last minute show at the Camden Barfly, London on April 21st. Johnny Truant is in support. Amen will be on stage at 9pm. Oh and we've got 2 guestlist pla»
Mean Fiddler announce more bands for the August Bank Holiday... After last week's initial headliner listing comes news of The Polyphonic Spree, The Music and AFI confirmed as headliners on the Radio 1 Stage. Also signe»
The Verve. Muse. The Cooper Temple Clause. The Music. Maybe even tear splashes from JJ72-ripping-off-the-Pumpkins!
That's that bit outta the way for all your lazy people who just want comparisons to bands you already know and love/hate.
Now what DOES this EP I keep playing actual»
As previously reported The Cooper Temple Clause hit the road soon and we have news of the support bands.. Confirmed thus far for one block of dates (Cardiff-Nottingham) will be seasoned Coopers supports The Rain Band fro»
So, you're off to Camber Sands, wanna know what to get up to? Well, there's a bunch of us ugly lot from DIS going to help us and you organise the ULTIMATE WEEKEND(ER) we've waffled off some jibe in the hope you print it out and follow it. We'll be splashing some free DiS badges around the place and talking to all our f»
DiS faves do DiS tour... This tour-sponsoring malarkey is great. We have favourite bands, we ring up the label, agent, manager and they let us put our name to a set of dates (not to mention this time around putting together a damn fine »
Oh dear lord! You've gotta check this band out! They're one of the best unsigned bands in the UK - imagine a hurricane of Les Savy Fav with a ramshackled Trail of Dead bashing out electronica. So they've already played one DiS show in Cardiff and slid onto a London slot on the Reuben tour earlier t»
The best thing about disasters is the beauty that follows. Volcanoes have that lush firefly rain and glowing goo rivers. Avalanches have that muted minute of absolute silence. And pop has had the Reality-TV glut, the rebirth of the ‘70s, a general lack of new bands to really believe in. But then, from outta nowhere (or»
There's something special going on here.
The recording's not exactly something to write home about, a little layer of fuzz sitting neatly over the loud bits, but I'm writing to you and you'll listen to anything, as long as it's good, wontcha?
The Next Autumn Soundtrack come from Grimsby, and, apart»
This is as good as it gets.
Sun's shining. Speakers a-rattlin'.
For at least four summers this album has been my only constant, frown-shifting, life really ain't that bad, affirming thang. This is my scribbled day-glo post-it note reminder why I love music. Not just that, but this is the ultim»
In need of a decent mag to read on the bus, train, loo?? The music press ain't totally dead, as Careless Talk and Organ both attest. But launched this week - at a party where members of DiS broke the excess barriers and got battered on bottle after bottle from the free bar - is a new mag to add to your rag»
Simon hoped he was an angel and ended up fucking up his ankle.. Biffy fans, alongside DiS readers, at Wednesdays totally sold out tour climax show at Glasgow QMU were a bit miffed that the band didn't come back on for an encore and that Simon ended up in Hospital after the show. In a report from Neil»
Are the worlds biggest post-rock band, EVER, on their way to some human rights violating, Geneva convention ignoring, American concentration camp? Amid war and terror alerts Montreal 9-piece, experimental kings, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, were detained for several hours whilst travelling to play a»
The 'Size are coming atcha...
Having just finished recording their debut album, Manchester's answer to Tool, Oceansize (as seen opening for the Coopers last year) return to the live scene touring some pretty big dates with The Sisters of Mercy.
These are the dates:
April
Big hair, big noize, big London gigs... and djing in Pompey tonight!
Home counties kings and NME-daaahlings, The Cooper Temple Clause have sold out their rescheduled Astoria brats show (with I Am Kloot, Aereogramme and The Futureheads) and have announced a huge date at
