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Feeder are due to play a so-called 'secret' gig at the Bristol Fleece and Firkin on Aug 20th. Only 250 tickets will be made available and only people over the age of 14 can attend... which pretty much rules out their entire fanbase, when you think about it. Call 0117 945 0996 for details. Tix are £8.»
I have no desire to be consistently 'challenged' by musical heroes or wannabe-gods. What we could do with more of, however, are proper stars. For all their ceremonious amount of sucking (musically, that is), The Hives at least have the wide-eyed frontman who deserves his place on every music magazine cover, ever»
Sophie Ellis-Bextor plans to release a new album later this year. "I'm just starting to get really busy again," she told fans on her website. "I have been songwriting up until about two weeks ago when I realised, after about 30 tracks, that I had the album i wanted." She's currently in »
Dogs Die In Hot Cars' singer Craig Macintosh was hospitalised after being electrocuted onstage at a gig in Dundee on Friday. The band were halfway through their set at The Cotton Club when the accident happened. Craig was rushed to Ninewells Hospital for treatment, and was discharged in the early hours of »
Warp Films are looking for a hard rockin' band. The company has been working with the likes of Chris Morris, Chris Cunningham, Shane Meadows and Jarvis Cocker, and now your band (yes, you!) could feature in an upcoming film. The details are: "Warp Films is casting for a scene in an upcoming film. »
Oddball country-pop from Cambridge, complete with cult following, offer up their first LONG-player. Recorded at Magoo's infamous Sick Room studios, it contains 12 tracks about wimmin, beer, and Beelzebub. In short, with a name like Broken Family Band, it does exactly as it says on the tin. The »
'Mon the Biffy! Biffy Clyro do lots of stuff. New single. Big tour. Reading/Leeds. It's all here! Biffy Clyro have been added the main stage at the Carling Weekend festival. They will play just after openers Sugarcult. Before that, they headline the Kerrang! "Day Of Rock" in Virgin Mega»
The band who refuse to die, The Wildhearts, are back again with a new album.
'The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed' is due to be released on Aug 25th, and contains the followi»
Oh hello there. Here is what's coming up courtesy of DiS in London this month. Tue 29 July @ Dublin Castle... DiS and Club Fandango present... AN EVENING OF CHAOTIC MUSICAL MAYHEM. ** LUDES have»
The nominations for the Mercury Music Prize - "the best in British music" - this year have been announced. Prepare to be shocked and stunned, or something.
Up for the "album of the year" award are the following:
Athlete - 'Vehicles & Animals'
Floetry - 'Floetic'
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It seems Matt Mower is already a legend in his own right, creating spunky punkpop and country-ish anthems for the pissed-off youth. And why not, eh? ‘The Morning After’ isn’t quite as infectious as previous single ‘After Dark’, but if you’ve ever been pissed on cheap beer and woke up, bemused, in a bed th»
With Finlay plodding about on the London scene for yonks, this is their debut Long Player and, well, hmm. Pavement. Oh so very, very Pavement. ALMOST as Pavement as fellow London-based indie blokes Garlic. But not quite. Garlic’s album was horribly underrated, I reckon, but»
Considering their demo was rather ace, DiS trekked up to Aberdeen to catch the intriguingly named Hooker’s Green No. 1. Indeed, the live show was ace. Eight band members crammed onto »
Get those gooey lovelorn lyrics. Makes you want to give them a good slap. Snap out of it, gooey American boyz! Remembering: this is pop music. It’s a pop song. “Do you know what it feels like being alone?” isn’t the most original lyric in the world but then neither are most Pop Choons, and as far as (power»
SATURDAY 12th JULY 2003 Fucknuggets. DiS enters the T in the Park site in a foul mood, so DiS is heading straight to hospitality to pick up the photocopied sheets of A4 that have all the stagetimes on. But before that, the first band encountered is The Warlocks, droning out some turgid»
If Canadian singer/songwriter Andy Stochansky’s aim was to produce a simple guitar pop record – which it was, apparently – then he’s done that. Sadly, his third LP here is a somewhat bland and boring affair. Kudos to his long-standing place as multi-instrumentalist handyman to the stars, but some more balls»
Hark! Is that the sound of girls playing guitars? Why yes it is! So this is my cue to lazily list a whole heap of girls with geeeetarz who play that punkpop thing… Ach… I can’t be arsed. Draw your own conclusions. There have been approximately 20,864 bands like this since the early ‘80s, if not more. It’s great t»
Whoop! And so the Great Debut Single Chart Battle Of July 21st 2003 steps up a further notch with Dive Dive. Damn these indie labels and their release dates going back. Messing up my reviews plan. Making me do everything at once. First Four Day Hombre and now this. Bastards. But I digress… Most notably in »
Jack White was involved in a car crash in Detroit on Wednesday, fracturing in a bone in his right hand. The duo were due to play T in the Park and Witnness festivals this weekend. Their appearances at these have obviously now been cancelled. According to a report on NME.COM, White's girlfriend Renee Zellwe»
Great, just what the world needs. Another bunch of emo bandwagon-fuckers who think that owning a Fugazi record makes them…. Oh hang on, wrong band. What is this? Bugwig appear to exist on Planet Bugwig. They say they have no idea where they fit in and, well sorry guys but I’m not going to be much help pige»
Firstly, DiS has had these three tracks in our grubby paws since October. And secondly, they still sound fucking great now, nine (9!) months on, pressed on a proper CD and stuff, out on the label that brought you Kinesis. Four Day Hombre, leading the New Leeds Rock Revolution (ahem, sorry), do that slow-bu»
Oh Adam Green, how I love thee. Come hither and pay heed, child, as I extol the virtues of Mr Green, former Moldy Peaches sidekick to the girl who looked a bit like Grotbags off Emu’s ‘Pink Windmill Show’. Some well lush string arrangements over 14 of the album’s 15 tracks give t»
We are the mods, we are the mods… You’d think they’d at least try and sound like The Datsuns or something like, y’know, Stereophonics. They are easy targets, but they are easy targets because they are shit. ‘North Atlantic Drift’ is their eighth album (blimey) and the first on their ne»
This is a ‘compact’ ‘disc’ of 20 (TWENTY) tracks. Yeahwhatever. One hit wonder, comedy act wotsit Liam Lynch of MTV fame, with his celeb chums Jack Black and Ringo Starr, has unleashed his catalogue of songs on you, the helpless record-buying public saps that you are. Here’s the punchline: a »
They sound like they’ve swallowed the entire Postcard Records back-catalogue, and have a vocalist who sounds like a cross between Robert Smith, Billy Mackenzie and Kevin Rowland. If that doesn’t sound appealing, then you may as well go and read something else now. I never ‘got’ Dogs Die In»
BAFTA-nominated Brit pop video directors Hammer & Tongs have been drafted in to work on the LONG-AWAITED (just a bit, like) 'Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' film. The books' author, the late Douglas Adams, had spent 10 years working on the screenplay for the film, although the actual plann»
English rock'n'rollers and 'Peel favourites' The Vaults have blagged an unlikely support tour - with those hairy old Americans, ZZ Top!
The dates are at the end of July but before that they head out on the road with a few dates of their own.
JULY
11th - Cambridge Boat Race
In a year which has seen reformation gigs/tours by the likes of Inspiral Carpets, Mock Turtles, Dexy's Midnight Runners and oodles more we've forgotten about, Luke Haines has reformed his old band, The Auteurs. Haines, currently of Black Box Recorder fame, is set to release a retrospective of re-rec»
Rarrrrrr... Welsh noiseniks Mclusky are comin' back for a few dates, their first since the departure of Matt Harding. When asked if there was a replacement drummer in place, manager Craig told DiS: "Not yet. But we are auditioning right now and there is a favourite for the job." Oooh, intrigue»
Oh hello there. Here is what's coming up courtesy of DiS in London this week! Tue 24 June @ Dublin Castle... DiS and Club Fandango present... An evening of mid-summer marvellousnessnessness. ** CLOS»
