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The weekend shoppers of Essex are set to be tortured. This Sunday in Lakeside Shopping Centre, the unmighty Fast Food Rockers are set to perform their debut single no less than five times - on the hour between midday and 4pm. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. This is a warning, not an advertisement. »
So much for an 'amicable' split. Just like Jamie from One True Voice (sorry, I mean OTV) initially claiming their split with Daniel was amicable and they were "all still friends", then throwing a hissy fit to a tabloid paper, all is not well either in the Electric Six camp. As previously reported, the "pre»
Hiss! Who are these scraggy-haired chancers before my eyes? Singer thinkin' he's God's gift, prancin' about strikin' rock poses. Woo woo. This is The Vaults, who appear to be Bury St. Edmonds’ answer to The Datsuns with a few AC/DC-cum-Winnebago Deal style riffs here 'n' there. The stand-off»
The Fire Theft have just signed to Rykodisc and are currently putting the finishing touches to their album. The band are made up of the core songwriters from deceased, cult emo popsters Sunny Day Real Estate, whose 'Diary' album is the second-biggest seller on Sub Pop - behind Nirvana's 'B»
You too can have the Osbournes throw dead meat into your garden if you piss them off enough... if you buy the house next door to them which has just been put up for sale. And yes, it is the same six-bedroom mansion owned by the family who called the police on the Osbournes after the ham-and-bread-noisy-nei»
'80s folk-pop-soul gods Dexy's Midnight Runners are reforming to tour in Oct/Nov, DiS can reveal. "We WILL be playing the hits," they can assure us. It's been a whole 17 years and the image of Kevin Rowland in a dress is probably still fresh in some people's minds, but lo-and-behold here we go»
Like getting tanked up on Cremola Foam (whatever happened to that?), Chupa Chups and those sherbet flying saucer sweet things which melt; or like - oh I dunno - just strolling though seaside towns; or the Scottish west coast. On a sugar high. On a cocktail of sugar, alcopops, and cheap wine. Watch out for the jellyfish»
Scots rockers The Grim Northern Social follow their appearance at T in the Park in July by touring the UK with Captain Soul.
Those dates are thusly:
JULY
21st - Northampton Soundhaus
22nd - Wolverhampton Little Civic
23th - London The Garage
24th»
Originally formed as a duo - songwriting geniuses Chris Collingwood and
Adam Schlesinger - New York-based Fountains of Wayne were born unto
the world in 1996, producing a self-titled debut album created in a drunken haze
and»
Not happy enough with Hope Of The States signing to Sony? Then how about Rancid, who have dumped long-time home Epitaph Records and inked a deal with Warner Brothers. The major label is set to release the punk band's sixth album at the end of August. The CD is produced by Epitaph head Brett Gurewitz. It's »
Hugely underrated band The Crimea are currently on tour round the UK, and are set to support non other than Travis in July.
In support of their marvellous 'White Russian Galaxy' single, you can catch them at one of these remaining dates.
JUNE
15th - Glasgow, King Tut's Wah W»
The DiS news monkeys reckon that The Electric Soft Parade will be the secret 'special guests' band at this year's Truck Festival. The teeny 2-day festival held on a farm in Steventown, Oxfordshire, takes place on July 19-20th. If indeed the rumour is true (we couldn't possibly say...) then ESP will join»
'Family matters' has caused Zwan to cancel all remaining dates on their European tour. All dates from June 15th (Italy) to July 18th (Switzerland) have been pulled, and this includes the UK shows at Glasto, T in the Park, London, Manchester and Glasgow. Bummer, dude. More info when we get it.»
The old rockers responsible for 'Hotel California' and 'Desperado' are set to soar [groan - ed.] independently after years being on a major label. The Eagles spent many a year on Geffen and Elektra but will release new single 'Hole In The World' and the following album on»
Powerpunkpoppers All Systems Go!, signed to Bad Taste Records, are set to finally tour the UK.
Get their album. It's bloody marvellous. Read the review here.
JUNE
22nd - London, Millenium Dome (Game On Festival)
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Oh hello there. Here is what's coming up courtesy of DiS in London this month.
Wed 11 June @ Brixton Windmill...
** OUR LADY OF MIRACLES
Rockin female-fronted three-piece. Celebrating the release of»
The 12 winners of the T-Break competition have been announced. The bands will play the T-Break stage (which, last year, was next to the NME Stage) at T In The Park festival in July, and will be joined by a few other bands picked by DF Concerts. Sharing in-jokes with their mates in the crowd»
Serafin will release a new single and their debut album in July. 'Day By Day' - that's the single - gets released on July 14th. If you count when the track was released via Peoplesound, this will be the THIRD time the song's been released. All being well, it should finally make its way»
Happy birthday to youuu. Happy birthday to yoooouuu. Happy BIRTH-day dear DOM-IN-O... To celebrate its 10th anniversary this year, uber-cool indie label Domino will be holding a series of gigs and events in October. Dates and aren't confirmed yet and it looks like it may just be a London thing, but »
Yeah Yeah Yeahs play a warmup show for their London Forum gig (Sat) at the Camden Barfly tomorrow (Fri).
They will be playing under the name of Rabbit Rabbit Rabbits - not that it matters anymore as the secret's out.
Anyway, tickets are now onsale.
Tel: 0870 907 0999
Web: »
Considering that most pop albums are four singles and ten filler tracks, Girls Aloud’s debut album is a triumph. The list of songwriters and producers is long enough to give Noel Gallagher a hernia (hooray!) and contains one former 90s popstress Betty Boo (Alison Clarkson). It comes as no surprise th»
Six of the best.
… because round numbers are over-rated.
As you’d expect, we get loadsa demos, either sent to us or we're hunted down via other means. Very few of these reach our demo reviews section although a lot of the bands end up playing DiS gigs and the like. Which is nice. So here is »
Stroud's finest purveyors of noise, Le Neon, release their debut album 'Luss' next week on Fierce Panda. They tour as well. Great. Following on from their jaunt round the country with Winnebago Deal and (X) Is Greater Than (Y), you can catch them throwing themselves around on and off t»
'Hot' 'new' London band, Ludes - featured in the current issue of Dazed And Confused magazine - have a handful of gigs this month and next, and you should really check them out. Oh yes you should. It's garage rock with a brain. It's the Rolling Stones when they were cool. They have record labels chasing fo»
Hot Hot Heat are releasing a new single from their ace LP, 'Make Up The Breakdown'. And about time too. It's been confirmed that 'No, Not Now' will be the second international single, released on July 28th. It's backed with a live version of 'This Town', recorded for Xfm, and a »
In all the fun and games in the land of ‘music journalism’, bands and their fans more often than not don’t take well to bad reviews – none more so than a bunch of Jim Bob fans who call themselves ‘The Jim Bob Touchy Feely Collective’. Upon reading an NME review last week for Jim's new album ‘Goodnigh»
Metallica played a 'surprise' hour and a half-long set at this weekend's Download festival today in Donington Park. A statement issued by promoters Clear Channel three days ago, read: "We are huge Metallica fans at Download and would be honoured to have them performing at our festival. However, they »
A thing wot sucks about Electric Six:
I wasn't expecting 'Fire' to be any good and rather sadly they've proved
me right, which is a bit of a shame considering that in 'Gay Bar' and 'Danger!
High Voltage', they've produced two of my favourite singles of the year. Bastards.
It's »
DiS can exclusively reveal all the local support bands picked to support the Deftones on their short UK tour next week.
Dundee noiseniks Mercury Tilt Switch will be rocking in Glasgow. They played one of the DiS nights at the Windmill a while ago, you may recall.
Hyperactive =emo= boyz thisG»
They live together in a house JUST LIKE THE MONKEES! Music Journalist Clichés R Us Brilliant! Well, perhaps they don't get up to the 'wacky' adventures of The Monkees but "we were recently threatened to be stabbed for playing one of our songs," says vocalist Craig Macintosh<»
