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Yeah yeah, we know... him again. In an I-shouldn't-laugh-but-I-will situation, Har Mar Superstar never suspected he had "shingles". Calling his A&R man in a panic on Tuesday, Mr Superstar announced that he had been bitten by a spider, and that his arm was swelling up. By the time the doctor reached h»
Splendidly-named !!! are coming to the UK, as promised.
You can catch the eight-headed dance/rock/soul/funk explosion in London here:
JUNE
11th - Barfly (XFM night)
12th - Egg (Sonic Mook 'Future Rock' night)
Egg is a»
White Stripes, who you may have heard of, are playing more festivals like the great big festival whores they are. You may have already heard that they're doing T in the Park in Scotland. Well if you hadn't, consider yourself truly informed. They've also been added to the bill at T's sister fes»
The band with the longest name in the world, 'A', are to play a one-off gig type thing. They 'do' the much talked-about Download festival on May 31st but the lucky lucky people of Portsmouth will get to see them the night before at the Wedgewood Rooms. Tix are priced £10 and you can get 'em while the»
Zwan! Zwan! Zwan! Etc and so on. New single on the way and a few UK gigs again. Grrrreat. 'Lyric', the most bleedin' obvious choice of second single from their poptastic debut album, is released on June 2nd on CD and 7". Both formats feature extra track 'Nobody 'Cept You', while the CD»
Garage rockin' duo The Kills have announced a UK tour for this summer.
Dates are as follows:
MAY
20th - Northampton, Soundhaus
21st - London, ULU (sold out)
JUNE
12th - Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms
13th - Birmingham, Academy 2
14th - Sheffield»
Biffy Clyro hit the road again in June.
Following on from their DiS-sponsored trek round the country recently, they support the release of album #2 'Vertigo Of Bliss' by heading to a town near you (maybe).
JUNE
2nd - Edinburgh, Liquid Rooms
3rd - Wrexham, Centra»
Splendid music rag Careless Talk Costs Lives are holding their next night on May 24th in London. The gig is at the Buffalo Bar in Highbury (downstairs from the Famous Cock Tavern pub). Selected bands to burst your eardrums are the very loud and quite brilliant Part Chimp, the mighty Mclusky»
Truck Records' BLACK NIELSON spent their winter months recording their shimmering sounds onto a new album, 'The Seahorse Boe'.
The LP is set for release in mid-late June on the Oxford-based label. Track-listing is thus:
THE HUMAN STRAIN
TTEEZZER
SOME NIGHTS VILLIANS
LIFE »
Little gig journeys round London’s underground. 20-24th April 2003.
20/04/03 @ The Windmill, Brixton
The Twisted AM Lounge alldayer, 2 days following the DiS alldayer of which the mind is too hazy to write about. In fact, ditto this gig too. The ubiquitous Capes are stripped to a 2-piece»
Seven bands in two days 'hit' London for another DiS live double-whammy. On Tues 29 Apr @ the Dublin Castle, Camden, we team up with Club Fandango again. This gig sees the London debut of new Rough Trade signings Eastern Lane, along with the»
What ‘comedy’ cover version would Chris Martin burst into? Would Justin Timberlake turn up playing a kazoo? What the flying fuckmonkeys were Feeder doing supporting? Just a few of many questions before Coldplay’s second sold-out stint at London enormodome Earls Court. Well, let DiS give you the answ»
Warp Records have signed a licensing deal to release a !!! single and album in the UK. !!!, pronounced "chk chk chk", are an 8-piece Californian band who've been releasing various singles on home turf since 1997. The pioneering UK label, normally associated with more experimental electro acts such as»
The Norwich Underground Pop Convention (NUPC) makes its debut in the city on 13-16th of June. Put together by Metal Queen Projects (mqprojects.co.uk), it promises "4 days of free/cheap visual art and live band performances." Amongst the c»
The 22-20s, who released their debut single on Monday, have signed a record deal with Heavenly/EMI. The much-hyped, bluesy trio's new label is also home to Doves, Ed Harcourt and The Vines. If you find limited edition 7" single 'Such A Fool' in the shops, snap up a copy, as the word 'eBay' wil»
Josephine must find the NYC garage
explosion a right royal pain in the ass. “If this band were from Nooo Yoik, they’d
be hewge!!” scream their closest supporters. Maybe they're right. But Josephine
are much more than that – for starters, they have some proper good »
Those hotly-tipped Raveonettes are doing a short tour of the UK next month.
The 'duo' take in the following cities:
MAY
5th - Birmingham, Academy 2
7th - Leeds, The Cockpit
8th - Manchester University
9th - Glasgow, King Tut's
10th - Newcastle University
1»
The Vessels are to re-release their single ‘Don’t Waste Your Time’, on 12th May. The track is from their well-received Americana-style, self-titled debut album (out on Gravity/BMG). The single will be backed by the tracks ‘Innocence (acoustic)’ and ‘There’s A Little Girl’. The artwork »
Woo yeah! More bands have been added to the already-bulging-list-of-bands that are playing T in the Park - the UK's nicest music festival (apart from those "Flower of Scotland"-chanting nationalists who attend). Joining Coldplay, REM, Hell Is For Heroes, Biffy Clyro and co., are the following:»
Pre-show entertainment #1: A game of ‘Spot The Inspirals Fan’ – round 1 was spent in the local Wetherspoons (don’t go there; The Beehive is a garishly-bright and soulless place). I feel I did very well. Round 2 spent in the pub opposite. Did quite well there too. Next game is ‘Try To Get In’. Expecti»
No shit.
Vocalist Daryl Palumbo has been hospitalised again after having suffered yet another SERIOUS relapse of Crohn's disease.
The band are "devastated" that all remaining shows on their UK tour are cancelled.
The dates affected are:
April
11th - Glasgow Garage
12th»
AFTERNOON, SPORTS FANS.
Wed, 9 Apr 2003 @ Windmill Brixton, 22 Blenheim Gardens, off Brixton Hill
www.drownedinsound.com presents...
THEY CAME FROM THE STARS (I SAW THEM)
"Spring has finally sprung once more & They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - "the U.K.'s most pretenti»
The next DiS all-dayer is to take place in, as always, The Windmill, South London, on April 18th – that’s Good Friday to you and me. Yes, there will be six bands playing and yes, there will be a free BBQ and it’s only £3 to get in. The fun starts off roundabout 5pm and finishes god knows when. CRA»
The mighty BiFFY CLYRO will be heading back to London to play a very special low-key warmup for their Kerrang! weekend show. Us generous DiS people have arranged for the band to play an early evening set at The Windmill, which is a very small ven»
After Glastonbury tickets sold out in record time, many were immediately up for sale on internet auction sites. Festival organiser Michael Eavis has vowed to kick some touts’ butts. Anyone selling tickets online will suffer the same fate as the Radiohead touts, and have their auctions pulled.»
And lo! the industry is still desperate to find The New Stone Roses and lo! The Burn were born. But lo! The Music have already beaten them to it.
An MSN instant messenger conversation between the deputy editor and the editor of DiS, approx 5 minutes ago:
adietron says:
i can't be a»
In all that is tuneful in the world of tuneful, um, tunes, OK Go are most definitely masters of their craft. To paraphrase Mclusky; they got more songs than a song convention. If it’s a prerequisite that pop music should regurgitate all that’s gone before and spit out the results in pleasing ear-candy fashion, n»
Linkin Park disappoint me. Slag them to buggery as much as you like, ‘Hybrid Theory’ was an album worthy of any drunken party. It had a formula (rap bit, then Chester’s singing/shouting bit in a vaguely angsty fashion) and it damn-well stuck to it. When they tried to delve into the more experimental side »
Another ‘War Child’ compilation is on its way, scheduled for release on April 14th.
‘Hope’ will have a total of 17 tracks and feature, among others:
David Bowie – ‘Loving The Alien’, with new anti-war lyrics
New Order – ‘Vietnam’ (Jimmy Cliff cover)
Mob»
A few bands on Truck Records have got themselves some nice support slots for gigs in London.
APRIL
28th - Goldrush support The Go-Betweens at the Astoria
29th - Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia support Cinerama at Dingwalls
30th - Fonda 500 contin»
