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Sorry, what? Was there a festival on this weekend? Down at the Windmill for what seems like the umpteenth billionth time this month and your humble correspondent was more excited than a paedophile on a day-trip to Mothercare, I can tell you. Biffy Clyro. Lapsus Linguae. Part Chimp. Aereo»
Dublin band The Frames are working on their 5th album, the follow up to last year's 'For The Birds'. Frontman Glen recently posted a message on the band's website detailling their recent activities. And here it is in full: "well here we are.. into the second week of recording our fifth album..»
The Maple-ettes have announced details of a London show. The band are five young Steventon dwellers signed to Virgin Records. They're set to play The Windmill on Sep 29th, before going out on a 20-date tour of the UK. Check their website for mo»
The Betsey Trotwood cellar venue (London) opens on Tue 3rd Sept with a charity
gig entitled 'Off The Streets And Into Work'.
The gig is headlined by Jim Bob, who will be playing
COOL LIKE THE FONZ!
drownedinsound.com would like to inform you of its next gig, for you all to attend
before buggering off to Reading/Leeds/Glasgow(!).
The bands: Jetplane Landing, Thoria, I Own Kings
The date: Wed 21 Aug
The location: The Wi»
If I didn't know any better I would've sworn The Vessels were from Glasgow, rather than Surrey. This breezy Teenage Fanclub type pop can be deceiving sometimes. It's not totally Teenage Fanclub, but I'm guessing both bands own similar record collections. And Travis. And maybe even A»
The band who once told us "we're a mix between Destiny's Child, Nelly Furtado and Kylie with some flute thrown in" are all grown up with a proper album. Comments on band history and past singles have been well documented on this site before, as a swift glance at »
I don't fall in love with bands very often. Fall in love with the music, I mean. And while I'm not 'in love with' The Broken Family Band, per se, I do harbour a growing affection for them. This'll be that alt.country/Americana thing which is supposedly 'cool' to like now. They recently signed»
HELLO, AND WELCOME.
drownedinsound.com would like to inform you of its next gig, and another
nicely-diverse bill it is too.
The bands: The Boy Cartographer, Cléan, Plans And Apologies
The date: Wed 14 Aug
The location: The Windmill, Bri»
Cult John Peel faves and Strange Fruit club regulars, ballboy, have finished recording their new album. 'A Guide To The Daylight Hours' will be released, accompanied by a single, in Oct/Nov 2002. It follows last year's compilation CD of past EPs. In true ballboy tradition, all the song-titl»
NYC's experimental hip-hop types Anti-Pop Consortium have suddenly called it a day. It was an entirely "amicable dissolution". The group had recently released a critically-acclaimed album (though I don't think we reviewed it here. Never mind) through Warp Records. "They came together for a »
We're having another one of those gig things.
Weds 7 August 2002:
It's at The Windmill, Brixton, as usual, and here is Sean's propaganda to go with it.
MEANWHILE, BACK IN COMMUNIST RUSSIA
.....beautiful-beats carved into layer after layer of pterodactyle guitars, washed in red wi»
Oo-er! The DJs are playing Judas Priest and AC/DC. The venue is practically empty but Torqamada don't give a fuck about that slight setback. The four 18-year-old Glaswegians are dressed for the part. One of the singers even has a headband. They look like they've stepped out of some '80s metal gi»
So this is the second single and it doesn’t sound a million miles from the first, ACTUALLY, with Coin-Op’s staple mix of pleasingly-squelching synths, fuzzily-distorted Sonic Youth guitars and vocalist Nick yelping incomprehensibly. Like some artpop thing and like Supergrass in some ways and Blur in others, dropped int»
Oh my! 24 MP3s of demos for Weezer's forthcoming 5th album are on their website now. So you'll want to go and download them all, innit? I am. www.weezer.com»
“Hot computer, I want to turn you on” – Gerling, ‘Hot Computer’ FINALLY. Out in the UK at last and it’s been worth the wait. First impressions of the Aussy trio’s new LP is that “I can’t believe it’s the same band who did ‘Death To The Apple Gerls’!” The likes of ‘Dust Me Selecta’ and <»
WORD UP, MOFO. drownedinsound would like to inform you of its next gig, and we're feeling very emo about it all. The location: The Windmill, Brixton - which can be found on Blenheim Gardens, off Brixton Hill, about a 10-minute walk from Brixton tube station (cross over the road out o»
HELLO, ME AGAIN. drownedinsound would like to inform you of its next gig, and it's a very loud one indeed. Somebody bring ear plugs for the Captain. The location: The Windmill, Brixton - which can be found on Blenheim Gardens, off Brixton Hill, about a 10-minute walk from Brixton tube»
Heavy traffic + Oasis concert in Finsbury Park on same day + not knowing I was going to this until Saturday afternoon = missing the beginning of the day's entertainment, including The Parkinsons. BOLLOCKS. As far as festivals go, this is one of the more laid-back and diverse, with lots of people act»
Manc chaps Puressence return to the live scene with a one-off gig at The Water Rats in London on Jul 29th. As far as new recordings are concerned, it's been about four years since their last album. ETA of the new single is Sep 2nd and its name is 'Walking Dead'. Following that, their third albums land»
Seating gigs. What’s all that about, eh? Not only that, but seating gigs where people ACTUALLY STAY SEATED. And so Bowie’s Meltdown festival continues, and what a good lineup it is tonight. David Kitt plays his semi-acoustic tales of woe and so forth, looking pretty terrified while doing so. The venue give»
I was once given a couple of shots of flavoured vodka and I had no idea what they were going to be. The colour of it was odd for starters, which should’ve been a clue as to whether or not to drink it. Naturally being a sucker for a freebie, I thought it couldn’t have been too bad. Let me tell you now that garlic-flavou»
SALUTATIONS, ALIENS. Are you prepared for the Glastonbury come-down, hmm? drownedinsound.com would like to inform you of its next Wed night gig. The location: The Windmill, Brixton - which can be found on Blenheim Gardens, off Brixton Hill, about a 10-minute walk from Brixton tube»
No only does DiS feature reviews'n'interviews'n'all that, we promote gigs too.
And here is one we promoted earlier...
The date: Jun 19th 2002
The venue: The Windmill, Brixton, London
The bands: After Suburbia, Engerica, Breschnev
A night of rock and stoner beats.
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If you were to hear this and write off (X)>(Y) as some kinda pretenders to a nu-wave throne then a) you obviously haven’t seen them live to experience the full effect, b) you haven’t heard tracks two or three, c) you’d be wrong. ‘S.G.W.’ IS a good but SLIGHTLY odd choice of first single, considering»
There are some bands who are just noise (eg. The Catheters) and some who are a beautiful noise. S.Rock Levinson happen to be the latter, which is very much a Good Thing, I’m sure you’ll agree. Especially good as you’d expect AC/DC fans, who describe themselves as sounding like “a bus filled with leopards crashin»
It's just not music's ability to entertain or music being art, but also music's ability to move you which makes it one of life's great things. When you want to be entertained and moved at the same time, the correct surroundings can do wonders to help. The Garage is not exactly the most romantic of v»
HELLO. WHAT'S THIS THEN?
www.drownedinsound.com presents a new gig night at The Windmill, Brixton,
where we shall hog every other Wednesday to bring you some bands who really
"do" it for us right now.
The location: The Windmill can be found o»
It pops and it rocks. “We’re just a poprock band,” she announced onstage one night. Like, no pigeonhole for the New Mexico-born singer/songwriter – Antonia simply writes great songs with great, big, radio-friendly choruses, and you can’t help but love it all. ‘Ride The Bullet’ blends in some spiky gui»
Sprawling samples 'n' beats 'n' all that sort of guff. At time of sending me their demo, they'd only played three gigs. 'Mankind' plods along and gets boring after about three minutes. Likewise, 'Petite' is a similarly laid-back affair, with swearing! Hurrah! It has a nice, warm feel to it with some»
