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Damn it, always get those two mixed up!

Thanks! You've blown my chances of being a DIS reviewer now!

I am now a filling well of disappointment.

yeah in all seriousness, it would be nice to hear the official line direct from the top. I'm sure there are lots of us who spent time to come up with something good to enter

It wasn't a COMPETITION it was a call to arms. And we had an utterly ridiculous amount of emails. I currently have 400 or so emails from people waiting to join dis, and it's a queue kinda system, one which i dont have time to go through at the moment (bear in mind all the extra workload of answering newbie questions, trying to work out which people have joined and not done anything, getting to know the people as people, etc, etc...)

We did add several people who haven't done anything and several more (about 10 or so) who've been very active and probably seem like part of the furniture already.

The trouble is, DiS is not run by a full-time team of people and in order to expand in the right ways, priorities, for me at least, have shifted towards a few things which have the potential to pay my rent and bring in enough cash to take on some staff - so the folks who do bits in their lunch breaks and at weekends can get their hands dirty allday, everyday with no distractions like 'work'. And as such, we'll have a new editor who'll be the very first member of staff proper as of mid-July. Part of his job will be to go through all these "I wanna join dis" emails and find the best ones.

Everything's so backwards and i hate being rubbish, but I'm trying my best and trying to work out how to make everything more organised so things run more smoothly, but currently it's near impossible to keep up with the 1000 or more emails a day and the crazy amount of pointless phone calls and then the arguements all the other crap people probably assume we have 10 people to deal with. But sadly, we don't. We've got some great people here who do what they can, but the boring stuff isn't really top of their priorities...

Hope that answers some of your questions,

Sean

We didn't get sent the Beastie Boys (or if we did, I aint seen/heard it, nor sent it to a reviewer).
Hope of the States we didn't until a few days before it was released. And Andy only got it to review at the end of last week.
I did Ash early so we could do the very first review of the record - as there's a whole fanbase who wanted to know what it was like first.
Who cares about Badly Drawn Boy? Or has he changed that piss stench tea cosy hat of his?
Few people were talking about doing Charlatans, but to be honest, it's a bit of a let down.