Be Your Own Pet

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The Weekly DiScussion: no more (local) heroes anymore?

Arctic Monkeys made it on their terms, refusing to hit London in pursuit of fame. So why do so many bands continue to pile into the capital? DiS asks readers to support their own scenes by revealing the local heroes»

Brats on the beat: talking to Be Your Own Pet

In Depth by Kev Kharas

DiS speaks to Be Your Own Pet before their Kingston in-shop is consumed by a food fight. On the agenda: pizza parlour gigging, growing up and speeding away from home-town fever on a motorcycle»

PMS Radio: a buyers' guide to 2006's best

In Depth by Shoo

One of the many things with which I struggle on my stumble through this hung-over farrago of protoplasm and pheromone-chasing called life, is defining exactly what it is that the radio show PMS does. What we’re there for, and why we do it...»

Sweet dreams or haunting horrors: ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas in summary

In Depth by DiS Festivals

This December’s Nightmare Before Christmas – ATP’s now-annual end-of-year blow-out, helmed by one prominent figure or other orbiting alternative music circles – filled a fair few DiSsers with not a little fear: with Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore at the controls, any semblance of melody, anything resembling a tune you could hum, looked certain to be blown to smithereens by noise bloody noise. DiS reports back from the warzone...»

SxSw: Adventures on Sixth Street

In Depth by Sean Adams

From folkish to foppish to fukkin-fuk-death-rokka-rawk!
They call themselves the live music capital of the world and frankly - despite claims that like in London and New York you’re never more than 10metres away from a rat, here’s it’s shotguns - we ain’t gonna argue.»