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Spotifriday #24: This Week on DiS as a Playlist
Ah, another cold and misty week in London is nearly over and amid end of list year list compiling and finishing off some exciting new features, the record releasing and music news hasn't relented. Anyhoo, here's our weekly Spotify playlist to accompany the content this week on DiS.»
Spotifriday #21 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's content-related Spotify playlist, featuring Wavves, Jamie T, Copy Haho, Biffy Clyro, Atlas Sound, Sufjan Stevens, Rolo Tomassi, Eels and many more.»
Talkin' 'bout Revolutions- DiS meets Biffy Clyro
A couple of weeks ago, DiS's Brad Barrett added to the anticipation/trepidation ahead of Biffy Clyro's impending fifth album Only Revolutions with a first listen piece in which he kind of sort of came to the conclusion that the once barking Scots trio had more or less gone proper mainstream, like. With just three weeks to go until the record's release, Neil Ashman caught up with bassist James Johnston (one of the blurry figures in the background of the pic - sorry, his parents) to get the inside take on what looks to be their moment of crossover glory.»
Spotifriday #19: This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's content on DiS in the form of a Spotify playlist. Featuring Hefner, The Mountain Goats, Vampire Weekend, Pavement, Idlewild and about 13 more.»
Biffy Clyro's Only Revolutions: First Listen
Fresh from the Warners official watermarked stream comes our first listen to the fifth record from Scot titans Biffy Clyro, due next month. »
This Week's Singles: 24/08/2009
A tirade concerning a wonked-up, pretentious concept called Unity of Vision? On a Tuesday? Oh, go on then. »
Drowned in Saturday: Alright for Fighting? Dancing? At the movies?
Putting together this playlist we were taken aback by how many songs feature Saturday in the title and strangely, how many of them are pretty great. In fact, there are so many songs that had Saturday in the title that we didn't really bother (with a few exceptions) to find other things which sound-like or sum up this day of youthful exuberance, barbecues and birthday bashes. »
Summit up: Snowbombing 2009 - The DiS Review
One of Europe’s weirdest music festivals is also one of its wildest; we may be halfway up the Alps in a sleepy village, but Snowbombing feels more like Ibiza on ice.»
Rock 'n' Tyrol: Snowbombing 2009 preview
We wouldn’t argue with the assertion that festivals should really take place in warm summer sunshine, but nevertheless there’s one exception to this rule: Snowbombing. The annual Alpine knees-up, which takes place this weekend, is a decade old. And i»
DiS meets Simon Neil in his Marmaduke Duke guise
Marmaduke Duke is the long time side project of Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil and Sucioperro's JP Neil, who are currently two thirds of the way through a trilogy of concept albums telling the story of the madcap 'Duke. DiS caught up with Neil to get the full story.»
Reading/Leeds '08: What Our Writers Thought
Another year, another big weekend at Reading and Leeds festival. DiS sent along some of our finest scribes and asked them to scribble about their five favourites of the weekend. Here's what we got back from them»
Reading/Leeds 2008: Day One Report
This year's Reading and Leeds Festival has just entered its second day. Here's what happened on day one at Reading, and we also bring you some pictures from Leeds.»
Reading & Leeds '07: DiS down the front
It's been pretty miserable at times - heavy, pluvial skies pathetic fallacy for debut all-dayers and long weekenders that have sometimes spluttered rather than flown out of the traps. The weather and the times - to an extent at least - brightened last weekend, with the traditional sign off from music in the sun that is Reading and Leeds. And that, I suppose, is reason enough to break from cynicism just this once. It was a bind, but there were finer times. Time to gather thoughts and lighten brows...»
Glastonbury: Sean's Blog - Day 2
DiS's Sean Adams tells his own tale of Glastonbury 2007 - from the backstage to the moshpit and right up to the stars - in three parts. Here, Switches are threatened, boots are stepped on, and a stage invasion is missed... d'oh...»
Biffy Clyro on their Puzzle: "A lot of people have jumped to conclusions..."
Following a warm afternoon sunning myself on the beach, I catch up with Scottish masterminds Biffy Clyro at what must surely be the best club in Barcelona. I talk with the trio for nearly an hour at Club Razzmatazz, but this is no time to trivialise matters with wacky articles documenting Raz on The Raz @ Club Razz, oh no. With a move to a major label for their fourth album, this can be nothing but deadly serious...»
The Camden Crawl: Our Myriad Highs
At the end of last week, on April 19 and 20, DrownedinSound.com went to Camden. This is nothing particularly unusual – our sorry, drunken bodies can be found slumped over the back of chairs in the north London borough most weekends – but this time we traveled up the Northern Line for a special occasion: The Camden Crawl...»
The Weekly DiScussion: An Open Letter To Muse
So Muse have only gone and sold out Wembley Stadium, before the thing's even open! Now they've added a second show for June 2007. Shitting crikey! Congratulations... now, can we suggest some support acts...»
Our 66: 20 that missed the cut
As we so rightly stated here, selecting the albums that make up DrownedinSound.com’s Our 66 was no easy task. A great many long-players were considered for many a day and week, only to be cut from the team at the very final moment. Here, we present to you a selection (in no specific order) of some of the albums that only just fell short of a starting place, that were tripped but a few yards from the finishing line...»
Truck Festival 2005 - The DiS Review
From the archive... A whole heap o' bands from acoustica to indie schmindie to rock and synthpop. Truck had it all. Again. Some of DiS' writers were there to take it all on...»
Truck Festival 2005: Highlights and Lowlifes
DiS's resident Schla la la Georgina Terry offers an artist's eye view of this weekend's Truck Festival. Expect wine, lots of it; rocking, a steady diet of; and Rotary Club members serving booze... in drag?»
Bukandskit Festival
It's the hottest day so far this year, 33º at its most merciless. Shoulders and noses are burning, beer is greedily supped, and on a rubgy field on the outskirts of Reading, the festival season is well and truly under way. As the established summer fests grow ever more gargantuan and pricy, it's invigorating to see smaller festivals like Bukandskit sidestepping the money-grabbing antics of larger events and catering to their audiences as people rather than as a cynically defined demographic.»
"We could be the future of rock"
On the eve of announcing their biggest set of gigs to date, Alex Manford finds Biffy Clyro on tour (what else) in Nottingham and speaking candidly about Nirvana, the Libertines and basically being a bunch of big old stoners.»
DiS Goes Camping: Festival Round Up
With festival season fast approaching we thought we would go around the country and highlight a few of those festivals that don't have massive sponsorship backing, but great line-ups for you to check out.»
Jocks Rock pt. 1: Biffy Clyro
Over the following months I’ll be talking to Scottish bands about what it means to them to come from Scotland and their experiences of the Scottish music industry. First up I spoke to Glasgow-bred Biffy Clyro. They’ve been featured various times on DiS but I wanted to cover them from an angle we’ve not looked at before….»
Union Jacked Geetars: Reloaded
Are we experiencing a renaissance? Are british guitar bands finally back on top? Is this the start of a fight back against America? Whatever. Here's 7 british guitar records '03 which you should seek out from Muse, Coopers, Funeral for a Friend, Biffy Clyro, Sikth, Oceansize and the pop band of 2003...»
K! Weekender Preview
So, you're off to Camber Sands, wanna know what to get up to? Well, there's a bunch of us ugly lot from DIS going to help us and you organise the ULTIMATE WEEKEND(ER) we've waffled off some jibe in the hope you print it out and follow it. We'll be splashing some free DiS badges around the place and talking to all our f»
Biffy Clyro London gig + new single details
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»
Biffy Clyro: Tour Report. London.13/03/03
When the DiS tour hits London, the DiS crew come out drinking til 4am… We don't wanna sound too much like we're masturbating up each others backs, but it was a fantastic night, totally and utterly sold out, down at our favourite London venue (fact!), the Underworld in Camden. Redjetson (»
Biffy Clyro DiS tour
The tours been going great so far, few extra bands added...
February
Wed 26 Edinburgh Venue +Mercury Tilt Switch + Sucioperro
Thurs 27 Perth Twa Tams +Mercury Tilt Switch + Sucioperro
Fri 28 Dundee Reading Rooms +TBC + Sucioperro
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DiS Tours 2003 #3: BIFFY CLYRO!
In 2003 we're already living up to our promises and we're bringing you rock shows a plenty, with tours from Reuben, Kinesis and now.... Scottish, melodic, Foo Fighters Burning Airlines et al loving, rock chaps Biffy Clyro»
D-Frag: October tour previews!
Another month, another load of bands out there on the roads, service stations and floors of the United Kingdom... This month, what with it being ROCKtober, lots of bands with releases ready for Springtime albums, so there's loads of bands we here at dis ain't shut up about for quite some time going out. We thror»
Carling Weekender: New Band Tent Reviews
CARLING WEEKENDER: NEW BAND TENT REVIEWS
FRIDAY 23rd AUGUST at THE READING FESTIVAL
SATURDAY 24th AUGUST at THE LEEDS FESTIVAL
BOBBY CONN:
I came back for Bobby Conn, amazing little man with a high voice and deba»
Raz on The Raz @ Reading
Yeah, yeah yeah, Reading Festival. What’s the big deal, huh? Get filthy. Get tired. Get battered. Sing. Watch some bands. Great. It bloody well is, alright!?! Did you love it? Were you even there? I was.
N.B. To be read aloud in a Geordie accent
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Editor's Tips for Two Thou' and Two: ROCK/RAWK
It’s strange trying to think what this year will bring. Strange because time is something that we all fight with comprehending. But enough of the philosophical conundrums, onto the things I, as editor of this ‘ere Drownedinsound site, think will be exciting in 2002. Firstly, I'd like to point out that scale isn’»
Singles 2001-2005
Puzzle
Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies
Saturday Superhouse
semi-mental
Only One Word Comes To Mind
My Recovery Injection
Glitter and Trauma
There's No Such Thing As A Jaggy Snake
Only One Word Comes To Mind
Eradicate The Doubt
Vertigo of Bliss
Questions And Answers
The Ideal Height
Joy.Discovery.Invention / Toys Toys Toys Choke Toys Toys Toys
Blackened Sky
57
Justboy
27
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