In order to contravene the hipster image of the festival (as always, every band mentioned in a web comic purporting to mock the P4K intelligentsia is playing this year) I’ll be referring to a colour-coded spreadsheet to bring you this preview. »
15 classic albums from the year of our Lord, 1997 - yeah, it was a good one. Included: Missy Elliott, Elliott Smith, Spiritualized, Wu-Tang Clan, Mansun, The Chemical Brothers, Portishead, Company Flow and some band called Radiohead.»
While the term "legend" finds itself bandied about all too easily these days, there are occasionally those whose merits deserve such an accolade. One name which springs to mind in recent years would be Graham Coxon, guitarist, songwriter and founder member of Blur, one of the most successful British groups of modern times.»
If you don't know the dealio already, these weekly mixtape-like playlists, they're just a collection of songs with links to content. CLICK HERE to fire up the playlist in Spotify (available for free in most countries here) and listen whilst reading all the below if you haven't done so already... »
Yeah, THANK GOD/DOG/F*CK IT'S FRIDAY! It certainly was the easiest day to pick random tracks for which feature the name of the day in the title. In fact just searching for 'Friday Night' brings up a whole array of interpretations of "party night". Hopefully this playlist goes some way to summing up and soundtracking at least one part of your Friday night frolicking and if not, what says Friday to you? (comment below)»
What with being a bunch of self-absorbed Sassenachs and the press pass being organised a bit last minute, we didn't get around to running Simon Jay Catling's review of T In The Park in any sort of timeframe likely to make anybody involved look professional. Sorry Simon! Sorry Scotland! Please don't hurt us.»
The concluding part of DiS' Andrzej Lukowki's adventures at Glastonbury 2009.»
Blur utterly stole the show at this year's Glastonbury, they were so good in fact that it seemed at one point as if viewers were going to die of a Whi-perbolic attack or at the very least Zane Lowe was going to stab Ms Whiley. You've probably seen it but if not Graham Coxon quite possibly stole the show with his distorted guitar genius, whilst Damon Albarn in his Fred Perry was more sprightly than expected, Alex James rock a cig and (a plumper than we remember) Dave Rowntree bashed away at the b-b-back. Click here for all of our Glastonbury 2009 coverage.»
Glastonbury Sunday In Photos takes in everything from Blur to Yeah Yeah Yeahs via Emmy the Great, Nick Cave, a man dressed as a smurf and lots more. Click here for all of our Glastonbury coverage.»
We're guessing if you're reading this from the comfort of your sofa, maybe with your feet up, BBC 6Music pumping in the background and Wimbledon flickering in the corner of your eye. You probably spent this morning pulling a smug grin whilst looking at photos of the puddles and mud in Somerset. Here's our guide of how best to digest Glastonbury from the comfort of your living room this weekend.»
The eighth weekly edition of Spotifriday for your listening pleasure sees big hitters like Blur and Pixies up against the relative minnows of Tiny Masters Of Today and erm...new boys Copy Haho. Get stuck in to a musical feast via the medium of Spotify.»
Here’s a rough, rumour-soused guide offering some vague thoughts on what to do with your Glasto ’09 – please post tips, ideas, rumours and alternate suggestions below.»
In celebration of managing to wheedle Glasto review tickets and a photopass for the first time (oh, and also it being one of the biggest musical and cultural events in the British calender), DiS is having a wee Glastonbury week this week, in advance of everybody actually going buggering off next Wednesday. We kick off with a ponder over what the festival is meant to mean to the average indie kid in 2009.»
Okay, let's get it over with - the very lovely Graham Coxon would probably have quite merrily talked to DiS about Blur (or jellybeans, or elephants, or sunbeans, or anything, really) for the entire length of this interview. His PR sitting in the same room... not so much. »
The music industry has problems. It isn't digital downloads, it isn't necessarily piracy. It is far more fundamental than that. It has forgotten how to maintain careers. That isn't to say the world has been wiped of 'career artists' but the truth is they are a rapidly diminishing breed.»
The BBC are going make their vast archive of music history available online. What are you looking forward to seeing/hearing? DiS has picked five to get you thinking»
That’s them, lurking, cluttering the horizon line, destroying your credit limit: festivals, assembling line-ups to die for, and just as many to run a mile from. This summer’s one weekend of sunshine will have a pre-determined soundtrack, folks. DiScuss it here»
It’s always strange, and rather unsettling, when an artist turns up in a blaze of glory, garners a degree of popular and / or critical success and then disappears back into the ether. Gareth Dobson wonders where all our favourite missing bands are, and what the hell they're doing...»
This Tuesday’s DiScussion piece focuses on best-of releases, past, present and future. What bands have ever really earned a best-of? Who's due one? DiScuss...»
DiS went in 2003. This is what we thought...»
click here for part 1 and click here for part 3. Saturday 23rd August 2003 AKA Reading Festival Day 2/Leeds Festival Day 3 sees over 50 bands play»
FIB - The Festival Internacional de Benicassim is the best festival in the world. Last year it has Radiohead, Muse and The Cure, and this year it has an equally top line up playing under the stars in the mountain backed, seaside resort in southern Spain. All the bands go on at night, leaving you free to soak up t»
"52 percent of Britons oppose military action against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein." - NOP, compilers of polls. Theoretically, in a few weeks from now, we could be about to witness a War of the Worlds. We could all be waiting to see which dictator can press their special red, nuclear spaceweapon but»
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