Green Man 2009 - The DiS Review
Green Man 2009 finally saw the sun shine gloriously upon its little corner of the Brecon Beacons, heralding an extraordinary assemblage of talent and perhaps its finest year yet. DiS had a ball...»
Green Man 2009 finally saw the sun shine gloriously upon its little corner of the Brecon Beacons, heralding an extraordinary assemblage of talent and perhaps its finest year yet. DiS had a ball...»
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.»
As you're doubtless getting bored/angry with the reams of subjective blather DiS has been throwing up over the UK's flagship festival, our mini Glastonbury preview week today hands the metaphorical mic to a selection of people who, er, know how to use a real one. All performing at the festival this year, Maximo Park's Paul Smith, Fucked Up's Damian Abraham, Emmy The Great and Broken Records' Ian Turnbull have all gallantly turned their little grey cells to pondering the meaning of the modern Glastonbury Festival.»
From the archive... Amazing scenes on the south coast as DiS descends upon the annual beachside fest that is The Great Escape, catching the cream of its crop»
We stumbled across these great pictures floating around the system and thought it'd be a crying shame to waste them»
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»
It's an opinion-splitter, but DiS celebrates its tearing up of the band's established blueprints: Bloc Party's 'Mercury' is Single of the Week»
Three of DiS’s core operators list ten of their tracks of the year so far - a simple premise, and a simple article for you to have fun listening along to»
It’s Thursday! It's time for The Great Escape! Here we present our top ten must-see acts at the seaside festival, including DiS's own awesome line-up»
Hey you! People who aren’t doing ATP on May 16-18. People who like music and the seaside. Wanna go to a festival for free? Wanna go to The Great Escape in Brighton for free? Read on»
A so-so slew on the whole this week, with a few glittering gems. After much picking and choosing, it's We Are The Physics who tickle our fancy the most. ‘You Can Do Athletics, BTW’ is our Single of the Week»
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»
In his new irregular column DiS Founder Sean Adams, lets rip on whatever has been bugging him lately...»
In just over twelve months, Broken Records have won the hearts of Scottish punters and, following the release of an EP, 2008 is shaping up to be the year the septet kicks up a storm all over the UK. With substantial hype rising behind their epic "Russian Danger-Folk", DiS checks their pulses in a Baltic Edinburgh»
One thing that DiS has proven itself very good at over the past couple of years is predicting what bands are going to matter a year ahead of schedule. With this in mind we’ve divided our 'Bands For 2008' into three articles, Early Doors representing the newest kids on our check-'em-out block»