Truck 2008: DiS's Festival Diary
Evan's here, in body, and so is DiS, bringing you highlights from this year's Truck. Featured: Rolo, JoFo, YoMo (?!) and The Lemonheads»
Evan's here, in body, and so is DiS, bringing you highlights from this year's Truck. Featured: Rolo, JoFo, YoMo (?!) and The Lemonheads»
Pinback frontman Rob Crow runs through ten vital points to consider when looking to write a perfect indie-pop song. We're not sure he's being entirely serious»
For a whole week, we barely touched a drop: too expensive, too cold, not a thing like what us Brits are used to. A dry county, Hove might as well have been; not a sip, not a tipple. For a week, teetotal. Lies: we just didn’t eat...»
This weekend, Butlins in Minehead will be overrun by indie-rock sorts, all wearing bizarre band tees and badges and beards and fidgeting with digital cameras and LPs and wondering what Joanna Newsom sees in Bill Callahan and whether or not Nick Cave is some sort of god or something and what Warren Ellis hides in all that facial hair and deciding if three bottles of blow-your-head-off red for a tenner is a good deal or if the morning will be awful because of it and quite why the sun has decided to hide for three straight days... Some bands will play, too...»
On Saturday something snapped – ping – and opportunity knocked: time allowed these already weary legs and fading eyes to attend three different shows, from the afternoon through the evening and into the early hours of the alleged day of rest. The last, three of three, was a club, and one I was DJing at… but still. Three shows, twelve hours, some booze: someone was going to miss Match Of The Day for once...»