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The Latitude Virgin And The Festival Epiphany
Latitude is EXACTLY like Avatar (ish) but real (I know you’re thinking, 'Um ok there are no dragon fireflies, no war, and it lasts longer than three hours…' but hear me out). After Elbow headline on Saturday night, I decide to explore every nook and cranny of this mystical site.»
Leeds 2011: A Festival Diary
Last weekend, DiS went along to Leeds Festival en masse, and as well as putting together daily blogs and Gary Wolstenholme's excellent photo galleries, we thought it would be a good idea to compile a diary of the weekend too. »
DiS in Australia: Splendour In The Grass 2011
Festival season is generally fraught with tales of calamity or serious incidents (these usually include Field Day and on rare occasion, an actual Zoo Thousand) and sad postponements or cancellations – as in Offset, Beacons and Truck this year. Festivals»
This Week's Singles: 08/08/11 Hyde & Beast, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Rapture, Still Corners
So many releases make this a log-jam week - so in an uncharacteristic display of 'not wanting to be unfair to music' I have included links to ALL the videos. »
Glastonbury 2011: DiS' 65-Songs to Get You In The Mood (Spotify)
The gates of Glastonbury open in a mere 5 days, and DiS is excited that we've thrown together a big ol' Spotify playlist of sixty-five tracks from acts on this year's bill. And you can listen to it on Spotify by clicking here.»
DiS in the Desert: Coachella Festival 2011 Reviewed
DiS's Mark Muldoon happened to be in the area whilst the 12th Coachella festival was kicking off. So he swung by. This is what happened to him.»
This Week's Singles - 7/6/2010: Uffie, Here We Go Magic, Elbow
Not so rad news everyone: Wendy Roby is away. This leaves me, the site's founder, the unenviable task of filling our most popular columnist's Reebok hi-tops and writing about new releases by the likes of Uffie & Pharell Williams, Here We Go Magic, Elbow, Ash and more... »
DiScussion: Choice Paralysis
DiSser Michael Wheeler ponders whether we should all calm down a little and consider a step or two back from the infinite jukebox in the cloud...»
Column: BBC 6Music, The Library and Me
DiS contributor Mike Wheeler on the day we heard the news that we may see the demise of BBC 6Music...»
Guy Garvey's track-by-track guide to Asleep in the Back (Deluxe Edition)
“We’re still incredibly proud of this record” says Elbow frontman Guy Garvey, having dissected the reissue of Asleep In The Back for Drowned In Sound. It’s easy to see why. Whilst 2008’s Mercury-bagging The Seldom Seen Kid may have sent the group truly stratospheric, it was merely a furthering of their wonderful ability to convey poise and grandiosity amidst the humdrum backdrop of a Northern town. The group’s 2001 debut album, in many ways, remains a template for the much loved five-piece. Re-released this week with added bells and whistles in the shape of 1998 EP Noisebox, some live recordings and Lamacq sessions, the band's avuncular leader here offers a track-by-track reminiscence on where it all began.»
Bestival 2009: The DiS review
Arriving at the fag-end of a summer teeming with gruelling festival weekends, Bestival has enough gusto and idiosyncrasy to more than stand up for itself.»
T In The Park: The (slightly delayed) DiS review
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.»
Manchester International Festival: the DiS review
The biennial Manchester International Festival is one of the sceptered isle's more outstanding cultural happenings, and like the team of non-parochial cultural types we are, DiS has spent the last few weeks infiltrating the cream of the festival's musical»
The Insider: How the 'Albums Artist' is being strangled
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.»
Where to start with... Elbow
Two weeks ago, Elbow walked away with the Mercury Music prize amidst standing ovations and teary eyes. A few puzzled reactions later we thought it was as good a time as any to start a new irregular feature where we delve into a band's back catalogue»
Vote for DiS and for your alternative Mercury prize winner
Here's a double-whammy of democracy for you. This is your last chance to take part in the voting for the Pluto Prize (DiS' alternative to the Mercury music prize) and we're also asking you to vote for us in the BT DMA's»
The Weekly DiScussion: just what are we celebrating here?
After the Nationwide Mercury Prize announcement, DiS sizes up the chosen 12 and asks: just what is the award's point? Get DiScussing»
The Weekly DiScussion: who should make the Mercury shortlist?
The shortlist for 2008's Mercury Prize is announced next week. DiS asks: just who does deserve to win this year's award after Klaxons' success in 2007»
Readers' questions: Elbow answer your posers
Last month, DiS asked its readers for questions to direct the way of Elbow. Here, the band's guitarist Mark Potter answers your testing posers»
Singles Round-up (02/06/08)
A pretty bog-standard bunch redeemed entirely by Mystery Jets' summer bombshell 'Two Doors Down, our superb SINGLE OF THE WEEK»
A Month in Records: March 2008
We’ve enjoyed a veritable banquet of beauties in March - whittling our favourites down to ten was tough work. Expect to see a number of these LPs in December’s end-of-year best-of list, so good is March’s crop»
Singles Round-up (10/03/08)
Proving there’s nothing like firing your dad for raising spirits and getting the creative juices flowing, there’s suddenly a spring in the step of Eel Pie Island's Mystery Jets their contemporaries can’t get near. 'Young Love' is our Single of the Week»
Heads, shoulders, hearts, Elbow: affecting chatter with Guy Garvey
Guy Garvey is a common man elevated by the gods to that inch higher than most of us mere mortals. DiS speaks to the Elbow vocalist ahead of the release of the band's fourth album, the much anticipated The Seldom Seen Kid»
V Festival preview part 1: Saturday Chelmsford, Sunday Staffs
Tastemakers - don't you just hate them? telling you what's good and what's not... But who are we to go against every other music publication? Quite. Ergo, here is one person's guide on how to get the most out of your Saturday at Chelmsford / Sunday at Staffordshire.»
DON'T DROP THE BOMB!
"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»
V2002: Preview
Hmmm. V2002. it's a bit anodyne, safe, whatever. Or is it? Yes, it is. However, scrape away the surface layer, and then the next few, and you will get to some 10 to 12 ct gold bands. Okay, okay, I'm being cynical, but if you take a look at the Reading/Leeds line-up, you reali»
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