Emma Pollock & Rod Jones on The Fruit Tree Foundation
The Fruit Tree Foundation is a new independent project in Scotland led by musicians Rod Jones (Idlewild) and Emma Pollock (solo artist and ex-Delgado).»
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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.»
Year 2000 - A Playlist of Songs Wot Soundtracked the Launch of DiS
DiS' founder and current editor Sean Adams compiles a playlist of songs that could be heard in the year 2000 (a rough theme we've set for you to build a Spotifriday playlist around - more details here) when this very website was in its embryonic stages. First, a bit of prologue...»
Summer Sundae Weekender: The DiS review
Last weekend (14-16 August), DiS made its now traditional annual visit to Leicester's Summer Sundae Weekender, curated the Rising Stage on the Friday and even had founder Sean Adams and former editor Mike Diver spin a few tunes along the way»
Great Escape '09: DiS' Suggested Schedule
Oh Brighton, with your annual clusterf*ck of bands 'n' booze, you really are spoiling us.»
DiSection: Idlewild Hope Is Important track-by-track
Idlewild are one of those bands that many of us grew up with, and as 2008 draws to a close the Scottish rockers are giving fans a chance to relive their youth by perfoming all the albums in full. DiS caught up with singer Roddy Woomble for a track-by-track retrospective on their first, 1998's Hope Is Important»
Truck 2007: the DiS review
It’s the Truck that nearly never was: the tenth in a series, an anniversary to be proud of, but one so nearly ruined irreparably by the summer’s inclement weather (to say the least). Rescheduled, the Oxfordshire two-dayer battled on, staged over September 22-23, and DiS was there to catch the action...»
Connect Festival 2007: the DiS review
Send one DiS writer to the first-ever Connect festival? We think not. Here, three intrepid festival-goers – Jordan Dowling, Dom Gourlay and Dave Kerr – bring us their experiences of three days that can only be summarised as: a muddy festival in Inveraray, Scotland. With some ace bands, as it happened…»
The Weekly DiScussion: have too many festivals spoilt the summer?
Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds, Download, Latitude, Bestival, Connect, Field Day, Truck, Lodestar... the list goes on. Just which festivals are worth your hard-earned cash, and can newer festivals survive in an over-saturated market? DiS's Ben Yates asks for your opinions...»
ReDiScover: Idlewild
Idlewild are one of those bands so far as the core DiS staff goes: we were there, fresh of face and wet behind the ears, when the Scottish then-four-piece rolled and rollicked their way around the nation’s stages, often as a blow-them-away support act. That was back before indie became pop, before the top ten was at least part-owned to the tune of a good fifty per cent by allegedly ‘alternative’ acts. We were inspired...»
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...»
(Untitled)
Colin Newton bangs the drums in Idlewild and has been since they were a nothing more than figments of his and singer Roddy Woomble's imagination almost a decade ago. Now, having released their fifth album 'Warnings/Promises' and currently embarking on another sell out tour, Colin lets us in on a few secrets from the world of the 'wild..»
Why DiS loves IDLEWILD
Last year, DiS took some trips down memory lane, looking at our personal responses to music - moments that made us turn around and change the way we thought in some way. The accounts showed, amongst other things, that since music is a highly personal mediu»
DiS: New Postal Address!
Our postal address has changed... As of right NOW all post sent to 94 Ermine Road... will not reach Drownedinsound. We've moved. For the next week only you can send stuff to the old address: 15 Westhill Road, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4 9NB, as I'm taking a week out beside the seaside with m»
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»
D-Generation: SAVE US, PLEASE!
I keep telling people it’s time for change, that we can’t keep standing still on a backward escalator like this. Records keep the hope and magic of a revolution alive. Seeing the (International) Noise Conspiracy has renewed a lot of my hope, so has the new iDLEWiLD album (great ain’t it?) but I just think»
'Son of Evil Reindeer' Listening Party
Well, this isn't a REAL party, but we've got real audio and windows streams (not as exciting as multicoloured streamers, sorry!) of the amazing new Reindeer Section album 'son of evil reindeer' which is out Monday 24th June 200»
Glastonbury: Complete Line-up! - *Updated*
Its that time of year again - When the Glastonbury line up is revealed. So here it is, in full:
Fri 28th June
Pyramid Stage
Coldplay, Faithless, Ash, Nelly Furtado, Doves, Dandy Warhols, Bush, Alabama 3, Shibusashirazu Orchestra
Other Stage:»
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