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.»
Earlier in the year, DiS interviewed a newly reinvigorated Jane’s Addiction, clean sober and frankly the personification of everything the band didn’t used to be. Plumes from crack pipes no longer filled the air and instead they talked of their new love of family life and waking up in the same week and town they went to bed in. Naturally, DiS wouldn’t wish the interminable squalor of serious drug addiction on anybody, but hell it did always used to make for good copy. Now, if only DiS had got to them before they ditched the clown hair. Fortunately, one man did, New York documentary-maker and all round renaissance man Carter Smith...»
Perry’s got a family now. Dave’s getting married to Carmen in November. They talk about having a family. I think everyone’s got a little bit wiser. You get the best out of Jane’s Addiction when everyone’s not on drugs! If you’re on drugs, you break up.»
Our mission: to go to Reading/Leeds and to see as many bands as possible and then for each member of staff to write one to three sentences per band. If lots of people saw one band, you get lots of opinions. Hopefully we'll cover everything. Here goes with the »
Yeah, yeah yeah, Reading Festival. What’s the big deal, huh? Get filthy. Get tired. Get battered. Sing. Watch some bands. Great. It bloody well is, alright!?! Did you love it? Were you even there? I was.
N.B. To be read aloud in a Geordie accent
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