From the archive... There’s something beautiful about the Green Man Festival, stowed away as it is on a Welsh hillside, children and soap bubbles flitting everywhere as sheep wander the fields behind the main stage. It also has the best festival food, bar none...»
DiS readers might want to focus on the last 80 pages of The Rest Is Noise, which explores Minimalism (as Classicists refer to it), and basically sees instrument-builder Harry Partsch invent Tom Waits; gamelan-enthusiast Henry Cowell [sic] invent Timbaland; John Cage & Terry Riley invent post-rock; Steve Reich & Phillip Glass invent electronica and most sequencer-based music that isn’t 19th century barrelhouse music played on synths.»
The third annual Latitude Festival took place over the weekend in Suffolk. DiS picks its ten highlights, and shows off its flashy photo skills here»
DrownedinSound.com went to All Tomorrow’s Parties’ The Dirty Three-curated weekender at the end of April. We arrived full of excitement, bubbling like freshly poured pints of £3-a-pop lager. Then we drank too many £3-a-pop lagers and fell over the garden furniture outside our chalet. Loudly. And annoyed our neighbour. Sorry...»
2006 has - every now and then - leaped up and bit me in the ear. Of course, I mean this in the most pleasurable way possible. Like the first time 'Bohemian Rhapsody' went into the rock-out (actually, every time that song metamorphoses is just gets me going) or how 'Idioteque' becomes an all-consuming powerhouse of glory and you can listen to it more than 600 times a day and it still blows your head off...»
2006 has been a year that’s lived up to and exceeded all expectations. With enough fantastic albums to treble the length of my Albums of the Year list, and a gig list long enough to frighten even the hardiest tour manager, I’ve seen plenty of goodness this year. Luckily we’re on hand to jog those memories and help you reminisce about the good times and the couple of sad moments which brought us all back down to Earth with a big bump. This is 2006...»
Time, dear friends, is ticking away; it feels like only yesterday that DiS was chomping on Easter Eggs, but Christmas is only days away. Terrifying, isn’t it? Us we-haven’t-shopped-yet sorts certainly think so. But November's records: there were some, some good ones, and here are some of those some...»
While at ATP this May, something struck us: we’re all off having totally different festival experiences, so why try to amalgamate when we can serve a selection of dishes? Which is what we’ve done... »
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