“I know,” said Mugison to his dad, Papamugs, over a beer in London one day. “Let’s start a grand music festival in our tiny 4,000-person town, set in a remote corner of northwest Iceland, where we bring up some of our pop star pals from Reykjavik, maybe one or two international bands, and have them support the local acts, who happen to be rather good..."»
This week, DiS is going to Iceland! No! Not to the frozen food haven for some over-sized breasts a la Kerry Katona (formerly of hit UK girl group Atomic Kitten), but to the frozen LAND haven quite a lot further north than Scotland for the quite fantastic Iceland Airwaves Festival that runs in Reykjavik from Wednesday to Sunday. See? We do leave the M25! We’re going on a plane so that things like grass and trees do not confuse us.»
Days 3 and 4...
Blue Lagoons on the set of Star Wars. Globalization. Perving. Drinking. And the best night of the year with The Shins and The Stills.
Sean Adams' diary continues...»
"Wahey!" you say as you hear that DiS Manchester is on THIS FRIDAY! In collaboration with the mighty Captains of Industry record label we have brought you a couple of the finest bands of 2003 and some for 2004 as well. A night of frolickery and debauchery and all things ROCK, you can be comfortably assured. Drink well. Prepare.»
The Kerrang Weekender; well, it turned out to be more of a three-day party than a festival. With a ratio of about one punter to every band member, and a whole host of PR’s, band mangers and other industry types propping up the bar at all times, as far as Kerrang were concerned it must have been a bit of a flop. “I t»
Another DiS tour is hitting somewhere near(ish) to you very soon, here's who's playing.. As reported a week or so ago, the fourth Drowned in Sound tour of 2003 will feature Oceansize and we're very pleased to announce supports split between two of our favourite and most important new bands around. »
I found myself in York on, yes you guessed it, a bloody cold night. It's a beautiful Roman town with characteristic gateways, Roman walls and the such. I like it here. Surely this cannot be the setting for three of the world's loudest, heaviest and most gruesome bands. Yep, it is. Mínus were her»
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