From humble beginnings come great things... we need YOUR help to stop the grassroots scene disappearing and the UK music scene totally eroding away! We're basically looking for people to run nights in conjunction with DiS.
RANTRO
Enough is enough. The underground is a real mess of brilliance. B»
It's now only a fortnight away and the bill's got bigger... This year's Truck Festival - which we're majorly bigging up 'cus it kicks major ass in a glasto-as-it-used-to-be, hippy, independence vibe, kinda away - has added a few more names to the bill, including nu-rawkers thisGIRL, The Koreans, and»
The Underground Sound Festival II, Unsigned Event, with 70 events of gigs and workshops across the UK April-June has spawned a compilation album... We've shoved a few of our favourite unsigned bands (After The Silence, Plans & Apologies and MBICR) on the "Top 20 UK Unsigned" compilation which is out»
A few bands on Truck Records have got themselves some nice support slots for gigs in London.
APRIL
28th - Goldrush support The Go-Betweens at the Astoria
29th - Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia support Cinerama at Dingwalls
30th - Fonda 500 contin»
Two impossibly long-named bands come head to head in Brighton next Saturday... Motorhead-humping-the-Doorsters The Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster headline the Brighton Freebutt next Saturday (Feb 1st) alongside debauch-digi-disturbing-diarylike-detailers Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia..»
Art-rock, post-rock, electronicacore - call 'em whatever you will - Meanwhile Back in Communist Russia may be about to (with your help!) get on daytime Radio One! Radio 1 northerner deejay types Mark & Lard have been asking listeners to vote for the worst band name ever. And currently at number 1 are Kajag»
The bands with the best names in Britian get their arty-noises out of the Oxford ghetto's and around the country a little bit. Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia that band who's debut release 'Indian Ink' was released to»
It's not long now, til TRUCK FESTIVAL which takes place this weekend (20th-21st JULY) @ Hill Farm, Steventon, near Oxford; it's one of, if not the festival of the year...but is it the nu-glastonbury? Might just be better, we'll tell you after. Confirmed so far are... Saturday:»
What a clever idea: Get a truck. Get a pa. Get a field. Get some bands. Sell tickets and give some of the profits to Amnesty International and other local charities. Truck Festival 2002 takes place on Saturday 20th trough Sunday 21st July @ Hi»
Oxford-based Meanwhile Back in Communist Russia are set to round off a highly successful year by playing their largest gig to date: supporting Pulp. The date, at the 2,700 capacity Birmingham Academy on October 31st, has been organised by Radio 1 and John Peel for whom the band»
Charity gig in aid of Shelter goes ahead in Oxford. The all dayer take place on the 1st September between 1pm and 2am at the The Zodiac, Oxford. The aim of Audioscope is to help raise money for Shelter, The National Campaign For Homeless People. »
Oxford's Truck Records announce the lineup for their festival.
Those confirmed to play at The Truck Festival include: Goldrush, Four Storeys, Black Nielon, The Rock of Travolta, Simon Baker, Rareform, Pug, Moonkat, Eeebleee, Captain Howdy,Tongue and Groove, Toby Kidd, Ellis, Six by Seven, Meanwhile...»
... On their own Tinfold Recordings
'I only wanted something else to do but hang around' , a split single with another Oxford based band Meanwhile, back in Communist Russia is due out on April 2nd, on Tinfoil Recordings.
It's being distributed by Prime Distribution, and will also be availa»
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