Leeds Festival 2012: Drowned In Sound's Sunday blog
Livers barely in tact and sleep a forgotten pastime, Drowned In Sound's Daniel O'Dell and Dom Gourlay bring you their hits and misses from the final day at this year's Leeds Festival. »
Mystery Jets News
Maximo Park, Mystery Jets, Rolo Tomassi, Errors join The Great Escape bill
Before we tell you about the rest of the names, we're very excited to confirm that Errors - who've released one of the albums of the year, so far - will be headlining one of DiS' three curated nights at the festival. We've also confirmed the first UK date for Eight And A Half, the new project from some of the chaps from The Stills and Broken Social Scene, who sound like this:»
Watch: Mystery Jets new track 'The Girl is Gone' premieres on DiS
Our soft spot for prog-shackle Londoners Mystery Jets grows softer by the day. And now, with this vid premiering a track from their eagerly anticipated forthcoming album, they're really spoiling us/you:»
Watch: Mystery Jets - 'Dreaming Of Another World'
We'll be honest. What we've heard from Mystery Jets new record so far has been at least some of the way there to blowing us away. When the single - 'Flash A Hungry Smile' - dropped a while back, that is exactly what we did. And boy were were hungry, specifically for more from the lads. LADS. »
New Mystery Jets record to be released in July, tracklist revealed
Following fresh on the heels of their new track 'Flash A Hungry Smile' (you do wonder how these campaigns work, eh) Mystery Jets have confirmed a couple more details about their forthcoming third full-length, including the release date (which was rumoured, anyway) and that all-important tracklisting. Wonderful stuff.»
Listen: Mystery Jets - 'Flash A Hungry Smile'
Ah, Mystery Jets how we have missed you. The band return later this year with their new record, their third in total and the follow-up to 2008's Twenty-One which we rated 9/10. It's called Seratonin and is scheduled for release later this year, but we're not sure exactly when. It could still be called Serotonin, given the different spellings we've seen.»
Festival News Round-Up #5
An absolute lorry-load of additions this time.»
Somerset House announce Summer Series headliners
London's lovely setting of Somerset House have announced the first lot of headliners for their Summer Series, which takes place over the course of 10 or so days in July this year. It's not as good as last year, in all honesty, but still worth a quick gander, like.»
Festival News Round-Up #1
Plan ahead for the summer time tunes.»
Leicestival: Summer Sundae line-up swells
Good news all, the lineup for the already star-studded Summer Sundae Weekender - the best Leicstival by far - has grown once again. Among the acts added to the bill are Eel Pie islanders the Mystery Jets and New York based, iPod ad soundtrackers, Chairlift.»
Record Store Day round-up: details of goodness inside
This Saturday sees the second international Record Store Day, with all sorts of delights on offer around this isle to celebrate independent music and all it does. Here's a few of the best bits...»
Musicians: share and discuss Your Music on our new DiS board
DiS has added a new board for musicians to discuss and share their music, so you can now JAG away to your heart's content...»
And the DiS Pluto Prize winner is...
A short while ago the annual Mercury Music Prize wheeled out its somewhat predictable list of names. DiS took exception to the several notable omissions. There are releases which have enriched our worlds and could have done with the leg-up that the Mercury was established to provide. Rather than mope around and moan on messageboards we decided to set-up our own award.»
Mystery Jets will play Reading & Leeds, warm-up confirmed too
To ensure the band are finely honed for this weekends festivities in fields, Eel Pie Island's finest will play the Barfly, in Camden, London, on Thursday, August 21st. Procure tickets here. »
Watch: Mystery Jets announce new release, October dates
Eel Pie oddities Mystery Jets are back with another lump of Twenty One for you»
The Falls Festival: Aussie bash announces bill
The Falls Music and Arts Festival takes place across two sites on December 29-January 1, in Lorne (Victoria) and Marion Bay (Tasmania), and has lined up a DiS-decent bill so far»
Mystery Jets pull further festival appearances
Mystery Jets pull out of this weekend's two Victoria Park events, Field Day and Underage, and their Sunday performance at Summer Sundae»
Mystery Jets cancel festival appearances
Mystery Jets have announced that they will not be playing at a number of festivals over the coming weeks, due to illness»
Mystery Jets announce new single
After their many festival dates at home and abroad, playful British pop sorts Mystery Jets will release a new single»
Mystery Jets announce October tour dates
Eel Pie Island's most-famous sons Mystery Jets are to take the sounds of their second LP Twenty One on the road in October»
WIN! Tickets to the 20th Dour Festival in Belgium (Mystery Jets, The Fall, Foals, Battles)
DiS's friends at the annual Dour Festival, Belgium - celebrating its 20th anniversary - have given us a number of tickets to give away to the four-day festival, held July 17-20»
Chart round-up: 'bed-wetters' dominate, home and abroad
Bravo, Coldplay: the bed-wetters, so we’re led to believe, have triumphed on two fronts, topping the albums and singles charts this week»
Chart round-up: departed members
The top ten’s duller than a dead man’s cock this week»
Field Day: final line-up confirmed
The final line-up has been announced for this year’s Field Day»
Mystery Jets announce autumn tour
Mystery Jets ride on into October»
Chart round-up: loony tunes
The charts look like a lunatic's i-Pod set to shuffle this week, read more here»
Mystery Jets, White Williams and HEALTH inshops lead Pure Groove relaunch celebrations
Hooray! Pure Groove are opening their new shop on the 2nd of June. They will then proceed to spend the rest of the month celebrating that fact. Again, hooray»
A Week in Drowned in Sound: 09/05/08
Get gear, gear up - festival season's upon us, DrownedinSound flags fluttering against the sunset. We'll sponsor the sky soon, I swear it to you»
Mystery Jets, Lykke Li and Macy Gray among new Summer Sundae adds
The bill for this year’s Summer Sundae festival in Leicester has swollen once again with Macy Gray, Mystery Jets, Efterklang and Lykke Li among those added to the line-up»
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Vanloads of new acts have been shipped in to play Reading and Leeds this year»
A Week in Drowned in Sound: 25/04/08
What happened where this week»
Watch: new Mystery Jets video
In 'Two Doors Down' west London's Mystery Jets have one of the songs of the summer, doubtless»
Fee fighters: Field Day tickets onsale at face value across London
If paying inordinate amounts of money to thieving ticket vendors has lost what early charm it had, a brief respite comes with the news that from next week Field Day tickets will be available in the flesh, at face value from a number of outlets across London»
Maximo Park call on Mystery Jets and more for cancer fight charity show
Maximo Park have put together a decent-looking bill for a fundraising show to take place next month»
WIN! Tickets to see Mystery Jets, New Young Pony Club and cabaret acts in Glasgow
Smirnoff’s Electric Cabaret returns to Glasgow later this month, hauling a fine evening’s entertainment along with it»
A Week in Drowned in Sound: 28/03/08
The wheat from our chaff»
Field Day 2008: Foals, Mystery Jets and Simian Mobile Disco among first acts announced
The first line-up details have been announced for this year’s Field Day event in east London»
Chart round-up: the winds of indifference
As returns from the wilderness go it’s up there with Jesus and Noel Edmonds – yep, it’s The Futureheads’ back-to-basics anthem-in-waiting 'The Beginning Of The Twist' an exocet up the arse of the charts at 30.»
Bloc Party, Mystery Jets, Two Gallants for Dot to Dot
A new gaggle of acts have been added to the bill for this year’s Dot to Dot Festival»
Album, tour, single, instore: masses of Mystery Jets news
Returning west Londoners The Mystery Jets are making up for lost time in joyous splurges of activity»
Super-Rev: Makers, Monkeys, Mystery Jets and Supergrass to form charity supergroup
Members of Arctic Monkeys, Mystery Jets, Supergrass and Reverend and the Makers have tethered together to form an ‘indie supergroup’.»
Watch: Mystery Jets, Laura Marling, Noah and the Whale on J-Wo TV
Drowned in Sound was recently in receipt of a communication from popular whimsy-folk artist Jeremy Warmsley.»
Watch: Mystery Jets new album sample
West London's Mystery Jets have posted a video sampler of their new record online.»
UK: Mystery Jets back on tour
West London’s Mystery Jets will buckle up, whack on the heater and defecate at familiar motorway service stations next month; as they return to the nation’s touring circuit.»
White Heat celebrate turning four, tomorrow
Having kicked off celebrations in suitably overzealous fashion with Comanechi in Brighton last Friday, tomorrow (August 7) night sees White Heat mark its fourth birthday with a few of its finest affiliates - The Low Miffs, One More Grain and Eel Pie’s absurdist-collective Mystery Jets...»
Get Flood. Do Truck Benefit. Friday!
Show your support... »
WIN! Tickets to Field Day
You might not know this, what with all our adventures at festivals in foreign lands, but DiS is actually a sponsor at this summer's first-ever Field Day event, a one-day festival held at London's Victoria Park, Hackney. And now you do know, how's about a little treat to celebrate...»
Old-school sports at Field Day: Battles vs Foals... at tug of war!
Yeah, yeah - there will be some music. But, more excitingly, bands will battle each other at Tug of War at this August's Field Day festival, held on August 11 at London's Victoria Park...»
Mystery Jets added to Field Day bill
Proggy-popping dudes and their dad Mystery Jets have been added to the bill of the rather smashing Field Day festival, held in London on August 11...»
Competition: Win a pair of VIP passes for DiS at Chalk this Saturday!
This week, DrownedinSound.com is taking over the main room for the first time in our role as media partner. Want to kill time in between caning it on laughing gas and triple-sod at London's acest new club night? Then come with me sonny, I've got a little question for ya. Hur, hur...»
Chalk in association with DiS - launches this weekend! Win tickets!
This Saturday, Chalk - the new DiS-associated superclub launches at Scala, King's Cross, London.»
Chalk - a new weekly club in association with Drowned in Sound
Brought to you by Stylish Riots, Young Turks and Drowned in Sound, alongside ActionAid's Bollocks to Poverty campaign, Chalk will be hosting three rooms of DJs and bands, spanned across a range of genres and styles, every Saturday night.»
You wanna shoot the Mystery Jets new video?
West London's Mystery Jets are asking YOU, the fan, to direct a new video for them.»
WIN! Tickets to the Transgressive Roadshow!
Ooooh, tickets to give away for show! Wowsers...»
Win! Levi's Ones to Watch tickets!
Hey! The annual Levi's Ones to Watch tour is just around the corner and we're giving you a rather swell opportunity to win a pair of tickets for each of the dates. Tickets that will enable you to access the gig that you win for, by nature of the entry information being printed on some form of paper-based fun...»
Mystery Jets announce acoustic tour
Mystery Jets are to play a fourteen-date acoustic tour later this year, and will release an acoustic EP around the same time...»
Chart round-up: So, when you use a bidet, is that a 'number three'?
If so, it's totally apt considering Beyoncé's position on this week's album chart. But we'll get to that in a second...»
Mystery Jets do in-stores
Got a single on the way? Know those things called shops? Wicked...»
WIN! Electric Gardens VIP passes
By way of celebrating our new /Festivals mini-site, DiS has procured two VIP passes to the upcoming Electric Gardens festival to give away...»
Let's Rock! Edinburgh bill announced
The first-ever Let's Rock! Edinburgh one-day gig is to be held this year, on September 30...»
Dot To Dot: Here's the schedule...
This Sunday (May 28th) sees Nottingham's second Dot To Dot Festival take place at venues across the city, and it's even bigger and better than last year. Over 60 bands and DJs will be spread across four venues - Rock City, Stealth, the Social and the Rescue Rooms...»
New names for Reading/Leeds announced
The annual lager-fest known as 'The C**ling Weekend: Reading/Leeds' has been bolstered and (somewhat) improved with the announcemnt of a few spades worth of artists... »
Jets embark upon a not-so-mysterious repeat journey
West London indie oddballs Mystery Jets are to re-release their darn decent single of last year, 'You Can't Fool Me Dennis', on May 15...»
Bloc Party to headline Royal Albert Hall
Bloc Party are to headline an indie-rockin' bill next month in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust...»
British, beefing: Mystery Jets don't like Hard-Fi 'shocker'
One day it's some Busted muppet versus Harry Potter, then Wayne Coyne has a dig at pop puppets, and Pink mickey-takes everyone in a single video blow; now, Mystery Jets have chirped up about their dislike of fellow London indie types Hard-Fi...»
Mystery Jets line up in-store tour
Mystery Jets are to take their jaunty pop choons inside from the cold next month, as they play a series of in-store shows at HMV outlets across this merry land...»
Mystery Jets land with debut LP info
West London's unpredictably joyous Mystery Jets have released details of their debut album and next single.»
Britons Abroad @ Noorderslag Festival
Several bands from the UK have been confirmed to play the brilliantly named, annual international music industry showcase that is the Noorderslag Weekend»
Mystery Jets tour
Simple, really: Mystery Jets tour from the end of August and into September. They're not bad, y'know...»
Mystery Jets do new single; Epworth gets label
Mad crazy brilliant band The Mystery Jets release their second single ‘On My Feet’ through Good & Evil on 6th June.»
Go see Rockfeedback's Noisettes and Burning Pilot Friday!
There's this thing on Friday we'd like to tell you about...»
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