Spotifriday #61 - This week on DiS as a playlist
Another wonderful edition of this week's Spotifriday playlist featuring Bowie, Blake, No Age, Abe Vigoda, Dios, Max Richter, Andrew Bird...and, of course, a fair few more.»
Oceansize
In Depth
Bukandskit Festival
It's the hottest day so far this year, 33º at its most merciless. Shoulders and noses are burning, beer is greedily supped, and on a rubgy field on the outskirts of Reading, the festival season is well and truly under way. As the established summer fests grow ever more gargantuan and pricy, it's invigorating to see smaller festivals like Bukandskit sidestepping the money-grabbing antics of larger events and catering to their audiences as people rather than as a cynically defined demographic.»
The Toilet Circuit Diaries #3: All Hail the Four Guitars!
DiS joins The Rakes' fanclub, and watches Cat On Form rip the Garage a new hole, whilst frequenting all the not-so-good small gigs in London, so you don't have to.»
Lingering Headrush
In the same way that some music can make a person have an uncontrollable urge to dance around, singing along at the top of their voice, some music can lure the mind into a state of depression and melancholy and some can induce anger and aggression, there is a certain section of music (which for me is admittedly scarce) that whisks the human mind off to a completely new and surreal unworldly dimension; music that spins around the head and submerges the listener in a world of pure euphoria and ease; music that momentarily frees the mind of any stress or concerns and cocoons it in thick sheets of pure escapism. Music currently being defined and reshaped by bands such as Mancunian masters in the art of "fucking sounds up", Oceansize.»
DiS E-Content Special
It's been one hell of a week here with the head offices moving back into the capital, our third birthday gigs being finalised, issue two of our magazine due and lots more! It also seems a lot of PR people are joining in the fun and this week we have been sent some cracking stuff!!! We start off with not one but T»
(Untitled)
MAY BANK HOLIDAY "SONIC" ALLDAYER
@ The Underworld, Camden, London.
DATE: Monday May 5th
PRICE: £6adv / £8 on the night
TIME: 5pm - 11pm(ish)
OCEANSIZE
Four Day Hombre
Mínus
Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia..
Tyler
Seachange
Summary: E»
Oceansize: DiS Tour #4 Supports Confirmed
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. »
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D-Frag: October tour previews!
Another month, another load of bands out there on the roads, service stations and floors of the United Kingdom... This month, what with it being ROCKtober, lots of bands with releases ready for Springtime albums, so there's loads of bands we here at dis ain't shut up about for quite some time going out. We thror»
Set the Controls for the Heart of Mong
I'm sitting in the basement of a café, ahead of Oceansize's one-off support slot with Scottish contrast-rockers Biffy Clyro, in their hometown of Manchester. It stinks down here. And it's cold. It's always too bloody cold. You might not know it, but Oceansize are causing quite a storm in among the»
Admit It - All The Best Bands Come From Manchester
Face it - over the years, Manchester, and it's surrounding suburbs, has produced some of the most exciting music to emerge from this country. Joy Division, The Smiths and Oasis, to name but three. However, since the Brit Pop years of the mid nineties, Manchester has produced little in the wa»
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