In Depth
DiScuss: So this 'Glastonbury' thing, eh..?
In celebration of managing to wheedle Glasto review tickets and a photopass for the first time (oh, and also it being one of the biggest musical and cultural events in the British calender), DiS is having a wee Glastonbury week this week, in advance of everybody actually going buggering off next Wednesday. We kick off with a ponder over what the festival is meant to mean to the average indie kid in 2009.»
DiS Missive: How to tell the difference between eccentricity and a hair cut
DiS Missive #3 aims its sights at the 'New Eccentrics', comparing Foals and Lightspeed Champion to some true loons, like the bear-riding John Mytton. Also critiqued: all those mean-nothing genres us music writers are so fond of»
Oh, what a lovely day to drink some English tea: Britpop in 2005
It’s been less than two years since John Harris’ most excellent ‘The Last Party’ documented a certain period in music, roughly 1993-97, when British bands decided to give a jolly good kick in the teeth of grunge. For a while, it looked like we mig»
Raz on The Raz @ Reading
Yeah, yeah yeah, Reading Festival. What’s the big deal, huh? Get filthy. Get tired. Get battered. Sing. Watch some bands. Great. It bloody well is, alright!?! Did you love it? Were you even there? I was.
N.B. To be read aloud in a Geordie accent
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