In Depth by Dom Gourlay
V Festival - or the Virgin Media Festival to give it its correct title - may be the least favoured of its kind as far as music connoisseurs are concerned. A quick flick through the line-up doesn't exactly set pulses racing, as bland non-entities like The Script and Paolo Nutini rub shoulders with has-beens whose sell-by date expired over a decade ago (Ocean Colour Scene, Happy Mondays). However, cast all snobbery to one side for two days and delve a little deeper into the mixing pot and there are actually several gems to be found along with moments of real inspiration here. »
In Depth by Sean Adams
The Sunday morning acidic hangover is here and so too is the rain but that's as good an excuse as any to delay braving the outdoors and run-down on day two at Reading.
In the past few years Saturday at the Festival has established itself as the "i»
In Depth by Gareth Dobson
It's that time of year. DiS plunges its fearless critical balls into the icy waters of the festive singles glut, and emerges full of the joys of the season. Ish. Honestly, what would the baby Jesus think of some of this crap? Shaun The Sheep? Eeek»
In Depth by Francis Jones
Having relocated to the sprawling expanses of Ormeau Park from the old Botanic Gardens site, this year’s Tennents Vital (held August 21-22) is quite clearly grasping at grandness. Unfortunately the choice of today’s headliner, Razorlight, singularly fails to excite. There are, by way of consolation, all manner of interesting bands further down the main stage bill, or playing in the Radio1 tent...»
In Depth by A bunch of drunk DiS writers
For a whole week, we barely touched a drop: too expensive, too cold, not a thing like what us Brits are used to. A dry county, Hove might as well have been; not a sip, not a tipple. For a week, teetotal. Lies: we just didn’t eat...»
In Depth by Sean Adams
DiS's Sean Adams tells his own tale of Glastonbury 2007 - from the backstage to the moshpit and right up to the stars - in three parts. Here, Switches are threatened, boots are stepped on, and a stage invasion is missed... d'oh...»
In Depth by Gareth Dobson
Tastemakers - don't you just hate them? telling you what's good and what's not...
But who are we to go against every other music publication? Quite. Ergo, here
is one person's guide on how to get the most out of your Saturday at Chelmsford
/ Sunday at Staffordshire.»
Spaceman
Day & Age
Tranquilize
Sam's Town
Somebody Told Me
Hot Fuss
Mr. Brightside
Somebody Told Me
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