The Rumble Strips

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Artist Mixtape #3: The Maccabees

Continuing with this, the third episode in our Artist Mixtape series, it's the turn of The Maccabees' Felix White to bare all in audio form, the likes of the National, Richard Hawley and the Rumble Strips making the cut»

Tennents Vital 2007: the DiS review

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...»

Camden Crawl 2006

In Depth by DiS Festivals

The Camden Crawl™ is an incessant pitch of desperate dreams and stained ale teeth; a rotter’s journey to the centre of the Dublin Castle [indie development hell] that celebrates punctuality and order over diminished responsibility and leather jackets. A playground for the sensible band warrior, offering Joe Punter the opportunity to see all his favourite junior artists in one long stretch, over a concrete path of Converse-tread doom. »