New bands for Camden Crawl + Win Tickets!
The Camden Crawl has added another batch of whipper-snappers and elder statesmen to its expansive line-up.»
The View News
Watch: Oasis and The View (ruffian-pop video special)
Here's a visual and aural treat for all you fans of lad-rock, or ruffian-pop as we prefer to call it: videos from Oasis and The View»
OFF: The View NOT to headline secret London show tonight
The View's performance tonight at the Dirty Boots Club in London, announced three hours ago, has been cancelled over security fears»
The View to play low-key show in Brixton tonight
The View will be taking the Brixon Windmill ‘by surprise’ tonight, when they show up for an ‘unannounced’ acoustic set»
Xfm announces 'Best New Album' prize shortlist
Having given the proles the pleasure of trimming down the original list of 32, artists and “music industry types” will chose the winner of Xfm’s New Music Award from a shortlist of ten debut records.»
Mercury Prize: DiS picks its winners-to-be, waits to be right...
Time to put our pretend money where our ever-so-real mouths are: DiS is picking our individual favourites for tonight's Mercury Prize, and leaving them here so we can see who's right. And, more importantly, who is wrong and has to buy the biscuits tomorrow...»
What have The Fratellis and Hendrix got in common?
Radio 1 have pulled together a thick brigade of popular artists for a retrospective covers compilation.»
The View look back into the sun
The View are to record a cover of The Libertines’ classic (natch) single 'Don’t Look Back Into The Sun' for Radio One.»
Mercury Prize nominations announced
The nominations for the Mercury Music Prize are hot off the press, folks, and it’s a rum old mix as ever. They are as follows»
Knowsley Hall: new additions, tickets still available
The Knowsley Hall Festival - held in Liverpool on June 23 and 24 - has seen its bill swell today...»
Summercase: new additions, cheap tickets 'til May 20!
A number of new bands have been confirmed for this year's DiS-associated Summercase Festival, held in Barcelona and Madrid in July...»
The View's US immigration problems explained: singer on drugs charge?
As reported earlier this month, Scottish quartet The View were forced to cancel a series of shows in the US and Canada after the band fell foul of the States' immigration rules. The exact hows and whys weren't revealed at the time, but now it's come to light that the band's singer, Kyle Falconer, is apparently facing a drugs charge...»
The View fall foul of US immigration: Stateside tour cancelled
The View - the popular Scottish indie sorts whose Hats Off To The Buskers debut album was number one a few weeks back - have been forced to cancel their March US tour following problems with the States' immigration folk...»
View to A-pril: chart toppers tour in Spring
Chart-busting Scottish types The View have announced details of a new tour for this April...»
Chart round-up: ZZzzzZzzzZZzzZZzzz...
Some people count sheep, others take pills. Some have amazing sex ‘til they collapse in sticky pools of their own man or lady goo. Me, I fall asleep by thinking up different introductions to our weekly charts round-up. What a life...»
The View have an album out; generate press by smashing stuff up
Scottish scallywags The View - recently seen scoffing pick 'n' mix at Edgware Road Woolworths, unless that was four other scruffy-looking kids shooting us nasty looks - have been banned from ever staying at a Travelodge hotel...»
Klaxon 5: from the charts, to your hearts
Chart news: early indications are pointing towards Klaxons' new single 'Golden Skans' climbing into the top ten this week, alongside risers from the likes of The View, Jamie T (awesome, times two) and the world's worst person, Mika...»
Chart round-up: who is buying Mika singles, and can they stop, please?
Today, nothing is sure in the world of the singles chart. No longer will the winner of Reality Show X be guaranteed a number one with just three days’ sales behind ‘em, not now that some old song from 1845, or some other year before mp3s, can theoretically prevent Mickey Bland Eyes from claiming the top spot. Oh no sir: it’s all change at the top this year...»
The View announce tour dates for 2007
I haven't 'got' them yet, but many a friend and foe informs me that The View are fairly The Hotness Right Now. With this in mind, it seems only right to inform you that the Scottish four-piece have announced some tour dates...»
The View announce debut album
Dundee-based four-piece The View have announced details of their debut album...»
Xfm announces Winter Wonderland line-up
The Fratellis (pictured), Manic Street Preachers, Biffy Clyro, The View and Boy Kill Boy are among the acts confirmed for Xfm's three-date Winter Wonderland season this year...»
DiS reads about the UK charts; rewords everything; calls it an 'article'; goes for lunch.
Finally, the UK album chart has witnessed a significant shifting of top-ten artists. There are no fewer than FIVE new entries in the top ten, four of which debut in the top five. Hooray!? Let’s wait and see…»
DiS's chart update: some bands, right, they're AWFUL...
Right now, there’s nobody else in the office. For all you know, I could be writing this week’s rundown of the movers, shakers, tinkers and tailors in the UK albums and singles charts in the nuddy. Or, at least, with my shoes off: they do rub so terribly...»
If View go down to the Fopp today...
Tartan-tinged britpoppers The View will be marking the release of their second single, ‘Superstar Tradesman’, by partaking in a tour of Fopp stores across Scotland early next week...»
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...»
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