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OXTOBER: Truck organisers announce OX4 ft. The Big Pink, Jonquil + more

News by Luke Slater

The very people who organise Oxfordshire's Truck Festival have got together in a music and business-like manner with YMD! to bring you OX4 - named after the Oxford postcode which they inhabit.»

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News by Luke Slater

Yes! If the unambiguous yet slightly below par headline didn't tell you, Oxford's finest professional guitar noodlers This Town Needs Guns are off in a UK tour quite soon.»

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Hungry? This Ain't No Picnic menu swells

News by Rob Webb

Smalltown America Records announce full lineup for September Shindig at King's College, London»

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Nottingham's Hockley Hustle 2008: DiS stage details

News by Dom Gourlay

The full line-up for this year's Hockley Hustle charity event in Nottingham, the third and biggest yet, can now be unveiled, including the Drowned In Sound stage at the city's Bunkers Hill venue»

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Pulled Across The UK: Leeds rockers release debut single, hit the road

News by Dom Gourlay

Ace Leeds rockers Pulled Apart By Horses release their debut single next month on the Big Scary Monsters label»

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Zapfest does a Tapestry, does a Wild in the Country: another fest cancelled

News by Mike Diver

Zapfest - scheduled for this coming weekend (July 12) in Oxford's South Park - has been cancelled»

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DiS live in London: Dananananaykroyd, Jonquil, Rolo Tomassi and more

News by Mike Diver

DiS doubles up on a live front in London this weekend with a pair of shows we know you’re going to wish you were at if you miss them»

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50, not out: Monsters celebrate half century with massive compilation

News by Mike Diver

Oxfordshire indie label Big Scary Monsters has reached its 50th release, and will celebrate by issuing a special 50 Not Out compilation»

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Watch: new This Town Needs Guns video

News by Mike Diver

Check it: a nice new video for This Town Needs Guns' ace-o track '26 Is Dancier Than 4', as made by animator Jack Hyde and friends»

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DiScover Club double: this weekend and next in London, plus future dates

News by Mike Diver

Roll up, rock down: the DiScover Club is back in London these next two weekends, and we’ve two cracking bills for y’all, for free. Featuring: Beestung Lips, Let's Wrestle, Sky Larkin, Broken Records, Jonquil and more»

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Saul Williams at Barden's: advance tickets sold out

News by Mike Diver

Advance tickets for Saul Williams' spoken-word performance at London's Barden's Boudoir venue, on November 7, have sold out»

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DiS presents: Saul Williams and more, November 7

News by Mike Diver

Good news, fans of good shows: DiS and Tours, Bombs etc are pleased to co-present a quite, quite super show next month: Saul Williams and more at the pleasant basement known to locals as Barden’s Boudoir, London...»

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This tour needs Ginsters! This Town Needs Guns announce October dates

News by Mike Diver

Oxford-based indie-rockers of no little brilliance This Town Needs Guns - boi oh boi did they ever impress at Saturday's DiScover Club - are hitting the road in October. Service stations, they'll visit some...»

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DiScover Club: this weekend, featuring This Town Needs Guns, Catsx3 and more...

News by Mike Diver

This Saturday, September 22, DiS again rolls its merry way down to London's Notting Hill Arts Club for an afternoon of great, free music, in association with Rough Trade Shops. Doors are at 4pm, entry restricted to over-18s - same old same old...»

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Brainwash Festival: line-up announced for Leeds charity bash

News by Mike Diver

The Brainwash Festival returns to Leeds later this year for three days of bleeps and beats and riffs and rock, all in the name of charity...»

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September shows: starting Saturday!

News by Mike Diver

September may well be a week old already, but don't go accusing us of slacking. Besides, we're playing catch up like crazy 'til the month's end...»

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Cats x3 on tour: September dates with Siegfried Sassoon and TTNG confirmed

News by Mike Diver

Really quite smashing post-rock whippersnappers Cats And Cats And Cats are heading out for a jaunt that can only be described as a tour in September...»

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House Of Brothers added to September DiScover Club bill

News by Mike Diver

In what can only be described as an 'ace, actually' move, Nottingham-based singer-songwriter sort House Of Brothers - pictured - has been added to September's DiScover Club bill...»

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DiScover Club update: September changes

News by Mike Diver

The September edition of the ever-so-popular (thanks, really) DiScover Club has seen its bill shift, slightly: Hey Colossus have, sadly, withdrawn from the show, but they've been replaced by the OMG-excellent Secondsmile. Hurray...»

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DiScover Club update: booked until October!

News by Mike Diver

How good is this? DrownedinSound.com – hello, you’re reading us – has only gone and confirmed our DiScover Club bills all the way ‘til October. Wow, for once we’re totally all over this organisational thing...»

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I Fly Spitfires update: Catweasels, Komakino, Die! Die! Die! and more for DiS-associated club

News by Mike Diver

I Fly Spitfires are a really rather nice group of gig-organising people putting on lovely, lovely shows with the full support of DiS - look at their MySpace page, why don't you - in the fair cit of Edinburgh...»

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Cats And Cats And Cats Need Guns (And Guns And Guns)

News by jonathan fisher

NEEDS MORE WORK...Five-headed math-poppers Cats And Cats And Cats are soon to team up with five-headed math-rockers This Town Needs Guns to release a split-album of twinkles and savage time signature changes...»

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Brappy clappy: This Town Needs Guns and Jonquil tour

News by Kev Kharas

This Town Needs Guns and Jonquil are to co-headline a string of dates over the next few months, supported by a motley bunch of indie hopefuls.»

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Second annual BSM Christmas Tour announced

News by Mike Diver

Details of the second Big Scary Monsters Christmas Tour have been announced...»

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This Town Needs gigs!

News by Mike Diver

This Town Needs Guns, right, they're only playing some shows...»

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SPILL does shows...

News by Mike Diver

On-the-rise music magazine SPILL has put togther a quite admirable series of gigs for the next month and a bit. Do check these hot puppies the heck out, won'tcha?»

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This Ain't No Picnic lineup expands exponentially; draws ever closer

News by Luke Slater

Smalltown America's weekend festival This Ain't No Picnic's lineup has expanded, rather brilliantly, since it was originally announced back in June.»

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OX4: I Know What You Did Last Summer

News by Chris B

Isla Miskelly says For better or worse, attending the seventh Truck festival as an adolescent changed my life. It made me want to be a promoter; if you want to give up your social life, perfect credit rating and nights in with a 30 Rock box set then this»