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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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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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by Rob Webb
Smalltown America Records announce full lineup for September Shindig at King's College, London»
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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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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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by Mike Diver
Zapfest - scheduled for this coming weekend (July 12) in Oxford's South Park - has been cancelled»
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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by Mike Diver
Details of the second Big Scary Monsters Christmas Tour have been announced...»
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by Mike Diver
This Town Needs Guns, right, they're only playing some shows...»
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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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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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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»