This Week's Singles: 21/09/2009
After the rampant filth and manic superlatives of last week’s reviews, this time round there is a fair amount of boot-cooling going on. Good job really, as I am not sure my nerves can stand all the giddy.»
In Depth
Latitude: The DiS Review
To paraphrase Billy Piper, Latitude is pretty much honey to the b for the middle class legions of the DiS writing team, and thus it was in considerable numbers that we fell upon this year's edition of the idyllic Suffolk festival. Here are our reviewers' highlights.»
Time to get sheepish: a Latitude preview
There’s little point in pretending that we don’t want to have The Latitude festival’s children, so here’s a rundown of why it’s so awesome and what we're looking forward to the most, in no particular order. Apart from the bit about the sheep.»
Radiohead's Kid A - the DiS re-appraisal
Prompted by Radiohead Week, a raft of re-issues from, erm, some record company or other and the shameful knowledge DiS awarded Kid A a scathing 4/10, way-back-when. It’s time to make amends...»
Thom Yorke: Radiohead & Trading Solo (Book Review)
The task facing author Trevor Baker when he embarked on a mission to cover the life and work of Radiohead's frontman, armed only with back issues of Q and Melody Maker, telephone numbers for some of Thom Yorke's old Exeter Uni buddies and an internet connection, was an unenviable one. No surprises (!), perhaps, that the end result isn't an especially illuminating read.»
If Santa strapped on a Flying V...
...he'd probably write a better tune than most of the rejects and retards who proffer us Christmas singles year upon year...»
The Nationwide Music Prize is tomorrow! DiS gets Isobel Campbell's thoughts on her chances...
Tomorrow brings with it not only cloudier skies and cooler weather than we’ve been used to these past few weeks, but also the announcement of the winner of this year’s Nationwide Mercury Prize. You know: voted for by a panel of industry specialists (although we’ve not been invited to provide an opinion – what’s that about?), comes with a fat cheque and a skip-load of recognition, and was won by an American last year. Or, rather, an Englishman that’d not lived in England for many a year. Oooh, taste the controversy...»
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