Their fans call them "a sonic hand-grenade", their critics call them a "My Bloody Valentine tribute band". Since erupting into the consciousness of UK music fans a couple of years ago in a haze of shimmering, wrecked guitars, chemically imbalanced emotion and biting, sugar-free pop songs, My »
Yeah, yeah yeah, Reading Festival. What’s the big deal, huh? Get filthy. Get tired. Get battered. Sing. Watch some bands. Great. It bloody well is, alright!?! Did you love it? Were you even there? I was.
N.B. To be read aloud in a Geordie accent
‘Thu»
Yeah, I’m fresh from one of those weekends of faecal incarceration and not washing any part of you with anything more substantial than water. Oh my, I love to do it. Having experienced certain things and seen others that you should probably never be exposed to, I have compiled a slender guide to how life in the middl»
"52 percent of Britons oppose military action against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein." - NOP, compilers of polls. Theoretically, in a few weeks from now, we could be about to witness a War of the Worlds. We could all be waiting to see which dictator can press their special red, nuclear spaceweapon but»
Running around all day a prerequisite because not only are you here to smell great and taste good (cheers for the baby wipe advice Gen m'dear), but hey! there's music here too, what a treat. So, if we're starting on Friday (which I guess we are unless you're slack and haven't got a ticket), the Miranda rule is one band»
With the Reading and Leeds Carling festivals officially starting on friday and people getting onsite from thursday onwards, Drownedinsound has everything you need to get ready for the festival, make last minute decisions on what to see and probably a more accurate list of who's playing than the official progr»
click here for part 1 and click here for part 2. Name: Ollie (Lord Hig»
With Reading/Leeds (aka The Carling Weekend) nearly upon us, select members of the dis team, have selected 3 bands each that you musn't miss. This is the second part, so click here for part 1. Name: »
With Reading nearly upon us select members of the dis team, have selected 3 bands each that you musn't miss.
Name: Sean (aka the Boss)
1. New Bands Tent: REIND»
COOL LIKE THE FONZ!
drownedinsound.com would like to inform you of its next gig, for you all to attend
before buggering off to Reading/Leeds/Glasgow(!).
The bands: Jetplane Landing, Thoria, I Own Kings
The date: Wed 21 Aug
The location: The Wi»
Having just returned to Europe from a mammoth US tour with Bombshell Rocks and jumping straight into a European tour with anarchist punkers Anti-Flag and Germany’s Donots I finally get the opportunity to collar a Millencolin, guitarist Matthias, to find how they’ve progressed as a band since their inception in ’92, »
It’s far too easy to go to war these days. Though we all see the pictures, hear the debates, get told how the bombs work, watch the people crying, maybe even see some hard hitting pictures of dead bodies, it never seems like we’re personally involved…. just another set of pictures on the television set when we »
Queen Adreena have picked a good day to visit Glasgow. After last week's biblical floods, the sun is innocently playing around the early evening today, and Katie Jane Garside wants to go outside for the interview. But concerned venue staff dissuade her: "You'll just get hassled no end." This seems likely,»
By now you must have heard of The BellRays. Or at least the term ‘Stooges fronted by Tina Turner’ which is annoying to say the least. If you’ve seen them live, the words ferocious, passionate and ever so fucking loud come to mind, and that’s all that should matter. Add to the mix an uncompromising air of »
Hmmm. V2002. it's a bit anodyne, safe, whatever. Or is it? Yes, it is. However, scrape away the surface layer, and then the next few, and you will get to some 10 to 12 ct gold bands. Okay, okay, I'm being cynical, but if you take a look at the Reading/Leeds line-up, you reali»
If you hire a van and they do a damage inventory before you head off, make sure to point out a number of scratches that are not actually there. Just in case. Find a friend with a driving license who has not driven a vehicle for about a year. Then add another friend who can also drive, but isn't old »
Over the past year Britain has seen such a fantastic increase in anti Americanism that I really feel there should be prizes or at least badges to give out for this great effort. Not in the old Soviet style of badges of dead politicians faces, I think it time for badges of politicians we would like to see dead, like a t»
We're having another one of those gig things.
Weds 7 August 2002:
It's at The Windmill, Brixton, as usual, and here is Sean's propaganda to go with it.
MEANWHILE, BACK IN COMMUNIST RUSSIA
.....beautiful-beats carved into layer after layer of pterodactyle guitars, washed in red wi»
If you are like me you always look for a bargain CD. Not necessarily the strictly limited edition 3-track 1" fan club only single for sale at your back street CD store, but bands you loved despite their kitch factor and as for other people... well, they kinda missed the point. Apart from the obvious places like charity»
With Ladyfest London 2002 kicking off this week (click here for our preview, and check out the official site), it seems many still have misconceptions about the festival and its aims. I asked Ladyfest London organ»
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