Reading Preview #2: Gen, Adam and Raz's Picks
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: »
In Depth
Reading preview #1: Sean, Kp and Peter's picks
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»
Jetplane Landing headline DiS gig, London
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»
Hometown Heroes
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 Too Easy
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 »
"I want to have a past"
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,»
"We're sick and tired of bullshit on every level of existence"
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 »
V2002: Preview
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»
A Tiny Guide To Moving Home
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 »
Anti-American (By Mark Thomas)
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»
DiS gig in London this Weds
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»
Bargain Hunt (Sans Mullet!)
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»
The organisers speak
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»
Shelf Life: 1 Year. Your Time Starts Now.
The Vines are this year's best band. There is no band in existence - EVER - that will make you shit yourself with such unrivalled joy. This statement will apply until January 30th 2003 - after which point, you are advised to stand by for further announcements. Ye-e-e-e-e-e-e-es. Um... right. Hands up who r»
"If more people like us than are offended by us, we're doing something wrong!"
Before their Underworld show back in not-so-sunny June, I had the pleasure to interview burgeoning stars Stza and Ezra, the respective singer and guitarist of Leftover Crack. For those of you for whom this name rings no bells, I’ll fill you in; if you have to listen to one sk’hardcore band this sid»
Pistols at The Palace
It’s the SeX PiSToLS Jubilee, just like the Queen's one but for the people who can’t afford towers of cake, champers or to live outside of relative poverty. 25years ago the Sex Pistols were living in squalor, with barely enough cash to eat but the brains to get by. Most importantly they had the empowering»
Ladyfest London 2002: preview
Look at the line ups for the main music festival this summer. Notice anything peculiar? No, me neither. Another year on and they’re still jam packed with the finest bands the male half of the species has to offer. It’s high time the ladies got a piece of the action and that’s why Ladyfest London is taking place »
Sleep earns nothing for you
Today I learned something. I learned that there is a wonder pill called Modafinil. It stops you wanting to sleep. You can work for 40 hours solid without needing to snooze, and you can do it with your cognitive senses ready and alert, without the jittery/buzzy/crash+burn effects of caffeine and various stimul»
emo! DiS gig: 24th July
WORD UP, MOFO. drownedinsound would like to inform you of its next gig, and we're feeling very emo about it all. The location: The Windmill, Brixton - which can be found on Blenheim Gardens, off Brixton Hill, about a 10-minute walk from Brixton tube station (cross over the road out o»
D-Generation: SAVE US, PLEASE!
I keep telling people it’s time for change, that we can’t keep standing still on a backward escalator like this. Records keep the hope and magic of a revolution alive. Seeing the (International) Noise Conspiracy has renewed a lot of my hope, so has the new iDLEWiLD album (great ain’t it?) but I just think»
armchair dancefloor 39: Mount Kimbie interview, Bobby Browser, Powell, Move D, Leon Vynehall...
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