G! Festival: the DiS review
DiS heads north, then north a little more, landing in the Faeroe Islands for the annual G! Festival, held in the harbour town of Gota...»
Festivals
Hunting mammoths in the city of iron: Melt! festival, day two
Up we went, lead by Mammut, jumping the security fence. Stole in and bounded all stealthy over to the machine, the biggest machine in the park, over by the lake. We clamber over the gate and start our ascent, buoyed on dust and wander up through its rippling, rusty guts like monkeys in a metal thicket; ‘til we’re right up, legs dangling 100 tingling feet off the ground, grinning and half-gurning in the canopy...»
Hunting mammoths in the city of iron: Melt! festival, day one
Rust-ridden to their dockings, five imperious coal excavators dominate Gräfenhainichen’s bleak landscape; 100 foot high industrial behemoths that hark back to the decline this East German area felt after the wall fell...»
Breaking news: Truck Festival postponed
News just in, folks: following the flooding of the festival site in Oxfordshire, this year's Truck Festival has been postponed...»
Truck festival: leave the car at home
Keep on trucking, folks – just do it by train, m’kay? Due to the shitload of water that’s just been falling out of the sky flooding the car parks, Truck festival organisers are warning revellers to use public transport to reach the Hill Farm site.»
Reading Festival site put up for sale
The Reading festival could be in line for a change of venue after the current site was put up for sale, according to organisers Mean Fiddler.»
Cologne Pop or Koln Pop? Regardless, Festival News Here.
A whole new breed of festival has emerged in Cologne. One that does not have many UK bands, still focuses on music resting on the fringes of indie and pop and, most importantly, does not suck. Seriously...»
Arcade Fire on the festival circuit: "It's kinda crazy"
With festival season in full swing and this weekend shaping up to be one of the busiest of the year – Supersonic in Birmingham is up against Latitude in Suffolk, and DiS is also attending Summercase in Spain and Dour in Belgium – we caught up with one of the acts on this summer’s festival circuit, Arcade Fire, to talk about the rigours of touring in such a manner...»
Hove Festival 2007: the DiS review
For a whole week, we barely touched a drop: too expensive, too cold, not a thing like what us Brits are used to. A dry county, Hove might as well have been; not a sip, not a tipple. For a week, teetotal. Lies: we just didn’t eat...»
WIN! Tickets to 2000 Trees Festival
DrownedinSound.com has a pair of tickets to give away to the 2000 Trees Festival - read on for details...»
Lodestar festival expands its line up
Celebration of the dying embers of the festival season, Lodestar, has expanded its bill for the three day bash.
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1-2-FREE-4 festival in Shoreditch this summer
The '1-2-3-4 Shoreditch' festival will debut in east London this Sunday 5th of August, pitching tent FREE four-fold in Shoreditch Park.»
Future of the Left and Help She Can't Swim for free London festival
>Given the large glut of bands-in-fields events this year, it’s probably a good time to offer your wallet some relief by informing you of London’s Tin Pan Alley event.»
A Badge Of Friendship's DIY Summer Festival: line-up + tickets
London promoters A Badge Of Friendship have announced details of two all-dayers for next month...»
Festival tickets competition: today's the last day!
Today is the deadline for entries for a number of our current competitions, so if you want to win a pair of tickets to Rock Ness in Scotland, Dour in Belgium, or Summercase in Spain, you'd best get clicking...»
Hove Festival 2007: final line-up confirmed
The DiS-associated Hove Festival – held in the picturesque surroundings of Tromoy, on the Norwegian coast, from June 26-30 – has confirmed its final, pretty dang good actually line-up...»
Lodestar festival announces line-up
Just when you thought there wasn’t a patch of grass left to pitch a tent on, the BBC 6 Music-approved LodeStar festival arrives as an interesting new presence on the full-to-bursting festy circuit.
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Oh please... it can't, it won't... will it? If it rains at Glastonbury this year, again, DiS will very probably cry real tears. But, more importantly, WIN A LOAD OF TICKETS HERE...»
WIN! Tickets to the Homefires festival
Got an unseemly gap in your social calendar this coming weekend? DiS has got two pairs of tickets for each day of this year's Homefires festival to give away.»
Field Day for the Saturday: festival line-up update
Following the announcement HERE earlier today regarding their new LP, Liars appear to have casually joined the Field Day Festival line-up...»
WIN! Tickets to Bristol's first-ever Dot To Dot Festival
Courtesy of the lovely people behind the fortunes of the equally lovely Annuals - that's one of them, pictured - DiS has a lovely pair of tickets to give away to tomorrow's first-ever Bristol leg of the annual Dot To Dot Festival. Lovely...»
Venn Festival, Bristol: mmm, information...
The annual Venn Festival runs from May 31-June 3 in Bristol, and here is a neat list of all the wonderful acts playing...»
Dot To Dot Festival: DiS's preview of Nottingham's biggest music marathon of the year
This Sunday, May 27, Nottingham plays host to the biggest Dot To Dot Festival yet - this year it's even got a sister festival, in Bristol. DiS's Dom Gourlay casts a critical ear over the Nottingham bill to pick a few choice acts from the slew of excellent bands performing across a variety of city centre venues... your legs are gonna be wrecked by the end of this Dot To Dot, that we promise...»
Underage Festival: August fest bill swells
New acts have been added to the bill of Europe's - nay, the world's! - first-ever under-18s-only festival...»
WIN! Tickets to the End Of The Road Festival
This year's End Of The Road festival runs from September 14-16, in the green and pleasant land of Larmer Treet Gardens, and you can be there, sand quids...»
Middlesbrough Music Live festival: line-up announced
The Middlesbrough Music Live festival will return on June 3 with The Twang headlining a new main stage venue.
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Emmy The Great's May dates, plus festival shows
London-based singer-songwriter of no little loveliness Emmy The Great is taking her acoustic guitar on the road later this month...»
Latitude update: Annuals, Cold War Kids, Bat For Lashes and more confirmed for July festival
A number of new bands have been confirmed for July's Latitude Festival, held in Southwold in Suffolk...»
Les Femmes S'en Melent festival announces line-up
Lady-respectin’ indie music festival Les Femmes S’en Melent returns to London for three nights of genre-but-not-gender bending performances in May. Unless you consider that gender is a performative role prescribed by - (sniiii-ip, student bollocks ed)...»
Free festival news: Pritchattsbury
The line-up for this year's Pricthattsbury festival, held at Birmingham University, has been announced...»
Drowned in Manchester #15 – May 2013
armchair dancefloor 39: Mount Kimbie interview, Bobby Browser, Powell, Move D, Leon Vynehall...
DiS meets John Lydon - Part 1: The Man
DiS Does Singles 20.05.13: Paramore, Laura Marling, The Replacements
DiS joins the Music Alliance Pact + May 2013's global MAP compilation
Drowned in Bristol #12
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