Swansea to host the Fflam Festival
Swansea - it's in Wales - is to get itself a festival next year...»
Festivals
2006 UK Festival Awards - vote now!
This year's UK Festival Awards have been unleashed, the shortlists have been made and it's time for y'all to vote!»
Just another festival? Bestival 2006
The best of the (medium) fests, DiS headed off to Bestival last weekend, for three days of sunshine, cider, and dancing in an inflatable church to Elton John and Kiki Dee»
Memories of a Lost Festival: Reading 2006
Already two weeks past, DiS is still trying to get its head round what happened to it in a Berkshire field last month...»
Festival Preview: Bestival 2006
It's Bestival this weekend (September 8-10), and while it's meant to be the last festival of the year, it's obviously not because there are more coming up. Or maybe it's just meant to be the best? Whatever. It's certainly the biggest Bestival yet, anyway, with some 250 acts - there or thereabouts - performing over three days...»
Police appeal for Leeds Festival rape witnesses
The Sun has reported that a 27-year-old girl was raped at the weekend's Leeds Festival, and that the attack was witnessed by many an attendee...»
The Green Man Festival
DiS arrives on site Friday through a tiny castle-shaped guard house over a burbling river. Tents are set up in a storm that fully justifies the use of the word 'torrential' before we trudge through the mud...»
The Tuesday DiScussion: can we beat festival crime?
It’s no secret that things have a habit of going missing at festivals all the time: from stray cans of Stella and portable gas hobs to leather jackets and digital cameras, each and every major music festival campsite suffers a rash of robberies once inebriated metalheads have retired to their inflatable beds and roll mats. Just because it’s an apparent given that possessions will find their way into new hands over a bank holiday weekend, though, doesn’t mean we have to take it...»
Carling Weekend: Reading & Leeds festivals - The DiS preview
Everyone who knows anything about something about music waits in anxious expectation for the August Bank Holiday weekend. That is when The Carling Weekend descends upon two places in England with loads of bands that are okay and some bands that are bloody wicked and others that are fucking shit. Apparently we’re not allowed to call it Reading Rock anymore 'cause that went out in the 1980s. Whatever. Here are the ten bands that we reckon you should see.»
Festival Internacional de Benicassim at Spain Benicassim, Thu 20 Jul
Here’s what you won’t find at a festival in Spain:
Poi
Diablo
'Comedy' jester hats
Girls with fairy wings
Mud...»
V Festival: the DiS preview
One of the true big boys amongst the ever-growing festival throng, V Festival is almost upon us. This weekend, teenagers and thirty(plus)-somethings alike will converge on the festival’s twin sites – one in Chelmsford, the other in Staffordshire – to drink expensive warm lager while the dulcet tones of Sandi Thom, James Morrison and Lily Allen aid their gentle drift to a wonderful plane of serenity…»
DiS at the Festivals: Summer Sundae
“The grandson of Glastonbury” according to the venerable Steve Lamacq, Leicester's Summer Sundae festival celebrated its sixth birthday this year and DiS was there to help cut the cake, as well as take in scores of great bands over the course of the weekend…»
WIN! Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festival tickets
Thanks to our good friends at Mean Fiddler, DiS has a pair of tickets for each site of this year's Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds festivals up for grabs. The festival runs from 25-27th August at Bramham Park, Leeds and the Rivermead Leisure Centre, Reading.»
The Tuesday DiScussion: Your perfect festival
DiS asks, what is your idea of a perfect music festival? Where would it be? When would the music be on? What sort of music would play? How many people would be there? We only ask because we're doing our own one next year...»
Competition! Win tickets for beach festival!
As previously reported, there is going to be a festival in Newquay on 4-5 August with some bands, some surfers, some skaters, and some regular people watching it all. While The Beach Boys (pictured) will not be there, in this weather some of those regular people will be wearing bikinis. Mad skills. You can win tickets here.»
Venturing Out: Latitude Festival in review
2006 has given rise to a brand new event: Latitude Festival. An idyllic setting, a variety of arts, weird and wonderful scenery and a laid-back atmosphere are the framework for the gathering in a park in the heart of Suffolk, or as some ignorantly call it – the middle of nowhere...»
DiS preview: Latitude Festival
Latitude Festival makes its debut this year, boasting a fantastic line-up of music, film, poetry, and other arts. DiS will be there to watch it all, so here are the top seven acts to watch out for during the weekend.»
Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival: full line-up announced
Welcome to Part Something in DiS's series of News About Festivals We Can't Afford To Go To But We Really Want To: Bumbershoot...»
Iceland Airwaves Festival takes shape... with DiS stage
The line-up for this October's Iceland Airwaves Festival, held in Reykjavík from the 18th to the 20th, is shaping up quite wonderfully...»
Midlands, rejoice: Good festival!
Now in its sixth year, Leicester's Summer Sundae festival has grown from a one-day, two-stage event to this year's multi-staged three-day extravaganza...»
Beth Orton, Mi And L'au, Adem for Spitz Festival of Folk
This September's Spitz Festival of Folk - held as the name suggests at London's Spitz venue - will see the likes of Beth Orton and Vetiver appearing in relatively intimate surroundings...»
Tin Pan Alley Festival: line-up announced
The third Tin Pan Alley Festival - held in London's Denmark Street and absolutely free to attend - takes place next Sunday, July 16...»
V Festival goes international
The UK's twin-site V Festival is to go international, with a two-day event already confirmed to take place in Toronto...»
Benicassim Festival is round the corner!
Even without Glastonbury, there's a dearth of UK music festivals this summer, but all the smart people are heading to Benicassim because, frankly, even without the guaranteed blazing sun and nearby beach, this year's line-up is STELLAR!»
Benicassim Festival Line-up Announced!
Woo hoo! It's official! The Benicassim FIB Heineken International Fesitval is the hottest festival ticket this year!»
The Benicassim Festival Moves To July
This year's Benicassim FIB Heineken International Fesitval will take place on July 20-23, instead of August to avoid clashing with the traditional Spanish holiday rush.»
Into the woods: Leeds festival with a difference...
Alternative music-loving locals to the Leeds area are in for a treat this July, as the Oats And Groats festival is to be held in the woodland of Hunters Greave...»
The July/August, Cambridge is All About the Fringe Festival
Fringe? Surely that's a haircut? Cambridge Fringe Festival to feature more entertainment than you could shake a stick at, and to be a worthy platform for new and obscure acts too...»
Mean Fiddler to release new Reading Festival tickets on Tuesday
Promoting behemoths Mean Fiddler have announced that they are to release more weekend tickets for the Reading leg of the Carling Weekend this Tuesday (20th June) at 9am.»
Venn Festival 2006
Venn 2006 was three years old - the festival first brought experi(mental) joy to this corner of Bristol in 2004. Venn is based around existing venues in the Stokes Croft and St Pauls area of Bristol, many of which are literally next door to each other, making long walks non-existant. The venues are as diverse as the area housing them - Casablanca is a morrocan themed shisha bar, the Malcolm X centre is a polkda-dotted hall with jamaican lager-slash-beer, the Full Moon is a punkish pub. Diversity applied to the musical line-up too, dub-step to hip-hop to shouty girl punk; the linking factor being the high quality of everything on offer. Despite the intense sunshine and the presence of premier pie shop 'PieMinister' in Stokes Croft, DiS made it to gigs. In fact, we made it to many gigs. The musical policy at Venn was so all-encompassingly fantastic, that weather and food paled into insignificance with the excitement of bands weird and wonderful in venues small and large. Now our ears throb, our eyes squint and our legs ache from dashing from gig to gig, but we're still here to comment on our quite incredible findings.
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Drowned in Manchester #15 – May 2013
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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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