Breast Cancer Festival: line-up details
This Saturday, June 17, GJ's Bar in Collier's Wood, south London (click here for venue information), will play host to an all-day festival raising money for breast cancer research...»
Festivals
Win! Tickets to Europe's Best Alternative Festival!
Dour is Europe's best alternative music festival and here at DiS, we're more than a little excited about the line-up this year. Four days, a ridiculous amount of diverse, interesting bands and all in Belgium - so the beer's that little bit cheaper.»
Festival Preview: Download 2006
The most impressive line-up of the year is upon us this weekend and it’s only June. Download Festival 2006 is hosting a fleet of bands certain to go down in hard rock history flanked by stars of the future is always a good move. DiS will be doing really Heavy Metal things like sporting a mullet, wearing a denim jacket with the sleeves cut off and also generally being smelly. Here are The Top 9 (Nine) Bands You Need To See At Download Festival 2006!!!»
They will follow you into the festivals... Death Cab come to Europe
Seattle-based indie quartet Death Cab For Cutie bring the sound of their Plans album to Europe this summer, taking in a shed-load of festivals along the way...»
Venn Festival Preview
Venn Festival is three years old this year. If you follow the playground adage of “first the worst, second the best”, this will be the Venn with a hairy chest. A festival with a hairy chest is not all that much of a proposition, but to peruse the line-up, would suggest this year will be ‘third time lucky’, so delectable is the extensive list of bands, persons and machines involved.»
New bands announced for Truck Festival
Battles, Mojave 3, That Fucking Tank, Goodbooks, Good Shoes and the splendid :( have been added to this year's Truck Festival taking place in July.»
Chasing Shadow: DJ does dates around festivals
DJ Shadow is to play a handful of dates around the time of his appearances at Wireless and Creamfields...»
The Best festival ever? Dour line-up finalised
Running from July 13th-16th, the Dour Festival, Belgium encompasses seemingly every genre in the world, inviting the best artists, DJs and performers from each to one 4-day festival, all totalling £50.»
Playing Truant overseas: Brit metallers cancel UK shows for Canadian festival
South-coast metallers of no little noise Johnny Truant have cancelled three UK shows in order to perform at a festival in Canada...»
Another day, another festival: Electric Gardens news
So it seems that it's only DiS that isn't putting on a festival this summer. (Or are we? No, no, we're not.) Word around the yet-to-be-lit campfires is that Kent will play host to one of the summer's many new festivals, Electric Gardens...»
Bowie to spearhead new NYC festival
Fresh from claiming that he was tired of the music industry, David Bowie has announced plans to rule the roost over a brand new festival next year...»
First acts announced for free Middlesbrough festival
The first few acts performing at this year's Middlesbrough Music Live event have been announced...»
SuperSonic Festival: final line-up announced
So you missed out on Truck? Fuck. You missed out on Leeds? Puh-leeeze. Wake up and smell the avant-garde freshness of this year's SuperSonic Festival, held at Birmingham's Custard Factory. Then follow the smell 'til tickets are in your hands...»
Latitude Festival news: headliners, et cetera
Sometimes DiS goes out. Yeah, yeah, we have to be back before the sun sets over yonder hillock, but last night we found time enough to pop along to Camden's Proud Gallery to drink free lager and eat finger foods at the launch of a BRAND NEW festival...»
Southampton: free festival, this weekend
So you're in Southampton. Bored. Wanting something, anything, to make the day pass that bit quicker. I know, I've been there (why the fuck do you think I left?). BUT, this weekend, there may just be a little something for 'ee...»
Exclusive: Truck Festival 2006 line-up announced
As official media partners and programme-makers for this year's Truck Festival, we're insanely happy to be the first to give you the lowdown on the initial raft of bands.»
Reykjavik Rite Of Spring - a new festival blossoms
Oh god, not another bloody festival. But yes, Rite Of Spring has indeed sprung up in Reykjavik, Iceland and will be held over four nights between 27th and 30th April in the capital’s most popular nightclub, NASA. I’ve never been to Iceland before. It’s going to be dead good! Hooray!»
DiS Stage at Brighton's Great Escape Festival Announcement
One city, three nights beside the seaside, 14 venues filled with over 100 bands from all over the world and a Drowned in Sound Stage...»
Oxford's Arts Festival: first details
Oxford's Arts Festival, run in conjunction with the city council, is to be held on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th May across a host of venues...»
New festival for the UK
While tickets for 2006's festivals sell out one after another in the absence of Glasto this summer, Mean Fiddler Managing Director Melvin Benn has announced that a large new festival is to emerge...»
Truck Festival sells out in record time
The summer's main event, the Truck festival, has sold out in record time.»
Further festival news: Green Man confirms first few acts
The Green Man Festival line up is beginning to take shape, with a slew of acts already confirmed...»
Ireland's Oxegen Festival filling out
Further acts have been added to the bill for this year's Oxegen Festival, held at Punchestown Racecourse on July 8th and 9th...»
Spitz reveals its second Festival of Blues
London's The Spitz venue will again host a Festival of Blues this year, following the success of last year's event...»
Guns n' Roses headline Download festival
Axl Rose is bringing his on-off Guns n' Roses circus to the UK for one show this year..»
Wireless Festival takes shape: UPDATE!
This year's Wireless Festival (website) is taking shape, with headliners now announced for the event...»
EXCLUSIVE: British Sea Power headline 5-room April festival
British Sea Power join Art Brut, Komakino, Battle and more at London's SEONE venue this April»
More American festival news: Bonnaroo announces great bill
Organisers of the 80,000-capacity Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, to be held in Manchester (that's in Tennessee, sorry) from June 16th to the 18th, have announced a fantastic line up...»
Festival rumours: the Mode for Wireless, Franz for Reading
Depeche Mode have rather let the cat out of its proverbial bag: although organisers of this summer's Wireless Festival, held in London's Hyde Park, haven't yet revealed the initial line up, the three-piece have posted the event on the upcoming shows page of their website...»
Eurosonic Festival 2006: DiS on the streets of Holland
Having trawled the shimmering streets of northern Holland for a long, wintry three nights DiS has returned and recuperated, ready to relay tales and reports of the hottest, wackiest and, above all, best acts to grace this quaint city during the 20th annual Eurosonic Festival. Here’s what we thought to be the cream of the plentiful foreign crop...»
"More bands should split up" - Brett Anderson opens up to DiS about the return of Suede
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
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