The Night The Reindeer Died: Bloc Party and Kaisers to get festive?

I tink this story has been made up purely to irritate me - however I think it might just be true

*credibility alert*

that's my favourite-ever christmas song.
i hope they do it justice.

can't see how this can be good. if it was britpop it would be like pulp doing a collaboration with meanswear.

Kele, don't do it! Retain your credibility and let the Kaiser Chiefs murder their career!

Bloc Party...Kaiser Chiefs
They're practically opposites. This should be, er, interesting.

Seconded.

shutup foyu fucking cunt.

"you gotta party hardy, marty!"

best christmas movie ever. FACT.

I think this thread should be based more on 'Scrooged' anyway.

I guarantee they're like this every day of the year.

Wasnt it only a few months ago when DiS was urging everyone to buy Silent Alarm?

Isnt the title a big cruel?

Everyone else may have gone off them since they have become popular over the last few months, but I still think they are wonderful.

Next Dis will have it's own record label and adverts for hmv on the site. ;)

The Industry is fickle, and different writers have different opinions you'll find. I don't really care about any of this, im off. haha

This site has become a joke. Kaiser Chiefs were born here! Bloc Party first championed here - at the hint of success you turn your backs and rant on about CREDABILITY...what the fuck? The songs on both Employment and Silent Alarm are the same ones you championed a few months ago. Shame on you lot. Both bands are great

Oh yeah....
I totally forgot that Drowned in Sound were championing the Kaiser Chiefs and "discovered" them.
That makes this whole article even more of a joke. So now that those two bands are popular, you decide to slag them off?? cause these 2 bands arent as cool/underground/scene any more?? Whatever happened about liking bands for their music and not whether its cool/hip to like them??? As gymmy said,they are the EXACT same songs that you were raving about when they first came to our attention. Now that the NME embraces these bands you feel that is is uncool to still like them??
that is pathetic!!

"That makes this whole article even more of a joke. So now that those two bands are popular, you decide to slag them off??"

What are you talking about? Where does the above slag either band off?

Okay...

I'm not sure that either of the bands have been subjected to any piss-taking at the hands of a writer (note: there is but one editor), but if they have then that's the opinion of that writer alone. DiS has no strict editorial policy on bands - individuals can think what they want and write what they want, within reason, be it to champion or condemn.

DiS is not anti-NME, either; this is a common misconception probably born from the site's dogged reluctance to follow the pack when it comes to flash in the pan acts not worth their column inches. What DiS does, or strives to do, is to tell YOU about great new bands, be they from the UK or Greenland, or pop or rock, or stylishly dressed or ragged and rough about every edge. Music is just that - I'd like to think that nine times out of ten DiS ONLY concentrates on that rather than what hat Popstar X is wearing this week, or who Junkie P decked in some north London boozer last night.

Of course, there is the occasional lapse. We've got to entertain ourselves, too. DiS doesn't try to be sensationalist, nor to patronise you by recycling a million press releases into a 'review'; it is honest, the writers are passionate and the steady increase in readers is totally reflective of this.

Which brings me to your final point about the site going downhill: you are the first person I have heard say this. I'd like to know why you think this, as - as far as I can see - the site is only going from strength to strength. The writing team is fantastic, the music being covered is incredibly diverse and non genre-specific, and the powers that be are now in a position to make it even bigger and better.

This is a great resource for finding out about new bands and reading honest opinions on the bands making the news elsewhere. I really don't think there's a single UK site that is comparable.

i totally third this!
will someone at Dis make up your mind whether to completely support an excelent band, or to not like em and therefore not recomend that everyone buys the record..... please!