DiS in digest: our pick of the week's news

by Mike Diver [Edit this content] ▾ 1 comment 17:14 April 20th, 2007

What a week it has been! Sunny days, not-so-warm nights – it’s almost like the summer… only, like, proof of our impending destruction at the merciless hands of global warming.

Here at DiS we’ve been busy traipsing around the streets of Camden, the streets of, um, Camden, and the streets of Kilburn. Yes, indeed: we went there on Monday. We did not get the Thai food we wanted. Bad form.

As is semi-regular, here we close the week’s news with an article best described as DiS in Digest. Because that’s what it’s called. Quit making us all prang and allow it or we’ll jack you in your manor.

Yes.

Bright Eyes, burning at Dour!
Mr Obesrt is bringing his happy-happy-joy-joy ditties to Belgium in July, for the DiS-sponsored Dour Festival. Neat.
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A disco inferno it may be, but not in my house!
Well, probably not. It’s not like I’ve entered the competition to have Simian Mobile Disco play my flat, so it’d be a miracle if they just showed up, records under their arms and strobes in their teeth. The freaks…
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Little Barry, big mouth!
Him from Mogwai doesn’t like some people; some people, it turns out, don’t like him either…
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Wicked, Fresh!
That one out of Independence Day looks likely to quit killing alien squids long enough to play some ye olde hip-hop…
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Is it because he’s stocked up on ketchup to get those pesky paparazzi?!
Pete Doherty has less money than you might think, but it’s okay: Kate’s got about a billion billion pounds or something, in £50s, in a really fancy shoebox, under her really fancy bed. Probably…
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New rave is dead, long live prog-rock!
Or do we have to write it ‘nu rave’? Whatever…
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Popworld Pulp cursed by its own title!
Nothing really needs to be added here. Nope.
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Des’aster for Beyoncé!
One singer gets in trouble with another for not crossing all the ‘t’s…
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Rein in Zane? Xfm have!
Him off Popworld is to present the Xfm breakfast show in London… good thing my clock-radio’s fucked…
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Gorillaz killaz: Damon calls it quits with cartoon band!
The ‘Dirty Harry’-penning products of an excited pencil will release no more proper albums…
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And we didn't even mention Bryan Ferry. Wow.