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the manics played the CIA not long ago, that's a pretty small arena... newport centre is probably more than half the size of that place.

either way, knowing newport it'll probably be full of cunts.

A) Super Furry Animals

don't like the album much, but if you're going to write a review like this at least make it funny...

i'm impressed by this.

it's not like the $300 version is even a rip off if you're a fan

i'm not, but whatever.

like the radiohead album though, i think it's only possible if you've already got a large and somewhat obsessive fan base.

who's supporting for the tour then?
i'm going to the brighton one, i can't wait, 'return to the sea' has become one of my favourite albums in years.

but has anyone at all on here heard this yet?

will be interesting to see if it's more in the kind of soul direction or back to the older style... i'm sure both will be good, but i'm curious.

that looks ace, I mostly want to see Anti-pop Consortium and Edam though and £30 does seem a little bit steep...

I still don't give a shit about battles really, but De La Soul could be incredible.

i like it because it's just a bit awkward and angry and stuff, and that's always fun, but it isn't really much of a song, and it's probably too long too.

pretty much nothing makes sense here does it?

an unusually brilliant episode of jools holland

i still think it's ace, but i don't like this recording much at all.

I think newfield is pretty over rated as a producer really.

I forgot.

I thought Pavillion was the massive one which was a bit rubbish last time because it was so bright and stuff...

but the idea of portishead playing in the smaller stage upstairs makes me think I'll be spending half the weekend in a queue.

this weekend, but since i haven't seen my family for a couple of months i can't really bring myself to go to this.

i really wish i was, it looks like more or less the best thing to happen in cardiff in years.

that is about right

definitely just tennis on the NES, a pub near my old house used to have an arcade machine loaded with about 50 NES games, it was incredible, tennis was one of them- that's my point.

but whenever i listen to 'citrus' i'm always amazed at how little the guitarist actually seems to be doing at times, not that that's a bad thing, it's just that the big distorted bass seems to take the lead almost all the time, so maybe that's something to do with it.

i really wish i went though, i was going to go along and hope it wasn't sold out, but by the sound of it i made the right choice.

when the message board/ community side of it crosses over with the 'news' section, it just seems a bit wrong.

to be fair, i didn't read much of the thread this article is referencing.

I'd be quite pissed off by this, just another step DiS has taken from being quite an interesting music website towards being a cliquey message board full of in-jokes.

But it's just the internet, so whatever.

no one was a 'paying member', donations were entirely voluntary and gained you no special benefits as far as i know. All these news articles like to make it sound like the guy running it was making a fortune out of it, when i doubt that the donation money was covering any more than the cost of hosting the site.

Even though I suppose I was using oink to download a lot of stuff I never bought, I also used it to download stuff that I went on to buy that I never would've even considered purchasing in the past.

I reckon that unless I find a replacement site the amount of new music I get to listen to will be seriously limited.

I wish I bothered to keep my indietorrents account now, I never really saw the point when you could get everything they had and more on oink.