- Features: * Vote for DiS and for your alternative Mercury prize winner
- Reviews: * Cats In Paris - Courtcase 2000
- Features: * Mixtape #14: The Walkmen
- Features: * A Month in Records: August 2008
- Features: * Half a week with The Hidden Cameras
- Reviews: * Nightmares on Wax - Thought So...
- Features: * The Weekly DiScussion: what's on your Summer '08 megamix?
- Reviews: * YACHT at London ICA, Thu 28 Aug
- Features: * Photo Diary: The National's Green Man snaps
- Features: * FAQs: Can I intern for DiS? Can I write for DiS? (Part 1)
- Features: * Win a Rock n Roll Weekender to Jack Daniel’s Birthday JD Set in Tennessee
- Features: * The Music: "We will not be away as long this time"
- Reviews: * Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band at London Camden Electric Ballroom, Wed 27 Aug
- Features: * Reading/Leeds: Day Three report
- Reviews: * The Gutter Twins at Sheffield Leadmill, Wed 27 Aug
- * The Spinto Band @ Cambridge The Soul Tree, 8/09
- * Gemma Hayes @ London Union Chapel, 8/09
- * American Music Club @ Bristol Thekla Social, 9/09
- * Glasvegas @ Glasgow Barfly, 9/09
- * To The Bones @ London Notting Hill Arts Club, 10/09
- * Katy Perry @ London Monto Water Rats, 10/09
- * Crystal Castles @ Bristol Thekla Social, 10/09
- * Mark Kozelek @ Brighton Audio, 10/09
- * Bon Iver @ London Shepherds Bush Empire, 11/09
- * American Music Club @ London Bush Hall, 11/09
- * Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin @ London Borderline, 11/09
- * Plans and Apologies, Jeffrey Lewis, The Atoms @ Derby The Royal, 12/09
- * Guided Missile @ London Buffalo Bar, 13/09
- * Videocrash @ London Koko, 13/09
- * Jeffrey Lewis @ Sheffield Plug, 13/09
The Portland Arms
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Address: 129 Chesterton Road
(map)
Phone: 01223 262775
The back room at The Portland is basically a sitting room without the sofas etc. with a stage. All very homely, and good sound now they've updated the PA.
Upcoming events
- 08/09/2008 - Lach
- 09/09/2008 - The Anomalies
- 10/09/2008 - Hey Colossus, Ripping Yarns
- 11/09/2008 - Eileen Rose
- 15/09/2008 - Modey Lemon
- 15/09/2008 - Modey Lemon
- 24/09/2008 - Sennen
- 28/09/2008 - The Puncture Repair Kit, Brontosaurus Chorus, The Last Dinosaur
- 29/09/2008 - Rolo Tomassi
- 29/09/2008 - Rolo Tomassi
- 30/09/2008 - Thomas Tantrum
- 30/09/2008 - Thomas Tantrum
- 01/10/2008 - The Chapman Family
- 05/10/2008 - Hot Club de Paris
- 05/10/2008 - Elle Milano, Hot Club de Paris, The Tupolev Ghost
- 09/10/2008 - Esser
- 09/10/2008 - Esser
- 10/10/2008 - The Vessels
- 10/10/2008 - Line of Best Fit zine night, featuring Vessels, Victoria and Jacob, The Last Dinosaur
- 11/10/2008 - Stevie Nicks Launch Party, featuring The Resistance, Fuck Dress, Holy Roller
- 14/10/2008 - Das Wanderlust
- 21/10/2008 - Rosalita, Officer Kicks
- 29/10/2008 - Lords
- 05/11/2008 - Guy Fawkes Party, featuring The Research, The Puncture Repair Kit, Betty & The Werewolves
- 07/11/2008 - Martin Stephenson
- 08/11/2008 - The Winchell Riots
- 10/11/2008 - Youthmovies, Adam Gnade, The Tupolev Ghost
- 26/11/2008 - Fuzzy Lights
Reviewed events
- 23/04/2005 - One Unique Signal
- 10/03/2005 - The Violets, The Vichy Government, The Resistance
- 02/04/2004 - Loophole, Beats Capri
- 22/02/2004 - The Dawn Parade
- 29/01/2004 - Eleaven, Diamorphine, Mark Hammond
- 18/09/2003 - The Milwaukees, Right Turn Clyde, Shortcut To Newark
- 15/08/2002 - Rosco, The WhiteTRASH, The Blo' Boys, Opposite the Hotel
- News: * iLiKETRAiNS: Lose member but tour in December
- News: * Glasto 2009: Tickets on sale soon
- News: * The Walkmen: UK've got a tour
- News: * Kurt alert: Courtney signalled 'end of era' for Nirvana
- News: * Sky Larkin sign to Wichita; play September DiS Rota show
- News: * More acts line-up for Nail The Cross
- News: * Deerhunter? Free, actually: DiS favourites play in-store
- News: * It's only rock and roll but I'll buy it: rare Bowie recording (and more) for sale
- News: * Ben Folds Five reunite for MySpace
- News: * Pulled Across The UK: Leeds rockers release debut single, hit the road
- News: * iForward, Russia! announce last show... for now?
- News: * Smashing Pumpkins release 'G.L.O.W.' via Guitar Hero
- News: * The end for London venue The End
- News: * Who will manage me now? (Your mum!)
- News: * Peter and the Wolf return to the UK
- Board_threads: * great bands with awful names
- Board_threads: * TV on the Radio new album leaked
- Board_threads: * Top Ten Psychedelic T**trock Thread.
- Board_threads: * Last.fm, fred
- Board_threads: * Is this a good name for a band?
- Board_threads: * OFFICIAL LAST FM THREAD
- Board_threads: * Kings of Leon- Only By The Night
- Board_threads: * For Screening Purposes Only
- Board_threads: * favourite Broken Social Scene song?
- Board_threads: * fans of serena maneesh/brian jonestown/jamc etc..
- Board_threads: * Where does one download music?
- Board_threads: * ra ra riot- the rhumb line
- Board_threads: * what adjectives make you want to listen to a band?
- Board_threads: * Anyone got a status update on Zach Condon?
- Board_threads: * i see deerhoof are playing london
