DiS meets Frank Turner: "I try not to wander through life with an extremely high opinion of myself"
Since his emergence with 2013's Tape Deck Heart, Frank Turner has been essentially two very different versions of himself...»
Articles
LukeBeardsworth has written the following articles:
Guy Garvey - Courting the Squall
This is the best album Garvey has worked on since The Seldom Seen Kid»
The Twilight Sad - Òran Mór Session
An excuse to revisit an album if you already love»
Evil Blizzard - Everybody Come to Church
It doesn’t take itself too seriously»
The Dead Weather - Dodge and Burn
the best Dead Weather record to date as well as standing up very well next to any of the work White has ever created»
Duran Duran - Paper Gods
They’ve not quite spunked all their creativity up the wall»
V Festival 2015: the DiS review
Oh V Festival. What a truly unfortunate reputation you seem to have.»
The Fratellis - Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied
The bright moments on this album will probably go sadly unrecognised due to the beige that surrounds them»
Kendal Calling 2015: the DiS review
Another special year at Kendal Calling»
Don Broco - Automatic
Automatic feels like a step back for a band that was never making huge leaps to begin with.»
Six things we can't wait to do at Kendal Calling's tenth anniversary
Kendal Calling doesn’t attract the coverage that goes the way of the other boutique festivals»
Ducktails - St Catherine
This is comfortably the best effort from Matt Mondanile to date»
NOS Alive 2015: the DiS review
Still brilliant in all the ways it has always been»
Lee Bannon - Pattern of Excel
Depends on your determination to reward the very obvious talent and creativity of Lee Bannon with your time»
Roisin Murphy - Hairless Toys
An album to obsess over on sleepless nights.»
To Kill a King - To Kill a King
This band will not change your life.»
Rae Morris - Unguarded
The wait for Unguarded has been worth it.»
Enter Shikari - The Mindsweep
The Mindsweep is Enter Shikari at their most inspirational and consistent and as a result, their best record yet.»
Kate Tempest - Everybody Down
Maybe Tempest needs to be more focused on one particular path to keep her from being a jack-of-all-trades but master-of-only-some.»
DiS does Kendal Calling 2014
Nestled in the Lake District, Kendal Calling is one of the most gorgeous festivals in what is a flooded market.»
Dan Wilson - Love Without Fear
Love Without Fear doesn’t bring anything new to the table and indeed, doesn’t even try to.»
DiS meets Simon Felice: "I’m just walking the paths of my heroes really"
It’s been a long journey for Simone Felice to get to the point of releasing Strangers, his second solo album...»
Foster the People - Supermodel
Foster the People have created a dark, introspective, yet thoroughly catchy record that proves they deserve the success that they’ve created for themselves with ‘Pumped Up Kicks’.»
Metronomy - Love Letters
There’s a nagging feeling that those derivative misses aren't so much accidental misfires as born out of a writer keen to remain free of the pressures of success.»
Milagres - Violent Light
An album which is always solid but rarely spectacular.»