DiS Does Reeperbahn Festival 2016
We went to Hamburg to broaden our musical horizons»
Articles
MarcBurrows has written the following articles:
Manic Street Preachers - Send Away the Tigers (10 Year Collectors' Edition)
After Send Away The Tigers the Manics were here to stay»
New Order - Be Music
Manages to simultaneously sound like a New Order best-of featuring songs you’ve somehow never heard, and an excellent oddball dance compilation»
Elbow - Little Fictions
A dose of humanity in inhuman times»
Rose Elinor Dougall - Stellular
Star-shaped indeed»
The Beatles - Live at the Hollywood Bowl
The Beatles’ early success didn’t come from their sonic experimentation or melodic knack, it came because they were a fucking incredible live band.»
David Brent & Foregone Conclusion - Life on the Road
Musical comedy needs to be richer than this to be worth visiting more than once»
DiS Does Indietracks 2016
There simply aren’t any other festivals like this.»
Viola Beach - Viola Beach
Viola Beach is best celebrated for its lightness»
Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
Suddenly Freetown Sound has stopped being just a Very Good Record, and become a vital one»
Review: BST Hyde Park Take That, 09/07/16
Take That’s dream shows no sign of ending»
Anohni - Hopelessness
Anohni’s first real landmark album since 2005’s Mercury-Winning I’m A Bird Now»
John Carpenter - Lost Themes II
These updates often feel clunky and weirdly dated»
ATP Stewart Lee: the DiS review
We loved, we hated and, fucking hell, we moaned»
Johnny Borrell - The Atlantic Culture
Considering Johnny Borrell spent a decade being either boring or ridiculous, The Atlantic Culture stands as an oddly charming, knockabout reminder of his skills»
Tindersticks - The Waiting Room
Their reality is beautifully complex»
Skunk Anansie - Anarchytecture
No lives will be changed, nor hearts broken, but it does what it needs to do satisfyingly well»
Review: Damon Albarn's wonder.land, National Theatre
Equal parts brilliance and disappointment»
Hurricane #1 - Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
The dividing line between solidly constructed everyman rock and being very boring is quite a thin one»
Ryan Adams - 1989
If Adams had written this himself it would be his best album»
An Aural History of John Cooper Clarke
Dr. John Cooper Clarke, the poet for people who don’t like poetry...»
Album by Album with The Bluetones
Marc Burrows sat down with Mark Morriss and Adam Devlin of The Bluetones to discuss their back catalogue...»
In Conversation: The making of 'The Sound of McAlmont and Butler'
On the 20th anniversary of its release, DiS sat down with the pair in Butler's studio...»
Hurts - Surrender
An album with painfully few ideas, way too over reliant on a limited bag of tricks»
Micachu and the Shapes - Good Sad Happy Bad
Outsider pop, certainly, but pop all the same»
The Libertines - Anthems for Doomed Youth
Anthems For Doomed Youth does the job it needs to: confirms the Libertines as a proper band with distance from their messy tabloid past»
Mammoth Penguins - Hide and Seek
Hide and Seek isn’t exactly overburdened with ideas»
Lucy Rose - Work It Out
Really, what’s the point?»
Piney Gir - mR hYDE'S wILD rIDE
A stack of genuinely likeable songs and a knack for melodies that are never less than rock solid»
The Membranes - Dark Matter/Dark Energy
The Membranes make sense again»