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We got wasted, we saw REM, we came... to GLASTO! Even the best dreams have to end sometime and Glastonbury is no exception. Five days in a field with fine weather, finer music and copious amounts of liberating side-tracks. From the two Canadian guys balancing on each other’s necks, through the secre»
Scottish-based 70s band, Blue have agreed to a £100,000 legal costs order against them in a dispute with the boy-band of the same name over who owns the name. It follows various PR bungles by new Blue boy Lee Ryan who rejected the significance of the 9/11 atacks as being less important than 'whal»
The Boxer Rebellion are last minute additions to Glastonbury 2003’s line up. They will play the New Bands Tent on Friday afternoon. The group won their place through an online competition. The London based fourpiece – vocalist, Nathan Nicholson (pictured), guitarist Todd Howe, bass player Adam Harrison and»
It’s Glastonbury time again, and whilst we all froth at the mouth at the prospect of five days of whacked-out, solstice bliss in the Somerset countryside, we should remember the wider implications of the festival. Throughout the eighties Glasto was known as the CND (Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament) »
The first of our two-part survival guide for festival first-timers. Festival prices may be going up, but the age of the average festival goers is going down faster than coked-up soap stars off balconies. Email me valid points you feel may be of interest in the next instalment. IF YOU DON’T HAVE A »
126,230,400 Seconds To Go (Four Years)! Jason Phillips, Executive Producer of So Solid Crew, is the second member to be jailed for gun crime, following Asher D last year. ‘G-Man’ was banged up for possessing a loaded weapon after his ME9 handgun containing seven rounds was found after a polic»
SERVE THE PUBLIC TRUST, UPHOLD THE LAW, ETC. Having slaughtered loads of innocent people in Iraq, the US now wants to kill your computer to teach you a lesson for downloading copyrighted material. Republican, Senator Orrin Hatch said damaging computers "may be the only way you can teach som»
No one wanted to go, so they cancelled the opening night and blamed it on the venue. The opening night of the resurrected Lollapalooza rock festival in Ionia, Michigan was cancelled because of 'problems with the size of headliner Jane's Addiction's stage.' A PR for the fest said it was "due»
Sony has joined EMI, Universal, Warners and BMG by joining OD2, a legal online download service founded by Peter Gabriel. The company, founded by singer Peter Gabriel, allows customers to stream, download and "burn" tracks in return for a fixed monthly subscription fee. You'll be able to get over 7»
It’s a drunken punch-up at a festival. Help The Boxers play Glasto! With Radiohead, REM and Sigur Ros, Glastonbury has a pretty storming line-up this year. YOU can help make it even better by clicking here and »
Twisted rowock. Taking every rock cliché known to man and knocking them into shape for our twisted generation, Span could saw off both your arms at a hundred paces with a tiny flick of their guitars. An amiable glammy armageddon of early-Aerosmith and AC/DC, ‘Found’»
Re-issue, repackage, satiate the need, etc. People sometimes forget that The Beatles weren’t the only band of the sixties. From the rowdy drug-referencing R&B of ‘Small Faces’ and ‘From The Beginning’ to the magical, psychedelic, cockney-pop of ‘Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake’, in the space»
Er, yeah, he’s been released from hospital. In the continuingly strange promotional campaign for their new album, singer Chester 'DON'T LAUGH AT MY NAME!' Bennington ‘had multiple tests including an MRI, but doctors had trouble diagnosing his symptoms’. Unofficial reports suggest it w»
Championed by The North’s ugliest ever band, The Music, Nylon Pylon thankfully look nothing like the Leeds fourpiece. They might have wanted to nab some of their urgency and inventive creativity though; because where The Music’s Zepped-up psychedelia is a fervent storm of post-Happy Mondays disco r»
Proving it’s not all bacon and leggy blondes, Denmark’s latest export is the indie-symphonist four piece, Mew. This re-release of last September’s ‘Am I Wry? No’ could well be a money saving major label venture to re-use all the unsold products and con early fans. (Am I Wry? Possibly.) But even if it is, »
Much like the 2000 US presidential elections decided by the courts; the perception of Radiohead as having been ‘stolen’ from all that made them so important still lingers. The cold, hallucinogenic deconstruction of their superstardom by strippi»
Don’t all cry at once but there'll be no London Fleadh Festival this year. The annual celebration of Irish tinged music from around the world has recently been held in Finsbury Park around the same time as other events taking place there. However, it has been cancelled this year because the organise»
Chester from pop group Linkin Park has been hospitalised with a stomach ache. After several years playing shows with facial signs of intense constipation, the band’s frontman has finally cracked, forcing the multi-platinum metallers to cancel a bunch of festival dates. Don’t worry, they don’t affect »
Radiohead, Beastie Boys, Beck, Blur and Gemma Hayes have ‘reconfirmed’ to play the New York Field Day Festival which will now be just a one day event at the New York Giants Stadium. Originally scheduled for this Saturday and Sunday in Calverton, N.Y., a new venue was found in a last-ditch attempt to save t»
If You Tolerate This, Wembley Will Be Next After 14 years serving London’s music and ice-hockey community, the London Arena in Docklands' Crossharbour will close its doors ready to be turned into riverside ‘affordable’ accommodation. In recent years, it has played host to many world-changing acts, in»
While hell hath no fury like a disenchanted teenager, we have no better all action rawk band than Kinesis; who, it would seem, are still angry. Giving the country a reason to hold off bulldozers on their home town for the last eighteen months, Bolton's biggest Waterstones customers (mainly the American politics»
Australian Bands Are Shit.
Just like Britain, Oz should have realised that giving shit to people isn’t gonna do them any good. Best sit there, shut up and suck the merry cock of American rock instead.
With that in mind, even a Biffy Clyro fan could complete the equation:
‘Australian Band +»
Baseball caps at the ready...
With the confirmation that Leeds has a license and will be moved to a new field after all the toilet burning and ultraviolence of last year, a few more bands have been added to the bill. File under 'not exactly Bowie at Glastonbury'.
Main Stage
One of the many highlights, from last weekend’s Homelands Festival, 2 Many DJs, AKA Soulwax brothers Stephen and David Dewaele, will be playing this Thursday in east London. The duo will DJ at Our Disco, at Rhythm Factory, 16 - 18 Whitechapel Road, London, E1 (nearest tube Wh»
Are you sexy enough to take your skin off in public? Are you over 18, and a member of either sex? If yes, then you may wish to venture along to ExCel, London, E16 this coming Saturday at 10am for open auditions for 'Something Beautiful'; the next Robbie Williams music video. It'»
DiS-scribetographer Andrew Future ventures into the Radiohead photopit at the second Shepherd's Bush show to snap and stare. But something happens. This is not a review. Ignore the tin. Don’t give me any of that message board crap about lack of focus or writing selfishly in the first person, et»
Enon make strangely beautiful alternative electro pop music. Underpinned by a brushy, hypnotic electronic beat and spooky synthed pellets of sound, Toko Yasuda’s vocals smooth a circling, neon massage over the simple droplets of bass in ‘In This City’, whilst the other songs on this limited EP a»
SMIRNOFF Experience will be hosting the main arena at this year's Coloursfest which takes place on Bank Holiday Sunday 25th May. The arena fuses live acts Dirty Vegas, Futureshock and Push with DJ sets of the highest order from Carl Cox, Paul van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, Sonique, Sister Bli»
For those of you who don’t want to go and see David Gray at V, over the same weekend, check out the BEAUTIFUL DAYS Music & Arts Festival.. The event will take place (Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 August) at Escot Park, near Fairmile. It’s an alternative folk roots and reggae festival, with the stunning natura»
When people refer to music as 'organic', they normally do so because it’s tuneless, noisy dirge that can’t be described as anything else. With The Boxer Rebellion it couldn’t be further from the case. As a band, they have evolved from an acoustic duo to a fully fledged rock ‘n’ roll four-piece and their tunes si»
