Double dose of DiS for Nottingham
On Saturday 30th September, DiS will be making its debut at the newly-established Rose Of England where we're bringing you four of the best up-and-coming bands from our part of the world...»
Articles
domgourlay has written the following articles:
Last Gang, The View at Leicester Charlotte, Mon 18 Sep
"The View are on fire! The View are on fire!" scream 50 or so kids - mostly teenage girls barely old enough to drink - from the front of the stage. Halfway through the set, after yet another sub-Lurkers second-division punk splurge, the thought of watching the four Scots go up in flames seems a more entertaining prospect than anything emanating from the speakers...»
Fury Of The Headteachers - Farewell Comrade
'Farewell Comrade' sounds like it was recorded on one of those can't be arsed days between the climax of spring and the onset of summer...»
The Pleasure - The Pleasure
At this moment in time, listening to The Pleasure fills me with anything but...»
Sound Team - Born To Please
'Born To Please' is a layered, semi-melancholic affair awash with bursts of feedback and almost apologetic vocals from Matt Oliver that recall the heady days of Buffalo Tom and Built To Spill...»
The Tamborines - Sally O'Gannon
Who's 'Sally O'Gannon' I hear you ask? Beats me, but if she has a sister that can inspire anything as dizzyingly beautiful as this then she can come round mine for tea anytime...»
Ima Robot - Monument To The Masses
Ima Robot don't exactly hide their intentions with the name they've christened themselves with...»
Greenhaus - You're Not Alone
Cast your mind back to the summer of 1998, and the sinsemilla-flavoured scent of 'trip-hop' was floating through the air like a honeysuckle in bloom, casting aside any lingering stains of Britpop for the rest of the decade...»
Bromheads Jacket - Trip To The Golden Arches
Standing out like a sore thumb amongst Sheffield's current Arctic Monkeys fascinated rabble of musicians are Bromheads Jacket, who aren't actually from the city of steel at all, as it happens...»
Embrace - Target
Cheers, postie. Not for the first time this year you've failed to make my day. Grrrr...»
Touriste - Battle On
'Battle On' is what Athlete would have become if they'd continued down the Beta Band road to experimental subversiveness rather than hibernated underneath dad's carpet slippers...»
British Sea Power, iLiKETRAiNS at Leicester The Musician, Mon 04 Sep
The new material - or at least the five songs aired here this evening - is in many ways a bit of a departure from what we've come to expect from British Sea Power...»
KEITH, Seretone at Nottingham Bodega Social Club, Thu 31 Aug
If anything, probably the only real criticism here is that KEITH's eclectism sometimes overpowers the actual quality of the songs...»
Tapes 'n Tapes - Cowbell
If The Spinto Band are the second coming of the first phase of REM, then 'Cowbell' makes Tapes'n Tapes sound like a rejuvenated, less pompous Violent Femmes...»
Good Shoes - All In My Head
Having split the masses 50/50 - championed as 2006's great white hope by some, dismissed as the Morden Strokes by others - Good Shoes actually manage to confuse and complicate things even further on 'All In My Head'...»
Phoenix - Consolation Prizes
'Consolation Prizes' will more than likely end up being just that, as it lies in wait for some lucky punter to rescue it from the pits of bargain bucket hell...»
Richard Hawley - Hotel Room
'Hotel Room' is like a reworking of Patsy Cline's 'Tears On My Pillow' if it were set in a back street brothel in Eccleshall...»
New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream
With the onus at every indie club being to dance your ass off like it was 1989, it comes as little surprise that New Young Pony Club sound like an amalgam of Flashdance-style synchronised hip-hop beats merged with the soulful wordplay of a latter day Tom Tom Club...»
Shimura Curves, Tim Ten Yen - Brainlove Records 7" Singles Club No. 2
On first impressions, Shimura Curves look like The Pipettes' older and infinitely wiser sisters, yet musically they couldn't be any further apart if they tried...»
Assembly Now - It's Magnetic / Out On 24s
'It's Magnetic' sounds like Bloc Party covering the best bits of Idlewild's Captain (i.e. all of it)...»
My Morning Jacket, Richard Swift at Nottingham The Rescue Rooms, Tue 22 Aug
My Morning Jacket are one of those strange anomalies whose efforts on record have often left me bewildered, bemused and slightly bored...»
God Is An Astronaut - A Moment Of Stillness EP
Irish three-piece God Is An Astronaut, fresh from the scenic hills of Wicklow, manage to conjure up something of a dilemma for all of their contemporaries here...»
Arctic Monkeys - Leave Before The Lights Come On
Well, I suppose it had to happen at some time. With the ink still not dry from all the superlatives thrown at their Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not long-player, the only route was always going to be downhill from that point on...»
The Sound - Dutch Radio Recordings
While The Bunnymen and their Liverpudlian comrades crossed swords with Joy Division's dour Mancunian epistles, The Sound seemed to be the most likely of all to break through into mainstream territory...»
The Electric Cinema - Heat Exchange
'Heat Exchange' starts off like a backward masked re-write of 10cc's 'I'm Not In Love' before erupting into the mass campfire sing-along that is the chorus...»
The Close-Ups - 2am In Flat 3b
The Close-Ups might be a 21st Century creation but they inhabit a parallel universe to that of one time Talulah Gosh and Heavenly chanteuse Amelia Fletcher...»
Dirty Little Faces - Piccadilly
Peterborough isn't exactly the most lively place on earth...»
The Telescopes - Night Terrors EP
Scary, brutal, and definitely not to be listened to alone...»
Ali Love - K Hole
Subbed, ok. Out 31 July - MD
I suppose when all's said done everyone's been there before, so here's the three-minute diary entry minus the smudged ink blots and dried blood stains...»
The Holloways, Dirty Tux at Nottingham Bodega Social Club, Wed 26 Jul
Why is it that so much of what is meant to be the 'best in new music' (copyright Radio 1) has such a dry stench of deja vu about it that you can almost taste the stale bread and cheese left in the pantry from 2002...»