The Garden Festival 2009 - The DiS Review
With Garden Festival, held in the grounds of a hotel in the Croatian holiday village of Petrcane, it’s the location that is everything. »
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Preview: The Garden Festival 2009, Petrcane, Croatia.
Since its inception in 2006, The Garden Festival, held in the Croatian fishing village of Petrcane, has gathered a reputation for being an intimate and family-friendly music event. Its location on a beach in the Adriatic has also enhanced this rep, giving festival patrons the chance of waking up with crystal-blue waters lapping their feet rather than some gurning pillhead chewing at their toes on some muddy old airfield. »
Calm down... Liverpool Music Week kicks off
This week, the winter’s biggest music festival kicks off in Liverpool...»
Beat Herder 2008: the DiS review
The third edition of the annual Beat Herder festival plants 4,500 revellers in the hills of the Ribble Valley and invites them to rave 'til dawn»
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
With Flying Lotus Warp have struck gold. Los Angeles is a nice, juicy slice of innovative and addictive electronic hip-hop»
Crystal Castles, Hadouken!, Does It Offend You Yeah? at Carling Academy, Liverpool, Tue 27 May
As they have a tendency to do, the nation’s youth, influenced by the media and adolescence, have a new tribe»
The Fratellis, The Ting Tings, Alphabeat at Liverpool Carling Academy, Tue 29 Apr
Tonight at the Carling Academy, we're stepping back, back in time. As this cavernous black box spins back through the musical universe, like a sweaty TARDIS with more expensive beer, we appear to have landed next to a Top of the Pops stage circa 1989»
Blood Red Shoes at Liverpool Barfly, Sun 13 Apr
As they end on ‘ADHD’ we still shake to Blood Red Shoes' dynamic power, but the question is will they survive bigger, scarier black boxes? Will these fragile animals with sharp spines lose their teeth or their innocence»
Liverpool's modern music scene: the class of 2008 (pt 2)
DiS continues its exploration into the current musical climate in this year’s European City of Culture, Liverpool, calling on the opinions of SSS and returning to some of Part One's contributors including The Wombats»
Clinic, Hot Club de Paris at Liverpool The Bluecoat, Wed 02 Apr
Clinic remain one of the most critically-acclaimed bands to come out of Liverpool, having received a Grammy nomination, played Radiohead and Arcade Fire. But the four-piece are little known at home»
Gay Against You, aPatT, The Stig Noise Soundsystem at Mello Mello, Liverpool, Merseyside, Fri 28 Mar
A semi-abandoned café, bring your own booze, donation entry, crusties, arties, old men with harps: THIS IS THE UNDERGROUND MUTHAF*CKERS, and Gay Against You are right at home»
The Bug, Jah Wobble, Shackleton at Liverpool Leaf Cafe, Fri 07 Mar
Over the last few years, The Hive Collective have been absolute champions in Liverpool of music that’s a little bit more off-kilter and experimental. This show is part one of four of ‘Twilight City’, a programme for Liverpool’s 2008 European Capital of Culture celebrations»
Liverpool's modern music scene: the class of 2008
Liverpool is home to the largest number of number-one artists in the world, and that's a Guinness Book fact. DiS looks at the city - the European City of Culture - and its scene, taking in everything from The Wombats to a.P.A.t.T.»
Mudboy - Hungry Ghosts! These Songs Are Doors
Hungry Ghosts! These Songs Are Doors! is a record that, at its best, slowly crawls inside your head and lends a sense of otherworldliness. It is a beautiful object obviously crafted with care... perhaps too much care»
The Problem of Knowledge
The Problem of Knowledge is a quality album rather than an outstanding one, but it is still a record that really does seem worth investing in for great songs that stand up to repeated listens»
Flying Lotus at Liverpool Korova, Sun 11 Nov
Only in Liverpool could one of Warp Records’ hottest signings be playing in a bar where half the customers are only here for a Sunday evening drink»
This Aint Vegas, School of Language, Elle S'appelle at Korova, Liverpool, Merseyside, Mon 05 Nov
This Aint Vegas have been around some time, and perhaps that's a bad sign: they’ve been touting this sound for a while and, despite its high points, they seem to be taking it nowhere»