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Edinburgh to lose The Venue?
Edinburgh looks set to lose one of its most prominent music venues, 1,000-capacity, 25-year-old The Venue. In better news, it looks to gain a new venue of 4,500 capacity!»
Jesus! It's The Broken Family Band
Cambridge's country punks The Broken Family Band release a new mini album, 'Jesus Songs', through Track & Field on Mar 15th.»
Fountains Of Wayne Hit Manchester, Glasgow and London
New Yorkers Fountains of Wayne, aka The Greatest Band In The World, finally come to the UK next month.»
David Brent Single NOT Getting Released
Despite The Sun's campaign, David Brent's (Ricky Gervais) rendition of 'If You Don't Know Me By Now' will not be getting released as a single.»
Bang Bang, It's Dead
Following the death of Careless Talk Costs Lives, there's been another victim of music magazine publishing this month - after only nine months, Future Publishing has closed Bang magazine.»
Introducing Bloc Party
Kids growing up on a diet of ‘OK Computer’ and Smashing Pumpkins, regressing through dark ‘80s British post punk, a desire to constantly change, to be true to their art yet still create what are basically pop songs. “The Rapture are a good band with good songs,” they voluntarily tell DiS, “it’s just a bit scary the way that sort of thing is popular just now..."»
Top Of The Pops Goes To Hell
Just when you thought ‘Top of the Pops’ could get no worse, it just did: a Robbie Williams competition gone wrong, medleys, Andi Peters, and Victoria Beckham. Say hello to the programme's new format! ...if you were put in Andi's shoes, what would you like to see and do instead?»
DiS Xmas Alldayer Announced (Sun Dec 7th)
DiS is having an Xmas alldayer + BBQ (why not, eh?) in south London, rammed full of exciting new bands for 2004... THIS SUNDAY 7th DECEMBER at The Windmill... "The Drowned in Sound folks' Christmas celebration is a leftfield indie rocking bonanza" sayeth The Guardian.»
The Rapture - Sister Saviour
Plinky plonky keys, baggy beats, irritable vocal wailing – we’ve heard all this before, and they were called Happy Mondays.»
The Rocks - Celeste
Third single and a mini mod pop anthem at that.»
My Red Cell - My Red Cell EP
Oooh, anger anger anger. Angry Welsh band alert.»
Ima Robot - Song 1
Ah yes, more of that punk-funk thing, with the emphasis on punk this time.»
Distophia - Soda Lake
Recorded in just 10 hours, this here be seven crafty pop gems hidden under a tsunami of discordance, all bright-tailed and bushy eyed or something like that. Distophia are already way cooler (and better) than Urusei Yatsura ever were, and more ambitious than the incredibly underrated and much-missed Cable.»
"Black Sabbath is about the only thing musically we can agree on"
This year has seen Welsh Rockers Jarcrew tour their arses off, sign a deal allowing them to be fulltime rock’n’roll stars, and continue to hone their skills of mashing up musical styles. DiS thought it was time for a little recap of their story so far, so grabbed their chatty drummer Rod (a former window cleaner, believe it or not) for a few words.
"It was always a childhood ambition of mine to buy a sailor's suit," he admits.»
Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark
Jetplane Landing have just made the album which debut ‘Zero For Conduct’ promised but never quite reached. They have ripped it apart and shat on its rotting corpse.»
Dexys Midnight Runners at London Royal Festival Hall, Mon 10 Nov
It’s highly unlikely Kevin Rowland leads his band in jogging sessions before rehearsals these days. But these aren’t the young soul rebels anymore; Dexys Midnight Runners have changed with the times yet again. And fortunately tonight, Lucy Morgan is the only one onstage wearing a dress...»
Goldblade Hit the Road
Goldblade, who recently re-released their album 'Do You Believe in the Power of Rock 'n' Roll', take their brand of Mancunian punk'n'roll on a mini tour month.»
Ozzy Reschedules (Biffy Clyro Support and Tour Too)
Ozzy Osbourne's postponed tour has been rescheduled for the end of Feb. Unfortunately the Newcastle and Glasgow dates have been cancelled.»
New World Disorder: Minus One
All-girl Chinese punk band Hang On The Box have had to pull out of their UK tour, due to being refused visas to travel.»
Amityville get Leckie
Unsigned Anglo/Scots Amityville - described elsewhere in these pages as "incendiary" - have been asked to record tracks with producer John Leckie.»
The Toilet Circuit Diaries #3: All Hail the Four Guitars!
DiS joins The Rakes' fanclub, and watches Cat On Form rip the Garage a new hole, whilst frequenting all the not-so-good small gigs in London, so you don't have to.»
Degrassi - The Form
It must be hard being Degrassi. Consistently tipped to be on the verge of breakthrough, they probably thought the introduction of Bob Fairfoull on guitar was the best thing to happen to them in a long time. Unfortunately, this backfired, and publicity for the band ever since has deemed them “Bob from Idlewild’s new band”.»
Karmakops to Support Much Larger yet Inferior Band
Wee band in big gig shocker.»
Cablecar - Wasting Time
Proving the less-is-more theory, it’s like the lo-fi Coldplay.»
Jane's Addiction: Flashmobbed in Brixton
Last night's Jane's Addiction gig at Brixton Academy was targetted by a 'flashmob'... started by the band's own flamboyant frontman, Perry Farrell.»
Electric Six Scrap Single Plans
Electric Six have scrapped plans to release their cover of Queen's 'Radio Ga Ga' as a single, simply because they don't have time to finish its video in time for the Xmas market.»
DiS Plays Pop (So You Don't Have To)
lmao @ the song omg @ charlie the fitness of the dude! lmao @ u wishin ashley was matt... we all know u do lol! awww luv it when matts under the table! james is looking good in the vid too, wit woo the blue do!»
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Darkness
London indie label Guided Missile is continuing where they, er, started with Diff'rent Strokes...»
Fountains of Wayne: Single Delayed Again
After some false starts, Fountains Of Wayne's almost infamous 'Stacy's Mom' single will finally get a UK release on Feb 9th»