Originally written by TheBoyDeadly · 23 May 2008
It seems we’ve been busier with the camera than we have with the ‘pen’ this week, heading down to Brighton’s Great Escape to film the likes of Futureheads, Cadence Weapon, Telepathe and more somewhere between grey sheets of sky and the pebbles. The fruits of that we’ll bear soon, fingers x’d – for more immediate filmic fare click for photographs from the event in Brighton, Nasty Fest IX in Leeds and DrownedinSound’s UK tour; respectively here, here and here.
More live activity manifests itself in the May return of our treasured DiScover club at Notting Hill Arts Club. Grammatics, Let’s Wrestle and Circuits will be there from 4pm-8pm this Saturday (24 May) and if you’re in the same city so should you. Entry’s free, but you do have to be 18. More details here.
Next Tuesday we’re at Bardens in east London with The Ruby Suns, Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit and on the 8th June we return with Rolo Tomassi and Danananananaykroyd. Live times.
News Tom Waits announced a string of European dates, My Chemical Romance fans were preparing to march through London in protest at the Daily Mail, Nas finally gave in to pressure to rename his new album, Wire announced a new studio album, Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty scared YouTube with newborn mice, Santogold says anyone calling her an R&B artist is racist… Festivals Glastonbury – Amy Winehouse Abandon Ship – Let’s Wrestle, Adem, Munch Munch, Johnny Foreigner, Hot Club de Paris End of the Road – Bon Iver, Richard Hawley, Noah and the Whale, Zombie Zombie Secret Garden Party – Saint Etienne, El Perro del Mar, Lykke Li Summer Sundae – Henry Rollins Reading and Leeds – Henry Rollins, Jeffrey Lewis, Pete and the Pirates, Plain White T’s, Tiger Army Redfest – Patrick Wolf Click here for a week in news…
A Week in Features * Black Mountain on tour: tea, Marmite and more * Dot To Dot 2008: the DiS preview * Prove It All Night: five of the best from Bruce Springsteen * Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip’s (in)complete guide to love * Armed Forces: on the gallows with Islands
Chatter and Opinion * The Weekly DiScussion: Songs About Kicking * The Great Escape 2008: XX Teens' festival diary
New Sound * DiScover: Jonquil * DiScover: This Et Al
Single of the Week * Johnny Flynn – 'Tickle Me Pink' (Vertigo) Click here for our Singles Round-up (19/05/2008)
A Week in Review * The Great Escape 2008: the DiS review * Explosions' ATP: the DiS review * Silver Jews: Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea * The Charlatans: You Cross My Path * Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip: Angles * Battles, Fuck Buttons, Dirty Projectors @ Astoria, London; 14/05/08 * Bon Iver @ The Social, London; 19/05/08 * Mint Ive, A Place to Bury Strangers @ Bodega Social Club, Nottingham; 20/05/08
Drownloads round-up * Festival Special: Stag and Dagger, London Featuring tracks from Munch Munch, Bumblebeez and A-Trak
Message board ‘highlights’ * ATP! ATP! ATP! ATP!...excitement, x4 * find out who my DiS supercrush is!!!...Apparently it isn’t bsoucek. It’s a man * Girls and music...oooh, controversial * who is the most up their own arse pretentious cunt here on dis? cos its full of em...annual awards * New Guy started on Monday. He's Italian. (sitcom centric)...Tugay One Cup - A fly on the wall mockumentary following a Blackburn midfielder's quest for the Premiership trophy.
Over and out, All at Drowned in Sound
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