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The diskant team report back from their fun day out at the Supersonic festival in Birmingham. Headlined by Sunn 0))), Mogwai, Om and Qui with sunshine, cake and films it really was the perfect festival experience. Read more >>
Simon Minter finds out more about The Walk Off from Oxford and their messier, noisier and more downright bizarre take on New Rave. Read more >>
Just back from seeing [a corporate indie band] and oh deary me. Big bus, more crew than band members, laminate passes. And guess what? They were acting like dicks! Ninety minutes for them to soundcheck, zero minutes for the support bands. We’ll have this area here for our merchandise and you’ll have to stay out […]
Just back from seeing [a corporate indie band] and oh deary me. Big bus, more crew than band members, laminate passes. And guess what? They were acting like dicks! Ninety minutes for them to soundcheck, zero minutes for the support bands. We’ll have this area here for our merchandise and you’ll have to stay out […]
Boo, commenting is broke so I can’t add snidey comments to Chris’s post there. I’ll just have to post my own ramblings instead. Got a couple of hours to spare til I have to go catch a plane. so, aye, Gig on the Green. I think the general consensus was that it was pish. Generally […]
Boo, commenting is broke so I can’t add snidey comments to Chris’s post there. I’ll just have to post my own ramblings instead. Got a couple of hours to spare til I have to go catch a plane. so, aye, Gig on the Green. I think the general consensus was that it was pish. Generally […]
Mmm, Gig on the Green freeloading all weekend. Beats shopping…
On Saturday: Offspring sucked while NOFX were surprisingly OK (”Idiot son of an asshole…” hohoho), if pseudo-punk is your thing. Slipknot were a bunch of wusses. Saying “godamn motherfucker” doesn’t scare anyone and there was more moshing going on at …And You Will Know Us By […]
Beats shopping…
On Saturday: Offspring sucked while NOFX were surprisingly OK (”Idiot son of an asshole…” hohoho), if pseudo-punk is your thing. Slipknot were a bunch of wusses. Saying “godamn motherfucker” doesn’t scare anyone and there was more moshing going on at …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead. They win for liberating […]
we went to see filthy sludge fuckers eyehategod the other night. it was quite a good evening all in all, but then it’s hard not to enjoy yourself when surrounded by lots of behemoth looking men going “grraaaaarrggghh” and hitting each other. the highpoint for me was probably the white trash between-song banter; “we hate […]
we went to see filthy sludge fuckers eyehategod the other night. it was quite a good evening all in all, but then it’s hard not to enjoy yourself when surrounded by lots of behemoth looking men going “grraaaaarrggghh” and hitting each other. the highpoint for me was probably the white trash between-song banter; “we hate […]
A few things from me
First Pretty Girls Make Graves stayed at our house last night and were very nice so go see ‘em if you get the chance. They’re doing London and Reading this week.
Secondly the new issue of the diskant ZINE is up. It’s got OXES, Ash, Boyracer and tons of columns so have […]
First Pretty Girls Make Graves stayed at our house last night and were very nice so go see ‘em if you get the chance. They’re doing London and Reading this week.
Finally, I got the new issue of Tasty fanzine in the post. I should snub it like how Sam snubbed our housewarming party but hey […]
