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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 >>
Things I can’t shut up about at the moment:
Nintendo DS Lite I have almost pre-ordered one twice now but the Friday launch date and letterbox size/grumpy postmen scenario makes me think getting one delivered is not the best option. If I have to spend the launch weekend knowing my new DS is at my […]
Best. My Bloody Valentine cover version. Ever.
Okay, okay, I never have time write on this thing any more, and reviews get written about once a century with the free time I’m afforded these days. So I figured I’d rip off Joe’s post from last month and cut ‘n’ paste a bunch’f very short synopses about records that have been getting at […]
SonVer (yes that’s how they spell it) are Joanna Quail and Ben McLees. She plays cello, he plays guitar, they both do funny things with computers and they’ve played the Royal Albert Hall, apparently, which is frankly more impressive than anything I’ve ever done. In their publicity picture they look well moody.
This, their debut album, […]
Well, not entirely but I’ve just been doing some of the tedious re-keywording of the entire diskant archives (oh the fun of an Overlord evening) and re-reading our ATP round-ups with much nostalgia. Those truly were “the days”.
Anyway, looks like Barry Hogan has been keeping an eye out as I see we predicted both Sleater-Kinney […]
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Gay Against You know the meaning of entertainment, and fun. Their recent support slot for Lightning Bolt was so entertaining that we barely stopped laughing throughout the duration of their half hour set. COSTUMES OVER CONTENT boasts their Myspace, a slogan worthy of OXES Rowdyism at its best. When we saw them, this involved 80s […]
Sometimes, when you put your faith in the sky, you get shot down. Or, as my friend succinctly put it: “what are you on about, all their amps just broke”.
Magik Markers at the Wheatsheaf, Oxford (6/5/06) ruled so hard (in the words of Barr, they were “beyond ripping”) I had to go see them again…I […]
My friend Phil and I have a joke that always gets delivered when coming out of a record store:
“What’d you buy?”
“Oh (insert names of really good, weird, interesting contemporary records)…
….never gonna listen to them”
It’s true. So much music exists purely as a fetish item, an object divorced from it’s purpose - to be listened to. […]
I’m just home from this gig. My ears aren’t ringing as much as I’d anticipated, but man, my face is sore from grinning.
I nearly saw Lightning Bolt at ATP 2004. Something was clearly happening behind that whipped-up throng. Something loud and interesting, but something I was a bit disconnected with, partly because […]
