..DiS rips the UK a new ear hole with some seriously beautiful rock'n'roll-related action, featuring violins and post-velvet underground joy from SEACHANGE (currently being raved about by both Lamacq and Zane). The Koreans (our babies) get out and about amid recording their debut LP, to coincide with their second single on Drowned in Sound Recordings on December 1st. DiS also starts a 'core night featuring the finest noizemongers, headlined by The Murder of.... Plus Xmas party news. Indepth previews for most of these shows appear elsewhere on the site...

SEACHANGE
Tue 25 Nov Cambridge The Boatrace +Lionshare + Dan Williams All Stars
Wed 26 Nov Ipswich Drum & Monkey
Fri 5 Dec Sunderland Bar 36
Sat 6 Dec Bedford Esquires
Thu 11 Dec Bury St Edmunds Planet Beet @ Prior's Inn

THE KOREANS
Weds 19 Nov London Islington Academy w/ Ludes + Future Kings of Spain + My Red Cell
22 Nov Exeter Cavern
28 Nov London The Fortress Studios (Kill All Hippies Xfm night)
6 Dec Bedford Esquires +Seachange

OTHER DiS SHOWS COMING UP!!

Sunday 7th December XMAS ALLDAYER
@ The Windmill, Brixton
FOUR DAY HOMBRE (Elbow-like pop from Yorkshire, winners of Radio1 unsigned earlier this year)
+ CARS AS WEAPONS (Super-post-hardcore from Southend)
+ SENNEN + TAT
+ PLUS MORE TBA

Tuesday 9th December END OF TOUR MADNESS
@ Metro
JETPLANE LANDING (close their 60-date dis tour)
+ JARCREW (best live band in britian. probably)
+ FICKLE PUBLIC (scot pop rock, without the pomp)
...plus aftershow at White Heat @ Infinity.

Tuesday 16th December DiSCORE #1
@ Electrowerkz (just behind Angel tube!)
THE MURDER OF ROSA LUXEMBOURG (art-affected hardcore wizardary. think cat on form colliding with a coach full of spastics)
+ THE BIRDS OF PARADISE (deranged, hardcore joy)
+ SILENT FRONT (hardcore)
+ FACE FOR RADIO (atdi-like, heavily tipped for 2004)
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Wednesday 17th December DiS XMAS PARTY!
@ The Barfly
SPECIAL GUESTS TBC
+ YOUTH MOVIE SOUNDTRACK STRATEGIES (incredible mind-alterating post-prog band. they've been in the face, dontchaknow?)
+ BLOC PARTY (hotly-tipped strokes-like east-enders, in the Face this month!)
+ REAGAN (cooper temple pop kids)
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