- Features: * Win a Rock n Roll Weekender to Jack Daniel’s Birthday JD Set in Tennessee
- Features: * Reading/Leeds: Day Three report
- Features: * Reading & Leeds 2008: all of our content compiled
- Features: * In Photos: Foals at Reading Festival
- Features: * Homefires at Field Day 2008
- Features: * Green Man 2008: DiS's festival highs (and lows)
- Features: * Reading/Leeds: what our writers thought
- Features: * Reading/Leeds: what the photographers snapped
- Features: * In Photos: Crystal Castles at Reading and Leeds
- Features: * Reading/Leeds: Day Two report
- Features: * Reading/Leeds: Day One Report
- Features: * Preview: Reading & Leeds 2008
- Features: * Field Day 2008: DiS's highlights
- Features: * Storas Festival 2008: the DiS review
- Features: * Summer Sundae Weekender: DiS's highlights
- * The Spinto Band @ Cambridge The Soul Tree, 8/09
- * Gemma Hayes @ London Union Chapel, 8/09
- * American Music Club @ Bristol Thekla Social, 9/09
- * Glasvegas @ Glasgow Barfly, 9/09
- * To The Bones @ London Notting Hill Arts Club, 10/09
- * Katy Perry @ London Monto Water Rats, 10/09
- * Crystal Castles @ Bristol Thekla Social, 10/09
- * Mark Kozelek @ Brighton Audio, 10/09
- * Bon Iver @ London Shepherds Bush Empire, 11/09
- * American Music Club @ London Bush Hall, 11/09
- * Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin @ London Borderline, 11/09
- * Plans and Apologies, Jeffrey Lewis, The Atoms @ Derby The Royal, 12/09
- * Guided Missile @ London Buffalo Bar, 13/09
- * Videocrash @ London Koko, 13/09
- * Jeffrey Lewis @ Sheffield Plug, 13/09
Fightstar
- Alex Westaway - vocals, guitar
- Charlie Simpson - vocals, guitar
- Dan Haigh - bass
- Omar Abidi - drums
Upcoming events
- Wed 28 Jan at Nottingham Rock City with Coheed and Cambria, Circa Survive, Madina Lake
- Sat 07 Feb at Birmingham Academy with Coheed and Cambria, Circa Survive, Madina Lake
Releases
- Alternate Endings - album, out 11/08/2008 on Institute. (post review)
- Floods - single, out 03/03/2008 on Institute. (post review)
- Deathcar - single, out 03/12/2007 on Institute. 1 review (read/post)
- One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours - album, out 24/09/2007 on Institute. (post review)
- We Apologise For Nothing - single, out 17/09/2007 on Institute. 1 review (read/post)
- We Apologise For Nothing - single, out 10/09/2007 on Gut Records. (post review)
- Kerrang: New Breed - album, out 16/10/2006 on Gut Records. (post review)
- Grand Unification - album, out 13/03/2006 on Island. 1 review (read/post)
- Grand Unification Part 1 - single, out 31/10/2005 on Universal Music. 1 review (read/post)
Past events
- Sat 09 Aug at Wolverhampton Civic Hall. (post review)
- Fri 08 Feb at London Brixton Academy. (post review)
- Tue 05 Feb at Newcastle upon Tyne Academy. (post review)
- Sun 03 Feb at Leeds Leeds University Stylus. (post review)
- Fri 01 Feb at Manchester University. (post review)
- Thu 31 Jan at Norwich UEA. (post review)
- Wed 30 Jan at Cardiff University. (post review)
- Sun 27 Jan at Bristol Academy. (post review)
- Sat 26 Jan at Southampton Guildhall. (post review)
- Wed 23 Jan at Belfast Mandela Hall at Belfast University. (post review)
- Tue 16 Oct at London Koko. (post review)
- Mon 15 Oct at Oxford Academy. (post review)
- Sat 13 Oct at Brighton Concorde 2. (post review)
- Fri 12 Oct at Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms. (post review)
- Wed 10 Oct at Newport TJs. (post review)
- Tue 09 Oct at Manchester Academy 3 (formerly Hop & Grape). (post review)
- Mon 08 Oct at Sheffield Leadmill. (post review)
- Sat 06 Oct at Birmingham Irish Centre. (post review)
- Fri 05 Oct at Liverpool Carling Academy 2. (post review)
- Wed 03 Oct at Dundee Fat Sam's. (post review)
- Tue 02 Oct at Aberdeen Moshulu. (post review)
- Mon 01 Oct at Edinburgh Liquid Rooms. (post review)
- Sun 30 Sep at Newcastle upon Tyne Academy 2. (post review)
- Thu 16 Aug at London King's Cross Scala. (post review)
- Wed 15 Aug at Nottingham The Rescue Rooms. (post review)
- Mon 13 Aug at Glasgow ABC. (post review)
- Sun 12 Aug at York Fibbers. (post review)
- Sat 11 Aug at Stoke-on-Trent Sugarmill. (post review)
- Wed 15 Nov at Cardiff The Point. (post review)
- Mon 13 Nov at London Camden Underworld. (post review)
- Thu 19 Oct at Birmingham Academy. (post review)
- Wed 18 Oct at Cambridge Corn Exchange. (post review)
- Tue 17 Oct at Cardiff University. (post review)
- Mon 16 Oct at Portsmouth Pyramid Centre. (post review)
- Sat 14 Oct at Nottingham Rock City. (post review)
- Fri 13 Oct at London Hammersmith Palais. 1 review (read/post)
- Thu 12 Oct at Sheffield Leadmill. (post review)
- Wed 11 Oct at Manchester Academy. (post review)
- Mon 09 Oct at Newcastle upon Tyne Northumbria University. (post review)
- Sun 08 Oct at Glasgow Barrowlands. (post review)
- Fri 06 Oct at Belfast Spring & Airbrake. (post review)
- Thu 05 Oct at Derry Nerve Centre. (post review)
- Wed 04 Oct at Dublin Temple Bar Music Centre. (post review)
- Reading Festival 2006: Friday, Fri 25 Aug at Reading Little John's Farm. 1 review (read/post)
- Download Festival - GNR day, Sun 11 Jun at Castle Donington Park. (post review)
- Wed 22 Mar at London Astoria. (post review)
- Mon 02 May at London Alexandra Palace. 1 review (read/post)
- Wed 03 Nov at London Camden Underworld. 1 review (read/post)
News
- 10/12/2007: Chart round-up: the dark lord ascends
- 21/11/2007: Fightstar to pioneer new single format
- 23/05/2007: Fightstar tour around their 'Flood'
- 29/09/2006: Fightstar's Simpson: "Singles are pretty irrelevant"
- 08/03/2006: Light's alive: Brigade announce album details
- 01/03/2006: WIN: Fightstar albums. Seriously...
- 04/11/2005: Bourne still milking the Busted angles
- 29/09/2005: Busted for good: ex-member Bourne gets bitchy
- 08/09/2005: Takin' the Fight' on the road
- 02/02/2005: F4AF to headline Give It A Name Fest
Features
- 06/07/2007: Raz on The Raz @ Download
- 21/12/2006: DiS's interviews of 2006: DiScoveries, heavy-hitters and silly Some Questions
- 22/09/2006: Some Questions: Fightstar
- 17/04/2006: Brigade vs Fightstar
- 23/03/2006: Hearts on sleeves, please: Hundred Reasons and Fightstar albums assessed
- 13/06/2005: "If people come to our show and throw shit at us, they've still paid to get in!"
- 14/01/2005: Wake up: A Busted tribute
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