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DiS Celebrates Four Years: Come Party!
Four years have blown by and DiS would like to thank everyone for reading, writing, posting, sharing and being involved. Without you folks there is no point to what we do. And what we do (if it wasn’t clear) is all that we can for the music we love. Yeah, our resources are limited, our ideals often flawed but four years ago no-one was doing what we were bloody-mindedly doing.
So in four years we’ve evolved and like cats’n’window-panes, we’ve learnt our lessons. We accept we’re far from perfect. There’s still so much more we could be doing, but things are starting to develop at the moment. We’ve got an office for starters and the editorship of the site has been passed over to Gareth Dobson. Now, 30,000 or so folks log into DiS every month and we’re racking up an impressive over 2million page impressions a month too, because of this, we’re starting see some opportunities wander our way to do more and expand. But that’s just boring stuff because DiS can continue to run on good will forever more. But the key thing for our fifth year will be to have a serious faultless set-up so that every email gets a reply, that our profiles are extensive and up-to-date, that our listings become definitive, recommendations flawless, user area easier to use, that our news is the most on-it music news source on the web and that our abilities to find, champion and introduce new music to the world are unrivalled. We also want to become more visual with more photos and vids. Have even more downloads. Turn our ratings/recommendations system into phase two. And so much more…
The main changes you’ll be seeing over the next few months is DiS being much less UK-centric (and a billion times less London-centric!) and tackling the WORLDWIDE web in the way it can only truly be approached. We not only want to cover the global music scene, but allow music fans around the world to unite. International music scenes are so similar yet so varied and we believe that the internet should be liberating opinionated fans, bands, collectives, promoters, everyone who’s trying to do their bit for the music they love, from all around the globe!
Having said all that, please use the comments board below to leave any of your problems, questions and suggestions for the site.
We’re celebrating four years of Drowned in Sound in the best way possible, with a party and some shows from some of the finest new bands in the country throughout the month of October (formerly known as Rocktober, but we had too many complaints!). Apologies for the London-centricity of this, but it is where a lotta our crew live…
THURS 7th October
@ 93 Feet East
Drowned in Sound & 93Live Present…
Brave New Ideas #8 :: Favourites of In the City 2004
Doors 7:30pm
Tickets: £5 or mail 3poundguestlist@drownedinsound.com
Sofa Club : Londoners, like Turin Brakes writing tunes with Radiohead. thesofaclub.com
Komakino : Derby lads as seen on tour with Hope of the States, rock it like Cooper Temple Clause spazzing out with Idlewild.
komakino.da.ru
The Research : Two girls, one boy, and a decrepit Casio keyboard.from Wakefield. Nods to Hank Williams, Rick Astley, and Fonda500. turtleloverecords.com
FRIDAY 8th October
@ The Marquee, No.1 Leicester Sq
Drowned in Sound & Plum Promotions Present…
DiS 4th Anniversary: Free Party, Marquee Launch Week
Doors: 7:30pm
SPECIAL GUESTS : To be announced on DrownedinSound.com on October 7th.
DO ME BAD THINGS : Quite possibly the most exciting new band in the country right now. They formed on St. Valentines Day 2003. There’s a stage-filling nine members, with eight possible vocalists. Their list of influences is longer than their rehearsal attendance sheet, mixing Queens Of The Stone Age with Rufus Wainwright, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion with Jellyfish, Steely Dan with Monster Magnet, Turbonegro with Randy Newman... ok, you get the point. They release new single 'Time For Deliverance' through Must Destroy Music/Atlantic Records on October 25. This is the band's second single, following up their dis single of the week debut, 'This Song Rides'.
domewebthings.com / mustdestroymusic.com
DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! : So hot right now band from Southampton! We said "Think of a more likeable Coral fused with Joy Division" and Logo said "True music.. dark, beautiful, melodic harmonies... hard to define... an aura of refreshing style... they'll soon be shuffling into the fast lane. How can they not?". Big things beckon…?
deaddeaddead.co.uk
PEACE BURIAL AT SEA : Gordies, like spiritual Stateside cousins …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead or Slint, Peace Burial At Sea exist on the periphery – of sound, of society, of the imagination. The ghost of cocaine Bowie lingers in their paranoid post-cyber punk, art-dub debut opus ’This Is Such A Quiet Town’ (out now on Captains of Industry), as do Spaceman 3, The Aphex Twin, PiL, Mogwai. The overall effect is like 2001: A Space Odyssey as scored by Ian Curtis, or maybe a post-hardcore ‘Ziggy Stardust’ or…or…or…
peaceburialatsea.co.uk / captainsof.com.
+ DJS: Indie Alumni Special Guests, Pryhha Girls, Drowned in Sound +More!
Plus we're partying through 'til the end of the month (apologies again that these are all in London), including:
Tues 12th Oct @ The Garage: thisGIRL + The Blueprint + Engerica + Days of Worth.
Tues 12th Oct @ White Heat, Infinity: Murder of Rosa Luxemburg + Redjetson + Birds of Paradise
Tues 19th Oct @ Water Rats: DiS Djs @ Whyte Seeds single launch + Dustins Bar Mitzvah + Vincent Vincent & The Villians
Now, all we've gotta do is get sponsored by Jack Daniels and it'll be a near perfect/cheaper year.
Words: Sean Adams
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Dis - well done on getting 2 the grand old age of 4!
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Believe me, we have spoken to about 70 bands, but most are on tour, already have london shows or want about £3000. Plus the point of our nights is to be representative of the very best new music around, and not some established hags whom the world knows all about already. Even when we party we're still pushing new music on people :) -
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Congratulations!
If I could cook I would make you a cake.
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"and not some established hags whom the world knows all about already"
Im thinking the only bands which would come to your party are really bad bands with no hope of getting big or even reaching any audience. If you were a web site worth your salt would'nt you get bands that are part of new music but are going to create hype and get big? Could'nt you get a 'duke spirit' or '22-20's', or even a shit band like 'the others'? No, because these bands have better things to do then play around some guy's house for a bunch of no-bodies. -
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We purposelively didn't go for one of those kindsa bands as a) they're do a penny b) they play every other night of the week c) they're pretty much all destined to club back from whence they crawled from when the whole retro'n'rock'n'roll fascade dies or when blues goes back to being something old folks and outsiders 'dig'.
Having said that Do Me Bad Things will be one of the most exciting pop bands of next year... Dead! Dead! Dead! are one of the best new bands in the country and Peace Burial at Sea have made one of the unsung albums of the year. And who knows, maybe our headliner will surprise a few folks... -
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Leicester Square is not some guys house mate. Also, would you call Biffy Clyro & McLusky really bad bands? Thought not. Lastly, if you want to listen to NME plugged bands, go to an NME club night. -
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...here be some ///komaKINO mp3's...just demo's, like...
http://www.iblamethecannabis.com/~hopeofthestates/Komakinoxxxx/Komakino%20-%20RedstarUFO.mp3
http://www.iblamethecannabis.com/~hopeofthestates/Komakinoxxxx/Komakino-%20Initial%20AB.mp3
http://www.iblamethecannabis.com/~hopeofthestates/Komakinoxxxx/assassin.mp3
http://www.iblamethecannabis.com/~hopeofthestates/Komakinoxxxx/Komakino%20-%20Sick%20To%20Death%20Disco.mp3
love r xx
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Well, happy birthday my friends!
You're doing a great job, and the site is getting better all the time. Thank you :) -
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Really, fella...
Who are you?
Why do you come here?
Can't you go someplace else?
You keep on embarrassing yourself. Please, for your own sake, stop it.
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Merry 4th Bday and all that but just one thing to pick the above announcement on...
"The main changes you’ll be seeing over the next few months is DiS being much less UK-centric"
Don't overly like the sound of that, i'd much prefer the site to push british music than some guy playing the bongos from india or something... please elaborate... -
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Ah, no, that's not the case. We'll still be covering the same kindsa music, but there's no reason why we can't report about worldwide tours, festivals all over the globe, breaking bands from all over the globe (as a lot of music takes forever to hit the uk, and there are some brilliant bands sending in demos from all corners of Europe and America, that we're kinda excluding). It wont be a dramatic change, but we do wanna review shows in Melbourne, La, New York, Prague, Stockholm, etc, etc... music isn't necessarily bound to geography, nor is the web, so why should we be? yeah, specialism is important, and we're not gonna stray too far away from what the site is now, but getting more writers from further around the globe can only be a good thing for everyone, or at least that's how i feel. -
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That's fair enough. But if you're gonna get more people on the site, from wherever they may be, you need to sort out the fact that the current site can't cope with how many people keep logging on, and upgrade whatever needs upgrading accordingly. -
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Happy Birthday DIS, here's to many many more. The new global DIS sounds cool so long as you keep pushing new british bands too, don't let me down guys
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Ah no, it's not the volumes of people that's killing the site, it's some technical problem with the server (or so our techies have told me). Normal service should be resumed as of 10minutes ago - tho they've told me that before... -
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I cant believe that brodieman 11 twat.
What a negative wanker.
I saw Do Me Bad Things a little while ago and they were certainly interesting.
Surely the whole point of this site is to help and promote bands via gigs, reviews etc and that is it.
Some tosser slagging the whole thing off just makes me angry.
Particularly as DiS have got my bands music to some useful corners of the earth.
Happy Birthday anyway!
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Takes one to know one, prick. -
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hey im only being negative because this gig looks so shit for a apparently 'brilliant website'. RubbaFish you have just named two bands that are quality and are getting big at the moment (biffy to be fair has always been big just not with mainstream) but they are not playing at any of these 'shin digs'. So your point is? Mike Diver you called me 'fella' and then put M at the end of your post does there need to be any more evidence that your a wanker? And as for this site going global, No-one gives a shit about it in Britain why would they give a shit about it abroad? You all slag off NME but at least they can write a fuckin review without just slagging the band off (see babyshambles).
Yes i do read NME i also read Q, Word and the American rolling stone magazine because I like MUSIC. Why slag them off they are just trying to do what your trying to do and that is give new music a voice. You lot just concentrate so much on slagging them off you've forgotten to actually put some talent into your reviews. If any of these magazines did a party for themselves we would actually see some goods bands and not Dead!dead!dead! who i can see down my local. If you actually learnt from NME and other magazines maybe you be better and not have to rely on little plebs like Mike Diver to write reviews for you -
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No, you are right, they are not playing THIS one because we had them in the past before they got the mainstream attention and that is the whole point of our gigs at all levels. We put out something to people that they may like but that we believe in as writers and as fans. You seem to forget that we are essentially music fans here and have as much passion as you do. Who is to say P.B.A.S. (who have made one of the best albums of the year) won't be the next band to make the break through?
We don't all slag Q, Word or Rolling Stone (who voted us website of the year not too long ago so we must be doing something right!) and such a generalisation of everybody on this site is just plain wrong. -
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Hahahaha! Brilliant!
You only have to look at some the hostility towards DiS this year to see how far you've come.
All the developments for next year sound great. But I'd be a bit cautious about the worldwide thing, although i admire the vision. How could you get the same level of depth you do now, without diluting the new british stuff (which is what DiS is based on)? Or if you mean taking more notice of bigger bands in other countries (i think that's a great idea) then to what extent will you cover them, and how different will that be different to how things are now?
So far as the people reading and posting here goes: I think you're doing well with the international thing already. A fair few americans and at least one very likeable aussie.
Anyway, thats enough of me waffling...
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Happy 4th birthday! I've been on this for a year now, so that's great for me too. Thanks for keeping me up to date with music news (especially the Reuben vid article at the Westie in Aldershot, I got in the video! I was so happy.) Thanks for the forums too, as slagging off people you don't know has never been so much fun. -
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No you seem like you know about music and your the reason why people like me go on this website, to talk about new and old music and at the moment that is the only reason I am even still on here.
The past couple of weeks the reviewers have shown themselves as a joke slagging off any band that nme have backed (like babyshambles), who knows if the pricks like Mike diver and his friends had backed pete, babyshambles could be playing alongside some of his mates (Razorlight, the others etc) at this gig. Instead we get bands that i have seen in the shittest little pubs and who are unworldly bad. The first time i saw biffy everyone knew there was genuine talent there these bands sadly have nothing.
I apologise for generalisations, if people who think they are clever and come here to make pops at other people are the actual reviewers (mike diver) then it gives the web site and the people on it a bad name. On a further note, If Biffy did get big because of you then why would they not do a gig for such an 'apparently" important DiS event, even though they are big? If NME had made them they would no doubt do there birthday bash without a second thought? -
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Hmmm, I expected a better response, oh well (must be losing your touch mike) -
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happy birthday to the most excellent read! DIS' existence is well appreciated. -
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Well done on getting this far and for being pretty fucking good. Just promise to end things before you go all NME on our arses :) -
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What the fuck is this guy on? Babyshambles deserve to be knocked down a peg or two, cos they don't deserve to be where they are. They are the side project of a guy whose talent is overrated, and whose main band don't really deserve to be as big as they are. Sure the Libertines have a few good songs, but can't you see that NME have to big them up to sell magazines, therefore keeping the 'scene' and its lynchpins that their magazine relies on strong. The same thing happens with metal when Kerrang kisses the ass of poor efforts by Korn or Slipknot. The great thing about DiS is people give honest reviews, because they are no hidden agendas that affect what they can say about a band. Babyshambles are a perfect example of a product of hype- there are thousands of better bands in the country, but they get instant recognition, the liberteenies splash out the cash and the band don't even make it to the stage cos the tortured genius pete gets too fucked and falls down some stairs! -
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Without trying to sound all military, I have been working for this site virtually from the very start. I was there for the launch gig at the Water Rats and seen this site grow into what it is today and that is a success. Also, we are not so egocentric as to say that bands get big because of us. We help them and showcase them if, as and when we can as do other publications and 'zines.
Biffy were (are) an amazingly talented band who various reviewers picked up on very early in their career and in 2003 the band played an intimate gig at the Brixton Windmill for DiS and it was packed out.
And again, I repeat my initial point... the birthday gig is about showcasing new breaking talent that we believe in. Why would we put on the same band week in, week out? That would be defeatist. You look at the gigs DiS has put on across the UK in the past in Manchester, Colchester, Southampton, Cambridge, London and Cardiff to name just a few and you will see that we try and put on the best gigs we can without trying to overkill any one band. -
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CALM. DOWN. DEAR.
you seem to have gotten your knickers into a real twist because of one bad babyshambles review. DiS does not write off any band backed by the mainstream music press, it would be pointless to start listing the bands that are generally supported by NME and DiS but fuckit, i'm going to do a few anyway: interpol, razorlight, kaiser chiefs, bloc party, franz ferdinand, radio 4, the cribs, rufus wainwright, kasabian (oh no, forget that one!)...
take it easy though, there's no need to write such vitriolic rubbish about the wonderful people that work for DiS, it's all very cowardly squaring up to strangers on an internet message board. -
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So we're all enthusiastic about a birthday party and positive about the future, only to find a large grinning dogshit in the middle of the pavement. Sure a few people might notice you, and a few might even bother to say something, but please don't get any delusions of grandeur. Your only achievement is to stink. -
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I wasn't having a go at the other bands, I should make that clear, I was just dissappointed to see DMBT playing this great event! I thought one of the DIS bands would have been abetter shout. None the less, did you expect DIS to be what it is today Sean when you set it up those many years ago? -
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Although I am a pleb, that much is true.
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I hate to join the somewhat heated debate a day late, but the guy who slagged off the DiS nights is fucking clueless.
He talks about bands you see in your local, and the venues being shit. These gigs are at 93 Feet East, a 450 Capacity venue, and Marquee, a 1200 capacity venue. The 22-20s just thier album launch at the prestigious Buffalo Bar- a massive 150 capacity- not even full!
The Sofa Club might not be in the press like The Others, but that's because they don't pull publicity stunts like gigs on tubes. They just did In The City and got the best reviews from A+R- in fact turning down a deal already since then that The afformentioned bands dream of.
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Hail to the pig! -
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Let's just get pished and par-tay. -
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Having said that, anyone who may not want to go to the 93 Feet East gig this Thursday can come to my own night down the road at The Rhythm Factory. Playing are Drinkme, The Pippettes and Ivory. It's a bit alternative don't you know......... -
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Feckin ADA!!
Its ALL happening on Thursday!
Will ANYONE be wandering the streets ANYWHERE?!!
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Dead! Dead! Dead!?.. hmm... from Southampton you say? Sound like The Coral? That's weird, i have a band called Dead! Dead! Dead! playing at my clubnight in November from New Zealand, they sound really loud and slightly Sonic Youthy... -
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brodie man.
you may like to know that we have infact invited Babyshambles to tour (but he's in scotchland!) and Biffy Clyro too, but they're playing Reading that night.
we'd love if bands could cancel their tours to play our show for free, but that just isn't the case.
brodie man, if you'd like to put up £1000 donation to book some nme-approved indie-allumni which Sadie Frost would barge her way in to see, please send your cheque to our Norfolk-in-Chance address which can be found on the back of a phonebox ad to book pete doherty to play a living room near you...
so intense, so riled, yet why? have you even heard Do Me Bad Things, they're one of the most exceptional, exciting bands in the UK today. Hence just signing a massive deal to Atlantic/East West, and getting to support The Darkness @ Wembley Stadium in December. we made their debut single a single of the week and the NME liked them too. Shock horror. The world of music does exist outside of the tabloids. -
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That'll be Die! Die! Die! -
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"there are thousands of better bands in the country"
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"and getting to support The Darkness @ Wembley"
Need i say anymore about the shitness of this band? -
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This guy sounds like the rest of you, his comment about "It's songs that count, not column inches" is really funny. DiS immediately ignores any band that NME starts to dissucss because of some macho rivalry. Instaed of hearing about really good new bands like block party, the others, 22-20's etc etc we get dead!dead!dead! who are fuckin awful. If it's songs that count and music why does'nt DiS ignore the fact that NME are backing these bands and fuckin back them as well? The they might get some good bands to come to there party which i would of loved to have gone to, but not with this joke of a line up. -
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HAHAHAHAHAHA I thought you could'nt top the shittness of above mentioned gig, but I will give it to you this gig comes bloody close. -
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jesus, this band is so non descript no even know who they are, when you get a good gig together send me a message (is likely to be when nme rockin roll tour finishes, all the good venues finish with the tours). Then if you can shackle a bunch of bands who instead of holding the guitars can actually play them like fuckin musicians It would be helpful -
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Your enthusiastic about this birthday party? you need to go to some gigs mate and stop sitting in your basement reading smash hits -
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I'm going to the NME tour thang on Saturday.
If anyone has anything they'd like me to smuggle onto Razorlight's rider, please shout.
Beartraps.
Rat poison.
Whatever...
...I am, of course, joking. I have everything I need already. -
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You are a nasty little man. -
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hahaaha you said you were a journalist and then wrote that post! -
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...""You are a nasty little man""
....that was to brodieman_11!!!
not M. -
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OK, Brodieman. For the sake of argument, let's pretend that everything you've said in this thread is devastatingly accurate: the dis birthday bash is a crock is shit, all the bands booked are tosh and The Libertines are divine. What I don't understand, though, is the reason you're posting in the first place. I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't have the right to spout your opinions when and where you please, I'm just having trouble to fathom why you are doing it here. What do you gain from telling people that all they're great effort is a waste of time (even if you believe it to be true). People work long and hard freely contributing to website that they believe in. So, what possible motivation could you have for pissing on their bonfire? I'm an atheist, but the last time I passed a Roman Catholic church I didn't charge in, shouting that Jesus in fraudulent knob. To do so would be malicious and downright nasty. Are you malicious and downright nasty, Brodieman? I have the sneaking suspicion that you are. -
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his mum must have caught him pulling one off.
why else would he be so bitter?
give im a nesquik.
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Yes but do you then slag off the Roman Catholic Church just to make your religion seem better even though it isn't? Shouldn't the point to embrace each religion and even help each other? You lot don't seem to realise what people like me (and watermelon on the babyshambles post) are trying to tell you. For 2 months i have been on here and the fact is it's a good site, it's well produced, it's nice to be able to speak to other music fans (see other posts i am on i am perfectly civilised with U2 fans and even on the babyshambles posts). But the reviewers are really amteurish and coming up to the sites birthday isn't it time this site embraced NME and used each other resources? Isn't it time you booked bands that this site together with NME could make big? I don't believe it's a waste of time making the site, but i do believe it's a waste of time slagging off a pete doherty just because, and generally doing shit reviews (see the 4 weeks laspe between leeds and reading festival and the actual post). If the site had of done this maybe good bands wouldn't be so quick to put Drownedinsound at the bottom of there gig lists. And i could have a good gig to come to. -
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hmmm mature comment im not a 15 year old living in my basement with my mum like you nathan -
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"I'm an atheist"
"you then slag off the Roman Catholic Church just to make your religion seem better"
Wait a minute here, something's not quite right... -
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im probally alot taller then you. And yes i am nasty but only when need be. -
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if you want to pull off at home, do it when your mothers out with me.
she keeps moaning and im getting sick of it. -
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How right you are. My apologies. I should really know who's playing my nights. Still, a rather amusing similarity of names i think you'll agree. -
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Brodieman
The reviewers are amateurish? That's because they're amateurs! The NME is published by IPC, one of the largest media companies in the country. DIS is produced by a few people in London and relies on contributions from music lovers around the country. If someone at DIS doesn't like Babyshambles or Razorlight, it's just one person's opinion. There's no editorial policy. You say you're trying to tell us something. Contrary to what you might think, we can hear you; we just happen not to agree with you. So why don't you just try being a little less bilious, a little less angry, and I'm sure you'll live a long and fruitful life.
(And if you think I was slagging off the RC church, take another look at my post. That was precisely what I was not doing.) -
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To repeat what was said above:
"DiS does not write off any band backed by the mainstream music press, it would be pointless to start listing the bands that are generally supported by NME and DiS but fuckit, i'm going to do a few anyway: interpol, razorlight, kaiser chiefs, bloc party, franz ferdinand, radio 4, the cribs, rufus wainwright, kasabian (oh no, forget that one!)... "
It seems you would only be happy if we booked Libertines or Babyshambles to play - or maybe fly The Killers in from LA or Jet/Kings Of Leon/Vines in from whatever middleclassh backwater they come from.
We put Bloc Party on 4 times last year. 4 times. Including our Xmas party. We put on Razorlight last March @ the Dublin Castle. What's your point? That we should have newer bands, or buzzier bands (considering 10 a&r turned up in Southampton to catch Dead! Dead! Dead! lastnight you're somewhat outta touch). Then there's the fact Komakino have just toured with Hope of the States and Bloc Party, and guess what, the NME like them too! Shock horror, good music liked by both publications. You're just blindedly digging yourself deeper and deeper trenches around yourself.
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Block Party (sic) got their first review on DiS, you tosspot. Razorlight's 6th gig was a DiS gig. The 22-20s are a pile of steaming shite.
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No really mate, why do you keep looking at DiS if you obviously hate it so much? Go and look at nme.com instead, it'll make you much happier.
Oh no wait... you wouldn't want to do that cos you obviously don't have anything better to do than sit around being negative do you? What a waste of time!
I don't like everything on DiS but there is sufficient of interest for me here to keep me reading, and anything I don't care about I ignore, because I'm getting a load of interesting news, reviews, tips etc for free. Maybe you could try growing up a bit, and (dare I say it) getting a life? -
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Not so good with sarcasm are you?
Seriously why don't you sod off, nobody cares what you think. -
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.............and Do Me Bad Things are supporting The Darkness/Ash!!!
Not such a small band now is it? -
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I do believe that the gig is sold out and you can't go anyway, so why don't you stay in that night with a dictionary and learn to spell instead?
You describe the reviews as amateurish. Well having read this whole page of your "writing" I doubt you could write a review any better than the reviewers could pull out of their arses after a particularly bad night on the beer.
E.G. imagine your Babyshambles review "There dead good, and if drownedinsound had of done it's home work then they'd think that is great too instead of having amateurs who like a music that isn't babyshambles they'res something wrong with them cos they don't agree with me. Even though everyone else who reads the site agrees with them."
(SIC SIC SIC)
Loser. Learn to write then you can justifiably complain about how everyone else does it.
You don't even know how to spell Bloc party, a band you claim are great.
Hey drownedinsound people it must make you happy to know that quite literally everyone else thinks he's a twat. -
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Indeed, and you show someone a door and they keep running into it. -
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Hey, he's from Norwich! He's never been to gig. -
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because i come from norwich does not mean i can not get to other gigs, thepig (I imagine you as a harry knowles lookalike by the way).
"Do me bad things are supporting The Darkness/Ash."
You all slag off great bands like the libertines and then go on about a band who supports two of the worst bands ever, they are bands for little babies and so is 'do me up the arse' or what ever they are called. Nathan, even your name suggests you couldnt pull my mum or any woman for that matter you little geek -
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It kills time untill i start my job when i will stop wasting my time with internet geeks like you and concentrate on real life unlike you lot (havn't any you got jobs anyway? I was on here at 3:30 and you were all replying) -
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ohhhh tetchy -
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Cool, glad to hear you can get around. Why don't you come to my gig on Thursday. Rhythm Factory. Ask for Andy. -
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hmmm It was a metaphor. Don't worry i will go through it bit by bit for you.
DiS is your religion (I don't what it was cause I wasn't really paying that much attention) Roman Catholics are NME. Now go and read the post again...... -
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..........and you will find that i, Nathan, am in fact a Geoff Capes look-a-like with Giant Haystacks for a bodyguard.
do you know who these people are?
"i'm gonna come back and eat you!!" -
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I saw Razorlight at lincoln delph and did'nt need some web site to organise it for me, I can find my own bands that will be big and I don't need a bunch of amateurs with a shitty gig like you. And the fact you think 22-20's are shit is why you spend your nights on this web site talknig about nothing bands while NME are finding the next big band to change music (libertines for instance) -
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No, Im saving my money for 22-20's at the waterfront which despite the dicks on this talk back are amazing live and it will be a special gig. I would n't come to your gig anyway because basically the 22-20's have more talent in thier little finger then your whole line up -
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No nathan i imagine you look like wally out of the 'where's wally' books -
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Fair enough, I suppose the Norwich Burger-King cheque only goes so far, gotta prioritise. -
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What is it with you lot trying to invite me to your gigs? Mike Diver was doing the same, You have all just said you don't like my music taste, that you do not agree with my 'suggestions' and generally i am a nasty person, so why would you want to spend a gig night with me? Is it a lack of friends? I have plenty of people to go with gigs to cheers. -
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hehehe got a degree fuck face something a dole office person like you will never have -
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To beat you up -
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3.30?? holy shit, things are serious. -
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You mean analogy, not metaphor. And if that is what was, it sure was a bad one.
Anyway, perhaps you should learn the art of the apostrophe before you graduate to more taxing literary techniques. -
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I have just joined up to this, (although I've been reading DiS for about a year or so now and think its great) purely to suggest that brodieman11 should perhaps be prevented from using DiS as a) he clearly doesn't like the thing, and b) its just so tedious reading a bitch fight between him and everyone else who replies to him. I think everyone here appreciates the fact that different people have different tastes in music, but difference does not necessarily have to result in petty arguing and snide comments. In fact, difference in opinion need not result in petty arguing and snide comments at all - anyone with an ounce of matureity should know that. And before you start feeling like a victim brodieman, that goes for everyone.
Mummy Tink has spoken. -
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Oh and before I forget - happy birthday DiS! Hurray! -
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Brodieman
This is what you had to say about the Libs record:
"5 good songs at most on the album, what became of the likely lads is really emotional, petes voice is still pretty good on it. Bottom line this album proves that, despite nme bumming them, the libertines are not the answer to rockin roll"
Are you some kind of schitzo? I often hear people say that you either love The Libertines, or you hate them. This is surely the first time someone's done both. -
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A consistent editorial policy grounded in logic would be a nice start... -
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A degree in what, exactly? -
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"you need to go to some gigs mate and stop sitting in your basement reading smash hits"
what's wrong with smash hits? *confused* -
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Dis is intentionally not consistent, else we'd be bland and homogenized, constantly trying to pander to one taste of music. We all listen to, love, live and appriecate totally different music, so why should we try to reflect 1 point of view? It does also mean we don't write a band off early and never write about them unless we have to desperately backtrack when they have a hit single/get big (see also: a certain music weekly and The Darkness) -
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''you spend your nights on this web site talknig about nothing bands while NME are finding the next big band to change music (libertines for instance)''
I wholeheartedly agree, the Libertines have changed the face of music forever. Well done NME. I have never heard anything like the Libertines, they are so original, whenever i hear them it makes me think that maybe they're playing instruments us simple humans don't even know about , some fantastic creations designed in their groundbreaking music lab. OOOOOHHHHH MMMMMMMYYYYYYY GGGGGGGOOOOOOOODDDD! -
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Whoops, I just snorted a little tea out of my nose.
*Phnarrrf*
Did you read Pete in the paper today?: "Without my drug problems, the Libertines wouldn't be where they are today." I.e., said publicity has made more suckers go out and buy that stinking band's records. What a c*nt.
It makes me so sad, really deep down. I watched Alice In Chains last night. Now, there's a guy - Layne - that had drug problems, and look what happened to him. How sad was his death, not just because he died, but the manner of it? Really, Pete should start taking notice of those dropping around him. He has all the help in the world available to him; to glorify his problems in such a way is, well, disheartening to say the least.
Sorry... I just can't stand the man. Well, maybe not the man, but this representation of him that we're exposed to day in, day out. I know this post just fuels the fire further, but please... someone sort him out before he's just another dead could-have-been. -
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Do I really? Have a look who was thanked on the sleeve of Bloc Party's first single then, fucktard. And stop fucking complaining about DiS not putting on NME-type bands and then when I mention we have done, you say you don't need "some web site to organise it for me." Diddums.
The 22-20s can suck my cock. -
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You don't have a cock. -
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they are good band (not a life changing one) but still do not deserve to be pulled apart by a bunch of no-bodies, Anyways After seeing babyshambles live I think Pete is a genius and a genuine presence. People are allowed to change thier opinion (specially after live gigs) I wasn't that big a fan of Biffy untill I saw them live now i love them. -
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you both don't have cocks -
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And this comment is why NME are loved within the industry and noone knows who you are. -
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A big 'welcome back' to the life and soul of the party.
How's it going? -
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What comment?
I made some, not one. -
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I'd just like not ask that brodieman_11 is not banned from DiS as some fool asked further up, as this is by far the most entertaining thing I've read on here lately.
Oh, and to clarify 'Do Me Bad Things ' for those unaware:
i) they will be massive
ii) they are woeful; imagine if the kids from School of Rock get together in ten years time for a 'reunion tour'. That band you just imagined is Do Me Bad Things. Saying that...
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Fair enough, but why be so vitriolic about it? For what it's worth, I think the The Libs are pretty ace, but I don't feel the need to indoctrinate anyone with this information, nor do I need to go to war with anyone with an opinion that contradicts it. It's not your taste of music that I find so ridiculous, it's your hateful nature. -
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iv) and are a lot of fun.
School of rock was a great, dumb, movie. -
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Two out of three.
Dumb and a movie, yes. -
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All I'm saying is that there is a way to go about expressing your views, and I think he takes things too far. Maybe banning him is a bit harsh, but then again he doesn't sound like the kind of person who takes note of a telling off... -
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apart from this being one of the funniest threads i've read, i'm just going to posit the idea that brodieman is actually winding you all up. I'm pretty sure he doesn't mean most of these things, just read them again!
Oh and also, there's been a few mentions of whether a band is successful being judged by whether they have a&r people at their shows, which label they've signed to, how big their gigs are... hmmm. that is a horribly monetary/corporate view of success. Surely success should be judged on a band's creative aims. Well that is my take. -
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I love DiS!!!! Im bored with this thread now. laters.
brodieman -
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to the guy above knobber -
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I have not got a hateful nature. tosspot. -
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wankstank. Hi. -
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I'd just like to say that I think the 22-20's are overrated. Oh and by the way sadly bands like Do Me Bad Things will never be massive because the vast majority of people don't have the mental flexibility to understand what they do. Even though musos like me love them. -
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At least they the review won't be written by a woolywufter like sean, (BLOC PARTY, Apologies next time i will get my book of bands out or my NME like you lot) -
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In other words they are shit (last comment) -
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Don't worry I wouldn't invite you to any of my gigs if you were the last person alive. You've shown there's no saving you from yourself with a bit og good music.
Never mind, when you grow up a bit you'll probably get a bit less of a twat. Most people seem to. -
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What you think you're going to get the last word now like you're the adult? Hardly.
So you're saying unless somebody is successful in terms of selling lots of records to people and having the NME and clueless A&R sheep baying after them (please excuse the mixed animal metaphor, I'm in a hurry) they aren't any good? So basically only bands that aren't challenging or new or awkward or offend anyone in any way are worth listening to and everyone else is shit? Jesus it's no wonder the only bands you like are people such as the libertines and babyshambles, i.e. who are offensively inoffensive. I really don't know what you are doing on this site because everybody else here is judging a band on how they sound, how interesting and/or different they are, how good a live show they put on, and how they make people feel when they listen to them. You're really missing out mate, you should open your ears a bit more. -
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DO me bad things are smashing though... I'll be there
x -
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I got the op. -
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What, to put one on?
Suppose you can pee standing up and around corners and stuff.
Good work. -
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they give degree's to everyone nowadays huh? all it prooves is you can remember shit, not that you know anything.
the term fuckface is one of my favourites tho. upthere with wankbadger. -
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I like fucktard best.
I particularly enjoy it when Adie delivers it in her Scottish burrrrrrrrrr. -
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Hey Brodieman! I like your style...Pithy and degenerate! Keep up the good work. I think we will change our name to "Do Me Up The Arse" based on your suggestion!
Keep the faith dude
Tom (DMBT) -
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proves not prooves, looks like you need a qualification -
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Let me guess, a 2:2 in media studies? heh -
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"You only have to look at some the hostility towards DiS this year to see how far you've come"
Surely some of the hostility is related to the fact that it's owner/founder's reputation precedes it? When i worked for this place, i would say at gigs I worked for them, and the inevitable response would be, "Oh, that sean, he's a arrogant ****" and no one would like him.
Treat people nice when coming up...and they won't treat you like shit when you fall. I've my own site now anyhow, thank god. -
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Given that Wembley Stadium doesn't exist anymore....some fuckers got their facts wrong. -
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you're only allowed to say bad things about a band if you're a somebody? that's news. -
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Hahahahaha!
That is one of the funniest posts I've read for a long time - do you realise that you summed yourself up beautifully by contradicting yourself in one line?
Or were you trying to be funny? If so, it was pretty funny. -
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Is it living in Norwich? -
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I bet it's a laugh-a-minute one too.
You're not bitter, are you?
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