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domgourlay has written the following articles:
The Chymes - Written In Squares
Scottish duo mix electronica with ethereal, sugar-coated harmonies and hey presto! The All New Aphex Primal Ride is born...»
Plans and Apologies, Komakino, The Killers at The Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Wed 10 Mar
Usually it's the whiney whiney sounds of English boys in big shorts singing in embarrassing fake American accents. Then along come The Killers to reverse the trend and all of a sudden those "I Love 1982" programmes attain something called credibility...»
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Having created one of the most sensual, swooning and sophisticated records of 2003, Alison Goldfrapp has emerged as one of the UK's biggest crossover acts from the rock festival arena to the dingey indie club to the dinner party coffee table circuit. And she's talking dirty...well, teeth anyway.»
The Operation - Out On The Town
Somewhere between the teeny-pop of Busted and the pomp-rock of The Darkness is an area marked "credibility". The Operation seem to have landed in there with all the finesse of a 747...»
The Vines - Ride
The so-called "new Nirvana" release not-too-bad-actually comeback single. Does anyone care? Or indeed should they...?»
King Bathmat - Crowning Glory
Hastings' answer to Badly Drawn Boy makes quaintly impressive second album...»
Ballboy, Burningman at Nottingham The Rescue Rooms, Mon 23 Feb
ballboy are in all probability Scotland's best export since Archie Gemmill. Their tales of lost love, pictures of girls in underwear and people who'd rather have dogs than children gives the term "urban music" a whole new meaning that no marketing director of the Brits or a thousand bling-blinging gold chains could ever possibly understand...»
Clayhill - Cuban Green
Once upon a time there was a trio called Polar, whose melancholic landscapes were rivalled only by Elbow's 'Cast Of Thousands' opus. And then they discovered that they shared their name with a Norwegian death metal band and Clayhill was born...»
Lyca Sleep, Love Ends Disaster! at Leicester Attik, Thu 19 Feb
Lyca Sleep create an aura of dizzying intensity that makes you want to jump six feet in the air and throw your arms around the nearest stranger. Believe me, you WILL love this band, I promise...»
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Kasabian at Leeds Blank Canvas, Sat 14 Feb
Mummified guitarists, disappearing drummers, rising clouds of smoke engulfing the stage at regular intervals...are Black Rebel Motorcycle Club the Spinal Tap of shoegazing? Probably...»
"We just make it up as we go along!"
2004 may only be six weeks old but Jarcrew have experienced more ups and downs since Big Ben struck its last December chorus than the British olympic bobsleigh team, what with the departure of one band member on the eve of their biggest ever headline tour, and then a surprise support slot at the Lostprophets sell-out Astoria show. Whatever next...?»
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Pink Grease at The Mill, Mansfield, Wed 11 Feb
The most exciting live band in England return with a bang...»
Nutronstars - Carlton Pop!!!
From Nottingham with love, Helen Love that is, in a style not too dissimilar to The Ramones jamming with the Mary Chain somewhere along the stony cobbles of Electric Soft Parade. Meet Nutronstars....»
Me Against Them - Soul Destroyer
Its 3 am on a Sunday morning. You stagger out of the club, trip over a kerb, fall into the gutter. A taxi speeds past with its stereo on full blast, Marlboro and phlegm congealed vocals over one of Keef's great lost riffs. This is that song...»
Husky - 4 track demo
In a bedsit somewhere in West London, four early-20-somethings are plotting a new musical revolution. Cometh the hour, cometh the Husky...»
Sleep Deprivation in February? Seems Unlikely...
No sleep 'til... Chesterfield.»
The Half Rabbits - 3 Songs
Meet the latest pretenders to Thom Yorke's 'King Of Seriousness' crown. And they're from Oxford too.»
Snow Patrol - Run
Funny how things change; three weeks ago, DiS reviewed 'Run', lamenting how a song of such splendour would inevitably sit at the bottom of some radio plugger's pile, and then suddenly...»
We Could Be Heroes
David Bowie, Duran Duran and monkey houses. The quiet one from the Dandy Warhols speaks...»
Pretty Girls Become Gravely Ill - Manchester Now OFF Too!
Pretty Girls Make Graves cancel Nottingham and Manchester shows.»
Nikoli - Resigned EP
Looking for a worthy successor to The Smiths? We might just have the answer. They're from the other side of the Pennines. They're called Nikoli. Sit back and enjoy.»
Lyca Sleep at Mansfield The Mill, Sat 22 Nov
Swirling FX and ethereal dynamics? Err, yes please! Then let's hear it for LYCA SLEEP, possibly the finest thing to come out of Leeds since Paul Hart, and with a glowing penchant in tumultuous soundscapes a la Sigur Ros and My Bloody Valentine...»
Puressence, Inspiral Carpets at Nottingham Rock City, Sun 30 Nov
The first wave of Manchester's baggy era rises again...»
KaitO, Liars, Punish The Atom at Nottingham The Rescue Rooms, Sat 15 Nov
Art for art's sake? In a world where shitting on a bed and placing a half eaten kebab inside a glass cabinet is considered "art", it's perhaps no surprise that 1/3 of tonight's offering had to involve artistic merit of a similar variety but I guess you shouldn't tar everyone with the same brush, right?»
No-Fly Zone - non-U
Sicilian five-piece with the melodies of Radiohead and the polemics of RATM...»
White Noise - White Noise
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Nottingham's White Noise wave their past incarnation as Face goodbye and herald a very noisy future...»
Airport Girl, The Lucksmiths, The Liberty Ship at The Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Sat 01 Nov
A four headed blast of summery, saccharine glazed pop! Just what the doctor ordered as the long November nights draw in...»
Seachange, Punish The Atom, The Grips at Derby Victoria Inn, Sun 26 Oct
Nottingham 3 Derby 0 - Sound familiar? It sure as hell soon will do...»