Issue 350

The Donnas.

The Donnas' Torry Castellano attacks her drumkit with seemingly reckless abandon, propelling the band on in a flurry of arms and hair. As it turns out, that abandon was more reckless than anybody realised. Castellano was diagnosed with deQuervain's Tendonitis, due to swelling on the thumb side of her wrists, meaning an enforced layoff from playing...

The Dears
No More Cities
Speak & Spell/Inertia


OK, let's get this over with really quickly so we can move on: Murray A Lightburn, lead singer/songwriter of The Dears, sounds a bit like Morrissey; or perhaps Damon Albarn in Blur's more soulful moments (think The Universal rather than Parklife). OK? That's all we need to say on the subject. Actually, no. Like Morrissey and Albarn, Lightburn knows his way around a memorable lyric and a strong melody, which are qualities The Dears have in spades...

Big Day Out 2005 is looking to be as big as ever with the Beastie Boys, Powderfinger, Chemical Brothers, Grinspoon, The Donnas, System Of A Down, The Music, Blues Explosion, Hatebreed, Le Tigre and the like!
And it's sold out, but you can get tickets to plenty of other rad shows thanks to dB, your friendly CIB outlet!