or just any at all for Bristol

to hide/collapse the messages that were there last time I looked on the boards/comments.

Slash/slash.

If you could add your own events too. Often there are events overlooked, or only certain tour dates mentioned.

only a couple of things i'd change:

1) make it more clear that user reviews are user reviews. but have more of them.

2) show the star rating in the title so if we're just looking for a good album to check out (or a bad review for our entertainment) we can get there faster

3) more demo/unsigned/small indie label stuff

i *really like* the way comments are posted under the article. in tree format as opposed to a straight list. don't change that.

But it might be an idea to implement some kind of wikipedia dealio, mainly with the band profiles. Basically, people should be able to submit a profile for a band that isn't already covered

I'm not suggesting that it work this simply, but perhaps any submitted profile would have to be OK'd by you guys? And if none of you have any idea whether the submitted profile is accurate, surely it can't be too difficult to run it by the band/label in question? A simple template email should do that

I know that I'd definately submit some profiles if it were possible. And imagine the breadth of music and genre covered if EVERYBODY could get involved in this way? It would also give you guys some fresh ideas (not that you need them - but who doesn't want to find out more about music?) on what you might like to cover in the future, as you could see how users are rating a new band, and so on and so forth

So erm, yeah

Perhaps some writers on dance and hip hop? It's a bit under-represented.

Maybe have a featured new band every week, or something along those lines. Currently, I'm reading every review of bands I haven't heard of, in the hope of finding the jem.

anything. Love the humour, love the lack of arse licking, love the reviews.
Gimmie some audio previews of new singles though.

The best part of the site is discussion and user contribution. People like the idea of being able to "make a difference".

I like this site over other sites because if I go to somewhere like say...pitchfork and they review and album I really like and basically say: "It's shit", then there's nothing I can do about that.

However on this site I can comment the review, saying why I disagree, or I can write my own, and give my own rating, and I can rate the band myself.

It's good to know that, say for example Raz has reviewed the latest Bronx single and says it's a bit boring, 4/10 etc, that I've commented it saying how I think it's actually one of their best tracks. This makes a difference I think. People DO read the review comments. If someone was reading that review thinking "Meh I like them, dont think I'll bother with this one then..." and then see my comment and decide otherwise, then it could make the difference of them finding new albums/bands/tracks they love, or not.

To expand on this I think that there should be an "average user rating" for whatever is being reviewed. It's all about people being able to give their feedback and "make a difference", the interactivity. I know we can rate bands, but what if I think a band are ace and then all of a sudden release some shit song? Or have 2 albums out, one ace one 10/10 and one crap one 1/10? That doesn't mean I think the band are somewhere inbetween as a 5/10 then...

Maybe for the news their should be like a "small news" that doesn't really fit in with the main news. Maybe from sources such as band websites or myspace bulletins or whatnot. Like if a band has said "we're going to start recording the new album next week". Or "our new record is out on **/**/**".

Also for reviews, why not have a featured user review every day/week or something? This might even encourage people to write reviews or better quality reviews (definitely not mine then :P)

And for music direction, to be honest I wouldn't really like to see more hip hop and stuff reviewed....

I'm aware of the listings and gig calendar, but to be honest there's never ever any listings for my area (Stoke-on-trent) even though we're getting more and more bands playing around here. To be honest it wouldnt be that difficult to keep updated, there's only about two venues which the "main bands" play at here. Obviously there's a lot more venues than that but even if you just got the listings for "The Sugarmill" ( http://www.thesugarmill.co.uk/gigguide.php )
or "The Underground" then there would be a lot more to go by for people visiting the site.

Finally, as for the main/home page, I like how it's set out now. The news on the right hand side, a "main article" at the top, and the single, album, and live reviews along the middle. However my screen resolution is 1280x1024 and there is a lot of wasted space on the right hand side. Don't know if something can be done about that?

Ermmm yeah :) I think that's it? Great site, I love it :) It's literally changed a lot of aspects of my life. Maybe even changed my life. I listen to different music, better music than I did before. So I'm happier :) I go to different gigs, more gigs, meet more people... Basically it's just a bit ace!

i generally prefer not to have to click through to another page unless i have to.

Sometimes a line or 2 under an album review would be helpful when it comes to the many bands i've never heard of, saves skimming through the ones of no interest. I appreciate that these are probably bloody irritating to write though.

I hate your logo at the top of the page, can't exactly remember what the old one looked like but it was certainly better.

Apart from that it's great, well written (the most important aspect) and generally entertaining

also a search function on the forum would be useful (unless i've just missed it?)

pretty much.

loved it when i was a reader, still love it now i'm writing.. but its disappointing that people think the listings stuff needs improving, because i spend so much damn time listing stuff, at least an hour a day. i try and list whatever comes my way for the South East, and i thought it was going well.

editing posts would be EXCELLENT.

perhaps what would be good instead of reinstating demo reviews would be a demo roundup, of the stuff worth checking out, rather than individual 'proper' reviews.

drawing special attention to the single/album/live act of the day/week/month would be a good idea. Other than that I can't think of anything that would really improve the site. Without sounding too sycophantic, it's hard to make something already so good better.

Homepage,
- I'd probably like to see the ratings for the singles, albums, as icons next to the link to see whats worth reading before clicking through to the articles.

Event Listings
- A more complex event search, being about to select ranges, maybe with a visual calendar to select by month.
- show only dis picks

Forums
- Icons to describe the category, maybe in music forum for gig, album, mypsace plug, promoter, etc.
- Subcategories.
- Replies not needing a title.

Profile Page
- Favourite Venues
- last.fm weekly charts.

title bar design. the speakers and photoshop grass annoys me. maybe when a record is released two people could reviewit sepratly..and so you get two different viewpoints and scores.

desn't work for all the gigs you list, i started trying to use it, but then gave up because i still needed a seperate list elsewhere to cover the stuff that's not on DiS and the stuff that's in the DiS news but not with the calendar function (ie Cursive was, but Planes wasn't).

Generally speaking though - DiS is bonza.

oh, and more DiS radio - i especially enjoyed the folk show and the rock show, so maybe more genre/theme shows...