S'funny how there have been a couple of stories about the festival on the site, and yet no mentions of the DiS stage outside of the boards though, innit?

Thought you'd be a bit prouder to have your own stage at a big festival, like with the TMF one.

Yeah, we do have a stage.
And yes it's Clear Channel promoting the event - they're also currently promoting shows and supporting independent artists such as Arcade Fire, Devendra Barnhart and Patrick Wolf by promoting their shows. In this country, Clear Channel really aren't the same monopolistic monster that they are in America.

We have our name on a stage and there's thus far little we're proud to put our name to. Many of the bands have been booked for a range of reasons - that's, sadly, the nature of the music business, there's so much politics involved that it's very hard to put together the kind of bill we really want. Plus we were originally doing the second stage which is now the X-fm stage.

We do, thus far, have the fantastic new talents of Apartment and People in Planes joining our stage. There are 21 bands playing the stage over 3 days and to be honest, it won't all be a line-up we've hand picked (or even had much involvement in picking) and there are the likes of Black Velvets whom we'd really much rather weren't playing our stage. But these things happen.

On the plus side, we get DiS promoted to more people and therefore more people reading about the music we love. Which is the main reason for doing this.

We've never pretended to be indie elitist fascists, we're music fans and music can be great no matter who's releasing it or promoting it. We know not everyone has the same reasons behind working with music, but until we're in a stronger position (and this is hopefully a step to getting into that), there's little we can change about that.