This Is Fake DIY is a United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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-based music webzine dedicated to alternative music. It is named after a song by the Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 alternative rock group Bis

Bis (band)

Bis are a Scottish indie pop band composed of Steven Clark , John Clark , and Amanda MacKinnon . Formed in 1994, the band broke up in 2003, but reformed briefly in 2007 for a series of concerts.-History:...

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This Is Fake DIY launched in 2002. It is staffed largely by an unpaid freelance writing team from across the globe. The website features news, reviews, features, videos, free music downloads and its own online television channel DIY TV.

In September 2007, This Is Fake DIY was nominated for best music magazine at the annual BT Digital Music Awards

BT Digital Music Awards

The BT Digital Music Awards were created in the UK in 2001 and are held annually. Music industry professionals can nominate artists, venues and hardware into the Judge's Choice award categories...

, where it was described as "a great mix of humour and pop culture that has become the envy of the internet."

Editor-in-chief of This Is Fake DIY, Stephen Ackroyd, was among the "influential and impartial UK-based music critics and broadcasters" chosen by the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 to contribute to their 'Sound of 2008' survey.

Record label

In 2007 This Is Fake DIY started a record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

. Its current roster includes:

• Duels
  Duels (band)
  Duels are an English indie band from Leeds formed in 2005. They have been described by The Guardian as "one of Britains most ambitious groups"...
  
  
• Heads We Dance
• Manda Rin
• Model Horror
• Popular Workshop
• The Research
  The Research
  The Research were a band from Wakefield, England. The members were : Russell 'The Disaster' Searle , Georgia Lashbrook , and Sarah Williams...
  
  
• The Victorian English Gentlemens Club
  The Victorian English Gentlemens Club
  The Victorian English Gentlemens Club are a three piece experimental indie art rock band based in Cardiff, Wales.-Name:The name of the band is correctly spelt without an apostrophe. On their website, the band acknowledges they are "aware that there should be" an apostrophe...
  
  
• We Are The Physics
  We Are The Physics
  We Are the Physics are an indie band from Glasgow, Scotland. The band draws influences from new wave, pop, indie, and math rock, and has a "B-movie" aesthetic.-Biography:We Are the Physics hail from Glasgow, Scotland, and were founded in 2005...
  
  
• You Animals

External links

• This Is Fake DIY
• This Is Fake DIY Records