Category: Reviews
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Sooooo many good tracks this week. All on the playlist, no time to discuss them all here. Single of the Week: Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke – This Conversation Hard choices for single of the week but this collab between…
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A fine evening of free rock at the Purple Turtle! Reading Indie Life are starting to get twitchy about all these amazing free gigs at the Purple Turtle. We get to see really good bands… and we don’t have to…
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Courting return with a short but lively album. With just eight tracks on this album, three of them already released as singles and the first track being a forty-eight second intro of off-kilter violin it doesn’t leave a whole lot…
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Great new tracks from Reading Indie Life favourites The Certs and Baby Said this week along with locals The Dazed Minded. Single of the week: SOFIA ISELLA – Josephine Sofia Isella catches the eye and the ear more with every…
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Visiting The Face Bar in Reading on the 31st of March, dropping their debut album today the 7th of March. It was about 8 years ago guitarists Tallulah and Lola were put together in a music lesson at secondary school…
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The lead Singer of The Walkmen continues to turn-out fascinating and layered solo-material. ‘The Rat’ was one of those genre defining moments back in 2004 that grabbed the heads of many, seemed to be all over the radio – yet…
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An album full of stripped-back singer songwriter goodness. Some albums are loud and noisy, others quiet and intimate. This glorious debut falls firmly into the latter camp. Clara Mann is a multi-disciplinary artist who enjoys painting and works in a…
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It’s The Ting Tings Jim, but not as we know them… The Ting Tings in a delightful 450-capacity venue in Shepherds Bush, yes please. Only £20 a ticket, hell yeah! However, in their long absence they have been reincarnated as…
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A smaller selection this week, there were just too many good new albums to listen to! Single of the Week: Lucy Rose – Pale Blue Eyes An outstanding new single from Lucy Rose, a lush expansive tune designed for easy…
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One of the stars of last years ‘Are You Listening?’ Festival in Reading drops a full album. Where this album lands with you is likely to come down to where you stand on ‘The Streets.’ If you find them witty,…
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