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2007 Reviews

August 2007

Phil White + Dan Lomas + The Vibes + The Cantoons - photo review
Cellar Bar, South Hill Park, Bracknell - 2 August 2007

July 2007

Josaka New Music Café  >>> photo review
Big Day Out, South Hill Park - 7 July

May 2007

Phil White + Big Wednesday + Bidgie Reef and The Gas + Quick 50s - photo review
Cellar Bar, South Hill Park, Bracknell - 3 May

April 2007

The Trouble With Me + Up C Down C Left C ABC and Start + My Luminaries + SixNationState - photo review
Wilde Theatre, South Hill Park, Bracknell - 27 April 2007

March 2007

Six Nation State - Where Are You Now
single review - March 2007

After Hours
The Cannie Man, Bracknell - 10 March 2007

Reading Homecoming Festival 2 - photo review
The Fez Club, Reading - 7 March 2007

'It Still Moves All The Same' by Sleep Room
CD review

Josaka New Music Show - photo review featuring White Sunday + Sleeps In Oysters + Kaldera + Hello Wembley
Cellar Bar, South Hill Park, Bracknell - 1 March 2007

February 2007

Josaka 8th Birthday - photo review featuring The Race + Rebus + Audio Runway  + What Is: Protocol
21 South Street, Reading

2006 Reviews

October 2006

Six Nation State 'Fire!'
Single review

My Luminaries + The Colours + The Trouble With Me + Damien A Passmore
The Cellar Bar, Bracknell - 5 October 2006

August 2006

Jurassic Ska Bandits + The Lockup + Super Safe Johnny + Splendid Eddie
The Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading - 19 August 2006

Screwball Cabaret featuring Shorty + Three Litre + Hundred Handed + Snowy Static
Plugnplay, Reading - 17 August 2006

July 2006

The Falling Idols + Lindsey + Dave + Zaránd Schuller
Iguana Bar, Reading - 19 July 2006

The Enigma Project
Astronaut/Microcosm -single review

Red Hot Chili Peppers + Ben Harper
Madejski Stadium, Reading - 3 July 2006

June 2006

Exit Tahiti
Demo - Falling + Pale Blue + Mess + Collide 2006

May 2006

Skinny Molly
The Rising Sun, Reading - 18 May 2006

Chinafight
Say You’re Sorry - CD review by Al Heslop

Culture Workshop Marquee
Come Together Festival, Henley - 13-14 May 2006

Counterfeit Stones
The Hexagon, Reading - 3 May 2006

April 2006

Ozzy Wozborn + The View + Holy Cowbells + Gator Highway
The Rising Sun, Reading - 29 April 2006

Rebus 'Red' EP launch featuring Rebus + SixNationState + Somebody's Mind
PlugnPlay, Reading - 15 April 2006

Platinum Abba
Bier Keller, Bracknell

March 2006

Wire Jesus
The Intruder (Make It Better) - single review by AK

Three Litre
Alpine Suite by  - review by Alex Kaupa

Shomaha
'gamesthatwanttogetout' EP - review by Al Heslop

Rebus
'The Red EP' - review by Ben Marwood

Rebus + Elle Milano + Polar Remote + Libor Spacek
The After Dark, Reading - 9 March 2006

Heartwear Process
Mean Season CD

February 2006

Wire Jesus
The Intruder (Make It Better) - single review by Bethanee

Laura Marling + Rachel Deadman + Amy Flack + Anna Tabbush + Laura Colegate + Gabby Young
Acoustic Fridays @ The Maltings, Farnham - 10 February 2006

Sleep Room
Shut Windows, Draw Curtains' EP - February 2006

January 2006

Lewis Taylor
The Jazz Café, Camden - 12 January 2006

Screwball Cabaret featuring Pure Reason Revolution + Six Nation State + Kaldera + Pete and the Pirates + Damien A Passmore >>> review by Charley Murray  >>> review by Paul C
Plug N Play, Reading - 11 January 2006

White Sunday
‘Chaperon’ EP Review

The Sand Creek Massacre + Audio Runway
The Purple Turtle, Reading - Wednesday 4 Jan 2006

2005 Reviews

December 2005

Doves
Hexagon, Reading - 3 December 2005

November 2005

Kindred Spirit + Nina McCann
Central Studio, Basingstoke - 25 November 2005

Sequoia 'Ebb & Flow' Album Review

PopToys photos featuring The Sand Creek Massacre + Wire Jesus
South Street, Reading - 12 November 2005

Exit 10
The Face Bar, Reading -  4 November 2005

October 2005

Broken Jack
Mojo’s Bar, Reading University Students Union - 31 October 2005

September 2005

White Sunday
Half Moon, Putney - 21 September 2005

Acoustic Fridays Volume 1
CD Review featuring Big Wednesday + Rob Reynolds + Jenny-Lynn Smith + Without Grace
Sequoia + Alastair Brown + Laura Colegate + Logo + Mike Henson + Rachel Mari Kimber + The Lightyears + Retrograde Inversion + Subdelta + Anna Neale + Rachel Deadman + Case Hardin + Wire Jesus

Smudged + Nayfumble + Jensen + Mia Hope + Remember
Bands Go Wilde! Final @ Wilde Theatre, Bracknell - 4 September 2005

August 2005

Aqua Livi & The Roots Imansion
Screwball Cabaret @ Plug n’ Play Studios, Reading - 24 August 2005

Aqua Livi and the Roots Imansion + Polar Remote + Suitable Case For Treatment + Carter + Ben Marwood
Screwball Cabaret @ Plug n’ Play Studios, Reading - 24 August 2005

Carter
Screwball Cabaret, Plug n' Play, Reading - 24 August 2005

Funk Factory featuring Kaldera + Barflyz
Bar Risa, Reading - 23 August 2005

Red Dead Dog + Jensen + Ecoute + Wire Jesus + Kenelis + Smudged
Bands Go Wilde! Heat 2 @ Cellar Bar, Bracknell - 21 August 2005

Daily Dose + Great White Hope + Nayfumble + Mia Hope + Remember + Majestix
Bands Go Wilde! Heat 1 @ Cellar Bar, Bracknell - 14 August 2005

One Beat featuring Stup!d, Kaldera, The Naked Apes and others
Basingstoke - 13 August 2005

July 2005

Politan
Demo review

Karn8 "Everything That You Despise"
EP review

Ben Marwood and His New Best Friends "Give up...Just Once Give Up"
CD review by Mike Hefferan

June 2005

Symmetry + Exit Ten + Twin Zero + Reuben + Million Dead + Oceansize + SikTh + Raging Speedhorn + Capdown + Biffy Clyro  >>> review
Bukandskit Fest - 19 June 2005

Solar + Matt Tanner + Don Mescall + Pallab Sarkar & Ben Owens + The Storys + Erica Steenkamp & Chris Newland + The Lightyears + The Bohemians + Mike Halliwell + Sequoia + The Naked Apes + Sumladfromcov + Bird + Glenn Tilbrook  >>> festival review
Abbey Music Festival 2005 - 18 June 2005

May 2005

King Furnace "Like A Furnace" EP
Review by Alex Kaupa

April 2005

Idlewild + Sons and Daughters
The Hexagon, Reading - 8 April 2005

Carter "Nine Lives" EP
Review by Alex Kaupa

Lazywall + Rémember + Mangalica
ReadiRockRevolutions, Purple Turtle, Reading - 14 April 2005

The Race + Mudgun
ReadiRockRevolutions, Purple Turtle, Reading - 5 April 2005

March 2005

Tonic, Kaldera and Sub-sense raise money for Oxfam
Jagz, Ascot - 8 March 2005

Rebus
Daylight Fading/Clone A - double A side single

February 2005

Big Wednesday + Burnt Lychee + My Luminaries + Rebus
Josaka 6th Birthday Gig @ 21 South Street, Reading - 26 February 2005

Predatür + School For The Gifted + Exit 10 + Malefice
Rivermead, Reading - 25 February 2005

The Race
CD review by Chris Howard

Heartwear Process + Off The Radar
Colorz Bar, Reading - 3 February 2005

January 2005

My Luminaries
All I Really Want/The Mess We’re In - CD Review

Vespertine
"For Felicity" EP

Hot Mikado
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Highgate, London - 5 January 2005

2004 Reviews

December 2004

Chris Howard & Owen Martin (previously of Sonic EP)
Demo CD review - December 2004

Jurassic Ska Bandits
Demo review - December 2004

November 2004

Burnt Lychee + Yankee Nine Niner + Rebus + Desdemona review Alex AK Kaupa and Mike Hefferan
A Winter's Gimp, The Fez Club, Reading - 24 November 2004

Burnt Lychee + Yankee Nine Niner + Rebus + Desdemona review by Joe North
A Winter's Gimp, The Fez Club, Reading - 24 November 2004

Modest Mouse
The Fez, Reading - 22 November 2004

James Taylor Quartet
The Fez Club, Reading - 18 November 2004

My Luminaries + Wire Jesus
The Clapham Grand, Clapham London - 17 November 2004

The Thrills review by David Miller
The Hexagon, Reading - 8 November 2004

The Thrills + The Dead 60s + support review by Simon Eales
The Hexagon, Reading - 8 November 2004

The Thrills review by Joel Priest
The Hexagon, Reading - 8 November 2004

Shomaha "Deepsea Spark"
CD Review by Michael Hefferan

Rob Reynolds + The Sham
Bush Hall, Shepherds Bush, London - 3 November 2004

October 2004

The Earlies + Half Cousin + Micah P Hinson by Martin Kahl
21 South Street Arts Centre, Reading - 29 October 2004

The Earlies by Simon Eales
21 South Street Arts Centre, Reading - 29 October 2004

Rats May Dream of Maze by Sleep Room
EP Review

Phil from Euclid + Ben Marwood + Three Litre
Nocturne, V Bar, Wokingham - 21 October 2004

Aspects + Little Barrie + The Bees
The Fez Club, Reading - 13 October 2004

September 2004

The Race
Colorz Venue, Reading - 30 September 2004

A Southern Light
Demo review - 28 September 2004

Yumi Yumi + We Start Fires + All You Miss + Wet Dog
The Face Bar, Chatham Street, Reading - 25 September 2004

The Heavy Blinkers + Ruth Minnikin + Bidgie Reef with No Gas
21 South Street, Reading - 23 September 2004

Sonic Undermind + Left Side Brain + RipChord
Colorz Venue, Reading - 16 September 2004

Trinity
Bunkfest 2004, Wallingford - 4 September 2004

August 2004

Nine Lives by Carter
EP review - August 2004

One Beat Festival
War Memorial Park, Basingstoke - 14 August 2004

The Self Preservation Society presents The Souls + Hundred Handed + Somebody’s Mind
The Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading - 14 August 2004

Tarnish + Wet Dog + Pete and the Pirates
3Bs, Reading - 7 August 2004

Caged Baby + Three Litre + Melitzer
Colorz Venue, Reading – 5 August 2004

Sleep Room
The Cellar Bar, South Hill Park, Bracknell - 1 August 2004

July 2004

Floodshock + Placid Storm + The Robot Vs + DJ Fashion
Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading - 31 July 2004

Yumi Yumi + Help She Can't Swim + Rebus
Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading - 30 July 2004

The Gimp
The Fez, Reading - 28 July 2004

White Wedding
Upstairs at The Gatehouse, Highgate - July 2004

WOMAD 2004 review by Alex 'AK' Kaupa
Rivermead, Reading - 23-25 July 2004

WOMAD 2004 review by Simon Eales
Rivermead, Reading - 23-25 July 2004

Scorched Flesh + The Worst Story + Fear of God + Melitzer + Kill Winter + Arameus
AUE, Basingstoke - July 2004

Morning Runner + Polar Remote + My Luminaries + Rebus review by David Miller
The Face Bar, Reading - 7 July 2004

Morning Runner + Polar Remote + My Luminaries + Rebus review by Mike Hefferan
The Face Bar, Reading - 7 July 2004

June 2004

The Bukandskit Fest
Abbey Rugby Club, Emmer Green - 27 June 2004

My Luminaries
Mojo's, Reading University Student's Union - 21 June 2004

Soulcyde + Kaldera + Carter + Red Antennae
Bar Oz, Reading - 17 June 2004

The Morning + Windows and Squares + Habita
The Railway Inn, Winchester - 16 June 2004

Three Litre
Mojo’s, Reading University Students Union - 14 June 2004 (by David Miller)

Three Litre
Mojo’s, Reading University Students Union - 14 June 2004 (by Kevin Harrington)

Imbongi & Albert Nyathi
21 South Street, Reading - 13 June 2004

May 2004

Sonic Undermind
Mojos, Reading University Student Union - 31 May 2004

Trout
3Bs, Reading - 22 May 2004

Christian Blood + Melitzer + Kill Winter + Dead After School + Twofold
The British Legion, Andover - 21 May 2004

Pete and the Pirates + The Fades + Rebus
The Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading - Saturday 15 May 2004

The Acoustic Bar featuring Rarefields + Chris Wain & Keiran + Jip-Lim-Wing + The Stencils + Voodoo Fire + The Point
The Silver Birch, Bracknell - 15 May 2004

The Buzzcocks + The Subways
The 360, Students Union, University of Reading - 14 May 2004

Don Weller Quartet
South Street Jazz Sessions - 7 May 2004

Subgiant + Exmaark + Floodshock - review by David Miller
Bar Oz, Reading - 6 May 2004

Subgiant + Exmaark + Floodshock - review by Mike Hefferan and Jo from Caged Baby
Bar Oz, Reading - 6 May 2004

Karn8
Wicked Boy - CD review - May 2004

April 2004

The Trouble With Me + Meretto
The Purple Turtle, Reading - 27 April 2004

Hazel O’Connor + Slide
South Street Arts Centre, Reading - 25 April 2004

Kaldera
'Silence' and 'Real' - CD review - April 2004

Last Rites + Logo + Yankee Nine Niner + The Blitzkrieg
Bar Oz, Reading - 15 April 2004

Return to Zero
The Global Café, Reading - 14 April 2004

OffTheRadar + Tarnish + Sullivan
Poptoys, 21 South Street, Reading - 10 April 2004

Kaldera
Jagz, Ascot - 9 April 2004

Polar Remote + Fiel Garvie + Stars Of Aviation
3Bs, Town Hall, Reading - 3 April 2004

The Oldest Profession + Ssketch + Defusion + Cannon Fodder + The Forum + Equinox
Battle of the Bands @ Wallingford School, Wallingford - 1 April 2004

March 2004

Kasabian + The Noyze + Caged + White Sunday + Entronaut
The Fez, Reading - 31 March 2004

Solar + Tyler
The Global Café, Reading - 30 March 2004

Unplugged & Intimate - acoustic night
Cellar Bar, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell - 25 March 2004

Jamie
The Royal Stag, Datchet - 25 March 2004

Bidgie Reef & The Gas
The Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading - 19 March 2004

Ben Marwood and Ben O'Sullivan
A Tale of Two Bens - Ben Marwood and Ben O'Sullivan CDs reviewed by Mike Hefferan - March 2004

Old Blue Moses + The Whisky Go-Gos + Dilemma + Matt Arthur & Reign + Kristian Bediiako's World Fusion + Strolla + Craig Blundell + Los Cohanos + Sidewinder
The White Lyon Worplesdon, nr Guildford, Surrey - 21 March 2004

Caged Baby + Big Wednesday + Sequoia + Rebus + Three Litre
Bar Oz, Reading - review by AK and Mike Hefferan - 18 March 2004

Caged Baby + Big Wednesday + Sequoia + Rebus + Three Litre
Bar Oz, Reading - review by Sam Grant - 18 March 2004

Booze review by iapetus
Bar Oz, Reading - 18 March 2004

Caged Baby + Big Wednesday + Sequoia + Rebus + Three Litre
Bar Oz, Reading - photo review by Chris Moore - 18 March 2004

:heckler
The Agincourt, Camberley - 5 March 2004

February 2004

'Who?' CD Launch featuring :heckler + Sonic Undermind + My Luminaries + Logo
21 South Street, Reading - 27 February 2004

Local Bands Night
The Fez, Reading - 25 February 2004

Ironheart + Predatür + School For The Gifted + Exit 10
Rivermead, Reading - 20 February 2004

Josaka “Who?”
CD - review by AK - February 2004

Trout + Ipanema + Caged Baby + Kaye + Seroxat
Bar Oz, Reading - 19 February 2004

Poptoys featuring Yankee Nine Niner + Obiat + Lazywall
21 South Street, Reading (by Rebecca Bayliss) - 14 February 2004

Poptoys featuring Yankee Nine Niner + Obiat + Lazywall
21 South Street, Reading (by Katrina Joseph) - 14 February 2004

SoulCyde + Carter
Bar Oz, Reading (by Alison Rolls) - 12 February 2004

Stup!d + SoulCyde + Carter + Red Antennae
Bar Oz, Reading (by AK) - 12 February 2004

Reading Venues a Players Guide
13 February 2004

Unplugged & Intimate
The Cellar Bar, South Hill Park, Bracknell - 5 February 2004

The Prowlers
Reading Blues Festival, The Crown, Caversham Bridge, Reading - 1 February 2004

January 2004

99lbs
The Walkern Blues Club - 17 January 2004

Paulwenthome + :heckler + Tantalis
British Legion Club, Andover - 16 January 2004

Eventide + Sonic Undermind + Sullivan + Aden Pearce
Bar Oz, Reading for Lu-Lu-Palooza! - 15 January 2004

Local Bands Night featuring Heckler + Big Wednesday + Rebus + The Big Sleep + Made In The UK
The Wilde Theatre, South Hill Park - 10 January 2004

2003 Reviews