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RaW Sounds Today Chris Hillman bit.ly/raw soundstoday

FORGET Casablanca, it’s Bracknell for us. And forget As Time Goes By, it’s As Time Stands Still.

This week, we are wafting under your ears a new single from One Last Day, and we got to hear them live last week at The Acoustic Couch. It was fantastic.

It’s one of three new entries in the playlist, and we think you’ll love it.

As ever, we’re on a mission to champion and showcase great music from acts that have a connection to Reading and Wokingham (that’s the RaW in our Sounds Today name).

It’s a mixture that will help you discover something new. All you have to do is find it on Spotify.

To hear this week’s selection, simply head to https://bit.ly/rawsoundstoday and enjoy the music.

There is also a Facebook page and group chat that bands and music fans can tap into. You can search for RaW Sounds Today and it will come up.

One Last Day – As Time Stands Still

If you like good rock music with power and emotion this is for you.

One Last Day recently released this new single and like their last single, Out of the Black, that we

Gig Guide

Thursday, February 9

READING – The Blagrave Arms, Blagrave Street RG1 1PW.

Karaoke. Details: 0118 958

6775.

READING - Lola Lo, Friar Street. Skint Thursdays: Skint Rock, pop punk and classic rock, plus house and techo. Details: Twitter @skintmondays

WOKINGHAM – Hope and Anchor, Station Road RG40 2AD. Acoustic night with Harley Hutchinson. Details: 0118 977 0918.

WOKINGHAM – The Victoria Arms, Easthampstead Road RG40 2EH. Open mic night.

Details: 0118 979 9437.

Friday, February 10

BRACKNELL – The Acoustic Couch, The Ring RG12 1JG. London Beat Club, The Julia Set, Elephant Hawk. Details: www. theacousticcouch.co.uk

BRACKNELL – The Keller, Coppid Beech Hotel, John Nike Way RG12 8TF. All About You.

Details: 01344 303333.

GORING - Goring Community Centre, The Old School, Station Road RG8 9HB. Goring Community Jazz Club presents Mingus Mingus Mingus. Details www.ticketsource.co.uk/goringcommunity-jazz-club

READING – The Butler, Chatham Street RG1 7DS. Open mic night. Details: 0118 959 5500.

READING – The Face bar, Ambrose Place RG1 7JE. Valentine’s Masquerade ball. Details: 0118 959 5500.

READING – Fisherman’s Cottage, Kennet Side RG1 3DW. The Ghost Notes. Details: 07866 251216.

READING – The Jazz Cafe, Select Car leasing Stadium RG2 0FL. Valentine’s weekender. Details: 0118 968 1442.

WOKINGHAM – Broad Street featured last year, it shows that this band from the local area have quality in their musicianship, vocals and song writing.

They are also a great live band as we saw when popped along to see their exciting headlining performance in a packed Acoustic Couch in Bracknell last Friday.

They were excellent - https://linktr.ee/onelastday Marisa and the Moths

– If You Knew

We included their Pedestal single in the playlist last month but as the band performed such a good show at Reading’s Purple Turtle a couple of weeks ago and have just released their new EP, Damned If I Do which features this great song, originally released as a single last year, we had to include them again.

They are certainly getting noticed including being been played on BBC Radio 1 and with indie rock as good as this, it’s not hard to see whyhttps://www.marisaandthemoths.com/

Tavern, Broad Street RG40

1AU. Peach and the Prairie Dogs. Details: 0118 977 3706.

WOKINGHAM – The Station Tap, Station Road RG40 2AD. Karaoke with Waynie. Details: 0118 977 4548.

WOKINGHAM – The Whitty Theatre, Luckley House School, Luckley Road RG40

3EU. Wokingham Music Club presents Chris Difford. 7.30pm. Details:www. wokinghammusicclub.co.uk

Saturday, February 11

BRACKNELL – The Acoustic Couch, The Ring RG12 1JG. British Bluescasting Corporation. Details: www.theacousticcouch. co.uk

BRACKNELL – The Keller, Coppid Beech Hotel, John Nike Way RG12 8TF. Bottlekids. Details: 01344 303333.

CAVERSHAM – Caversham Park Village Social Club, Northbrook Road, Caversham Park Village RG4 6PF. Neon Daze. Details: 0118 334 1040.

CHARVIL – The Wee Waif, Old Bath Road RG10 9RJ. Moon Hill presents karaoke and disco.

CROWTHORNE – Royal British Legion, Wellington Road RG45

7LJ. Gary Roman as Elvis.

Details: 01344 772161.

PLAYHATCH – The Flowing Spring, Henley Road RG4 9RB. Singalong-a-Nick Valentine’s Special. Details: 0118 969 98978.

READING – The Blagrave Arms, Blagrave Street RG1 1PW. DJ F’Unkle. Details: 0118 958 6775.

READING – The Butler, Chatham Street RG1 7DS. Syn City Rockers. Details: 0118 959 5500.

READING – The Jazz Cafe, Select Car leasing Stadium RG2 0FL. Valentine’s weekender. Details: 0118 968 1442.

READING – The Palmer Tavern, Wokingham Road RG6 1JL. The Meterologists. Details: 0118 935 1009.

READING – Phantom Brewing, Meadow Road RG1 8LB. Brewery tour and tasting. Noon. Booking essential. Dark Days, Dark Beers with Darklands.

Details: www.phantombrew. com

READING – Salisbury Conservative Club, Kings Road RG1 4HX. The Gas Trick Band. Details: 0118 926 5804.

READING – Sub89, Friar Street RG1 1EP. Fat Lip. Details: 0118 959 5395

READING – The Turks, London Road RG1 5BJ. Judas Rising.

Details: 0118 957 6930

TILEHURST – The Royal British Legion Club, Downing Road RG31 5BB. Full Flavour. Details: 0118 942 9606.

TILEHURST – The Victoria, Norcot Road RG30 6BP. Live music.

Details: 0118 941 5064.

WOKINGHAM – WADE, Reading Road RG41 1EH. Dance night with Abi Powell. 7.30pm. £11, includes snakcs. Free parking at Masonic Hall opposite. Bring your own drinks and glasses.

Details: wadecentre.org.uk/ events

WOKINGHAM – The Station Tap, Station Road RG40 2AD. DJ Bounce. Details: 0118 977 4548.

WOKINGHAM – Hope and Anchor, Station Road RG40 2AD. Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Rage Against The Machine tribute.

7.30pm. Details: 0118 977 0918.

WOKINGHAM – The Victoria Arms, Easthampstead Road RG40 2EH. Revolver. Details: 0118 979 9437.

Sunday, February 12

BRACKNELL – South Hill Park,

ON TIME: One Last Day at The Acoustic Couch in Bracknell

Picture: Andrew Merritt

Kristeen Young –Absence Makes the Heart Grow Father

They don’t just come from around the UK to play at venues in our area, they come from around the world. Club Velocity/New Mind have a show at Reading Facebar on February 22 with this unique artist from the US.

Kristeen has just released a new video of this song from her The Beauty Shop album and if you like innovative, powerful, emotive music with a Bjork/ Kate Bush feel, check this out.

Support on the night is Strange Cities, also from US - https://kristeenyoung.com/ Catfish

– Soulbreaker

If you like your blues played by excellent musicians with powerful vocals, it’s well worth getting along to Wokingham Music Club (WMC) on Friday, February 17 to see Catfish. This song is from their 2019 album, Burning Bridges - https://www. catfishband.com/

Ringmead RG12 7PA. Wilde

Sundays: Marc Woosnam, Marshpoem, Jack Frank. Details: 01344 484123.

READING – The Blagrave Arms, Blagrave Street RG1 1PW. Boadcia presents: Mr & Mrs.

Details: 0118 958 6775.

READING – Community Hall, Watlington House, Watlington Street RG1 4RJ. Readifolk presents: Skinner and T’Witch

Details: www.readifolk.org.uk

READING – The Jazz Cafe, Select Car leasing Stadium RG2 0FL. Valentine’s weekender. Details: 0118 968 1442.

READING – The Purple Turtle, Gun St RG1 2JR. Reggae Sundays. Details: 0118 959 7196.

SONNING – The Mill at Sonning, Sonning Eye RG4 6TY. West End Meets Broadway. Details: 0118 969 8000.

Monday, February 13

WOKINGHAM – Hope and Anchor, Station Road RG40 2AD. Acoustic Cafe. 7.30pm. Details: 0118 977 0918.

Tuesday, February 14

BAGSHOT – The Foresters Arms, London Road. Bracknell Folk Club. Details: www. bracknellfolk.org.uk

READING – Fisherman’s Cottage, Kennet Side RG1 3DW. Live jazz, blues and more. Free entry, donations welcome. Details: 07866 251216.

READING - Lola Lo, Friar Street.

FOMO: Valentine’s Day Singles Night. Details: Twitter @ skintmondays

SONNING – The Mill at Sonning, Sonning Eye RG4 6TY. The Neil Diamond and Barbara Streisand Show. Details: 0118 969 8000.

Wednesday, February 15

WHISTLEY GREEN - The Elephant and Castle, Lodge Road RG10

Quantum Pig – Keep the Nation Warm

This London-based duo supported Lonely Robot this week at Islington Assembly Hall show this week. Lonely Robot’s Reading-based creator John Mitchell performs a brilliant guitar solo on this song - https:// quantumpig.live/

Squeeze – Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)

Chris Difford who co-wrote and performed so many great songs with Squeeze will be performing his solo show for WMC at the Whitty Theatre this coming Friday 10. Here’s a Squeeze classic - https:// chrisdifford.com/

Gemma Rogers – The Great Escape

London-based Gemma came to Reading in November and performed a great show at the Facebar. This song is from her new four-track EP The Great Escape – https://www.gemmarogersmusic. com/

Lonely Robot – Lonely Robot

Reading producer John Mitchell’s Lonely Robot headlined London’s Islington Assembly Hall this week - https://www.facebook.com/ LonelyRobotband/

Tom Webber – I’m Yours

Tom was live in Reading on Saturday to headline Rising Sun Arts Centre, a Club Velocity Independent Venue Week show - https://www.tomwebbermusic. com/

Flutatious – Spacechick (Mitchell Mix)

What a great show at Wokingham Music Club recently. This, from their Fluctuations EP, was mixed by John Mitchell - https://www.flutatious.co.uk/

0EH. Open mic night. Details: 0118 934 0886.

Thursday, February 16

READING – The Blagrave Arms, Blagrave Street RG1 1PW. Karaoke. Details: 0118 958 6775.

READING – The Butler, Chatham Street RG1 7DS. Storm In a Teacup: Hell’s Ditch, Missing The Scene, As Loud As A Mouse, Landlord Lynch. Details: 0118 959 5500.

READING - Lola Lo, Friar Street. Skint Thursdays: Skint Rock, pop punk and classic rock, plus house and techo. Details: Twitter @skintmondays

WOKINGHAM – The Grasshopper, Rose Street RG40 1XU. Live at the Grasshopper: Mark Warner’s Full Swing. From 6.30pm. Details: 0118 901 2678.

WOKINGHAM – Hope and Anchor, Station Road RG40 2AD. Acoustic Cafe with Alfie Griffin. 7.30pm. Details: 0118 977 0918.

WOKINGHAM – The Leafy Elephant, Peach Place. Sugar and Sax.

WOKINGHAM – The Victoria Arms, Easthampstead Road RG40 2EH. Open mic night. Details: 0118 979 9437.

Friday, February 17

BRACKNELL – The Acoustic Couch, The Ring RG12 1JG. Signature Vision and Nothing Dreams. Details: www.theacousticcouch. co.uk

BRACKNELL – The Keller, Coppid Beech Hotel, John Nike Way RG12 8TF. I Got Soul: Barry White and Motown tribute. Details: 01344 303333.

BRACKNELL – South Hill Park, Ringmead RG12 7PA. Bracknell Jazz: Martin Shaw. Details: 01344 484123.

EMMBROOK – Emmbrook Sports & Social, Lowther Road RG41 1JB. Wokingham Music Club presents Catfish. Details: www. wokinghammusicclub.co.uk

EVERSLEY – The Golden Pot, Reading Road RG27 0NB. Paul Tino. Details: 0118 973 2104.

READING – The Butler, Chatham Street RG1 7DS. Open mic night. Details: 0118 959 5500.

READING – The Rising Sun, Silver Street RG1 2ST. An Evening with Secluded Bronte. Details: 0118 986 6788.

READING – South Street arts centre. Limehouse Lizzy. Details: 0118 960 6060.

READING – Sub89, Friar Street RG1 1EP. The Music of Prince: New Purple Celebration.

Details: 0118 959 5395. WOKINGHAM – Broad Street Tavern, Broad Street RG40 1AU. 4G. Details: 0118 977 3706.

WOKINGHAM – The Station Tap, Station Road RG40 2AD. Karaoke with Waynie. Details: 0118 977 4548.

YATTENDON – Village Hall, Yattendon Lane RG18 0UE. Brewhouse Music - Chris Garrick & John Etheridge. £16. 7pm. Details: 01635 200185.

Saturday, February 18

BRACKNELL – The Acoustic Couch, The Ring RG12 1JG. Special Kinda Madness. Details: www. theacousticcouch.co.uk

BRACKNELL – The Keller, Coppid Beech Hotel, John Nike Way RG12 8TF. The New Ambassadors. Details: 01344 303333.

EMMBROOK – The Dog and Duck, Matthewsgreen Road RG41 1JT. The Parallels. Details: 0118 978 0544.

PLAYHATCH – The Flowing Spring, Henley Road RG4 9RB.

Hazel’s Birthday Party featuring

Moonage. Details: 0118 969 98978.

READING – The Butler, Chatham Street RG1 7DS. The Highwasters. Details: 0118 959 5500.

READING – The Jazz Cafe, Select Car leasing Stadium RG2 0FL. Glow party. Details: 0118 968 1442.

READING – The Rising Sun, Silver Street RG1 2ST. 4Fingaz Live.

Details: 0118 986 6788.

READING – Salisbury Conservative Club, Kings Road RG1 4HX. The Flashback Band. Details: 0118 926 5804.

READING – Sub89, Friar Street RG1 1EP. Craig Charles. Drum Fest: Unglued and Jam Thieves.

Details: 0118 959 5395

TILEHURST – The Royal British Legion Club, Downing Road RG31 5BB. Wardour Street.

Details: 0118 942 9606.

WOKINGHAM – The Station Tap, Station Rd RG40 2AD. DJ Bounce. Details: 0118 977 4548.

WOKINGHAM – Hope and Anchor, Station Road RG40 2AD. Full Flavour!. 7.30pm. Details: 0118 977 0918.

Sunday, February 19

READING – Blue Collar Dining, Hosier Street RG1 7JL.

Songwriter Showcase: Songwriting Trio, Shawn Twomey, Nicole Allan, Nikki Pearson. Noon-5pm. Details: www.linktr.ee/blue.collar

READING – Community Hall, Watlington House, Watlington Street RG1 4RJ. Readifolk presents: theme night It’s A

Date. Details: www.readifolk. org.uk

READING – The Purple Turtle, Gun St RG1 2JR. Reggae Sundays.

Details: 0118 959 7196.

SONNING – The Mill at Sonning, Sonning Eye RG4 6TY. Whitney: Queen of the Night. Details: 0118 969 8000.