THE music community in Reading and Wokingham is a great thing. By working together, we can help dangle some great tunes under your noses.
This week’s top new entry is a classic example of that: a hat-tip to Wokingham’s record store for spotting The Amazons’ new release.
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The Amazons – Bloodrush
Ian from Wokingham’s Beyond the Download record store alerted us to this new single.
We gave it a listen and loved it as it’s another brilliant anthem from this fast-rising band from Reading.
It’s from their forthcoming third album How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me? which is out in September.
The band is going from strength to strength and recently played London’s O2 Arena as part of a support tour to Royal Blood. They have their own UK and EU headlining tour later in the year – https://theamazons.co.uk/
Small Town Heroes – i need u
Here’s a new five-piece band that we are sure would like to achieve the success that The Amazons are having and judging by their debut EP, No Filters Needed, from which this song is taken, maybe they will.
They have good songs which are well played and they have sing-along choruses so we’ll look forward to checking them out live when they appear on the Wokingham Music Club (WMC) Stage at Wokingham Festival in August – https://tommyhand.wixsite.com/smalltownheroesuk
That Joe Payne – End of the Tunnel
Joe will be returning to headline the WMC Stage at Wokingham Festival on August Bank Holiday Monday with his solo set following a brilliant performance there in 2019 – https://www.thatjoepayne.com/
A Better Life – A Moment of Nothing
This chill-out collective based around local music producer, Phil Daniels, have recently released a brand new video to this track from their acclaimed debut album Take A Deep Breath – https://abetterlifemusic.com/
Focus – Sylvia
Exciting news that legendary rock band, Focus, will be headlining Wokingham Festival this year on August Bank Holiday Monday, August 29. This song is from their Focus 3 album and hit No.4 in the UK singles chart – https://focustheband.co.uk/
The Go Go Cult – Town Called Sorrow
Club Velocity celebrated an impressive 19 years of putting on events with a Birthday Party Gig at the Rising Sun Arts Centre last month, featuring these psychobilly punks – http://www.thegogocult.com/
Wishbone Ash – Sometime World
It’s from the band’s classic album, Argus, and Martin Turner Ex-Wishbone Ash returned to Wokingham Music Club on Friday, April 1 to perform the album in full, as well as their Wishbone Four album – https://www.martinturnermusic.com/
Rachel Redman – You Set Me Free
Rachel is a singer-songwriter from the area and, she’s recently released this wonderful new single. It’s another well-crafted song with Rachel’s distinctive country-pop feel – https://www.facebook.com/rachelredmanmusic/
Third Lung – Laura
This is the band’s first release of 2022 and they are certainly showing that they can maintain the quality of their previous excellent single releases. It’s from their forthcoming album, Gameplay. We’ll look forward to that. – http://thirdlungband.com/
OSP – Breathe
Here’s the debut single from Reading-based rap collective OSP. They were live at Readipop Festival’s Launch Party at Purple Turtle on March 19, along with Brother Zulu and Hatty Taylor – https://www.facebook.com/ospmusicuk
