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The beat goes on … Festivals may be over, but the bands are still playing. Tune in to Reading and Wokingham’s best music with the RaW Sounds Today Playlist

by Chris Hillman
September 1, 2023
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Who Ate All the Crayons - Harry Stradling - at Generation Studio Picture: Andrew Merritt

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WHAT a brilliant weekend we had at Wokingham Festival … and I hear Reading Festival was terrific too.

But there’s no time to rest on our laurels, it’s straight on with another great selection of music. Some of the tracks featured here you’ll be able to hear live at various events taking place very soon.

If you can’t get to the live shows, at the very least tune in to our FREE Spotify playlist and discover some great music. 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

Who Ate All The Crayons – Deep Blue Delivery

Here’s a song from the brand new Deep Blue EP by this Newbury-based band.

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They create wonderful indie pop songs and, as well as this one, there are five more on the EP and they are all worth a listen.

Following their performance at Wokingham Festival last weekend they will be at Bunkfest on Sunday, September 3, and Newbury Ale Fest on September 9 – https://linktr.ee/whoateallthecrayons

Jopy – Ka Ka Killer

Jopy has been playing a number of gigs in the local area with excellent and exciting live performances.

Here’s a single from Jopy from earlier this year that we must have missed when it came out.

It’s never too late for great music though and this is definitely a good single that is worthy of many plays. If you get the chance to see Jopy live make sure you get along as this is an artist to watch out for – https://www.facebook.com/jopymusic

One Eyed Man – Celebes Sea

Here’s a new single from this singer-songwriter and it’s another good one.

It’s a wonderful song with a cool soulful groove and there’s a guitar solo in there too which is great and suits the song perfectly.

This is an artist that is developing and progressing well with each release – https://www.facebook.com/TheOneEyedManOfficial

The BJ Bevy – Honey, Why I Treat You So Wrong?

It’s the band that got Wokingham Festival rocking and here’s a song from their debut EP, God-Honest Man which has just been released. Excellent blues-based indie rock – https://www.facebook.com/thebjbevy/

Caravan – Golf Girl

We were honoured to have this legendary rock band visit the area as Monday night headliners at Wokingham Festival. Here’s a song from their classic album, In the Land of Grey and Pink and it’s a wonderfully whimsical love song Caravan’s unique musical sound with lyrics that will always make you smile – https://officialcaravan.co.uk/

Tankus the Henge – Recurring Dream

Here’s that excellent band of brilliant musicians that were Sunday night headliners at Wokingham Festival – https://www.tankusthehenge.com/

Spacehopper – Pure Essence (Dub)

Here’s the sounds of trance and dub with festival favourites Spacehopper who have released some great singles, including this one, on our Magick Eye Records record label – https://www.facebook.com/spacehoppermusic

Rocket Kings – Space Camp

This Reading band have a new album, Paving the Way coming but while we wait for that here’s one from their last album. You can see a video of the title track from that new album now on YouTube – https://www.facebook.com/rocketkings

Kyros – Illusions inside

Kyros combine eighties pop elements alongside modern progressive rock sounds.

This is their new single on our White Star Records label. If you saw them at Wokingham Festival you’ll know how good they are. They are at The Musician in Leicester on September 4, and at Fiddler’s Elbow in Camden on September 6 – https://www.kyrosmusic.com/

OSP – Call Me

OSP were one of the highlights of the Wokingham Music Club Stage at Wokingham Festival last year and were asked back this year to appear on the main stage on the Sunday afternoon – https://www.facebook.com/ospmusicuk/

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