THIS weekend, Loddfest is taking place in Dunsden Green.
After the overwhelming success of its sell-out festival last year, LoddFest 22 will once again showcase the best local bands with 10 hours of back-to-back performances.
It’s split across two stages: The Tapyard Stage showcases nine exciting and inspirational indie bands on the rise, while The Brewhouse Stage will host six intimate performances from Artists ranging from electronic chill-out to singer songwriter folk.
To celebrate, our two new entries are bands that will be there. Look out for Third Lung as well.
The RaW Sounds Today playlist is 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 an eclectic mix of stuff 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.
The Wave Machine – So Far So Good
Angus Trott aka The Wave Machine has been having a busy few weeks. On August 26th he released this new single, another of his self-penned joyous uplifting songs.
A day later he was opening the main Trademark Windows Stage at Wokingham Festival with a wonderful set that perfectly suited the occasion as the sun shone down.
Following radio interviews to promote the single, Angus is live this Saturday at Loddfest.
That’s looking like a great event – https://linktr.ee/thewavemachine
Elucidate – Crossroads
Talking of Loddfest, here’s a band that will be there too.
Elucidate are an alt-rock band from Reading that we have been hearing good things about.
We haven’t seen them live before, hopefully we can rectify that at Loddfest on Saturday.
Here’s their latest single which was released in the summer. It’s a good slice of melodic indie pop rock as are their other releases so far such as their Elucidate EP. The band released a remastered version of that EP earlier this year – https://linktr.ee/ElucidateUK
OSP – Iyah
One of the success stories of Wokingham Festival was OSP, who stepped in at last minute to cover for a cancellation, and got the crowd moving with an excellent set. Here’s Iyah, their most recent single – https://www.facebook.com/ospmusicuk
Phantom Booth – Apparatus
The latest single from this Reading/London-based band who create infectious catchy indie pop. They will be at Heavy Pop’s Roseate Sessions in Reading with Bethia on Thursday, September 29 – https://www.facebook.com/thephantombooth
The Room – Vanished
This is taken from The Room’s 2019 album, Caught by the Machine, which we added few weeks ago in tribute to the brilliant guitarist from the band, Eric Bouillette, who sadly passed away recently – https://theroom.band/
Flutatious – Wendel the Witch (Mitchell Mix)
They are a favourite at Wokingham Music Club and Wokingham Festival and in August they returned to the festival. It was great to see this crowd pleaser getting the crowd going – https://www.flutatious.co.uk/
That Joe Payne – Live the Dream
Here’s the latest single from That Joe Payne who headlined the Wokingham Music Club Stage at Wokingham Festival and showed what an incredible voice he has and what a brilliant performer he is – https://www.thatjoepayne.com/
James Hollingsworth – Faster than Light
James is a singer-songwriter from South West England who performed a wonderful set at the festival for the first time a few weeks ago. This is from his ‘Thirteen Moons’ album – https://www.jameshollingsworth.com/
Spriggan Mist – Lair of Isambard
This Bracknell-based band are a local favourite and this year their fame has been spreading as they have wowed crowds at festivals around the country including Wokingham – https://www.sprigganmist.com/
Aaron Cilia – The Illusion
Aaron has a connection to Spriggan Mist. He’s the son of Baz and Maxine Cilia from the band! He’s also sound engineer on the WMC Stage at Wokingham Festival and played his own set there – https://www.facebook.com/AaronCiliaArtist
