Serendipity – that’s one of the beauties of a curated playlist like RaW Sounds Today.
Tune in and you’ll discover something you’d never previously considered listening to.
And that’s what happened to the top entry of this week’s collection. Thanks to their chance inclusion here, it led to a slot at Wokingham Festival. Now, you can enjoy their sound and discover something else that’s new.
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.
OSP – Iyah
One of the success stories of Wokingham Festival was OSP, who stepped in at the last minute to cover for a cancellation.
Their appearance earlier in the year in this playlist was the inspiration for them being offered the slot and this four-piece rap collective from Reading certainly took full advantage of the opportunity.
They easily won over the Wokingham Music Club Stage with their uplifting positive vibe.
They looked cool and they sounded excellent. 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.
Like their other releases this year, Blind Emotion and The World Outside My Door, it’s another well-played and well-crafted song showing the band’s consistent quality.
They are live at South Street Arts Centre, Reading this Saturday 10, along with Air Circus and Worm Immortality Team, and will also be at Heavy Pop’s Roseate Sessions in Reading with Bethia on 29 – https://www.facebook.com/thephantombooth
The Room – Vanished
This is taken from The Room’s 2019 album, Caught by the Machine, which we included last week 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 crowdpleaser 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 on Monday. 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 was also sound engineer on the WMC Stage at Wokingham Festival and played his own set there – https://www.facebook.com/AaronCiliaArtist
Focus – Hocus Pocus
Here’s another legendary band who have had UK hits such as this one and they were amazing headliners on the Main Trademark Windows Stage at Wokingham Festival on August Bank Holiday Monday – https://focustheband.co.uk/
Kepler Ten – A New Kind of Sideways
It’s the title track from Kepler Ten’s acclaimed album on our White Star Records label. They have only played songs from the album once before, so it was great to see them at Wokingham Festival – https://www.keplerten.com/
