By Chris Hillman
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 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 why – https://www.marisaandthemoths.com/
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 USA.
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/
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 10th. 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 WMC recently. This, from their Fluctuations EP, was mixed by John Mitchell – https://www.flutatious.co.uk/
