A MUSICAL odyssey is coming to Wokingham next month, and we’re not joking.
yes, the gig date might be April Fools’ Day, but Martin Turner is deadly serious about his music.
He will be performing Wishbone Ash’s classic album Argus when he visits Wokingham Music Club. To whet your appetite, we have one of the tracks from it in this week’s playlist. Enjoy.
The RaW Sounds playlist is a terrific way to explore a wide range of brilliant artists, discover some new music and keep dancing – make sure you bookmark the Spotify page.
To hear this week’s set, simply head to https://bit.ly/rawsoundstoday and pump up the volume.
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Wishbone Ash – Sometime World
It’s from the band’s classic album, Argus, and it’s here as Martin Turner Ex-Wishbone Ash is returning to Wokingham Music Club on Friday, April 1 to perform the whole of the album.
He and his band of excellent musicians will also be performing the Wishbone Four album.
If you saw Martin last time he played at WMC or his headlining performance at Wokingham Festival, you’ll know how good he and his band are and, if you didn’t, you should really take this opportunity – https://www.martinturnermusic.com/
Rachel Redman – You Set Me Free
Rachel is a singer-songwriter from the local area and, even though we’ve featured her in the playlist before, it’s well worth including her again as she’s recently released this wonderful new single. It’s another well-crafted song with Rachel’s distinctive country-pop feel.
The song has been receiving radio plays and Rachel has also released a lyric video that is worth checking out.
We’ll look forward to seeing Rachel live at gigs and festivals during the year – 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 will be live at Readipop Festival’s Launch Party at Purple Turtle on Saturday, March 19 along with Brother Zulu AND Hatty Taylor – https://www.facebook.com/ospmusicuk
My Darling Clementine – I Lost You
This duo have become part of the country and Americana landscape with their wonderful songs and live shows and they are visiting the area to play at Wokingham Music Club on Friday, March 18 – https://mydarlingclementinemusic.co.uk/
Grandad – About Him
Here’s a new band from Bracknell with a single taken from their debut EP, Walk Around Me. The alt-rock four-piece have a grungy shoegaze style overlaid with melodies – https://www.facebook.com/wearegrandad
Reliant – Pain of It All
They made our Top 10 of our best of 2020 list and now they are back with a new single. It’s another uplifting powerful indie-rock anthem and it was recorded at Generation Studio in Maidenhead – https://www.facebook.com/WeAreReliant
Steve Anderson – Coda
Steve, from The Room, has just released his solo album, Journeyman’s Progress – Part One which is a wonderful album of instrumentals showcasing Steve’s skills as a guitarist and musician – https://journeymansprogress.co.uk/
Split the Dealer – Hard To Take
He was in our Top 10 of the year list in both 2020 and 2021 and here’s his new single. Split the Dealer will be headlining at Reading’s Sub 89 with his full band on Friday, May 13 – https://www.facebook.com/splitthedealer
Lonely Robot – Under Stars
Lonely Robot was created by John Mitchell who works from his Reading-based recording studio, Outhouse as songwriter, musician AND producer. He played a special show at Everyman in Kings Cross last month – https://johnmitchellhq.com
