Reading Roars!

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Is Reading getting rougher? I have noticed a recent rise in bad behaviour on our town’s streets.
A few weeks ago, returning from work, I saw a girl very aggressively pulling another girl’s hair in public. The victim was pleading with the assailant to let go. Several minutes passed until a guy came rushing over [...]

I’ve often said that Reading has extraordinary sunsets. I don’t know why this is. Maybe the local Met Office can give me an answer?
I took the dramatic picture seen here with my humble cameraphone. The sky with red cloud looked like a blood-splattered surgical gown. The silhouetted tower is, of course, the local town hall [...]

It’s gone 11pm and, not for the first time recently, a noisy helicopter is flying overhead, no doubt irritating a huge swathe of the Reading population.
The noise pollution spewed by the aircraft is ridiculous. Who or what can they be looking for?
Of course, it’s not just Reading affected by this nocturnal nuisance. John [...]

News of another Reading Festival comes from across the pond. The Reading Festival and Book Fair was held at Palmetto Historical Park, Florida, on Saturday 5 August.
So did the US festival resemble our own, with crowd surfing in the mosh pit (a practice invented by Peter Gabriel, apparently, who also created the more genteel WOMAD), [...]

The journalists have passed judgment on Reading, but what do the people without press passes say about the festival? Here are some of the best comments about the weekend from the blogosphere:

k,, i want to cry,,,, it was the best weekend / expierience of my life n i want to go back,, i seriously cant [...]

The festival has ended and the 12 month wait for the next Reading extravaganza begins once more. So what happened?

contactmusic.com reports that Mike Skinner of The Streets serenaded a random brunette in the crowd and successfully persuaded her to bare her breasts to the audience
contactmusic.com also comments that Jack White of The Raconteurs chucked [...]

It’s Reading Festival weekend and this year it looks serious. Seriously big, that is, for 250,000 people are expected to make their way to the festival site (quite remarkable as the town’s population is 144,000). Amazingly, all tickets earlier in the year were sold out in one hour, breaking records.
The Evening Post has described the [...]

Mentions of Reading FC have soared recently in national newspapers, thanks to the club’s ascendancy to domestic football’s top flight.
In Friday’s edition of The Guardian, an interview with Reading keeper Marcus Hahnemann was published in which he “declares his love for motorbikes, hamburgers and heavy metal”. Read what the Premiership star had to say here.

Reading Roars! has had its first birthday.  So what lies ahead?
Expect to see more whitterings about Reading FC and their bid for Premiership glory.  Expect to see a podcast in the near future.  And a guest writer.  I’m sure you will want to see  more pics, so I will provide them too.  That’s enough promises [...]

No, I don’t understand it either. Reading Roars! is back. And it’s roaring louder than ever before. Ahem. A full explanation will be provided later.
For now, did you know that Reading Roars! is now a year (and a month) old?
Over the course of 12 months, the blog has undergone a number [...]