Reading Roars!

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I like to consider myself as pretty knowledgeable about music, pretty clued up, but the truth is – although I am generally more so than most of my friends – current music is always something that I take a while to catch up with. Now, I appreciate that makes me sound a tad old before [...]

I am hungover today. I have a head as heavy as an anvil and a stomach like a bin that hasn’t been collected for three weeks, but frustratingly, I also have the urge to be productive and creative. These two states of mind tend to clash somewhat and it puts me in a bad mood [...]

As a somewhat shy and retiring bloke who tends to want to shrink from confrontation and intimidation whenever it presents itself, a Friday and Saturday night out on the town in Reading can sometimes be as appealing as driving to work in this weather in a beamer fitted with slick tyres. All the chest beating [...]

I keep thinking that, on the talent front, Reading should be more like bohemian Brighton.  Or Oxford. 
Brighton has formidable digital talent (must be something in the sea air) and is quite rightly regarded as a creative hotspot.  Reading has its fair share of geeks, yet does not share the same creative accolade as the seaside [...]