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No blog for a week, sorry. And load's been going on too! Last time I posted I was just about to go to the Josaka 8th Birthday party. That was a week ago on Friday. It was a really good night in the end. First band on where What Is: Protocol. I was hoping for good things from them. I thought their MySpace stuff was promising, it was a bit disappointing in the end. They could obviously all play but their music was a bit uninspiring and not very original. One of the guitarists also had an extremely expensive looking rack mounted guitar rig that he used to get the blandest most overcompressed fizzy 80s rock sound out of. That annoyed me quite a lot.



For once Jim Bowes passed the compere duties over to someone else! Damien A. Passmore was the very able compere on the night (when Jim didn't take over for him...) as a little bonus he also played us a couple of his songs!



I'd been hearing a lot of great things about Audio Runway in recent weeks and they exceeded my expectations! Half the band has changed since I last saw them play. Lead singer Liam is now backed by a team of 3 brothers. That's one more than any other local bands I know of. Although My Luminaries have identical twins and there was some speculation that might count extra points. Anyway, the band were really great. Despite Liam breaking approximately a string per song. He's a very charismatic front man and their Indy Football Chav anthems are really catchy. I'm looking forward to seeing more of them soon.



Third on were Rebus. I've written a lot about Rebus a lot in the past. They did have a particularly good night at South Street though I thought. Just one of those gigs where it all clicked for them.



Last up were The Race, a band I haven't seen for a very long time indeed. They've been off touring, making videos and selling records and I've not been able to make their infrequent returns to Reading. I have to say though, they were absolutely spectacular. They really showed their pedigree even playing at the end of a very talented line-up of bands. And success is obviously not going to their heads too much, Jess even baked a birthday cake for Josaka! All in all a brilliant night.

Much more to talk about but I'll save it for future posts.