Independent Venue Week started in 2014 is a 7 day celebration of small music venues
around the UK and a nod to the people that own, run and work in them,
week in, week out.
Ambassadors in the past have been Colin Greenwood (Radiohead), Frank Turner
and Wolf Alice.
These venues give artists their first experience of playing live in front of an
audience and for fans, somewhere to get up close to artists that one day, may well
be playing stadiums and festival main stages.
Supported using public funding by the Arts Council England, Independent Venue
Week brings together these venues along with breaking and established artists, promoters, labels, media, bloggers and taste makers to create a nationwide series of gigs at the end of January.
These venues are the backbone of the live music scene in this country and Independent Venue Week wants to recognise all that they have done to create
some of the most memorable nights of the past so they can continue to do the same in the future.
Doors 8pm £5 (advance) www.wegottickets.com
Vienna Ditto
Reading Two piece. Boy/Girl pop greatness via the Kennet Delta Blues via
Olympia via Brooklyn.Mighty fine music ear fodder for the masses.
As heard on Radio 1, BBC 6 Music,Radio X and BBC Berkshire Introducing.
"Portishead doing a Tarantino soundtrack," Huw Stephens (Radio 1)
The August List
Oxford Two piece.Who deal in mighty country blues, with a rocknroll
edge. Do not miss.
“It’s a rare West Country husband-and-wife duo that can pull off the knack of sounding simultaneously like a vintage Louisiana jug band and at the same time very much like themselves.” – Tom Robinson (BBC 6 Music)
Here Are The Young Men and Uncle Peanut
Reading Two piece.Boy/Boy deal in rants and a lot of roll.They sing about Hipsters, Mark E Smith and Modern Day Music.