Go! Listen to the music of Desdemona - The band that provides late 60s retro guitar-o-rama AND ultra cool lyricism!
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Check it! Marvel to the acrobatic fingers of a supreme guitarist - Mr Stuart Clark - He has a very chilled out CD for sale!
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Stuart also drums in a band with Carlos, Mark and barefoot crazy Chris- Static Rain - Fuckin' A!
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And! Here be fine tunage (only one at the moment, but there will be more) by Andy Grafham - you must download - for all your base are belong to us!
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Plus! Relax to the sounds of Ben Williams - Yet another talented local artist! Reading's just swarming with 'em y'know....
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Here's one place we all play: Bohemian Night! get your arse down to the 3Bs in Reading on a Wednesday night and check it out - it's free! :)
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Check out these sites for shareware and free versions of various audio and other software...
1- hitsquad.com
2 - download.com
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Check out afharrold's poetry. Imagine the bastard love child of Mr Bean and Frank Zappa and you're getting there.... ______________________________________________________________
Check out British Unsigned Bands - this is a very well sorted and groovy
website run by Barry Ratcliffe and I hold it in high esteem - not least 'cos back in the days of Broken Brow, it was our web home... They even have a radio channel of their own!
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Check out this free internet provider - Freenetname! And pick up your own .co.uk OR .org.uk domain name - FREE! Yep. 4 Real! Properly registered and everything. Sorted!
Oh, yeah - this only applies if you are in UK, sorry USA and other folks...
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Also for those of us in the UK CLICK HERE for FREE shares in totalise.co.uk! Totalise is another UK based free ISP which provides web based as well as MSOutlook-style email, web space etc. in addition to a cheap car import scheme (Eurekar! yes I know it's a bad pun, but you'll save thousands, 'cos those folks in Europe don't put up with rip-offs like we Brits do) and free shares!
NO BULL - these shares are worth REAL MONEY! ..... Well they were before the dot.com bubble went Ttthhhrrruuuuupppppp!!! Now they're worth pence - arse! Still, their webmail is good.
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And don't neglect to check out a very cool, fast (it runs on Linux) reliable and free internet provider - Freewire! - of course. Seriously, it is the
dog's bollocks, a mate of mine told me about it and I love it. And hell, I've tried 'most all the rest!
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And speaking of cool stuff: The Rising Sun Arts Centre
There's loads of fantastic stuff going on at the Rising Sun in Reading so check it out and open the doors of your mind!
There's an old version of the site that I built at: http://www.risingsun.freewire.co.uk/home2.html
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Go! go to Weird City Records, they live at Wired Studios and they're strange and crazy peeps... Yes, they have Mr RockandRoll hisself Sir Lordy Self-Righteousness, Yes, they have the extraordinary sounds of Riser... and Gag! and other folks too! Check out the sounds - go on - you owe it to your ears!
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