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  • "I've been listening to At The Water's Edge - very impressed, really like it. Has a sort of Lou Reed / Velvet Underground feel to it - good songs, quite quirky and unusual, thoughtful lyrics and some stand out guitar palying!"
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    Luke Paolo, Reading Musician

GIGS

Wednesday 2nd May 2012

The Crown Inn, Theale, RG7 5BT

open-mic hosted by Roger Watson

"Full Circle"

This was the last of five consecutive nights of performing and if I hadn't missed the Crown in March and April I think I might have opted out of this one. Nevertheless, although tired, I had a very pleasant night down there, seeing people whom I barely know but seem like friends, and watching some great acts from both regulars and newcomers alike.


As I've said before, it's like running a film as I drive along Theale High Street to the pub with memories of childhood, grandparents and (actually, with some relevance,) picture framing entering my consciousness. And actually as I get to The Crown, newer memories fill that movie screen as I remember the less than impressive first ever open-mic that I did there just over a year ago and then the more comfortable subsequent appearences. I feel like I've come along way since then and it seems fitting that I should end this part of the journey at The Crown.


My Set:


The Things That She Said

Cold Heart

Last Night I Saw You Standing There


Finding Joe

 

Don't forget the screening of the film about the work of Joseph Campbell, Finding Joe, hosted by Stand-Up Cinema at Reading's The Rising Sun Arts Centre on May 18th at 6:30pm. The start time is early so that the film will end by 8:00pm and not conflict with Bohemian Night Showcase.


Campbell said the following in the last lecture he ever gave:


"In my writing and my thinking and my work I've thought of myself as addressing artists and poets and writers. The rest of the world can take it or leave it as far as I'm concerned."


So if you're an artist, writer, musician , or just someone wanting to break out and go their own way, or even actually dare I say, a Star Wars fan (George Lucas based his original films' stories on Campbell's work), then I think you might find the film interesting and indeed I hope encouraging. Next week I hope to pull together all of this site's reference's to the film and explain why I found it meaningful. I don't expect it to be everybody's cup of tea but if it helps encourage one person along the way to achieving what they want to in their life I think my job will have at least been partly accomplished.




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