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About Me

Hailing from Chester and North Wales, the reads have been writing and performing together since the turn of the century.

They are regular fixtures at Chester's Telfords Warehouse, Spitting Feathers Beer Festival, Audlem Festival and Party in the Parc, but they will play anywhere for free beer.

the reads latest EP is availavle from itunes now.

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Member Since: 30/01/2006
Band Website: www.thereads.co.uk
Band Members: Mr Jamie Russell: Lead guitarist and occasional backing vocals. (Have you ever seen this man stand?!)
Marcel Delrue: Keyboard and programming ‘extraordinairre’, 12th dan of the reads.
Mr Stuart Bennett: Lead vocal, acoustic guitar and mid tune banter.
Miss Clare Stevenson: Lyricist, bass player and token bird.
Mr Matthew Goddard:real life Drummer!
Influences: Amongst others; Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Miles Davis, Tony Ferreno, Doves, Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, Cathy Dennis, Bob Dylan, Mike Reid and The Cheeky Girls.
Sounds Like: fire..... fire all around
Record Label: none

My Blog

itunes

the reads are very pleased to announce their latest EP is available for download via itunes and napster!!!The four tracks available are Good Omens, AMB, Chunky Truffle and Love or be Loved.We will be ...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:44:00 GMT

Tudno Top 40!!

Well Love or be Loved spent its third week in the brand new Tudno FM Top 40 which mixes chart topping hits with local North Wales talent.We debuted at number 28, last Sunday we were voted up to number...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:42:00 GMT

its been a while.....

Well it's been an interesting year for the reads......We've parted company with Leaping Cat Records, written some new tunes, played some really enjoyable gigs at some of our favourite venues - despit...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:03:00 GMT

Positive thinkin...

Hi!  Good things are happenin for the reads at the moment.  We were played as 'demo-of-the-week' on Adam Walton's BBC Radio Wales show on Sunday night.  You can listen back to the show ...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:20:00 GMT