First Fringe Event Announced
Boho in The Park : 17/08/2008 - Forbury Gardens, Reading
The people behind the towns famed Bohemian Night, which runs every Thursday night at the 3Bs in the Town Hall, will be staging an outdoor version in the towns picturesque Forbury Gardens...
Eclectic
An eclectic selection of regular acts from the 3bs famed Bohemian night this will be, Music, Poetry, Comedy and what not, sometimes all at the same time, all in the picturesque surroundings of the lovely Forbury Gardens. Lovely.
....whether it be singing, playing, juggling, poetry
or stand-up.......Anything goes!
The Bohemian Night itself is a kind of 'open mic' night every Thursday at the 3Bs in Reading, U.K. that allows people to 'have a go' - whether it be singing, playing, juggling, poetry or stand-up. Anything goes! The atmosphere is laid back. They don't judge people's abilities advising acts to just bring an instrument (if they use one!) or if you only want to listen and watch : there is plenty to enjoy
Although Boho in the Park will not be open mic, it will have something for everyone so come along.
For more information on The Bohemian Night, please visit www.myspace.com/bohonight
Connextions
Also on hand will be staff from Berkshire Connextions, a charity set up to help young people with their careers, whose van tours many events handing out advice and options on how best to deal with the challenges facing young people today
The Fringe week is also amoung their busiest, as students find out their GCSE results and are looking for support and ideas about the future their results could lead to, whether better, worse or the same as expected.
So, if you have ever needed some advice, or just wanted someone to talk to, but the problem is your best mate can't tell you anything you don't already know and you don't feel you can speak to anyone else, well why not try Connexions, the service that is all about connecting every single 13 to 19 year old (up to 25 with learning difficulties or disabilities) to all the things you need to know.
To find out more click www.connexions-berkshire.org.uk/
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CD Launch @ Facebar, Chatham Street
2nd and 3rd June 2008 - www.myspace
.com/facebar
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Homeless Pigeon Records is a label run by a team of Music and Music Technology students from Thames Valley University (TVU) in Reading. Its mission is to expose the music of TVU students, staff and up-and-coming bands from the Thames Valley and beyond, to a new audience.
This year's new release, 'Bird Strike', features exciting performances from a number of TVU students, including acoustic rock from Circle Round The Park and DiceJar, electronica from Fusion City and rock from Little London......
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Homeless Pidgeon Records 16/03/08
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After meeting on tuesday with Thames Valley University’s Homeless Pidgeon Records, a joint effort to promote Readings music scene was agreed upon and their next release will be an eclectic Reading Fringe Festival themed offering
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This will showcase the cutting edge acts drawn from the young, the overlooked and the left field acts who are not yet in the maintream and for whom the Fringe was set up
To find out more and read Homeless Pidgeon Records Message click Myspace Blog
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Update : 5/7/7
Soundsunique Step In
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Not content with a standard three days in a field, The Reading Fringe Festival leads up to the Carling Weekend ,offering a whole week of fresh talent and endless gigs across town.With fresh sponsorship from Soundunique, the venue possibilities are endless
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If there is a bar and a place for an amp, expect to see people dancing (without wellington boots) and blessing their dry cotton socks for the chance to see Britain's brightest and most innovative acts before they are helicoptered into the mainstream.
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CD WOW Sponsorship
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CD WOW Sponsorship 30/05/07
Following last nights meeting The Fringe will not be renewing their sponsorship deal with CDWOW pending developments.
We thank CDWOW for their massive contribution to the Fringe and wish them luck resolving the current dispute
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In the meantime, we assure everyone that CD WOWs relationship to the Fringe has been purely as a sponsor and that the Fringe does not condone or engage in any activity which the courts proscribe.
Martin Carr
Administrator
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CDWOW Ruling 29/05/07
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CDWOW High Court Ruling 29/05/07
The Reading Fringe Festival co-ordinators will be meeting this evening to review the Fringes relationship with CD WOW given the ruling in the High Court, of todays date, regarding CD WOW's trading activities. For more more click :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
entertainment/6700639.stm
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......Plainly, as the third largest online retailer in the country, CD WOWs offer to sponsor the Fringe in 2006 was very welcome and the company assumed to be above board. We understand they intend to appeal against the High Courts decision so that assumption may turn out to be correct.
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Tony Stott on BBC Radio Berkshire
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Tony Stott on BBC Radio Berkshire
2007 Events Coordinator Tony Stott was on BBC Radio Berkshire on Sunday 20th May to talk about the Fringes aims, acheivements, progress and plans.
Tony spoke to Linda Serck during The Session new music show, which is on every Sunday at 7pm
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Tony also sat in on the demo panel, where local bands compete to have their track played in full during the programme.
The 20th May show is no longer online, but you can listen to later Sessions here :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/
networks/berkshire/aod.shtml?berkshire/thesession
Or on 104.1 - 104.4, 95.4, 94.6 fm and DAB digital radio. For more, click heContact |
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Reading Fringe Launch Party 2007
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Reading Fringe Festival Launch Party 2007
The 2007 Reading Fringe Festival launch party was at Plug and Play on Wedensday 21st March 2007 at Plug and Play Reading. Local media, venue managers and promoters braved the freezing weather and terrible traffic to hear the Fringe message.....
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Matt Tanner, Heartwear Process and DJ Greenfly were on hand with a cross section of local music as venue managers, promoters and press found out more about the Fringes message, told the Fringe what they want from us and met with each other to exchange ideas about the Fringe. To find out more about the Fringe message, click Contact |
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Reading Arts Forum 12 March 2007
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Reading Arts Forum The Borough Council was kind enough to allow time for a presentation on the Reading Fringe Festival at the Reading Arts Forum on March 12th 2007.
The Arts Forum is an open meeting held every 6 months to bring together people working in the Arts sector in Reading.
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The attendees listened with interest as the Fringe intitiative was outlined and applauded this effort to draw peoples attention to the good work that goes on in Reading all year round, in the local Arts and Music scene, during the runnup to the Carling Reading Festival.
Attendees also expressed an interest in getting involved, and these contacts are now being followed up.
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Major Success Stories Among 2006 Acts.
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Katy Davis & Olympus Mons
Already acts have seen their careers take off since the Fringe, proving that the Fringe is the place to see tommorrows stars. Katy Davis showed her animation Gobblynne at the Fringe and has since seen her latest animation win the MTV Flux prize and prime-time airing from MTV, clips were also show during adbreaks on ITV1 on Xmas Eve. For more visit http://www.myspace.com/gobblynne
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Olympus Mons played the Death Disco night alongside Client and Poptone CEO Alan McGee. They release their debut recording 19 February 2007. Supported by a superb video, Olympus Mons have been making waves since they won best bands at the 3 Mobile Student Music Awards. They have been getting good airplay on primetime MTV and look to be one of the bands to watch in 2007. See the video here. http://www.myspace.com/
theolympusmons
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