Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Reading holds an annual programme of classical music events called “Classical Music Alive” which includes a variety of events. As part of this we went last night to the Hexagon to see Film Music Gala. This was basically classical music but for those that are afraid of classical music! I’d never seen the Hexagon so …
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The last of this years Heritage Open Days was to an exhibition at The Hexagon called, imaginitely enough, The Hexabition : Celebrating 45 years of The Hexagon Theatre. If I’m going to be honest The Hexagon is one of if not the most ugly buildings in Reading and it has quite a few challengers for …
It has been a while since the last time I saw Marillion live – 34 years to be precise. A lot has happened since then for both them and me. My last outing to see them was at the Apollo in Oxford when Fish was still the front man. He burst onto the stage through …
Continue reading “Marillion, Hexagon, 19th April 2018 – So Here I am Once More”
A year or so ago I discovered Reading band The Amazons and really loved their music. So when I heard that they were going to be playing a homecoming gig at the Hexagon in Reading I had to go. Tickets went on sale August 2017 and were either seated in the balcony or standing downstairs. …
Continue reading “The Amazons, Reading Hexagon, 10th February 2018 – I’m getting too old for this!”
Thirty four years ago, on 13th March 1982, I went to my first ever gig to see 10cc at the Oxford Apollo. At that point they were really only 5cc and were distinctly past their best but I was hooked. Last week I saw them again. They are now down to 2.5cc but really rather …