The Face Bar
Hard Skin
The Face Bar Ambrose Place, Reading, Berkshire, United KingdomClub Velocity and New Mind presents Hard Skin with support from Prey. Formed in Gypsy Hill, London in 1980, Hard Skin have sold more htan a million albums including their top 30 debut Hard Nuts... They have collaborated with some of the biggest women in alternative music including Joanna Newsom, Mikki Berenyi (Lush) and Alison […]
A Christmas knees up with John Otway
The Face Bar Ambrose Place, Reading, Berkshire, United KingdomClub Velocity and New Mind presents John Otway's annual Christmas Knees Up. Support from Damien A Passmore and The Loveable Fraudsters: 'the greatest, the tallest, and the best cowpunk-country band in all the land'. JOHN OTWAY is an English singer-songwriter who has built a sizeable cult audience through extensive touring, a surreal sense of humour […]
Scott Lavene
The Face Bar Ambrose Place, Reading, Berkshire, United KingdomClub Velocity and New Mind present Scott Lavene in concert. Have we ever needed great storytellers so badly? Voices to snap us out of our collective grey funk, to pull us out of our narrow, hemmed-in worlds and to lighten our days and enlighten us with their perspectives, immersing us in their worldview and history. […]
The Cassandra Complex and Third House
The Face Bar Ambrose Place, Reading, Berkshire, United KingdomClub Velocity and New Mind presents The Cassandra Complex with Third House. Back in the mid-80s, Irish musician Rodney Orpheus bumped into Paul Dillon in a Leeds nightclub while both were dancing to an early Die Krupps record. They decided to form a band that night, and did their first rehearsal the next day. Journalist […]
Balaam and the Angel
The Face Bar Ambrose Place, Reading, Berkshire, United KingdomBalaam and the Angel are a Scottish rock band founded by Mark, James (Jim), and Desmond (Des) Morris in Cannock in 1984. As children in Motherwell, the Morris brothers worked in the entertainment industry as part of a cabaret act. They moved south to Cannock, Staffordshire, where they formed Balaam and the Angel. Initially, the […]
Los Fastidos
The Face Bar Ambrose Place, Reading, Berkshire, United KingdomClub Velocity and New Mind presents Los Fastidos. The Los Fastidios sound is a powerful melodic streetpunk which mixes classical 80’s British Punk-OI! sounds with a lot of skanking moments, and more rock'n'roll and hardcore rhythms, sung in Italian with some touches of English, French, Spanish and German. The lyrics come from the most cheerful […]
