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Demo review: Get Ready and This Evening

Zine page with a news column, a vertical What’s Happening? title and a typed demo review headed The New English — Demo review of The New English in the What’s Happening? zine, covering the songs Get Ready and This Evening.Full-size image

Type: Demo review
Date: No date printed
Subjects: The New English
Also named: What’s Happening?, Lloyd Cole, Paul Weller, Otis Redding, The Brilliant Corners, After Dark Club, Reading, Joe Louis Walker, The Gathering, Robbed In Rome, The Cell, Cemetery Rehearsal Studios, Hattons
Image credit: What’s Happening?
Web copy: Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.

A page from a Reading listings zine whose title, What’s Happening?, runs vertically down the left margin, with a demo review headed The New English in the right-hand column. The reviewer discusses a two-song tape, “Get Ready” and “This Evening”, calling them sprightly pop songs full of the excitement of new love. The vocals on the first are likened to Lloyd Cole and on the second to Paul Weller in his In The City period, the brass is described as obviously hi-tech, and a closing line points to Otis Redding’s “My Girl” as a comparison for the feeling in the music.

Two sprightly pop songs that bounce along

Opening words of the demo review.

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Demo review: Get Ready and This Evening. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 6 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/demo-tape-review/

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