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Reading preview in What’s Happening?

Photocopied listings zine spread: band article at left, gig calendar in the centre, advert and What’s Happening? banner
Reading listings zine spread previewing The New English at St David’s Hall on Friday 27 November 1987, with Johnny Rasheed on soul pop.Full-size image
Type
Local listing and interview
Date
FRIDAY 27th NOVEMBER
Also named
St David’s Hall, London Road, Reading, The Brilliant Corners, Rick Astley, Voice Of The Beehive, All About Eve, Melody Maker, What’s Happening?, Readifolk at the George Hotel, Yargo, Paradise
Image credit
What’s Happening?
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A spread from a Reading listings zine, with a What’s Happening? banner at lower right and an article on The New English in the left column. The article says the London band is coming down the M4 to play St David’s Hall on London Road on Friday 27 November 1987, notes that the band has been grouped with the Indie Pop bands, and quotes singer and bassist Johnny Rasheed on wanting to lose that label and move towards soul pop. Shareef is described as the guitarist. The centre column is a gig calendar, and the right column carries an interview with a different band, Yargo.

We’re trying to move more towards soul pop.

Johnny Rasheed in What’s Happening?

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Reading preview in What’s Happening?. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 6 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/reading-preview-interview/

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