About this episode

The episode features discussions about the Reading festival and the TFNation convention, along with other local highlights.

This month we chat with Sarah from Reading Rising about this year's festival – back at the Facebar, bigger and better than ever, with a carefully curated line-up of of alt. rock, metal and punk. Plus we catch up with Dave from TFNation, who bring their unofficial TransFormers convention back to the Great Hall later this month, too. All this, and our other highlights of the month, from local choirs to national treasures! The What's on Reading podcast is produced by Atlantic Garden Media - if ...

People in this episode

Guests: Sarah, Dave

Topics covered

• Reading festival
• TransFormers convention
• local events
• music genres
• community highlights

Keywords

• Reading Rising
• TFNation
• Facebar
• Great Hall
• alt rock
• metal
• punk
• local choirs
• community events

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Reading Rising, TFNation

Places: Facebar, Great Hall

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