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Adam, vocalist with Junction 13, by Neil Duncan

IT WAS a wet miserable evening to be winding along the A339 to Newbury, but I was just one of a number of Basingstokies looking to check out the talent in a neighbouring town.

As is often the case, the performance area was tucked round the back and there was a pretty good crowd already there. First up, from Newbury and Reading, were Sitty Limits, still basking in the good-natured jibes of 'rock stars!' from fans after their being featured in the NME. Their frantic manifestation of garage punk two-minuters is the perfect definition of minimalist, but less is most definitely more. Far too good to be a mere opening band.

They were followed by Newbury legends, Junction 13. I had heard word of them before, but this was my first chance to see them. They included a couple of members of the now-defunct Dead by Dawn so I was expecting nothing less than awesome. If I thought the crowd was packed before, I was mistaken, because now it was sardine time and indeed, I had to go backstage to have any chance of taking a picture. They are loosely 'hard-rock' and complimented Sitty Limits very well indeed. Got to see these lads again as soon as possible.

I couldn't imagine how the headline band could possibly top what had gone on before. They were called Medium Dave and came down from Aylesbury to play a fairly hard flavour of funk-rock. Alas, the function room virtually emptied, with just a minor trickle of people returning to watch them play. I felt very sorry for them, as they did play well and were an interesting group to watch. I think that perhaps the promoter should have considered the running order a bit more carefully.

-Neil Duncan, ISSUEPUNKZINE

5:06pm Wednesday 9th July 2008

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