tomorrow: probably less nice
in reading: never nice

go walk with them for me plz.

fast train into london or west to bristol or cardiff.

the cons: everything else. sorry !

It's not as interesting as Brussels anyway...

I read it has a university with 16.000 students. A town with 16.000 students can not be boring. There's gotta be some good parties, pubs, other... ?

It was pretty crap both times.

unless you like cunts in pink hackett polo shirts constantly looking for fights. The Oakford is nice, if full of scenester prats, but ultimately I find that preferable to people who don't believe a night's complete without assaulting someone. There aren't all that many gigs, but then it's a 25 min train ride into London so that isn't such a big deal. You'll find almost no independent shops and there basically isn't a record store now (HMV doesn't really count).

On the other hand, I quite enjoy living here, it's a hell of a lot better than it was 10 years ago and there are loads of nice restaurants. It also appears that we now have 4 Starbucks within 400 ft of each other. Good times!

where are you living? If it's Whitley then lolz @ you.

it's like they can't compete so they don't bother.

...and, if reports are correct, we will have beavers to deal with as well.

reading - poor
though it is conveniently near oxford and london, which is always good.

Reading is a fine place. There is no where near as much violence as what's been metioned (although admittedly it's been a bad couple of months). I think it's easy to lay into but I find the people pretty interresting and there are plenty of good place to go if you look

i can firmly say that it's alright, if you know where to go, and live fairly central, there are quite a few things you can do

has the new po na na's indie thursday nights, i went the other day and don't remember that much but they played pavement as i requested, though.

in 2002 and hung around for a bit.
Umm, it's pretty bland, I don't think it has much of an identity- there's not really anything to mark it apart from similar towns in the South East. It's pretty expensive to live there and the traffic is genuinely appalling, but rail links are pretty good- you can get to most places from the station.
Clubwise avoid any student nights unless you like 'wacky' idiots. Other places to skip- Bar Risa, Q Club, Revolution, Brannigans. The indie night at the afterdark is alright, if sweaty. Pavlov's dog is cheap and a good place to start a night. The Oakford's expensive, has a good range of beer, though the music's usually pretty weedy.
Gigs you're best of going into London, you get the odd band here and there, maybe a couple of months at best. The local music scene has some good stuff but it will be buried within a large mound of turgid funk rock and indie-lite. South St and Face Bar are mostly for gigs- keep an eye out for Rising Sun Arts centre stuff too. The only bands who seem to play the uni are within the 'bargain bin' demographic (Wheatus, Reef, Bluetones). Guitarworks next to the post office is an ace guitar shop.
There's a record shop in the (Rolf) Harris arcade where you can buy new release albums for a fiver if you're lucky- they sell a lot of promo cds too.
If you squint the Broad St Mall looks a bit like the set of Aliens inside.
There's about 7 different Burger Kings in the city centre, and a krispy kreme by the riverside.

So in summary- meh.

Fobney Street, near the Oracle shopping and leasure center (according to google maps). Doesn't sound to Pikey to me, am I wrong?

Boooyah!