A13

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; no byline or date is visible.Full-size image
Type
Demo review
Date as printed
No date printed
Date note
No date or year is printed; the news column lists dates from 9 March to 5 April without a year, which puts the issue in early spring of an unstated year, and the label supplied with the scan attributes it to 1987.
Evidence
Contemporary document, date attributed
Source tier
A: Contemporary primary document A13
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? The review has no byline.
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. The review also quotes lines from the lyrics, which are not reproduced here. The left column is a news item about Reading gigs. The review has no byline or date, and the year is not printed.

Two sprightly pop songs that bounce along

Opening words of the demo review; the reviewer is not named.

Source note

This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued here. Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.

Cite this item

Demo review: Get Ready and This Evening. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/demo-tape-review/

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