# Reading preview in What’s Happening?

> 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.

- Type: Local listing and interview
- Date: FRIDAY 27th NOVEMBER
- Subjects: The New English, Johnny Rasheed, Shareef C
- 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?
- Web copy: Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.
- Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/
- Image: https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-preview-interview-1168.jpg (1168 x 848 px)

Excerpt: “We’re trying to move more towards soul pop.” (Johnny Rasheed in What’s Happening?)

## Related performances

- **27 November 1987**, St David’s Hall, Reading. (Sources: [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English))

## Source note

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## Cite this item

Reading preview in What’s Happening?. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/