Two legends of Readings music scene return for an evening of Uneasy Easy Listening. Mike
Cooper, from longtime residence in Italy and now Spain and Alan Clayson from across the
Thames in Caversham. For six decades Cooper has travelled the world recording and
performing a variety of musical styles and genre. Tonight he brings his DNA (Digital Nomad
Arts) project to the Rising Sun. Expect Electric Lap Steel Guitar, Voice, Live Sampling and
Looping.

“An icon of post everything music Cooper has recently been hailed as one of the masters of
Outer Limits Music with his Ambient /Electronic/ Exotica output. Cooper’s output is sublime".

Alan Clayson: a solitary mister. Sometime leader of the legendary Alan Clayson and the Argonauts performs solo too, delivering recitals that defy succinct description. Alan explores the most mature and cultivated form of popular song in a thoroughly diverting soirée centred on passion, humour, deep emotion and sometimes casually shocking frankness, embracing love, liberty, tenderness, parting, death, abandonment, stupidity and further qualities of the human condition.