Liz Jones & Broken Windows

Liz Jones & Broken Windows play The Castle Tap on Thursday 12 November, with the set starting at 7:30 pm. They're a six-piece roots rock, blues and psych band from Edinburgh, fronted by an idiosyncratic vocalist and songwriter. On the strings is John Bruce, the guitar maestro of Blues'N'Trouble.

That mix of roots rock, blues and psych gives you a good sense of where they sit. The roots rock side is the foundation, the blues provides the grit, and the psych adds the more adventurous, slightly off-kilter edges. With six people on stage, there's enough room for all three to play out at once rather than one taking over from the other. The songwriting is the core of it, and the vocals are the focal point.

They've put out an album called Double Measures, and the title track caught the attention of Classic Rock Magazine, which described it as "a winningly wonky gypsy-jazz lurch". That's a fair clue to the kind of thing you'll hear: it's not polished or predictable, and it's happy to lean into the wonky side of things. If you're into music that doesn't mind a bit of a lurch, that's exactly what they're bringing.

It's a free entry gig, so you can just turn up and listen. The Castle Tap is at 120 Castle Street, Reading, RG1 7RJ, and the music starts at 7:30 pm on Thursday 12 November.