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Upcoming Gigs & Albums
Latest Album Reviews
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Album Review: BLACK SABBATH – Technical Ecstasy (Super Deluxe 5LP Vinyl Box Set)
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Album review: MY GLASS WORLD – Still Life With Machine Gun
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Album review: TOMMY CASTRO Presents A Bluesman Came To Town: A Blues Odyssey
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Album review: PARADOX – Heresy II, End Of A Legend
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Album review: SAVATAGE – Sirens and Dungeons Are Calling (remasters)
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Album review: INGLORIOUS- Heroine
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Latest Gig Reviews
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Gig review: THE CINELLI BROTHERS- Cabbage Patch, Twickenham, 16 September 2021
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Gig review: LEAFHOUND- Cabbage Patch, Twickenham, 9 September 2021
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Gig review: STONEDEAD FESTIVAL – Showground, Newark – 28th August 2021
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Gig review: CONNOR SELBY BAND- Cabbage Patch, Twickenham, 26 August 2021
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Gig review: THE DARKER MY HORIZON & FRIENDS FESTIVAL, The Vic, Coalville, 20-22 August 2021
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Featured Album Reviews
Single & EP Reviews
DVD Reviews
Book Reviews
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Book review: WHO IS BLUES Vol.2 – The Interviews. Blues Encounters 2000 – 2020 by Vincent Abbate
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Book review: BOBBY RUSH with Herb Powell – I Ain’t Studdin Ya: My American Blues Story
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Book review: ERJA LYYTINEN – The Blues Queen by Mape Ollila
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Book review: On Track…TOM PETTY (Every album, every song) by Richard James
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News
Features
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Feature: Albums that time forgot…THE STORM (Gregg Rolie, Ross Valory, Steve Smith)
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Feature: Collectible Collections – FAMILY – Old Songs New Songs (The Definitive Box Set)
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Feature: Collectible Collections – CAMEL – Rainbow’s End An Anthology 1973-1985
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Feature: Collectible Collections – MANFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND – 40th Anniversary Box Set
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Feature: Albums that time forgot … NATIVE CAIN – The Primitive Soul
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Feature: Albums that time forgot…EUROPE – Secret Society
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Yearly Archives: 2020
EP review: OBSESA – Let In The Light
OBSESA [Release date 26.12.20] Obsesa formed in 2017 in Bury St Edmunds (Vocals/Guitar: Jason Smith, Guitar: Adam Ingram, Bass: Matt Cooper, Drums: Pete Hutchins) have come out swinging and bludgeoning on their debut ep ‘Let In The Light’. Three tracks … Continue reading
Posted in ALL POSTS, PURE METAL (All posts), Pure Metal/Album reviews, Single and EP reviews
Tagged Doom Metal, EP, Let In The Light, metal, Metallica, Obsesa, review, speed metal, Thrash
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Album review: THE RODS – Expanded Remasters
In The Raw, The Rods Live, Let Them Eat Metal Rock Candy’s remastered & reissued programme often serves to bring a deserving band (and album) to a new audience. The Rods are the perfect example. Their eighties’ albums were in … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic metal, David “The Rock” Feinstein, hard rock, live, metal, reissue, review, Rock Candy, the Rods
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Album review: TED & MAJELLA – Divine Timing (Ted Turner, ex-Wishbone Ash)
www.tedturnerandmajella.com [Release date 21.12.20] Ted Turner is best known as the one time original guitar slinger in Wishbone Ash with whom he remained until 1974 and then on and off until 1994. Ted reappeared in 2018 together with his partner … Continue reading
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Tagged album, ambient, chill-out, Divine Timing, guitar, guitarist, new age, pop, review, Ted & Majella, Wishbone Ash
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Album review: HUMBLE PIE – The Atlanta Years
Store For Music [Release date 11.12.20] Steve Marriott is best remembered in the UK as the front man for the Small Faces . Also rememberd by many as Britain’s best blue eyed soul singer, and not least for his songwriting … Continue reading
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Tagged blues rock, classic rock, concerts, Humble Pie, live, re-issue, review, rock, Small Faces, soul, Steve Marriott, The Atlanta Years
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EP review: COLLATERAL – Acoustic Covers Lockdown
Website [Release date 25.12.20] 2020 should have been Collateral’s breakthrough year on the back of a well-received album from both fans and critics alike, and tour plans laid. That was before the pandemic laid waste to all of that. However, … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, Aerosmith, Angelo Tristan, Bon Jovi, classic songs, Collateral, Covers, Def Leppard, EP, Leonard Cohen, review, rock
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Album review: LEGS DIAMOND – Expanded Remasters
Rock Candy Records [Release date 04.12.20] Legs Diamond has ceased trading and then later reopened for business several times since its inception in 1975, and is still gigging to this day. Enterprising UK label, Rock Candy Records remastered and reissued … Continue reading
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Tagged Expanded Remasters, hard rock, Legs Diamond, melodic rock, re-issues, review, Rick Sandford, Rock Candy
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Album review: LAYLA ZOE – Nowhere Left To Go
Pete Feenstra chatted to Layla Zoe for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. First broadcast Sunday 27 December 2020. Self Release [Release date 08.01.21] Layla Zoe is back with ‘Nowhere Left To Go’, her 15th album in 15 years. And though … Continue reading
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Tagged Alastair Greene, album, Bob Fridzema, Brandi Disterheft, Greg Sonnenberg, Guy Smeets, interview, Jackie Venson, James Stephens, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Page, Layla Zoe, Neil Young, Nowhere Left To Go, review, Suzie Vinnick, vocal
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Feature: Albums that time forgot … NATIVE CAIN – The Primitive Soul
ProActive (1999) Chatting to Pete Feenstra for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio in 2020 vocalist/songwriter Lee Small commented about his love of Glenn Hughes. And it is Hughes vocal influence that permeates the 1999 album ‘The Primitive Soul’. Small has … Continue reading
Album review: ANDY SUSEMIHL – Alienation
SM Noise [Release date 21.01.21] Andy Susemihl’s last album ‘Elevation’ was my “Best of 2018″ – perhaps it should have been called “revelation” such was the surprise at a seasoned pro – and a relatively unknown one albeit with an … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alienation, Andy Susemihl, AOR, guitar, guitarist, melodic rock, review, U.D.O. Sinner
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Album review: THE SWEET – Isolation Boulevard
Website [Release date 18.12.20] First recordings by the revamped Sweet line-up that sees original member guitarist Andy Scott and long serving drummer Bruce Bisland joined by bassist/backing vocalist Lee Small (Phenomena, Shy, Lionsheart) and vocalist Paul Manzi (Cats In Space, … Continue reading
Posted in ALBUM REVIEWS, ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile), ALL POSTS, Digital only, Reissues
Tagged album, Andy Scott, classic rock, glam rock, Isolation Boulevard, Lee Small, Paul Manzi, pop rock, review, rock, The Sweet
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Album review: OCEAN HILLS – Santa Monica
AFM Records [Release date 27.11.20] Ocean Hills is the brain child of vocalist Zoli Teglas (ex-Ignite), having taken 30 years’ worth of experience in the music business to launch this project with some very talented, accomplished musicians - Peter Lukacs (guitars), Daniel Szebenyi … Continue reading
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Tagged album, hard rock, Kiss, melodic, Ocean Hills, review, rock, Santa Monica, Zoli Teglas
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Quick plays: MARIOS POLITIS, SILENT SKIES, MOTHER ROAD
MARIOS POLITIS This Is My Story Alcyone Records [Release date 10.11.20] Marios Politis is a composer, singer and guitarist from Athens, Greece who has released an album of meaningful and thoughtful songs. The lyrics focus on introspection and personal experiences … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alt rock, cinematic, Evergrey, hard rock, indie, Keith Slack, Marios Politis, melodic, Mother Road, review, Silent Skies, Tom S Englund, Vikram Shankar
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Album review: THE WILDHEARTS – 30 Year Itch
Round Records [Release date 04.12.20] My initial thought when I looked at this album was, I feel old! How can it have been 30 years since the Wildhearts exploded onto the music scene?? Returning to the classic Wildhearts line up … Continue reading
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Tagged 30 Year Itch, album, Ginger, melodic, punk, review, rock, rock 'n' roll, the Wildhearts
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Album review: PALACE- Rock And Roll Radio
Frontiers Records [Release date 04.12.20] Michael Palace, a man with multiple performing and writing credits to his name, is now onto the third album from his own project. 2016’s ‘Master of the Universe’ was mainstream melodic hard rock, but is … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, melodic rock, Michael Palace, Palace, review
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News: Get Ready to ROCK! announce Best of 2020 Popular Poll winners
Rock music website Get Ready to ROCK! has announced the results of the Popular Poll for Best of 2020. Readers and listeners could vote in two categories this year: Top Albums and Breakthrough Act. Snake Oil & Harmony (aka Dan … Continue reading
Posted in ALL POSTS, NEWS, The Best of 2020
Tagged 20/20, AC/DC, album, best of, Blue Oyster Cult, breakthrough act, Collateral, Deep Purple, Hollowstar, Jessica Lynn, Legacy Pilots, music, poll, rock, Snake Oil & Harmony, vote
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Album review: DUKE ROBILLARD & FRIENDS – Blues Bash
Pete Feenstra interviewed Duke Robillard for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. First broadcast 13 December 2020. Stony Plain Records [Release date 20.11.20] You don’t need to have paid your blues dues for 50 years or more to be able to … Continue reading
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Tagged album review, Blues Bash, Chris Cote, Doug James, Duke Robillard, Duke Robillard & Friends, Greg Piccolo, guitar, interview, jazz, Jimmy Vaughan, Jump, lefty bates, Mark Hummel, Michelle ‘Evil Gal’ Wilson, R&B, Rich Lataille, swing, T-Bone Walker
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Album review: EAST TEMPLE AVENUE – Both Sides of Midnight
AOR Heaven (Release Date 27.11.20) East Temple Avenue sees Australian songwriter Darren Phillips, whose project under his own name featured a star studded cast, join forces for a whole album with Robbie Le Blanc, the Blanc Faces singer whose combination … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Darren Phillips, melodic rock, Philip Lindstrand, Robbie Le Blanc
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EP review: HATS OFF GENTLEMEN IT’S ADEQUATE – Feeling Great
Bandcamp [Release date 18.12.20] One of the better things during 2020 have been to see the rise in interest and acclaim for the progressive duo Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate. Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate are Malcolm Galloway and Mark … Continue reading
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Tagged album, EP, Feeling Great, Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate, melodic, prog rock, progressive, review
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EP review: LEWIS CLAY – Idle Hands
Website [Release date 25.12.20] 2020 has been a right shit show of that there can be no doubt, and it has hit the performing arts and live arena very badly, especially as most don’t manage to qualify … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Foo Fighters, Idle Hands, Lewis Clay, modern rock, Our Lady Valentine, review, rock, singer songwriter, Wildhearts
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Album review: NEAL MORSE – Jesus Christ The Exorcist: Live at Morsefest 2018
Frontiers [Release date 04.12.20] The studio album was released first as now Neal Morse and Frontiers release a live performance of ‘Jesus Christ The Exorcist’, filmed at the 2018 Morsefest. It is an all-star ensemble with regular … Continue reading
Album review: KEVIN GODLEY – Muscle Memory
State 51 [Release date 18.12.20] Kevin Godley is ex 10cc and was one half of a duo with Lol Creme. His first solo album, Muscle Memory, is a post modern permutation of songs largely written at his … Continue reading
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Tagged 10CC, album, electronica, Kevin Godley, Muscle Memory, pop, quirky pop, review
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Single reviews: RICKY WARWICK, VOODOO SIX
Ricky Warwick – ‘You Don’t Love Me’ Black Star Riders frontman Warwick has long been one of the best and most respected figures in the business. From his work with the dirty groove machine The Almighty, through … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, Black Star Riders, classic rock, Luke Morley, review, Ricky Warwick, rock, singles, Thunder, Voodoo Six
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Album review: RONAN FURLONG – The King Of Leaves
Thoroughbred Music [Release date 20.11.20] Ronan Furlong’s ‘The King Of Leaves’ is an essential jagged-edged, genre bending, Celtic tinged roots rocking album of the highest order. It’s shot through with unrelenting intensity, yet understated swagger. And there’s enough musical diversity, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Celtic rock, folk, Geddy Lee, guitar.singer, Irish, Joe Bonamassa, Led Zeppelin, Minerva's Meddling, review, Robert Plant, rock, Ronan Furlong, roots, Rush, songwriter, The King Of Leaves, vocal
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Album review: NEAL SCHON – Universe
[Release date 11.12.20] Neal Schon pops up in my Twitter feed every so often, his guitar emoting against a frequently funky undertow in his latest home video. He remains both enthusiastic and engaging. Even if the camera position and the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, guitar, guitarist, instrumental, melodic rock, Narada Michael Walden, Neal Schon, review, Universe
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Album review: THE FLOWER KINGS – Islands
Inside Out [Release date: 30 October 2020] There’s a debate that rages in a certain music magazine as to what is and what isn’t “prog” – where much pointless navel-gazing and hand-wringing occurs in trying to decide whether the … Continue reading
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Tagged Islands, Jonas Reingold, Progressive Rock, review, Roine Stolt, The Flower Kings
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