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Latest Album Reviews
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Album review : ROB MORATTI – Sovereign
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Album review : BRAZEN ABBOT – Live And Learn and Guilty As Sin (CD reissues)
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Album review : GRAHAM BONNET – Lost In Hollywood Again (Live)
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JIM PETERIK AND WORLD STAGE – River of Song – The Power Of Duets, Volume 1
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Album review: HENGE – Journey to Voltus B
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Album review : JIMI JAMISON – 1998 Live Hits
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Latest Gig Reviews
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Gig review: STEVE OVERLAND AND JIM KIRKPATRICK- The Weir, Brentford, Middlesex, 9 December 2025
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Gig review: JOHN OTWAY – Face Bar, Reading, Thursday 11 December 2025
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Gig review: CURVED AIR – The Sub Rooms, Stroud, 20 November 2025
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Gig review: MARTIN BARRE & FRIENDS – Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 18 November 2025
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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile)
Album review: SNOWY WHITE – Driving On The 44
Pete Feenstra chatted to Snowy White in July 2022 for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. First broadcast 10 July 2022. Soulfood [Release date 11.07.22] Snowy White has always been a one guitar blues man. The fact his Les Paul Goldtop … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Carlos Santana, Driving On The 44, funk, Gregg Rolie, guitar, interview, jazz, Latino, Mark Knopfler, Max Middleton, Peter Green, Pink Floyd, radio, review, rock, Roger Waters, Snowy White, Thin Lizzy, Thomas White
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Album review: JOHN STEEL – Distorted Reality
Global Rock [Release date: 15.07.22] This 3 album/double CD set from Ivan Stalev (John Steel) is quite a coup for SFM’s new metal/rock spinoff label, Global Rock. Effectively, the package backs up the release of Steel’s new album, Distorted Reality, … Continue reading
Album review: TRACTOR – Tractor 50th Anniversary Edition (red vinyl)
Ozit /Morpheus Records [Release date 01.07.22] Previously reissued by Ozit as a CD to mark the album’s 30th anniversary, The 50th anniversary of ‘Tractor’ is given a 3 sided, double-set on red vinyl release, contextualised by a pictorial collage with … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Brit psych, Dave Addison, drums, Edgar Broughton, guitar, hard rock, Hawkwind, Jim Milne, John Brierley, John Peel, Man, Nick Mason, Ozit Records, Pink Floyd, prog, psychedelia, red vinyl, review, Steve Clayton, Steve Miller, Tractor, Tractor 50th Anniversary Edition
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Album review: THE KUT – GRIT
Criminal Records [Release date 08.07.22] “The Kut” is essentially the band’s songwriter and vocalist Maha and ‘Grit’ is the second album. The barometer is set somewhere between the American rock and roll of The Runaways, the post-punk attitude of Girlschool, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic rock, GRIT, indie, pop, punk, review, The Kut
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Album review: DAVID PAICH – Forgotten Toys
The Players Club/Mascot [Release date 19.08.22] The first thing to say about this, the first solo “album” from the long-serving Toto keyboard player, it’s very short and it’s very Toto. By using band-mates Joseph Williams (vocals, co-producer/writer) and Steve Lukather … Continue reading
Album review: THE UK SUBS – Yellow Leader
Cherry Red [release date 8.07.22] And they said it wouldn’t last… back in print for the first time in 7 years, The UK Subs 25th studio release gets a coloured vinyl makeover. Yellow Leader 2022 is an 18 track double … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alvin Gibbs, Charlie Harper, double vinyl, Jamie Oliver, Jet, Pat Collier, punk, review, rock, Roy Lichtenstein
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Album review: AMONGST LIARS – S/T
Website [Release date 08.07.22] Formed the end of 2019, Amongst Liars are a 4 piece from Eastbourne/Brighton. They released their first single ‘Over and Over’ in February 2020, at just about the worst time to launch a new band, but … Continue reading
Album review: ORIANTHI – Live In Hollywood (CD and DVD)
Frontiers Music [Release date: 15.07.22] For the uninitiated, Greek/Australian blonde bombshell Orianthi Panagaris is a platinum selling, guitar playing rock artist whose songs have registered many millions of hits online. That’s when she’s not been treading the boards with Michael … Continue reading
Album review: CHAS CRONK – Liberty
Renaissance Records [Release date 11.02.22] It’s only when you look at the Discography in the liner note that you may realise that Chas Cronk has been a long-time member of The Strawbs but also worked with Steve Hackett and Rick … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chas Cronk, classic rock, Dave Bainbridge, Dave Lambert, Liberty, pop, prog, progressive, review, The Strawbs
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Album review: BELLA HARDY – Love Songs
Noe Records [Release date 08.07.22] Recorded over just three days, ‘Love Songs‘ is Bella Hardy‘s tenth solo album. The album features seven traditional numbers with four self-penned originals, all loosely based on the album title. She is joined by Mike … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bella Hardy, folk, Love Songs, Mike Vass, review, singer songwriter
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Album review: PETER GOALBY – I Will Come Runnin’
Cherry Red Records [Release date 06.05.22] Like buses, you wait ages for a Peter Goalby album, then two come along in quick succession. On this album, like last year’s ‘Easy With The Heartaches‘, it features songs originally recorded in the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic rock, Foreigner, I Will Come Runnin’, melodic rock, Peter Goalby, review, Robin George, rock, Uriah Heep
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Album review: CROSSING RUBICON – Perfect Storm
Frontiers [Release date: 08.07.22] Crossing Rubicon is a marriage made in the world of post Grunge AOR. That world might look and sound just like it did in the eighties, only much smaller, but there’s a greater expectation now especially … Continue reading
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Tagged album review, AOR, Cenk Eroglu, Frontiers, John Bisaha, melodic rock, the Babys, Winger
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Album review: ARDOURS – Anatomy Of A Moment
Frontiers [Release date: 08.07.22] A merger of two musical forces who once crossed paths, Ardours are Mariangela (Tristania) Demurtas, who sings and writes. And Kris Laurent, who writes, plays all instruments and produces. Their album, Anatomy Of A Moment, frames … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Electronic Rock, Kris Laurent, Mariangela Demurtas, pop, review, symphonic, Tristania
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Quick plays: LIPS TURN BLUE, O’KANE & BLOCK, CTP
LIPS TURN BLUE MIG Music [Release date 04.05.22] Lips Turn Blue feature Don Mancuso (a former member of Black Sheep which featured Lou Gramm who guests on this album), keyboardist Eric Bieber, bassist Mike Mullane, drummer Roy Stein and vocalist … Continue reading
Album review: CHRISTINE McVIE – Songbird: A Solo Collection
Rhino/Warner [Release date 24.6.22] This is the first release to bear Christine McVie’s name since her excellent 2017 collaboration with Lindsey Buckingham (which was essentially a Fleetwood Mac album without Stevie Nicks). “Songbird” contains a remixed selection from her 1984 … Continue reading
Album review: WAX ON WATER – The Drip
Howling Tempest Records [Release date 24.06.22] Wax On Water are a three-piece led by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Maya Damaris, and completed by drummer Garren Orr and guitarist Steven Blessing. They have already released two EPs this year under ‘The … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alt rock, concept album, electronica, indie, review, The Drip, Wax On Water
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Album review: TIMOTHY B. SCHMIT – Day By Day
Timothy B. Schmit chatted to David Randall about his music with tracks from the new album. First broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, 3 July 2022 [Release date: Digital - 06.05.22; CD/Vinyl 02.09.22] Best known as one of the … Continue reading
Album review : TYGERS OF PAN TANG – 1985-87 (3 CD Boxset)
Cherry Red / HNE [Release date 24.06.22] Arguably there are two Tygers Of Pan Tang. This boxset features Tygers 2.0. CD1: The Wreck-age (1985) CD2: Burning In The Shade (1987) and CD3: The Wreck-age Demos and the Burning In The … Continue reading
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Tagged 1985-87, albums, boxset, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, John Tucker, melodic hard rock, Mutt Lange, NWOBHM, review, Saxon, Steely Dan, Tygers Of Pan Tang
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Album review: PAUL DI’ANNO’s BATTLEZONE – Killers in The Battlezone (3CD Boxset)
Cherry Red [release date: 24.06.22] The career of the currently wheelchair bound singer, Paul Di’Anno has been a journey of detours, dead ends, drug addiction and detainment. His public profile as a musician began with heavy metal band, Iron Maiden. … Continue reading
Album review: JORN – Over The Horizon Radar
Frontiers Music [Release date 17.06.22] Jorn Lande has worked with guitarist Tore Moren since The Snakes in 1998. These two have been in each other’s company for so long that they must by now have developed some kind of musical … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alessandro DelVechio, Coverdale, Dio, Eurovision, heavy rock, review, The Snakes, Tore Moren
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Album review: HATS OFF GENTLEMEN IT’S ADEQUATE – The Confidence Trick
Bandcamp [Release date 29.07.22] Here at GRTR! we are big fans of Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate, enjoying what the band use to describe themselves as genre defying music. They have a prog rock basis but then wander off down … Continue reading
Album review: BUBBLEROCK IS HERE TO STAY VOLUME 2 (3 CD set)
Grapefruit/Cherry Red [Release date : 17.06.22] To give this 3 CD Boxset its full title: Bubblerock Is Here To Stay: Volume 2: The British Pop Explosion, 1970-73. In the world of sixties and seventies pop, the single was the king. … Continue reading
Album review: THE BLACK FEATHERS – Angel Dust & Cyanide
www.theblackfeathers.com [Release date 08.07.22] The Black Feathers, made up of Ray Hughes (vocals, guitars, keys) and Sian Chandler (vocals), have been touring and recording since 2012. The pandemic put a temporary halt on their regular touring, although they have performed … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Angel Dust & Cyanide, country, mellow, melodic, Portishead, review, THE BLACK FEATHERS
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Album review: MY SOLILOQUY – FU3ION
Rare Artist Music [Release date 11.07.22] Third album from My Soliloquy, which is the brainchild of former Threshold guitarist Pete Morten. On this album he is joined by Threshold’s drummer Johanne James – Morten plays all the other instruments on … Continue reading
Album review: CHAOS MAGIC – Emerge
Frontiers [Release date 17.06.22] Underwhelming Symphonic Metal from Timo Tolkki “discovery”, Caterina Nix. This new release,Emerge, is a second collaboration between Nix and one of Frontiers’ South American songwriter/producer wunderkind, Nasson. The first, Furyborn, was released in 2019. Nasson’s production … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Caterina Nix, Chaos Magic, Emerge, Frontiers, Nasson, review, Stratovarius, symphonic metal, Timo Tolkki
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