Tag Archives: Pretty Maids

Album review: PRETTY MAIDS – Maid In Japan

Posted on June 6, 2020 by jason
PRETTY MAIDS – Maid In Japan

Frontiers [Release date 22.05.20] Pretty Maids have been around since the early 80’s, with original members vocalist Ronnie Artkins and guitarist Ken Hammer joined by bassist Rene Shades, Chris Laney on keyboards, guitar and drummer Allan Sørensen (who left the … Continue reading →

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Album review: PRETTY MAIDS – Undress Your Madness

Posted on November 18, 2019 by jason
PRETTY MAIDS – Undress Your Madness

Frontiers [Release date 08.11.19] This new album by the Pretty Maids (number 16 from a band who have been around for nearly 40 years now), has been overshadowed by the sad news that vocalist Ronnie Atkins has been diagnosed with … Continue reading →

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Album review: NORDIC UNION- Second Coming

Posted on December 18, 2018 by andynathan

Release Date 9.11.18 Erik Martensson has maintained a work rate in 2018 that would put the Stalinist-era miner Stakhanov to shame.  His own band Eclipse had a quieter year but on top of his significant participation in the W.E.T. and … Continue reading →

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Gig review: ROCKINGHAM FESTIVAL – Nottingham Trent University Students Union, 19-21 October 2018

Posted on October 30, 2018 by andynathan
Tokyo Motor Fist - ROCKINGHAM FESTIVAL, October 2018

Now in its fourth year, anticipation had been steadily growing ever since the line up was announced in February for Rockingham, which accurately bills itself as ‘three days of the finest melodic hard rock from around the world’. Proof of … Continue reading →

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Album review: PRETTY MAIDS – Kingmaker

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Phil Berisford
PRETTY MAIDS – Kingmaker

Frontiers Records [Release date 04.11.16] “Kingmaker” is Pretty Maids’ 15th studio album if you include 2014’s superb “Louder Than Ever” which contained re-recordings of old tunes plus 4 newbies and it continues their run of high quality releases. The Danish … Continue reading →

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Album review: NORDIC UNION

Posted on February 9, 2016 by andynathan
Nordic Union

Frontiers Records [Release date 29.01.16] Lead singer of Eclipse, whose ‘Armageddonize’ album was GRTR!’s second best melodic rock album of 2015, Erik Martensson is one of the most prolific, not to say talented, figures in his field. The latest in … Continue reading →

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Gig review: FIREFEST – Nottingham Rock City, 24-26 October 2014 (Day 2)

Posted on November 2, 2014 by GRTR! HQ
Rage Of Angels - Firefest - Nottingham Rock City, 25 October 2014

DAY 2 – FIREHOUSE, BLACK N BLUE, PRETTY MAIDS, BABYLON AD, BOULEVARD, FROM THE FIRE, RAGE OF ANGELS Day 2 also began with home grown talent in Rage Of Angels, formed by Ged Rylands who was playing guitar rather than … Continue reading →

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Gig Review: FRONTIERS ROCK FESTIVAL, Italy, 1-3 May 2014

Posted on May 14, 2014 by andynathan
Frontiers Rock Festival, Italy, May 2014

Famous Italian bands can be counted on the fingers of one hand, yet it is an Italian label, Frontiers Records, who have emerged as the world force in melodic rock. Starting with the underground acts, they have accumulated a huge … Continue reading →

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Album review: COLDSPELL – Frozen Paradise

Posted on October 13, 2013 by jason
Coldspell

Escape Music www.escape-music.com Album number three from ColdSpell and Tommy Hansen (Helloween/Pretty Maids) is again at the mixing desk. Good to see the keyboards and Hammond playing of Matti Eklund higher in the mix and like the Pretty Maids the … Continue reading →

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Gig review: PRETTY MAIDS – Camden Underworld, 22 September 2013

Posted on September 25, 2013 by andynathan

One of the most enduring bands from the European metal scene, Danish outfit Pretty Maids, have not played these shores since 1985 amazingly enough, other than an appearance at Firefest.  In the circumstances it was disappointing that even the Underworld … Continue reading →

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Album review: PRETTY MAIDS – Motherland

Posted on April 21, 2013 by andynathan

Frontiers Records (Release date 22.3.13) I was reminded what a long career Pretty Maids have enjoyed when, a couple of years back, a well-oiled singer Ronnie Atkins burst into a curry house after Firefest and regaled us diners with tales … Continue reading →

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News: SKYFEST 2013, 21-22 September,The Intake,Mansfield,Notts

Posted on March 17, 2013 by GRTR! HQ
Skyfest 2013

Josh Taerk’s latest Lockdown session was streamed on Sunday 25 October. More about Josh: http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?s=%22Josh+Taerk%22 David Randall presents a weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Sundays at 22:00 BST (GMT+1, repeated on Mondays and Fridays), when he invites … Continue reading →

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LOVE UNDER COVER – Set The Night On Fire

Posted on November 23, 2012 by jason

Escape Music www.escape-music.com Sweden does it again as another great melodic hard rock band bursts onto the scene. Mind you one look at the line-up and they are seasoned musicians including Last Autumn’s Dream vocalist Mikael Erlandsson and Martin Kronlund … Continue reading →

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Pretty Maids “It Comes Alive (Maid In Switzerland)”

Posted on April 28, 2012 by jason

Frontiers 2012 Danish band Pretty Maids have been together for just over 30 years and in that time have sold albums probably in the hundreds of thousands, yet they have not attained the wider recognition that others in their genre … Continue reading →

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