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Upcoming: New releases (CD/DVD/Bluray) 2027
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Upcoming: New releases (CD/DVD/Bluray) 2026
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Upcoming: UK & Ireland Tour Dates and Gig Listing (2027)
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Upcoming: UK & Ireland Tour Dates and Gig Listing (2026)
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Upcoming: Festivals UK & Europe (2027)
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Upcoming: Festivals UK & Europe (2026)
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Upcoming: European, USA & World Tour Dates and Gig Listing (2026)
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Album review : HEAVEN’S EDGE Philadelphia
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Album review : DAN SEALS – 4 albums on 2 CDs – Stones/Harbinger/Walking The Wire/All Fired Up
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Album review: SCARLET REBELS – Flawed By Design
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Album review: CATS IN SPACE – Suit of Armour
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Album review: HANOI ROCKS – The Complete Collection 1981-1984
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Album review : IRON SAVIOR – Death Bringer
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Upcoming: UK & Ireland Tour Dates and Gig Listing (2027)
Compiled by Jason Ritchie Please check artist and venue websites for latest information. Your release not listed? Contact us! To search quickly within this page (“Find In Page”): Press Ctrl+F (on Windows PC, Chromebook, or Linux system), or Command+F (on … Continue reading
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Tagged 2027, AOR, gigs, Ireland, melodic rock, metal, pop, progressive, rock, tour dates, tours, uk
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Upcoming: UK & Ireland Tour Dates and Gig Listing (2026)
Compiled by Jason Ritchie Please check artist and venue websites for latest information. Your tour not listed? Contact us! To search quickly within this page (“Find In Page”): Press Ctrl+F (on Windows PC, Chromebook, or Linux system), or Command+F (on … Continue reading
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Tagged 2026, AOR, gigs, Ireland, melodic rock, metal, pop, progressive, rock, tour dates, tours, uk
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Upcoming: Festivals UK & Europe (2027)
Featured Artist: JOSH TAERK Since early 2020 Josh has been entertaining us with exclusive monthly live sessions, Check out videos here: https://www.facebook.com/getreadytorockradio Josh now hosts “Taerk’s Tracks” as part of the Singer Songwriter Sunday sequence on Get Ready to ROCK! … Continue reading
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Tagged 2027, AOR, classic rock, European, festivals, folk, indie, melodic rock, metal, rock, uk
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Upcoming: Festivals UK & Europe (2026)
Please check artist and festival websites for latest information. Upcoming: Festivals UK & Europe (2027) Your festival not listed? Contact us! Upcoming: Festivals UK & Europe (2027) Featured Artist: JOSH TAERK Since early 2020 Josh has been entertaining us with … Continue reading
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Tagged 2026, AOR, classic rock, European, festivals, folk, indie, melodic rock, metal, rock, uk
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Gig review: THE DAMN TRUTH – Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool, 6 September 2026
Playing at one of the last sweaty bastions of rock music, The Waterloo in Blackpool, Crobot opened the show. A band of four from Pottsville Pennsylvania they blasted the good size and receptive audience with their own recipe of hard … Continue reading
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Tagged 6 September 2026, Blackpool, blues, blues rock, Crobot, gig, psychedelic, review, rock, soul, The Damn Truth, Waterloo Music Bar
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Album review: WOOD BURNT RED – Hold On Tight
Website [Release date 04.09.26] Before I get started on the album, I just want to say that given good management and keeping their shit together Wood Burnt Red could be massive. You just know something special when you hear it, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Burnt Red Wood, country rock, Hold On Tight, review, rock, southern rock, Wood Burnt Red
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Album review: SHA-BOOM – Another Nail in the Coffin
Silver Lining Music [Release date 26.08.26] Sha-Boom appeared in 1988 and disappeared almost as quickly in 1992. Fast forward to 2005 and they released ‘The Race Is On’, then radio silence for a couple of decades until they re-emerge with … Continue reading
Album review: THOSE MADE BROKEN – A Door You Can Never Close
Website [Release date 01.09.26] I’m always very excited when I hear of an album that is not just made for pleasing the musical mainframe, but from a place of education and awareness of situations that many may not know is happening … Continue reading
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Tagged A Door You Can Never Close, album, alt rock, grunge, review, rock, Those Made Broken
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Album review: ROB TOGNONI – Black On Black
Bandcamp [Release date : 09.07.26] Rob Tognoni’s ‘Black On Black’ is a hard rocking album, full of his unrelenting energy, focussed intensity and uncompromising lyrics, which frequently mirror his steely riffs (or vice versa). ‘The Tasmanian Devil’ enjoys moments of … Continue reading
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Tagged AC/DC, album, Black On Black, Bob Dylan, Derrin Neundorf, Frank Zappa, review, riffs, Rob Tognoni, rock, Stratocaster
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Album review: KINDRED NORTH – Kindred North
Pride & Joy Music [Release date 21.08.26] Although melodic rock and AOR is my first musical love (along with folk music), recent albums in this genre have not made much impression. Pride of Lions, Acacia Avenue and Creye come to … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Andi Kravljaca, Andreas Nergård, debut, hard rock, Kindred North, melodic rock, review, rock
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Single review: BIG COUNTRY REDUX – Winter Sky
Website Big Country Redux return with ‘Winter Sky’, the latest single taken from their forthcoming album ‘Eastworld’, due for release on September 18. The track was originally written by Watson and Stuart Adamson during sessions for the band’s 1984 album … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Country Redux, Bruce Watson, indie rock, review, rock, single, Stuart Adamson, Tony Butler, Winter Sky
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Album review: RAINBOW – In Concert 1976 Live In Nurnberg
Demon Records [Release date 28.08.26] Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow’s three German live shows, originally released on CD some years ago and long out of print, were reissued more recently as part of Demon’s Temple Of The King box set. The label … Continue reading
Album review: ROBIN TROWER – Shine
Provogue / Artone Label Group [Release date : 25.09.26] ‘Shine’ admirably lives up to its name. It’s taut, precise, fluid, balanced and represents honest emotive guitar-driven music from the heart. It’s a marvellous album, full of deep grooves, sculpted tones and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chris Taggart, groove, guitar, review, Richard Watts, Robin Trower, rock, Shine
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Album review: THE FIERCE AND THE DEAD – Regional Theatre
Bandcamp [Release date 11.09.26] A new album by the Fierce And The Dead is always a musical treat. On ‘Regional Theatre’ they have gone a bit cinematic in scope and sound yet retain their signature shoegaze meets indie rock sounds. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, grunge, indie, Regional Theatre, review, rock, shoegaze, the Fierce and the Dead
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Gig review: HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES – AO Arena Manchester, 18 August 2026
I was walking my dog in the park the other day, and a fellow dog walker come music enthusiast came into my space. I’m going to see The Hollywood Vampires tomorrow says I. Ooooh! Says he have you seen the … Continue reading
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Tagged 18 August 2026, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, AO Arena Manchester, classic rock. blues rock, gig, Hollywood Vampires, Joe Perry, Johnny Depp, review, rock
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Album review: TEN YEARS AFTER – Cricklewood Green (Deluxe Edition)
Chrysalis [Release date 28.08.26] Ten Years After are a British blues rock group who really don’t get enough love. After several breaks, reunions and line-up changes, they’re still going strong, after their formation in the mid 60s. With their roots … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alvin Lee, classic album, classic rock, Cricklewood Green, deluxe edition, reissue, review, rock, Ten Years After
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Album review: ALBERT BOUCHARD – Imaginos IV: Rhyme of the Star Clock
Deko Entertainment [Release date 25.09.26] The story so far… In 1981, Albert Bouchard was fired, mid-tour, from Blue Öyster Cult, the band he helped to form back in the 1960s. His immediate response was to hook up with the band’s … Continue reading
Gig review: ERIC JOHNSON – Lytham Lowther Pavilion, 4 August 2026
Joined by Nashville’s Daniel Kimbro on bass and ex-Joe Bonamassa and Chaka Khan, Tal Bergman on drums, Eric Johnson was playing the last date of a five week tour, taking in Europe and the UK. The great thing about catching … Continue reading
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Tagged 4 August 2026, blues, Eric Johnson, gig, guitarist, Lytham Lowther Pavilion, review, rock
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Album review: BYWATER CALL – Broken Souvenirs
Bandcamp [Release date 29.07.26] Diversity is definitely this Bywater Call’s strength. From Al Green type soul to stark americana acoustic Davey Graham style guitar picking with a vocal, to almost goth style moods, and the glue sticking this all together … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Green, album, Americana, blues, Broken Souvenirs, Bywater Call, Meghan Parnell, review, rock, soul
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Single review: THE COMMONERS – Runnin’ Blind
Website Orange is the new black, forty is the new thirty, The Commoners are the new Black Crowes, with ear worm chorus’s. It grabs you with a descending guitar riff whilst another clashes with power chords till the organ swirls … Continue reading
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Tagged blues rock, review, rock, Runnin' Blind, single, The Black Crowes, the Commoners, Tour
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Gig review: PARKER BARROW – Greystones, Sheffield, 22 July 2026
It couldn’t be any less than five stars, it really couldn’t. Supported by Georgia Nevada from Cambridge, who came over as a coquettish Dolly Parton type figure. She wasn’t rough enough round the edges for my liking, but a large … Continue reading
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Tagged 22 July 2026, blues, blues rock, Georgia Nevada, gig, Greystones, Parker Barrow, review, rock, Sheffield, soul
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Single review: WOOD BURNT RED – Fire Me Up
Facebook Now we’re talking – a UK southern rock band with country and Americana influences. ‘Fire Me Up’ is a song about resilience, fighting in the face of adversity, flipping the bird to your doubters. It hits you with a … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana, country rock, Fire Me Up, review, rock, single, southern rock, Wood Burnt Red
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Album review: BILLY MORRISON – Hollow
TLG/ZOID/Virgin Music Group [Release date 07.08.26] Billy Idol’s rhythm guitarist Billy Morrison has been carving out a successful solo career, including hit singles on the US mainstream rock charts with Ozzy Osbourne on ‘Crack Cocaine’, and again with Ozzy and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Billy Idol, Billy Morrison, country, Duff McKagan, Godsmack, Hollow, metal, nu-metal, Nuno Bettencourt, Ozzy Osbourne, punk, rap metal, review, rock, Run DMC, Steve Stevens, the Offspring
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Album review: PARKER BARROW – Hold The Mash
Website [Release date 17.07.26] Oh boy The Stones and Parker Barrow release new albums within a week of each other. The old guard release a masterpiece, and the new guard release what could be their masterpiece but it’s a little … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, blues rock, Fanny, Hold the Mash, Megan Kane, Parker Barrow, review, rock, rock 'n' roll
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Album review: THE FORTUNATE FEW – Isn’t That So
[Release date 29.05.26] The first thing I thought when I first heard this album by the Fortunate Few is Joe Cocker Sheffield Steel era, which is good for the drummer and bass player as Sly and Robbie were the rhythm … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, blues rock, Covers, Isn't That So, review, rock, The Fortunate Few
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