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Gerry McAvoy picks his favourite tracks
Long-serving Rory Gallagher bass player Gerry McAvoy chooses the music in the ‘Favourite Tracks from Favourite Artists’ sequence on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio on Sunday 9 November at 17:00 GMT.
Gerry chats about his career, about Rory, and his current project Band Of Friends.
Album review (Irish Tour ’74 box set)
Tour dates
Thursday 6 November: Verviers (B) Spirit of 66
Friday 7 November: Twist (D) Heimathaus
Saturday 8 November: Idstein (D) Der ScheurIdstein
Sunday 9 November: Koblenz (D) Cafe Hahn
Tuesday 11 November: Duisburg (D) Grammatikoff
Wednesday 12thNovember: Miltenberg (D) Beavers
Friday 14 November: Vaihingen/Enz(D) Mettertalhalle
Saturday 15 November: Hard (A) Kammgarn
Thursday 20 November: Hengelo (NL) Metropool
Friday 21 November: Hoogeveen (NL) Blues Festival
Saturday 22 November: Sneek (NL) Het Bolwerk
Sunday 23 November: Weert (NL) DeBosuil
Friday 12 December: Athens (GR) Kyttaro Club
Saturday 13 December: Athens (GR) Kyttaro Club
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And, in the Pete Feenstra Feature – Sunday 9 November at 19:00 – Pete chats to Carl Dixon about Coney Hatch and plays tracks from the band’s eighties albums plus the current album ‘Four’.
Carl appeared with the band recently at the final Firefest event.
Gig review (Firefest)
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