Monthly Archives: April 2019

News: CAMDEN ROCKS – over 400 acts over two days (1-2 June 2019)

Skarlett Riot - Giants of Rock, Minehead, January 2017

In this festival preview, tracks from Skarlett Riot, The Virginmarys and Dig Lazarus.  First broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, 7 April 2019 (13:01) Camden Rocks Festival have finalised their line-up for this year’s event (1-2 June). Amongst the … Continue reading

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News: MAGNUM – UK dates in June 2019

Magnum - HRH PROG VI - Pwlhelli, North Wales, 17-18 November 2017

w/c 10 June, Get Ready to ROCK! Radio replays two archive shows featuring Magnum.  On Monday 10 June at 16:00 GMT “Vintage Rare Magnum” features rare tracks from the band.  This sequence, originally broadcast to tie in with the band’s … Continue reading

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Album review: ELDON BACKHOUSE AND THE ELECTRIC BLUES BAND – CATSLIDE ROOF

Now, here’s an extraordinary tale, a yarn as unlikely as a condom in a convent and yet a second coming of sorts that will warm your soul. A few years after the end of the Second World War, a certain … Continue reading

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Album review: MATT PEARCE AND THE MUTINY – Gotta Get Home

MATT PEARCE AND THE MUTINY – Gotta Get Home

Pete Feenstra chatted to Matt Pearce for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio in September 2018.  This hour special features tracks from ‘Gotta Get Home’ Mutinear Records [Release date 03.05.19] Voodoo Six axeman, Matt Pearce releases his first solo project with … Continue reading

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Album review: THE BLUES AGAINST YOUTH – Evil Flatmates

Annibale Records Gianni TBAY (The Blues Against Youth) comes from Rome, still has all his teeth, limbs and senses and has probably never been stabbed in a bar fight but this guy is the real-deal, one-man garage blues band. There … Continue reading

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Album review: BATTLE BEAST – No More Hollywood Endings

Nuclear Blast [Release date 22.03.19] Battle Beast are back with their second album since founding member, guitarist and chief songwriter Anton Kabanen left in 2016 to form Beast In Black (who released their latest album earlier this year on the … Continue reading

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Album review: RED BAZAR – Things As They Appear

RED BAZAR - THINGS AS THEY APPEAR

White Knight Records    [Release date: 26.01.2019] Whilst much of music these days drifts aimlessly in a reality-TV-induced slough of mediocrity, progressive rock appears to be in rude health – bucking the trend with a slew of tremendous albums released … Continue reading

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Album review: LAST FLIGHT TO PLUTO – A Drop In The Ocean

LAST FLIGHT TO PLUTO - A Drop In The Ocean

White Knight [Release date 28.03.19] They like their prog in the valleys, don’t they?  There seems to be a never ending production line of female fronted bands emerging from secret facilities in deepest, darkest Wales.  Or in the case of … Continue reading

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Album review: LONERIDER – Attitude

Escape Music [Release date 26.04.19] Lonerider is a new band featuring some experienced names that sees FM vocalist Steve Overland team-up again with guitarist Steve Morris (they both recorded together under the Heartland name) and Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke … Continue reading

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Album review: SUZI QUATRO – No Control

SUZI QUATRO - No Control

SPV [Release date 29.03.19] Now I get it, having enjoyed a career that has lasted over fifty years, Suzi Quatro is the woman that paved the way for most female rock artists that followed – Hole, Heart, Hynde, the list … Continue reading

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