Yearly Archives: 2021

Album review: APRIL WINE – First Glance, Harder…Faster

Posted on August 22, 2021 by jason

BGO Records [Release date 06.08.21] Although April Wine had been around since 1969, they only really made in big outside of their native Canada with 1978’s ‘First Glance’, an album that also marked the debut of guitarist Brian Greenway. Between … Continue reading →

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Album review: SLADE – Slayed?

Posted on August 22, 2021 by jason

BMG (LP, splatter vinyl) [Release date 03.09.21] Wolverhampton born legends Slade were important and successful innovators in hard rock and glam rock during the 70s, both musically and visually. There have been many reissues, but this LP reminds us of … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE VAPORS – Waiting For The Weekend (The United Artists & Liberty Records Recordings)

Posted on August 20, 2021 by jason

Cherry Red Records The original recordings by The Vapors have been largely unavailable on CD for many years. Cherry Red / RT Industries address this perfectly with a comprehensive 4CD set, which not only rounds up both albums and all … Continue reading →

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Album review: ORANGE GOBLIN – Healing Through Fire (2CDs w/bonus tracks)

Posted on August 19, 2021 by brianmc

Cherry Red Records [Release date 20.08.21] This expanded Orange Goblin compilation centres on their 2007 Disaster Album, Healing Through Fire. Only a Heavy Metal band could take The Great Fire Of London and the Great Plague as the theme for its … Continue reading →

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Album review: DANKO JONES – Power Trio

Posted on August 18, 2021 by jason

Mate In Germany [Release date 27.08.21] Danko Jones are onto their tenth album, which also celebrates the 25th year anniversary of this uncompromising band. They have their own unique sound and keep on doing what they do best – uncompromising … Continue reading →

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Gig review: NOZFEST – The 1865, Southampton, 14 August 2021

Posted on August 18, 2021 by andynathan

Oh, how we have missed rock festivals during the pandemic. 2020 proved to be a write-off as Coronavirus proved more stubborn than originally imagined, and with depressing predictability, as spring turned into summer most organisers gave up the unequal struggle … Continue reading →

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Album review: BRENT WINDLER – New Morning Howl

Posted on August 16, 2021 by brianmc

Goldstar Records [release date 27.08.21] New Morning Howl is the debut album from Kansas City singer/songwriter, Brent Windler. Big things are expected of this exceptionally talented artist. There’s definitely a touch of Paul Simon about Windler, in the way that … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE GRAFENBERG DISCIPLES – Johnny On The Spot

Posted on August 16, 2021 by GRTR! HQ

The Highlander Company Records [Release date 02.07.21] The opening track of this album really sets the scene and the influences. Sounding like a mash up of something by Level 42, Phil Collins’ ‘Another Day In Paradise;’ and Roachford the controls … Continue reading →

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Single review: MANIMAL – Armageddon and The Inevitable End

Posted on August 15, 2021 by brianmc

AFM Records [Release date 06.08.21] ‘Armageddon‘ is the title track and third “single” release from forthcoming new album from Sweden’s Manimal. As the song title suggests, this video version has lots of footage of global warfare, nuclear of course, clearly … Continue reading →

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Single review: PARADOX – Mountains And Caves

Posted on August 14, 2021 by brianmc

AFM Records [release date 13.08.21] German giants of Thrash, Paradox are well known within the genre. They have a sizeable coterie of discerning fans who’ve followed them since the band’s inception, in 1986. Had their chosen genre been say, melodic … Continue reading →

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EP review: ASHLEY SHERLOCK– If You’re Listening

Posted on August 14, 2021 by petefeenstra

Pete Feenstra chatted to Ashley Sherlock about the EP and his music for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. First broadcast 15 August 2021. Self Release [Release date 09.07.21] Ashley Sherlock is a passionate singer-songwriter who fronts a powerful roots and … Continue reading →

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Album review: CRUZH – Tropical Thunder

Posted on August 14, 2021 by jason

Frontiers [Release date 06.08.21] Cruzh is back with a new vocalist, Alex Waghorn, in a belated follow-up to 2016’s self-titled debut. Waghorn joined Cruzh in 2019 when the band released an acoustic version of ‘Aim For The Head’. Now, Waghorn, … Continue reading →

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Album review: FRANKIE MILLER – Full House and Double Trouble (remasters w/bonus tracks)

Posted on August 14, 2021 by brianmc

Rock Candy Records [Release date 30.07.21] With 3 outstanding albums under his belt, but no substantial success, you could have forgiven Frankie Miller for just accepting his fate. Judging by his genre hopping fourth album, Full House, (1978) he never … Continue reading →

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Album review: ALL GOOD THINGS – A Hope In Hell

Posted on August 11, 2021 by jason

Better Noise Music [Release date 20.08.21] All Good Things signed with Better Noise Music in 2019 and now they unleash their debut album. All Good Things consists of Dan Murphy (vocals), Andrew Bojanic (guitars, bass, vocals, keyboards, producer), Liz Hooper … Continue reading →

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Gig review: ATOMIC ROOSTER- Cabbage Patch, Twickenham, 5 August 2021

Posted on August 10, 2021 by andynathan

For the past 20 years or so the Eel Pie Club have been keeping alive the spirit of the sixties music scene that was so influential in this part of South-West London. As that decade gave way to the seventies, … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: HAMISH HAWK, LANGAN FROST & WANE

Posted on August 9, 2021 by jason

HAMISH HAWK Heavy Elevator Assai Recordings [Release date 17.09.21] Hamish Hawk is an Edinburgh-based songwriter who performs solo and as frontman of the New Outfit. Hamish Hawk possess a rich, warm baritone vocal, perfectly suited for the mellower moments like … Continue reading →

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Book review: Loud ’n’ Proud – 50 Years Of Nazareth by Martin Popoff

Posted on August 9, 2021 by jason

Wymer Publishing [Publication date 06.08.21] Scottish rock legends have been recording for 50 years now, and a book on the band and their fantastic legacy has been long overdue. Their charting days be over (they were chart and Top Of … Continue reading →

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Album review: DONNIE IRIS AND THE CRUISERS – Remasters

Posted on August 8, 2021 by brianmc

Rock Candy Records [release date 30.07.21] Back On The Streets (1980) King Cool (1981) High And Mighty (1982) Fortune 410 (1983) Donnie Iris’s first 4 albums have at last been nailed down by Rock Candy Records. The pursuit has been … Continue reading →

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Album review: COLIN SCOT – Colin Scot

Posted on August 7, 2021 by jason

Esoteric/Cherry Red [Release date 30.7.21] It’s more than a little unfair that the late singer-songwriter Colin Scot’s 1971 debut seems to be regarded more for the myriad of guest musicians than for Scot’s own undoubted talent. Reissued on CD for … Continue reading →

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EP review: ANDY PARTRIDGE – My Failed Songwriting Career Vol. 1

Posted on August 7, 2021 by jason

Ape House [Release date 23.7.21] When XTC was put on hiatus following 2000’s “Wasp Star”, Andy Partridge decided it was time to write for other artists. A number of successful co-writes came to fruition (Steven Wilson, Pugwash, Miles Kane), along … Continue reading →

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Album review: CHANTEL McGREGOR – Shed Sessions Volume One & Two

Posted on August 7, 2021 by GRTR! HQ

www.chantelmcgregor.com [Release date 12.07.21] Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3. In Chantel McGregor’s case, parts 1 and 2 aka Shed Sessions. Gather together the fish tank, an acoustic guitar and a tame keyboard player (Jamie Brooks) and you have a … Continue reading →

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Album review: MIRKA RANTANEN’s CIRCUS OF ROCK – Come One Come All

Posted on August 5, 2021 by brianmc

Frontiers [release date 06.08.21] Circus Of Rock is a multiple guests band … singers, musicians … put together by King Company drummer boy, Mirka Rantanen. The album, Come One Come All is the realisation of a life long ambition, a … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE DAWN BROTHERS – Dusk

Posted on August 4, 2021 by jason

Website [Release date 16.07.21] Welcome, one and all, to the official baptism of a new creed, the revitalization of a long-loved and well-trodden genre – Rotterdam’s The Dawn Brothers excellent new release, DUSK, hereby puts a firm stake in the ground … Continue reading →

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EP review: COUNCIL – It Runs In The Blood

Posted on August 3, 2021 by jason

Facebook [Release date 17.09.21] Council is made up of the 3 brothers Reeves (Andy, Doug and Pat) who traded in a life of farming to pursue their true dream: writing and performing music. Last year’s EP was highly impressive and … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE KORGIS – Kartoon World

Posted on August 2, 2021 by petefeenstra

Pete Feenstra chatted to James Warren about the album Kartoon World for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. First broadcast 1 August 2021. https://thekorgis.com/ [Release date 16.07.21] ‘Kartoon World’ is the first proper studio album since 1992. And it marks a … Continue reading →