News: CATS IN SPACE are the latest entrants in The GRTR! Grotto of Greatness (August 2023)

Rock website Get Ready to ROCK!’s 20th anniversary celebration continues with the latest entrants in “The GRTR! Grotto of Greatness”.

Pop rockers Cats In Space will be honoured in August ahead of UK tour dates in September.

Jason Ritchie, News and Reviews Editor, commented “Most of the artists in this promotion have been well established. Cats In Space formed in 2015 and we have followed their progress ever since, via gig and album reviews.

The band are unashamedly retro and evoke melodic pop rock’s glory days referencing bands like 10cc, ELO and Queen.

As with all our nominees they have consistently released quality albums and in spite of vocalist changes in recent years remain one of the best in the pop rock genre.”

Melodic Rock Editor Andy Nathan adds: “The Cats have drawn inspiration from a neglected musical scene – pop and rock acts from the latter half of the seventies with an emphasis on good songs, lush harmonies and clever arrangements, before the term soft rock got a bad name. Different they most certainly are but they have a strong claim to being my favourite new band to emerge during GRTR!’s twenty years.”

A retrospective of the band’s coverage at GRTR! is published on 1 August.

The August artists in our “Grotto” were announced on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio on Sunday 16 July.

More information: GRTR!@20/The Grotto

EDITOR NOTE

The equivalent of the “Hall of Fame” the Grotto honours selected artists who have been covered consistently at rock website Get Ready to ROCK! over a period of 20 years. The promotion is part of the website’s 20th anniversary celebrations and will feature a different artist or band each month in 2023.

The GRTR!@20 promotion celebrates 20 years of the popular rock website Get Ready to ROCK! The website’s archive of reviews and interviews will be highlighted as well as new features celebrating 20 years of activity.

So far this year “The Grotto” has welcomed The Darkness (January), Chantel McGregor (February) , Eleanor McEvoy (March), Joe Bonamassa (April), Walter Trout (May), FM (June 2023) and Marillion (July 2023).

UK tour dates

JULY

20 Bracknell, South Hill Park Arts Centre & Wilde Theatre

21 Lancaster, Grand Theatre

22 Hexham, Queens Hall Arts Centre

SEPTEMBER

08 Stockport, The Forum Theatre

09 Bathgate, Reconnect Regal Theatre

15 Bury St Edmunds, The Apex

23 Frome, Cheese & Grain

26 Southend-on-Sea, Palace Theatre

29 Redditch, Palace Theatre

30 Paignton, Palace Theatre

NOVEMBER

09 Wimborne, Tivoli Theatre

10 Ilfracombe, The Landmark Theatre

11 Maidenhead, Norden Farm Centre for The Arts

DECEMBER

14 Southampton, The Brook

15 Milton Keynes, The Stables

16 Swansea, Patti Pavilion

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Power Plays w/c 9 December 2024

In this sequence we play ‘The Best of 2024′ GRTR! reviewer selections

Featured Albums w/c 9 December 2024

09:00-12:00 The Best of 2024 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003-2024 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2024 (Singer Songwriter)