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Gig review: SQUEEZE – Roundhouse, London, 22 November 2024
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Gig review: CARDINAL BLACK – Sub 89, Reading, 15 November 2024
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Gig review: SUZI QUATRO – London Palladium, 13 November 2024
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Gig review: HRH XVII, Great Yarmouth, 7-9 November 2024
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Gig review: WHEN RIVERS MEET, CHANTEL MCGREGOR, XANDER AND THE PEACE PIRATES – Dingwalls, London, 7 November 2024
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Gig review: DEEP PURPLE – 02 Arena, London, 6 November 2024
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Album review: BRIAN MAILLARD – Reincarnation
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Album review: MAGNUM – Live At The Symphony Hall
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Album review: RAMSEY LEWIS – Legacy/ Ramsey/ Live At The Savoy/Chance Encounter (Remasters)
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Album review: MAGNUM – Lost On The Road To Eternity
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Album review: NIGHT BY NIGHT – NxN
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Album review: AMELIA COBURN – Between The Moon And The Milkman
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Album review: WILD PONIES – Radiant
No Evil Records [Release date 10.06.16] Essentially a Nashville-based duo of Doug (guitars and vocals) and Telisha (bass and vocals) Williams, Radiant is Wild Ponies sophomore release, coming on the back of their well-received Ray Kennedy-produced debut Things That Used … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, album, Americana, Doug Williams, folk, Radiant, review, rock, singer, songwriter, Telisha Williams, Wild Ponies
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Album review: JAKE MORLEY – The Manual
Sandwich Emporium [Release date 10.06.16] You sense London based acoustic singer/songwriter Jake Morley tolerates the music industry, and all the hype that goes with it, rather than embraces it. His 2011 debut Many Fish To Fry found favour with Radio … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Jake Morley, review, rock, singer, songwriter, The Manual
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Album review: CAIN RISING – s/t
That’ll Do Records [Release date out now] With a name like Southside Jimmy and the mix of country, folk and rock that borrows heavily on the likes of Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, and Bob Dylan that permeate this eponymous debut, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Cain Rising, review, rock, roots
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News: BAD COMPANY Tour in October 2016
Photo: Steve Goudie Bad Company will return to the UK for their first tour in four years on their ‘Swan Song’ tour. Original Bad Company members Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke will play eight dates in October. One … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Company, concerts, dates, gigs, hard rock, live, Mick Ralphs, October 2016, Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke, Tour, uk
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News: DAN REED NETWORK – new album and interview (Sunday 29 May 2016)
In this exclusive interview edit, Dan Reed chats to David Randall about ‘Fight Another Day’. (8:59) The full version of the interview is now available via Mixcloud The first new Dan Reed Network album for 25 years is released via … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Dan Reed Network, Fight Another Day, funk, interview, radio, rock
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Album review: RAINBOW – Boston 1981
Purple Pyramid/Cleopatra Records [Release date 20.05.16] At the end of every Rainbow there is a pot of gold. This is surely what labels must be thinking as Ritchie Blackmore plays his Strat in anger (allegedly) this summer. Following the release … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bobby Rondinelli, Boston 1981, Deep Purple, Don Airey, guitar, guitarist, Joe Lynn Turner, Rainbow, review, Ritchie Blackmore, rock, Roger Glover
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Gig review: MAGNUM/Vega – Tramshed, Cardiff, 12 May 2016
The Tramshed is a newish venue for Cardiff and in a city in dire need for a decent venue of decent size it is more than welcome, and on walking in to the venue it is a refreshing change to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 May 2016, AOR, Bob Catley, Cardiff, gig, Magnum, melodic rock, Nick Workman, pomp, review, rock, Tony Clarkin, Tramshed, Vega
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News: PANIC ROOM PledgeMusic Campaign and Weekend – May/June 2016
On Sunday 15 May, David Randall from Get Ready to ROCK! Radio chatted to Anne-Marie Helder about the weekend event and PledgeMusic campaign. (26:03) The full version of this feature – with tracks from Panic Room and associated artists – … Continue reading
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Tagged 18 June 2016, 21-22 May 2016, Anne-Marie Helder, Bilston, campaign, Dave Foster, DVD, Halo Blind, Islington Assembly Hall, Kiama, London, Luna Rossa, Panic Room, PledgeMusic, prog, progressive, Robin 2, rock, weekend
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Gig review: THE VIRGINMARYS – The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 8 May 2016
So on the hottest day of the year so far we headed to The Deaf Institute, Manchester for the first of the launch gigs for Divides the eagerly awaited follow up to King Of Conflict by indie rockers The Virginmarys. … Continue reading
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Tagged 8 May 2016, Dizzy Blood, gig, Manchester, review, rock, The Deaf Institute, The Virginmarys
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Gig review: KING KING/Dan Patlansky – Manchester Academy, 12 May 2016
Tonight Manchester Club Academy played host to a great night of blues rock as King King kicked off their ‘Reaching For The Light’ tour which sees the band – led by the formidable Alan Nimmo – take their latest album … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 May 2016, Alan Nimmo, blues rock, Dan Patlansky, gig, guitar, guitarist, King King, Manchester Academy, review
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Album review: NEMESEA – Uprise
Napalm Records [Release date 29.04.16] You might be forgiven thinking that Dutch pop metallers Nemesea were new kids on the block out to steal Delain’s thunder. But they have been around for at least 10 years although without their compatriots’ … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Delain, Evanesence, Holland, metal, Nemesea, Netherlands, review, rock, Uprise, Within Temptation
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News: PAUL GILBERT – new album and interview, 8 May 2016
Photo: Lee Millward Founder member of Mr.Big, Paul Gilbert releases his latest solo album on 27 May, ‘I Can Destroy’. Although best known for his work with Mr. Big and Racer X, Gilbert has toured with Joe Satriani’s G3 and … Continue reading
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Tagged 8 May 2016, guitar, guitarist, I Can Destroy, interview, Mr Big, Paul Gilbert, Racer X, radio
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Album review: DIAMOND HEAD – s/t
Dissonance [Release date 22.04.16] As Brian Tatler says in a recent interview with GRTR! Rasmus Bom Anderson has given the band a kick up the arse. The Danish singer has co-written the material but also provides excellent vocals throughout. I … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Brian Tatler, Diamond Head, heavy metal, heavy rock, NWOBHM, review
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Gig review: DIAMOND HEAD – The Patriot, Caerphilly, 23 April 2016
Being a young metal fan growing up in South Wales in the early 80s, we had an abundance of places to to search for music: HMV, independent record shops like Musiquarium, Roxcene Records and Spillers to name a few, we … Continue reading
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Tagged 23 April 2016, Brian Tatler, Caerphilly, Diamond Head, gig, heavy metal, NWOBHM, review, The Patriot
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News: KING KING/Dan Patlansky UK tour starts 12 May 2016
Photo: Simon Dunkerley/GRTR! Award-winning blues rock band King King start their nationwide 8-date UK tour at the Manchester Academy on Thursday May 12. Special guest on all dates is South African Blues rock guitarist/singer-songwriter Dan Patlansky. GRTR! blues-rock expert Pete … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, blues rock, Dan Patlansky, gig, King King, live, May 2016, Tour, uk
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Album review: THE ALAN PARSONS SYMPHONIC PROJECT – Live In Colombia
earMUSIC [Release date 27.05.16] 2-CD/DVD/Bluray/Vinyl “Damned If I Do” may have described a personal dilemma in March 2015 as I toyed with the idea of making the pilgrimage to a rare Alan Parsons date in London. Inevitably, an early look … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Live In Colombia, melodic rock, prog, progressive, review, rock, The Alan Parsons Symphonic Project
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News: Early festivals set scene for summer – BEARDED THEORY and ACOUSTIC FESTIVAL of Britain
Multi award-winning family-friendly festival, Bearded Theory have announced that the festival has completely sold out of tickets in every category. Tickets are no longer available through any physical or online outlet, and organisers are urging anyone without a ticket not … Continue reading
News: STEVE HACKETT Charisma Years vinyl box set and deluxe editions May 2016
Following the success of ‘Premonitions’, the CD box set releasd in 2015, May 2016 sees the reissue of Steve Hackett’s first six Charisma albums on vinyl. “The Charisma Years (1975-1983)’ features 8LPs & 12″ EP and is due out on … Continue reading
Album review: THE WESTIES – Six On The Out
Pauper Sky Music [Release date 03.06.16] The Westies is a new vehicle for singer songwriter Michael McDermott, a man who’s been treading the boards Stateside for 25 years, whose lyrics have been quoted in several Stephen King books, and who … Continue reading
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Quick plays: REBECCA PRONSKY, ROD MELANCON
REBECCA PRONSKY Known Objects Acme Hall Studios [Release date 10.06.16] New York singer songwriter Rebecca Pronsky’s last release Only Daughter made The Telegraph’s Top Ten Country albums of 2013. If anything, the follow up is an even more alluring affair. … Continue reading
Album review: FRASER ANDERSON – Under The Cover Of Lightness
Membran [Release date 06.05.16] Fraser Anderson is something of a well-kept secret. Unless you’re a regular Bob Harris listener. A Scot, who relocated to the southwest of France, Fraser Anderson’s 2003 debut ‘… and the girl with the strawberry’ was … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Fraser Anderson, pop, review, rock, singer, songwriter, Under The Cover Of Lightness
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Album review: MARCELLA DETROIT – Grey Matterz
[Release date 22.04.16] Synth = synthetic. Unfortunately, while that was de rigueur in the 80′s, it sounds a little clichéd several decades on. Gray Matterz, is however a reminder of a) what a good songwriter Detroit is, and b) what … Continue reading
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Tagged album, dance, electro, Grey Matterz, Marcella Detroit, pop, review, Shakespear's Sister
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Album review: DAN REED NETWORK – Fight Another Day
In the first hour of his weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, on 29 May 2016, David Randall chatted to Dan Reed and played tracks from the album ‘Fight Another Day’. Frontiers [Release date 03.06.16] When we encountered … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Dan Reed, Dan Reed Network, Fight Another Day, funk, interview, melodic, metal, review, rock
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News: THE TREATMENT UK Tour starts 27 April 2016
David Randall caught up with The Treatment’s Mitchel Emms after the first night of the current tour. In this exclusive feature Mitch describes his own musical development against the background of a difficult music industry and the rising force that … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, April, Generation Me, gig, hard rock, May, The Treatment, UK tour
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News: MAGNUM – UK tour starts 11 May, Radio Specials replayed
Melodic hard rockers Magnum start the UK leg of their European tour on 11 May in Southampton. The band released their latest studio album – ‘Sacred Blood “Divine” Lies’ in February and Get Ready to ROCK! described it as “fresh, … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Barrow, Bob Catley, gigs, hard rock, Harry James, interview, Magnum, Mark Stanway, melodic rock, radio, special, Tony Clarkin, UK tour
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