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Album review: THE ROLLING STONES – Foreign Tongues
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Album review: SCHEFF TOLLE ADRIAENS – Let’s Stop The World
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Album review: TRAGIK – Propaganda Elite
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Album review : ELECTRIC MOB – 2 Make U Cry And Dance (Digital Deluxe Edition)
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Album review: THE MILK MEN – Milky Way
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Album review: FATAL VISION – Four Sides To Every Story
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Gig review: DEF LEPPARD + EXTREME – BP Pulse Live, Birmingham, 4 July 2026
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Gig review: GEORGE THOROGOOD AND THE DESTROYERS- Indigo2, London, 30 June 2026
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Gig review: HALESTORM’S LZZY AND JOE: UNPLUGGED – Islington Assembly Hall, London, 17 June 2026
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PRAYING MANTIS – Time Tells – No Lies
Time Tells – No Lies 4.5/5 (Rock Candy) Metalmorphosis – 30th Anniversary Album (Japan Edition) 4.5/5 http://www.praying-mantis.com/ NWoBHM legends Praying Mantis, led by brothers guitarist Tino and bassist Chris Troy, have always played at the melodic end of hard rock, … Continue reading
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GRAND PRIX – Samurai
Rock Candy In the early 80s Grand Prix were one of Britain’s premier pomp rock outfits, mixing the Britishness of Magnum with US influences from the likes of Kansas, Styx and Journey. 1983 and Samurai was the band’s third album, … Continue reading
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CANDY – Whatever Happened To Fun
Rock Candy This four piece LA band released just one album in the mid 80s that sadly dropped straight off the radar. Strange, given that the band’s sound mixed two of the scene’s two largest exports: melodic sleaze/glam and power … Continue reading
SHERIFF – Sheriff
Rock Candy Canadian AOR / hard rock from 1982, that somehow didn’t take off at the time. The music is incredible in that the songs are strong, the guitar work outstanding, and Freddy Curci’s vocals with a range to match … Continue reading
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SUNSTORM ‘Emotional Fire’
Frontiers Records’ Sunstorm project reaches a third album, again uniting ex Rainbow, Yngwie and Purple singer Joe Lynn Turner with some of their in house favourites including producer and Pink Cream 69 member Dennis Ward to produce some upbeat, old-fashioned … Continue reading
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Cambridge Rock Festival spring edition 27th-29th April 2012
For tickets and prices please click here Featured Artist: JOSH TAERK Since early 2020 Josh has been entertaining us with exclusive monthly live sessions, Check out videos here: https://www.facebook.com/getreadytorockradio David Randall presents a weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! … Continue reading
T in the Park line-up announced
T in the Park 6th-8th July at Balado, near Kinross Headliners: Snow Patrol will headline Friday, Kasabian the Saturday night and the Stone Roses on Sunday. Other bands on the bill include Tinie Tempah, New Order, Elbow, Kaiser Chiefs, Chase & Status, Happy Mondays, … Continue reading
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Rising Stars – Twelve Feet Clay
Twelve Feet Clay have just released their debut album ‘Totem Bells’, read on for more about the band and their canny knack for blagging their way into gigs… What are you currently up to? We have just launched our debut … Continue reading
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W.A.S.P. Styx & Ten all announce new tour dates
W.A.S.P. September Fri 21st – LONDON, HMV Forum Sat 22nd – EDINBURGH, HMV Picture House Sun 23rd – NEWCASTLE, Academy Thu 27th – MANCHESTER, HMV Ritz Fri 28th – LEEDS, Academy Sun 30th – NORWICH, Waterfront October Mon 1st – … Continue reading
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10 Q’s with LILLIAN AXE
Guitarist Steve Blaze takes the Q’s as the band release their cracking new album ‘XI: The Days Before Tomorrow’ through their new label AFM Records. What are you currently up to Steve? (recording, gigs, plans, etc.) “We’ve just released our … Continue reading
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PAIN OF SALVATION (Daniel Gildenlow) INTERVIEW
When I was guided by Pain Of Salvation’s label rep to the band’s tour bus to do an already scheduled interview with mainman Daniel Gildenlow, I expected to find the tall Swede his normal energetic self, not downing a hot … Continue reading
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Patsy Matheson & Becky Mills Maltings, Farnham Monday 20th February 2012
Quite appropriate that I should be at Farnham tonight as it was ten years ago whilst working for a previous employer in Farnham that I helped start off Get Ready To Rock! The Maltings is a very impressive set of … Continue reading
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Tagged Becky Mills, folk, Maltings Farnham, Patsy Matheson, singer songwriter, Waking the Witch
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K-Lacura – Portraits Of The Faceless (S-a-N PR)
Yet another contender to enter the UK hardcore/ nu metal ring, K-Lacura are straight from the mean streets of Didcot, Oxon. The band were formed by school friends back in 2006 and this is their debut album. Citing the likes … Continue reading
VARIAH – Betrayfull Sins
Variah hail from wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen, formed in 2009 by Enrique Justiniano and Martin Winslow from the ashes of several experimental projects featuring the pair. They took a heavier direction at this point and were joined by three other like-minded … Continue reading
STONE AXE – Stone Axe II
Do you remember the 70’s, a time of flared trousers, big sideburns, three day weeks and huge bands of the classic rock variety ? Stone Axe most certainly do and although the band were formed in Washington in 2007, their … Continue reading
SEVEN – Under Eye
This is the second album release from this London based quartet and it is a bit of a gem. The band play a heavy melodic prog, think Tool mixed with a bit of Slipknot and Korn’s bass sound and you … Continue reading
SILVERDOLLAR – Morte
$ilverdollar formed in Sweden back in 1996 as a covers/ tribute band to all things metal, releasing a CD of covers in 2002. In 2006 the band took the plunge for their 10th anniversary and wrote their debut album entitled … Continue reading
OLIVER DAWSON SAXON – Motorbiker
(Angel Air Records) Summary : Not as good as Oliver & Dawson’s stint in the original Saxon Anyone expecting Graham Oliver and Steve Dawson’s version of Saxon to come out with an album harking back to the days of the … Continue reading
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TOMMY JAMES & THE SHONDELLS – Live! At The Bitter End, New York
(Angel Air Records) Summary : Nice performance but a live recording lacking atmosphere? A polished live performance from the turn of the century released as part of Angel Air’s reissuing of a number of Tommy James album. Subtitled (at least … Continue reading
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JEFF SCOTT SOTO – Damage Control (Frontiers 2012)
Jeff Scott Soto is back with a straight ahead melodic hard rock album after his last solo album, ‘Beautiful Mess’ with its more funky/soul vibe, alienated much of his fan base (a damn shame in my book as it is … Continue reading
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NOLOVELOST- NOLOVE LOST (Independent 2011)
Every so often , from the multitude of self- produced and promoted releases, comes a gem and the debut album from this North Carolina melodic rock band is one such. The members are all veterans of previous regional bands, and … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, Head East, Nolovelost, Styx
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KATRINA – So Eden (Red Red Records)
Katrina is a US singer has already found fame in the US through TV’s ‘Star Search’ aged just 11 years old. Now she releases this single from her forthcoming debut album ‘In The Blink Of An Eye’ helped by producer … Continue reading
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NANCI GRIFFITH – Intersection
Now I confess I am not much of a lover of country music in its more traditional form but I have long been a fan of Nanci Griffith’s work, mainly due to her voice and the excellent songs she produces, … Continue reading
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The Complete History of Guitar World (Backbeat Books 2010)
A very concise history of the highlights of the respected ‘Guitar World’ magazine. Even non-musos like myself can enjoy this book. For only 300 pages they cram the information in from every song transcripted in the magazine between July 1980 … Continue reading
GARY JOHN BARDEN – Eleventh Hour
Escape Music This English vocalist has been around for a long time. Currently doing voices for MSG, Barden has also contributed in writing songs with Gary Moore which ended up on “Corridors of Power” (which is probably why we hear … Continue reading
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