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		<title>News: A Year in Rock 2017 &#8211; Get Ready to ROCK! photo highlights</title>
		<link>https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/12/news-a-year-in-rock-2017-photo-highlights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2017 12:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/12/news-a-year-in-rock-2017-photo-highlights/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/bestof2017_cover.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="A Year in Rock - 2017" title="A Year in Rock - 2017" /></a>Get Ready to ROCK! ends 2017 by publishing a selection of photos taken by their photographers during the year following on from the publication of the Best of 2017 popular poll results. Says Reviews Editor Jason Ritchie: &#8220;Each year we &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/12/news-a-year-in-rock-2017-photo-highlights/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/12/news-a-year-in-rock-2017-photo-highlights/">News: A Year in Rock 2017 &#8211; Get Ready to ROCK! photo highlights</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>News: THEA GILMORE tops popular poll for best album of 2017, Marillion voted Top Live Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2017 01:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/12/news-thea-gilmore-tops-popular-poll-for-best-album-of-2017-marillion-voted-top-live-act/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/171212_tgilmore9.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="Thea Gilmore - Telford" title="Thea Gilmore - Telford" /></a>Singer songwriter Thea Gilmore has won the popular vote in Get Ready to ROCK!&#8217;s end of year poll.  Thea&#8217;s album &#8216;The Counterweight&#8217; was voted &#8216;Best of 2017&#8242; by readers and listeners. Alan Jones from Get Ready to ROCK! has been &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/12/news-thea-gilmore-tops-popular-poll-for-best-album-of-2017-marillion-voted-top-live-act/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/12/news-thea-gilmore-tops-popular-poll-for-best-album-of-2017-marillion-voted-top-live-act/">News: THEA GILMORE tops popular poll for best album of 2017, Marillion voted Top Live Act</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>News: Get Ready to ROCK! announce Best of 2017 &#8211; top albums, live acts</title>
		<link>https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/11/news-get-ready-to-rock-announce-best-of-2017-top-albums-live-acts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2017 10:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/11/news-get-ready-to-rock-announce-best-of-2017-top-albums-live-acts/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/P1090714-1024x768.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="" title="CATS IN SPACE, SPACE ELEVATOR- Harlequin Theatre, Redhill, 29 September 2016" /></a>Pop rock revivalists Cats In Space and their second album &#8216;Scarecrow&#8217; has been selected as Top Album of 2017 by popular music website Get Ready to ROCK!  Reviews Editor Jason Ritchie wrote &#8220;Cats In Space have succeeded in taking their &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/11/news-get-ready-to-rock-announce-best-of-2017-top-albums-live-acts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/11/news-get-ready-to-rock-announce-best-of-2017-top-albums-live-acts/">News: Get Ready to ROCK! announce Best of 2017 &#8211; top albums, live acts</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>The Best of 2017: top albums, top live acts – the reviewers’ choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/11/the-best-of-2017-top-albums-top-live-acts-the-reviewers-choice/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/2017_best1.png" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="The Best of 2017" title="The Best of 2017" /></a>On Sunday 17 December on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, David Randall announced the popular poll results.  This two-hour special includes artists voted for in the various categories: Top Albums, Top Live Acts, Top Breakthrough Acts. Every year we ask &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/11/the-best-of-2017-top-albums-top-live-acts-the-reviewers-choice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/11/the-best-of-2017-top-albums-top-live-acts-the-reviewers-choice/">The Best of 2017: top albums, top live acts – the reviewers’ choice</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Album review: JEFF SCOTT SOTO &#8211; Retribution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2017 11:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/11/album-review-jeff-scott-soto-retribution/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/jssr-150x150.png" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="JEFF SCOTT SOTO - Retribution" title="JEFF SCOTT SOTO - Retribution" /></a>Frontiers [Release date 10.11.17] You do wonder at times when Jeff Scott Soto (JSS) finds time to rest, as he is involved in the recently released album from Sons Of Apollo, he has his more metal edged Soto band, there &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/11/album-review-jeff-scott-soto-retribution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/11/album-review-jeff-scott-soto-retribution/">Album review: JEFF SCOTT SOTO &#8211; Retribution</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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