A new series starts in March 2025, reflecting artist coverage at major classic rock website Get Ready to ROCK!
Since 2003 the website has gained an unrivalled reputation for quality and insightful reviews plus interviews and features. In 2023 the website celebrated its 20th anniversary with a series of special features including “The GRTR! Grotto of Greatness” selecting specific artists who had been featured repeatedly over two decades and reflecting their consistency in terms of albums and gigs.
“GRTR! Greats” continues this theme, focusing on selected artists who have featured strongly over an extended period and continue to be featured.
The launch artist is Thea Gilmore described persistently by the review team as “the finest singer songwriter of her generation”. Thea releases a new album ‘These Quiet Friends’ at the end of February ahead of a series of UK dates in March.
Managing Editor David Randall commented “Our Grotto feature in 2023 was very popular and reiterated our comprehensive coverage for selected artists. Some of these artists are not what you might call “mainstream” or they have had their greatest period of “fame” (in healthier economic times) but continue to produce quality work.
Get Ready to ROCK! has always supported this type of artist and, unencumbered by any corporate or financial pressures, these artists are a genuine passion for our reviewers. The new series will underline that enthusiasm and provide a retrospective summary signposting our archive of material along with new interviews and analysis.”
News and Reviews Editor Jason Ritchie added: “Like the Grotto feature, the new series reflects a consistency amongst the reviewing team. A number of different reviewers have covered the artists over the years and all attest the artists’ ascendancy over a long period and maintaining their standing in the millennium.
We hope that this series encourages readers to explore the artists music in more depth, maybe adding to their knowledge or introducing a future passion…”
Other artists to be featured include Graham Gouldman, Robin Trower and Wishbone Ash.
In September 2025, Glenn Hughes, Judie Tzuke and Joanne Shaw Taylor will be the latest artists to be showcased as “GRTR! Greats”.
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The latest additions to our GRTR! Greats series were announced on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio on Sunday 22 March.
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The latest additions to the ongoing GRTR! Greats series are singer songwriters Colin Blunstone and Beth Hart.
The GRTR! Greats series was launched in March 2025 with singer songwriter Thea Gilmore and reflects Get Ready to ROCK!’s coverage of significant artists since 2003. Says News Editor Jason Ritchie: “The artist selections represent persistent coverage but also a degree of recognition and consistency amongst several GRTR! reviewers.”
Two major retrospective features will be published before the end of March with Blues Rock/Features Editor Pete Feenstra providing a new overview of Beth Hart.
Beth Hart was first reviewed at The Fly venue in London’s New Oxford Street in October 2008 when Pete Feenstra commented “What distinguishes Beth is both her very physical stage presence, her soulful, breathless rock meets blues vocal style, and the fact that her songs never flinch from exploring the constituents of her own psyche.”
Since Get Ready to ROCK!’s early coverage (from 2003) Beth has worked regularly with Joe Bonamassa whilst releasing 9 solo studio albums.
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Colin Blunstone found early fame fronting The Zombies, a band especially popular in the States, but since the early seventies has had a parallel solo career.
In 2001 he and Rod Argent started working together again and ultimately revived The Zombies name after touring with original members Chris White and Hugh Grundy.
Pete Feenstra has described Blunstone as “one of the primary vocalists of our time.”
Both artists are touring in the UK in May.
Both are also Featured Artists at Get Ready to ROCK! Radio with more airtime across the station’s general playlists.
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