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Album review: JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR – Black & Gold

Posted on June 15, 2025 by petefeenstra

Pete Feenstra chatted to Joanne Shaw Taylor for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. First broadcast 31 August 2025. Journeyman Records [Release date 06.06.25] ‘Black & Gold’ is Joanne Shaw Taylor’s 10th album and it’s a defining roots rock release, as … Continue reading →

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Album review : LEVERAGE – Gravity

Posted on June 15, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date 20.06.25] When we reviewed Leverage’s 2021 album, Above The Beyond, we said: “It’s perhaps best described as heavy rock with stunning melodies and a penchant for unconventional song structures, and indeed, challenging lyrical themes.” It would … Continue reading →

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Album review : FAIRYLAND – The Story Remains

Posted on June 14, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers [Release date : 13.06.25] The Story Remains is the fifth album from Fairyland, the best French Symphonic Metal band since Manigance. The death of founder Phillipe Giordana in 2022 – in the middle of writing and recording the new … Continue reading →

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Album review: CALVA LOUISE – Edge Of The Abyss

Posted on June 14, 2025 by jason

Mascot Records [Release date 11.07.25] Calva Louise are a multi-national, genre-blending band that consists of Jess Allanic (Vocals/Guitar/Keyboards), Alizon Taho (Bass/Backing Vocals) and Ben Parker (Drums/Backing Vocals). This is the band’s fourth album and first for Mascot Records, who they … Continue reading →

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Album review: HEARTS ON FIRE – Signs & Wonders

Posted on June 14, 2025 by jason

Pride & Joy Music [Release date 25.07.25] Seven years after their debut album, 2018’s ‘Call Of Destiny’, Hearts On Fire are back and have a new vocalist, non-other than Mark Boals (Yngwie Malmsteen, Ring of Fire, Royal Hunt and many, … Continue reading →

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Album review: MICHAEL ARMSTRONG – 10

Posted on June 14, 2025 by jason

Pete Feenstra chatted to Mike Armstrong for Get Ready To ROCK! Radio and playing tracks from the compilation ’10′. First broadcast 14 September 2025. Website [Release date 27.06.25] 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the release of London singer/songwriter, Michael … Continue reading →

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Gig review: ELECTRIC BOYS – Water Rats, London, 10 June 2025

Posted on June 13, 2025 by andynathan

Sweden’s Electric Boys must be among the most Anglophile of bands as they constantly seem to be on tour here. They were last in London only last November playing the Camden Club, and I missed that, but have always enjoyed … Continue reading →

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EP review: QUINNY & COMPANY – Along the Way

Posted on June 13, 2025 by jason

Website [Release date 04.05.25] Quinny & Company are led by Illinois-born, London-based singer-songwriter Jim Bernard, who is joined by his daughter Sarah Bernard on vocals, Moody Blues flautist Norda Mullen, ex-Suzi Quatro drummer Colin Woolway, Big Country founding member Alan … Continue reading →

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Album review : INGLORIOUS – V

Posted on June 13, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date 06.06.25] Inglorious’s unimaginatively titled fifth album sees bassman Colin Parkinson and singer Nathan James back together. (They resolved their differences over a pint, where else?) Joining them in this new iteration of the band are guitarist, … Continue reading →

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Album review: HORSLIPS – At The BBC (4-CD/DVD)

Posted on June 12, 2025 by GRTR! HQ

Madfish [Release date 04.07.25] As some might have it, Horslips didn’t invent the genre of ‘Celtic Rock’ but they were early proponents. Before their debut album, released in late-1972, there had been the groundbreaking Frenchman Alan Stivell who had blazed … Continue reading →

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Album review: MARIO VAYNE – The Moment

Posted on June 12, 2025 by jason

Facebook [Release date 23.05.25] I’ll get straight to the point, new album “The Moment” by Australia’s Mario Vayne is my favourite release of 2025 so far. I’d heard debut single “Rock n Roll Day” on Planet Rock and it’s Def Leppard … Continue reading →

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Album review: STEELEYE SPAN – Conflict

Posted on June 9, 2025 by jason

Park Records [Release date 23.05.25] Always good to have a new album from folk rockers Steeleye Span and this is their 24th studio album. Still led by singer Maddy Prior, the rest of the band consists of Julian Littman (guitar, mandolin, vocals), … Continue reading →

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Gig review: DEL BROMHAM- Thames Side Brewery, Staines, 1 June 2025

Posted on June 8, 2025 by andynathan

At a time of life when others may be taking things a bit easier, the evergreen Del Bromham made two trips down from Buckinghamshire on the M1 and M25 in the space of four days, first in Putney with Stray … Continue reading →

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Gig review: BLUE OYSTER CULT- London Palladium, 25 May 2025

Posted on June 8, 2025 by andynathan

With each passing tour Blue Oyster Cult somehow seem a hotter ticket. The days of struggling to fill places like the Mean Fiddler are long gone as they are packing larger venues, on this occasion a prestige show at the … Continue reading →

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Album review : GORGUTS – Considered Dead / Erosion Of Sanity (2CDs w/bonus tracks)

Posted on June 8, 2025 by brianmc

GORGUTS 150 Considered Dead and Erosion cover

Cherry Red [Release date : 13.06.25] Got to hand it to Cherry Red. Few labels are resurrecting the past glories of Metal like they are. Most who do aim for mainstream stuff, bands in the public eye, in the media. But … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: ODETTE MICHELL, CLEMENTINE LOVELL, FREYA RAE

Posted on June 8, 2025 by jason

Odette Michell – The Queen of the Lowlands [Release date 13.06.25] Bandcamp Second studio album from Odette Michell, which includes guest musicians Chris Leslie (Fairport Convention), Phil Beer (Show of Hands), Ninebarrow and Calum Gilligan. As Odettte says: “My approach … Continue reading →

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Album review: SPARKS – MAD!

Posted on June 4, 2025 by petefeenstra

Transgressive [Release date 23.05.25] ‘Mad!’ is the latest snapshot of the Sparks aesthetic. It’s interwoven with elements of surreal humour and satire and is bolstered by immense interlocking vocal repetition, frantic rhythms and cinematic lyrics. It’s a badge of honour with … Continue reading →

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Gig review: DANNY BOWES – The Junction, 2, Cambridge,1 June 2025

Posted on June 4, 2025 by jason

Pretty much everyone who is a fan of British Hard Rock knows the story of Thunder’s lead singer Danny Bowes in regards to his stroke, the plummet down a set of stairs and the severe damage to his brain masking … Continue reading →

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Album review: JOE HODGSON – Fields of Redemption

Posted on June 1, 2025 by jason

Pete Feenstra chatted to Joe Hodgson for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. Including tracks from the new album. First broadcast 20 July 2025. www.joehodgsonmusic.com [Release date 20.06.25] Guitarist Joe Hodgson released his debut solo album ‘Apparitions’ in 2020 to wide … Continue reading →

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Gig review: THE DARKER MY HORIZON – Acoustic Couch, Bracknell, 31 May 2025

Posted on June 1, 2025 by jason

Coming out of gig retirement (well apart from the excellent folk gigs at Harwell Village Hall) for a rather fine night for hard rock. Second time at The Acoustic Couch, which sadly is nearing its end as a live venue due … Continue reading →

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Gig review: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND – Co-Op Live, Manchester, 20 May 2025

Posted on June 1, 2025 by andynathan

This side of the pond, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band gigs in arenas rather than stadia are as rare as hen’s teeth. My only previous one was at the 02 Arena soon after it opened back in 2007, … Continue reading →

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Gig review: KALANDRA – The Tivoli, Buckley, 29 May 2025

Posted on May 30, 2025 by GRTR! HQ

‘A Frame Of Mind’ has been a favourite album of mine and made my ‘Best of 2024′ and I was sorry not to have seen the band playing a brief UK tour in late September last year. I couldn’t believe … Continue reading →

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News: STYX, JOHN FOGERTY, RISE AGAINST (June 2025)

Posted on May 29, 2025 by jason

BAD COMPANY - Manchester Arena, 24 October 2016

Airbourne released a new song, ‘Gutsy’, on June 6 – their first new music in six years. Amorphis their new studio album ‘Borderland’ on September 26 via Reigning Phoenix. Asia have signed with Frontiers and plan to release a live … Continue reading →

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Album review : RENAISSANCE – Running Hard – The Albums 1974-76 (4 CDs)

Posted on May 28, 2025 by brianmc

Cherry Red [Release date: 30.05.25] This 4 CD Renaissance boxset comprises: CD1 : Turn Of The Cards (1974) CD2 : Scheherazade And Other Stories (1975) CD3 : Live At Carnegie Hall Part 1 (1976) CD3 : Live At Carnegie Hall … Continue reading →

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Album review: TRAGIK – Crescendo

Posted on May 27, 2025 by jason

Rock Company [Release date 28.05.25] Tragik are back with album number thirteen and their first in two years, which is some gap for them, although Phil Vincent has been busy with his other musical projects. Joining him are Vince O’Regan, … Continue reading →