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Album review: CHARLOTTE SMITH & DAVID CLIFTON – The Tree in the Wood
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Album review: JUDIE TZUKE – Now Or Never
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Album review: SPOCK’S BEARD – The Archaeoptimist
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Album review: ROSS HARDING – The Blood and the Blues
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Album review: PETE KOSANOVICH – Beauty Within You
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Album review : ROB MORATTI – Sovereign
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Gig review: STEVE OVERLAND AND JIM KIRKPATRICK- The Weir, Brentford, Middlesex, 9 December 2025
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Gig review: JOHN OTWAY – Face Bar, Reading, Thursday 11 December 2025
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Gig review: CURVED AIR – The Sub Rooms, Stroud, 20 November 2025
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Gig review: MARTIN BARRE & FRIENDS – Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 18 November 2025
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Tag Archives: album
Album review: GINGER WILDHEART – G.A.S.S Mark 2
Round Records [ Release Date 20.09.18] The approach with every Ginger Wildheart album is ‘expect the unexpected’. Ginger is not one for sticking to a particular genre or style on his albums and this release is no different, only Devin Townsend can touch Ginger in the … Continue reading
Album review: STATUS QUO – Vinyl Singles Collection (1990 – 1999)
UMC/Mercury [Release date 30.11.18] This is the foutth vinyl singles collection release from the Quo back catalogue each covering a different decade with all 7 inch singles lovingly recreated and packaged as a collector’s box set. When thinking of Status Quo’s output throughout their career perhaps the … Continue reading
Album review: ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN – Symphonized
Inside Out [Release date 16.11.18] In the summer of 1992 a good friend came to mine for a visit carrying with him “Always…”, the debut release of an atmospheric Death Metal outfit named The Gathering. My attraction to the work … Continue reading
Album review: ERIC CLAPTON AND THE YARDBIRDS Feat.SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON
The Store For Music [Release date: 09.11.18] And so to the endlessly recycled ‘Eric Clapton And The Yardbirds with Sonny Boy Williams’ (Williamson) and a few tracks from Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck. This material will always hold some interest … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Aleck "Rice" Miller, blues, Bo Diddley, Chicago Blues, Elmore James, Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton And The Yardbirds feat. Sonny Boy Williamson, Giorgio Gomelsky, Graham Gouldman, guitar, Jeff Beck, Jim McCarty, Jimmy Page, metal, R&B, review, Robert Lockwood, rock
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Album review: HOLTER – Vlad The Impaler
Frontiers [Release date 09.11.18] Born as a one-off musical extravaganza by Trond Holter (ex-Wig Wam) and singer Jorn Lande, the ‘Swing Of Death’ album met with favourable reviews (fellow GRTR! reviewer Phil Berisford rated it an impressive ****1/2). So much so … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Holter, Jorn, meodic metal, metal, Pagan's Mind, power metal, review, Vlad the Impaler, Wig Wam
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Album review: BERNIE TORME – Shadowland
Pledge Music [Release date 16.11.18] Bernie Torme released the enjoyable triple album ‘Dublin Cowboy’ last year and he’s back with another Pledge Music funded album, ’Shadowland’ – this time a mere double! Joining him are the rhythm section of Sy Morton (bass) … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bernie Torme, blues, Colin Towns, Gillan, GMT, guitarist, Ozzy Osbourne, Pledge Music, review, rock
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Album review: THE TANGENT – Proxy
Inside Out [Release date 16.11.18] Since I was first introduced to the music of The Tangent via “COMM” back in 2011, Andy Tillson and his Progressive Rock ensemble have released five studio albums, so calling them prolific would be nothing … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Andy Tillison, Jonas Reingold, prog, Progressive Rock, Proxy, review, The Tangent
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Album review: LETHBRIDGE OWEN – Mind Over Matter
Pete Feenstra chatted to Kelly Lethbridge and Jimmy Owen for his Feature show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio with tracks from the album ‘Mind Over Matter’ Self Release [Release date: digital 23.11.18 and CD 07.12.18] Lethbridge Owen are about … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Eric Johnson, Fleetwood Mac, folk, guitar, harmonies, interview, Jimmy Owen, Kelly Lethbridge, Lethbridge Owen, Lindsey Buckingham, Mind Over Matter, radio, review, rock, Sonny Landreth, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, West Coast
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Album review: MARIANNE FAITHFULL – Negative Capability
BMG [Release date 02.11.18] With a recording career spanning over fifty years ‘Negative Capability’ is Marianne Faithfull’s twenty-first album. Battling arthritis, contemplating bereavement and dealing with loneliness, it’s a highly autobiographical and emotive offering from Faithfull. “It’s the most honest … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Ed Harcourt, Marianne Faithfull, melodic, Negative Capability, Nick Cave, pop, review
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Album review: STEVE KILBEY – Sydney Rococo
Golden Robot Records [Release date: 23.11.18] Has anyone else noticed a trend lately to drench perfectly good music in an avalanche of overly high-in-the-mix orchestration? I don’t know why so many top artists are doing this – is it an … Continue reading
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Tagged album, psych rock, review, Steve Kilbey, Sydney Rococo, The Church
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Album review: 41POINT9 – Mr. Astute Trousers
The Highlander Company Records (19.10.18) 41point9 is a fascinating mix of prog and pop from a couple of guys who evidently don’t feel constrained by genre. Bassist Bob Madsen and vocalist Brian Cline first collaborated in 1995 but it was … Continue reading
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Tagged 41Point9, album, AOR, Bob Madsen, Brian Cline, classic rock, Enchant, Mr.Astute Trousers, pop, progressive, review, rock
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Quick plays: THE WILLOWS, ME AND MY FRIENDS, JEROME MAZZA
THE WILLOWS Through the Wild [Release date 30.11.18] ‘Through the Wild’ is the third album from the Cambridge folk band the Willows, who have picked up praise from the likes of Bob Harris and Mike Harding. Listening to this album … Continue reading
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Tagged album, ANGELICA, Fairport Convention, folk, folk rock, Jemrome Mazza, Look Up, Me and My Friends, melodic rock, Mike Slamer, Outlaw Son, reggae, review, rock, soul, Steve Overland, Steve Walsh, the Willows, Through the Wild, Tommy Denander
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News: Albums of the Month (July 2018 – September 2018)
Albums of the Month 2018 January 2018 – March 2018 April 2018 – June 2018 October 2018 – December 2018 SARI SCHORR Never Say Never (Manhaton) “…an album that goes a long way to establishing her own niche…this album does … Continue reading
Album review: DAN MIRALDI – Alphabet City 2 AM
Facebook [Release date 07.09.18] Get Ready To ROCK! has been around sixteen years now, almost as long as I have been reviewing, and over that time I am always surprised and delighted at the many musical discoveries I have made along … Continue reading
Interview (Rising Stars): CHELSEA BOOTS
Chelsea Boots are Dani Núñez (Bass, Keys, Backing Vocals), Dani Ferrandis (Guitar , Backing Vocals), Santi Isla (Guitar, Keys, Main Vocals) and Martín Mosquera (Drums and Percussion). The eclectic four piece was born in Madrid in 2014 and the band have just … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chelsea Boots, debut, Guilty Pleasures, interview, melodic, pop, Rising Stars, rock, Spain
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Album review: KARMAMOI – The Day Is Done
Sonicbond [Release date 30.11.18] The fourth album from Italian proggers Daniele Giovannoni (drums, keys) and Alex Massari (guitars) aka Karmamoi is a concept album inspired by the story of two Syrian boys, one of whom died in the Grenfell Tower … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Italy, Karmamoi, prog, progressive, review, rock, The Day Is Done
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Album review: THUNDER – Please Remain Seated
BMG [Release date 19.01.19] Let’s be quite clear: ‘Rip It Up’ was one of the best albums of 2017, a vibrant, relevant chapter in the modern-day Thunder storybook. It must surprise the band themselves that they have been allowed to … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic rock, Danny Bowes, Luke Morley, Please Remain Seated, review, Thunder
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Album review: ALBIE DONNELLY’S SUPERCHARGE – Get Hip
3MS Music [Release date 18.01.19] On a number of occasions back in the early 1970s, fellow scribe David Randall and I would venture to the Sportsman Bar in Liverpool, often post gig, to catch Albie Donnelly’s Supercharge. The band – … Continue reading
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Tagged Albie Donnelly, album, Get Hip, R&B, review, soul, Supercharge
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Album review: LARKIN POE – Venom & Faith
In March 2011 David Randall interviewed Larkin Poe for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio during one of their earliest UK tours. This exclusive edit provides insight at an early point in the duo’s career. (9:45) Proper Music [Release date 09.11.18] … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, blues, interview, Larkin Poe, review, roots, Venom & Faith
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Album review: THE PEAWEES – Moving Target
Rum Bar Records [Release date 14.09.18] The Peawees hail from Italy and have been playing their infectious brand of rock ‘n’ roll meets garage rock & power pop for over twenty years. They have toured with the likes of the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, garage rock, Moving Target, New Wave, power pop, review, rock, rock 'n' roll, rockabilly, the Peawees
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Album review: P.O.D. – Circles
Mascot Records[Release date 18.11.18] After a 26 year existence played out over a fast changing music scene, San Diego’s rap-rock into metal band P.O.D. (Payable On Death) are too long in the tooth to be caged in by any specific … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Circles, Duran Duran, electronica, grunge, heavy, Marcos Curiel, metal, P.O.D., Payable On Death, pop, punk, rap-rock, reggae, review, Sonny Sandoval, SPARKS, Sublime
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Album review: SHEMEKIA COPELAND – America’s Child
Alligator Records[Release date 03.08.18] Shemekia Copeland’s ‘America’s Child’ is very much an album of our times. The title is an all enveloping concept that leads into a bunch of related, philosophical and at times analytical songs that shift from the … Continue reading
Album review: SEVENTH WONDER – Tiara
Frontiers [Release date 12.10.18] It has been eight years since Seventh Wonder’s last album ‘The Great Escape’, in part due to the commitments of vocalist Tommy Karevik in Kamelot, who he joined in 2012. One new member in the band since … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Kamelot, melodic, power metal, progressive, review, Seventh Wonder, Tiara, Tommy Karevik
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Album review: CITY OF THIEVES – Beast Reality
Frontiers [Release date 12.10.18] City Of Thieves (who evolved out of Four Wheel Drive), are one of Frontiers much touted ‘new breed’ of up and coming rock & metal bands. Fair play to Frontiers as they try and find the next set … Continue reading
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Tagged AC/DC, AIRBOURNE, album, Beast Reality, City Of Thieves, classic rock, debut, Mike Fraser, New Breed, review, rock, Toby Jepson
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Album review: ROBBEN FORD – Purple House
Ear MUSIC [Release date 26.10.18] There’s a lot to be said for a blues oriented guitarist willing to explore new directions deep into a lengthy career that has straddled rock-blues, jazz and fusion. Robben Ford makes much of the fact … Continue reading
