-
-
-
If you can't find what you're looking for - or wish to refine your search to include only references to the key search term - try putting inverted commas around the search term e.g. "Steve Lukather" or "Black Star Riders"
For example if you enter Black Star Riders the results will include all instances of "Black" "Star" and "Riders". The search will also be slower.
Switch site
Upcoming Gigs & Albums
-
Our star rating
***** Out of this world
**** Pretty damn fine
*** OK, approach with caution unless you are a fan of the artist or genre
** Instant bargain bin fodder
* Ugly, just ugly
Latest Album Reviews
-
Album review : RHAPSODY OF FIRE – Challenge The Wind
-
Album review: CASEY MAUNDER – Get Out and Push
-
Album review: FM – Old Habits Die Hard
-
Album review: REMEDY – Pleasure Beats Pain
-
Album review: THE MIGHTY BOSSCATS – Are You The Person You’ve Always Wanted To Be / Photoshoot
-
Album review : LINDISFARNE – Brand New Day The Mercury Years 1978-79 (3 CDs)
-
-
Latest Gig Reviews
-
Gig review: MIDNITE CITY- Downstairs at The Dome, London, 11 May 2024
-
Gig review: FM – Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury, 18 May 2024
-
Gig review: KIRA MAC – Camden Underworld, London, 10 May 2024
-
Album review: THE TREATMENT – Wake Up The Neighbourhood (plus album launch, 11 May 2024)
-
Gig review: NORDA MULLEN- The Half Moon, Putney, London, 28 April 2024
-
Gig review: SARI SCHORR- The Grace, London, 27 April 2024
-
-
Featured Album Reviews
-
Album review: AUDREY HORNE – Pure Heavy
-
Album review: AL DI MEOLA – Opus
-
Album review: HAKEN – Virus
-
Album review: SAXON – 10 Years Of Denim And Leather Live 1990/The CD Hoard (reissues)
-
Album review: SUPERSONIC BLUES MACHINE – Voodoo Nation
-
News: Get Ready to ROCK! Radio encourages listener participation during self-isolation (March 2020)
-
-
Features
-
Feature: Rock: Rewired – STEVE MARRIOTT Part 2 (Peter Frampton interview)
-
Feature: Rock: Rewired – STEVE MARRIOTT (Part 1)
-
Feature: DANNY VAUGHN at Fairycroft House, Saffron Walden, May 24 2024
-
Feature: The GRTR! Grotto of Greatness – MAGNUM (December 2023)
-
Feature: The GRTR! Grotto of Greatness – SAXON (November 2023)
-
Single & EP Reviews
-
DVD Reviews
-
Book Reviews
-
News
-
Features
-
Quick Categories
Categories (All)
Tag Archives: Dutch
Feature: Call Collect: An introduction to FOCUS
David Randall developed the groundbreaking website Akkernet in 1996 during the Internet’s infancy and went on to manage several UK tours for Jan Akkerman before writing the original biography published in 2003. Here he recalls Focus and the key recordings. … Continue reading
Posted in ALL POSTS, Call Collect, FEATURES
Tagged Bert Ruiter, Dutch, feature, Focus, Holland, introduction, Jan Akkerman, Pierre van der Linden, prog, Progressive Rock, Thijs van Leer
Leave a comment
Album review: JAN AKKERMAN – Jan Akkerman (1977 reissue)
Esoteric Recordings [Release date 29.01.16] “Jan Akkerman”, the 1977 album with the distinctive “guitar in bed” cover, was Akkerman’s answer to Jeff Beck’s ‘Blow By Blow’ two years earlier. This was the Dutch guitarist’s first solo album since splitting from … Continue reading
Posted in ALBUM REVIEWS, ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile), ALL POSTS, Reissues
Tagged Dutch, Focus, guitar, guitarist, Holland, Jan Akkerman, jazz fusion, Jazz rock, rock
Leave a comment
TOYZ – The Infinite Road
Every so often a disc shows up that looks just the same as a million others – classic prog-rock cover, picture of the band looking completely normal, track-list titles that would sit on any other album; ‘Departure’, ‘Face The Mirror’, … Continue reading
Posted in ALBUM REVIEWS, ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile), ALL POSTS
Tagged album, Dutch, Holland, instrumental, prog, progressive, rock, The Infinite Road, Toyz
Leave a comment
FOCUS – X
Eastworld Recordings (2012) One of the great rejuvenations of recent years has been the Thijs van Leer version of Focus, things seemed to click with the arrival – in 2006 – of original drummer Pierre van der Linden and they’ve … Continue reading
Posted in ALBUM REVIEWS, ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile), ALL POSTS
Tagged album, Dutch, Focus, Holland, music, Netherlands, Pierre van der Linden, prog, progressive, review, rock, Thijs van Leer, X
Leave a comment
THE GATHERING – Disclosure
I have to confess I’ve never tripped over The Gathering – a Dutch band who started out in 1989 pedalling death/doom metal, but who like the rest of us have mellowed with the passing years and evolved into something quite … Continue reading
Posted in ALBUM REVIEWS, ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile), ALL POSTS
Tagged album, Disclosure, Dutch, electronica, Holland, prog, progressive, review, rock, The Gathering
Leave a comment