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		<title>Album review : STRYPER &#8211; The Greatest Gift Of All</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/11/album-review-stryper-the-greatest-gift-of-all/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/STRYPER-150-The-Greatest-cover.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="STRYPER 150 The Greatest cover" title="STRYPER 150 The Greatest cover" /></a>Frontiers Music [Release date : 21.11.25] The Greatest Gift Of All is Stryper’s 16th studio album. The line up remains Michael Sweet, Robert Sweet, Oz Fox and Perry Richardson, solid for 8 years now. When we reviewed their last two &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/11/album-review-stryper-the-greatest-gift-of-all/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/11/album-review-stryper-the-greatest-gift-of-all/">Album review : STRYPER &#8211; The Greatest Gift Of All</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: ORLEANS &#8211; New Star Shining</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2021 09:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GRTR! HQ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/12/album-review-orleans-new-star-shining/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/orleans_nss1.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="ORLEANS - New Star Shining" title="ORLEANS - New Star Shining" /></a>Sunset Blvd Records [Release date 22.10.21] The 2021 Christmas offering from Orleans is something of a welcome surprise.  The band have existed in some shape or form since their glory days in the late 1970s on the Asylum label, although &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/12/album-review-orleans-new-star-shining/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/12/album-review-orleans-new-star-shining/">Album review: ORLEANS &#8211; New Star Shining</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Gig review: THEA GILMORE &#8211; The Met, Bury, 8 December 2018</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2018 13:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=57037</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/12/gig-review-thea-gilmore-the-met-bury-8-december-2018/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/181208_tgilmore8a.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="THEA GILMORE - The Met, Bury, 8 December 2018" title="THEA GILMORE - The Met, Bury, 8 December 2018" /></a>Thea Gilmore is becoming something of a fixture in our seasonal despatches.  As traditional as decking the halls of GRTR! HQ with boughs of holly. This time last year The Counterweight was winning our readers&#8217; album of the year vote &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/12/gig-review-thea-gilmore-the-met-bury-8-december-2018/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/12/gig-review-thea-gilmore-the-met-bury-8-december-2018/">Gig review: THEA GILMORE &#8211; The Met, Bury, 8 December 2018</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Gig review: THEA GILMORE &#8211; Telford&#8217;s Warehouse, Chester, 12 December 2017</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2017 02:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=50352</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/12/gig-review-thea-gilmore-telfords-warehouse-chester-12-december-2017/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/171212_tgilmore1.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="THEA GILMORE - Telford" title="THEA GILMORE - Telford" /></a>No, the GRTR! Christmas Party was not being held in a phone booth this year, but my fellow scribe Pete Whalley and I instead felt the glow of Thea Gilmore&#8217;s traditional gathering at a favourite venue in Chester. In a &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/12/gig-review-thea-gilmore-telfords-warehouse-chester-12-december-2017/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/12/gig-review-thea-gilmore-telfords-warehouse-chester-12-december-2017/">Gig review: THEA GILMORE &#8211; Telford&#8217;s Warehouse, Chester, 12 December 2017</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Gig review: THEA GILMORE, Telford&#8217;s Warehouse, Chester, 17 December 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2013/12/gig-review-thea-gilmore-telfords-warehouse-chester-17-december-2013/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/131217_tgilmore1.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="Thea Gilmore setlist, 17 December 2013" title="Thea Gilmore setlist, 17 December 2013" /></a>In a week that saw Sam Bailey crowned Queen of X Factor and announcing  that her first album may be one of cover versions, you can&#8217;t help feeling that the true musical troopers suffer in silence. Enter, Thea Gilmore, who &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2013/12/gig-review-thea-gilmore-telfords-warehouse-chester-17-december-2013/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2013/12/gig-review-thea-gilmore-telfords-warehouse-chester-17-december-2013/">Gig review: THEA GILMORE, Telford&#8217;s Warehouse, Chester, 17 December 2013</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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