Get Ready to ROCK! » Francis Monkman https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog News - Reviews - Interviews - Radio Sat, 02 May 2026 14:15:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Book review: Decades – Curved Air in the 1970s by Laura Shenton https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/06/book-review-decades-curved-air-in-the-1970s-laura-shenton/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/06/book-review-decades-curved-air-in-the-1970s-laura-shenton/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2021 19:08:08 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=73446 Decades - Curved Air in the 1970s by Laura ShentonSonicbond Publishing [Publication date 18.06.21] Author Laura Shenton makes no excuses for compiling a series of extracts from previously published work.  This includes contemporaneous snippets from the likes of Disc & Music Echo to more recent cribs from Prog magazine.  … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/06/book-review-decades-curved-air-in-the-1970s-laura-shenton/feed/ 0 Album review: CURVED AIR – Air Conditioning (reissue) https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/03/album-review-curved-air-air-conditioning-reissue/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/03/album-review-curved-air-air-conditioning-reissue/#comments Sat, 10 Mar 2018 18:58:50 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=51702 CURVED AIR - Air ConditioningEsoteric [Release date: 26.01.18] Whether by design or default, Warner Bros hit something of a mother lode when they launched their UK music arm back in 1970 with the much trumpeted signing of this then-unknown talent. It was a leap … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/03/album-review-curved-air-air-conditioning-reissue/feed/ 0 Album review: CURVED AIR – Rarities Series Volume 2 – Curved Space and Infinity https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2016/11/album-review-curved-air-rarities-series-volume-2-curved-space-and-infinity/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2016/11/album-review-curved-air-rarities-series-volume-2-curved-space-and-infinity/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2016 16:32:37 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=42191 CURVED AIR - Rarities Series Volume 2 - Curved Space and InfinityCurved Air Records [Release date 04.11.16] 2-CD Volume 2 of a continuing series bring together a “then and now” of one of our treasured prog/psych bands.  The first disc accommodates 1990s recordings with Francis Monkman on guitar and which evolved … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2016/11/album-review-curved-air-rarities-series-volume-2-curved-space-and-infinity/feed/ 0 Album review: SKY – Reissues (Sky, Sky 2) https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2014/12/album-review-sky-reissues-sky-sky-2/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2014/12/album-review-sky-reissues-sky-sky-2/#comments Sat, 13 Dec 2014 17:10:14 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=25778 SkyEsoteric [Release date 01.12.14] CD/DVD These two reissues give us a welcome opportunity to re-evaluate that fusion of classical and prog that the band Sky purveyed back in 1979.  A “supergroup” of sorts bringing together the unlikely presence of classical … Continue reading →

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