Get Ready to ROCK! » Holland https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog News - Reviews - Interviews - Radio Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:00:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Feature: Call Collect: An introduction to FOCUS https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/04/feature-call-collect-an-introduction-to-focus/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/04/feature-call-collect-an-introduction-to-focus/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2020 18:13:27 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=65438 Focus - Hard Rock Hell Prog, Pwllheli, 21-22 March 2014In their own words, Thijs van Leer and Jan Akkerman discuss the early days of Focus and their wider success…and demise in the late 1970s.  This feature is based on interviews in 1990 for a ‘Record Collector’ article published in … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/04/feature-call-collect-an-introduction-to-focus/feed/ 0 Album review: MARILLION – Unplugged At The Walls/Tumbling Down The Years https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/03/album-review-marillion-unplugged-at-the-walls-tumbling-down-the-years/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/03/album-review-marillion-unplugged-at-the-walls-tumbling-down-the-years/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:04:05 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=51821 MARILLION - Unplugged At The WallsearMUSIC [Release date 23.03.18] Live albums three and four in this set of bi-monthly releases find our intrepid heroes in a restaurant in Oswestry in 1988, and once again at the 2009 Marillion Weekend convention in Port Zelande, Holland. Unplugged … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/03/album-review-marillion-unplugged-at-the-walls-tumbling-down-the-years/feed/ 0 Album review: JULIAN SAS – Coming Home https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2016/08/album-review-julian-sas-coming-home/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2016/08/album-review-julian-sas-coming-home/#comments Sat, 20 Aug 2016 13:26:06 +0000 petefeenstra http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=40041 Julian Sas - Coming HomeCavalier [Release date 18.03.16] ‘Coming Home’ is an aptly titled,  solid rock-blues album with southern rock edges and spiritual references. It incorporates Holland’s leading rock-blues guitarist Julian Sas’s penchant for gritty vocals, evocative guitar playing and anthemic blues balladry. It … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2016/08/album-review-julian-sas-coming-home/feed/ 0 Album review: NEMESEA – Uprise https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2016/05/album-review-nemesea-uprise/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2016/05/album-review-nemesea-uprise/#comments Mon, 09 May 2016 11:37:00 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=37753 NEMESEA - UpriseNapalm Records [Release date 29.04.16] You might be forgiven thinking that Dutch pop metallers Nemesea were new kids on the block out to steal Delain’s thunder.  But they have been around for at least 10 years although without their compatriots’ … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2016/05/album-review-nemesea-uprise/feed/ 0 Album review: JAN AKKERMAN – Jan Akkerman (1977 reissue) https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2016/01/album-review-jan-akkerman-1977-reissue/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2016/01/album-review-jan-akkerman-1977-reissue/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2016 22:41:13 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=35553 JAN AKKERMAN - Jan AkkermanEsoteric 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 →

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