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		<title>Album review: HORSLIPS &#8211; At The BBC (4-CD/DVD)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/06/album-review-horslips-at-the-bbc/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/horslips_bbc1-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="HORSLIPS - At The BBC" title="HORSLIPS - At The BBC" /></a>Madfish [Release date 04.07.25] As some might have it, Horslips didn’t invent the genre of ‘Celtic Rock’ but they were early proponents. Before their debut album, released in late-1972, there had been the groundbreaking Frenchman Alan Stivell who had blazed &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/06/album-review-horslips-at-the-bbc/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/06/album-review-horslips-at-the-bbc/">Album review: HORSLIPS &#8211; At The BBC (4-CD/DVD)</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: MARY STOKES BAND featuring SARAH MICHELLE – Comin&#8217; Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2021 12:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>petefeenstra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/04/album-review-mary-stokes-band-featuring-sarah-michelle-comin-home/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Mary-Stokes-band-Comin-Home-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="Mary Stokes band - Comin Home" title="Mary Stokes band - Comin Home" /></a>Self release [Release date 03.12.20] Mary Stokes Band’s ‘Comin&#8217; Home’ is for the most part a live off the floor ‘warts and all’ album culled from 2 rehearsals with a couple of additional studio cuts. Mary Stokes is an enduring &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/04/album-review-mary-stokes-band-featuring-sarah-michelle-comin-home/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/04/album-review-mary-stokes-band-featuring-sarah-michelle-comin-home/">Album review: MARY STOKES BAND featuring SARAH MICHELLE – Comin&#8217; Home</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: RONAN FURLONG – The King Of Leaves</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>petefeenstra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/12/album-review-ronan-furlong-the-king-of-leaves/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Ronan-Furlong-The-King-Of-Leaves-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="Ronan Furlong - The King Of Leaves" title="Ronan Furlong - The King Of Leaves" /></a>Thoroughbred Music [Release date 20.11.20] Ronan Furlong’s ‘The King Of Leaves’ is an essential jagged-edged, genre bending, Celtic tinged roots rocking album of the highest order. It’s shot through with unrelenting intensity, yet understated swagger. And there’s enough musical diversity, &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/12/album-review-ronan-furlong-the-king-of-leaves/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/12/album-review-ronan-furlong-the-king-of-leaves/">Album review: RONAN FURLONG – The King Of Leaves</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: RONAN FURLONG – Minerva&#8217;s Meddling</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2020 19:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/06/album-review-ronan-furlong-minervas-meddling/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ronan-furlong-minervas-meddling-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="Ronan Furlong - Minerva&#039;s Meddling" title="Ronan Furlong - Minerva&#039;s Meddling" /></a>Pete Feenstra chatted to Ronan Furlong for his Feature show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, first broadcast 7 June 2020, and including tracks from the album &#8216;Minerva&#8217;s Meddling&#8217;. Thoroughbred Music [Release date 29.06.20] To say that Ronan Furlong&#8217;s &#8216;Minerva&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/06/album-review-ronan-furlong-minervas-meddling/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/06/album-review-ronan-furlong-minervas-meddling/">Album review: RONAN FURLONG – Minerva&#8217;s Meddling</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: JACKIE MCAULEY &#8211; I, SIDEMAN: The Story Of Me In The 60&#8242;s &amp; 70&#8242;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/01/book-review-jackie-macauley-i-sideman-the-story-of-me-in-the-60s-70s/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Jackie-McAuley-I-Sideman-book-150x150.png" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="JACKIE MCAULEY - I, SIDEMAN: The Story Of Me In The 60" title="JACKIE MCAULEY - I, SIDEMAN: The Story Of Me In The 60" /></a>www.jackiemcauley.com – 253 pages paperback [Publication date: December 2017] Jackie McAuley&#8217;s &#8216;I Sideman: The Story Of Me In The 60&#8242;s and 70&#8242;s&#8217; is an eloquently written, partial biography by a multi instrumentalist and vocalist who takes three quarters of the &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/01/book-review-jackie-macauley-i-sideman-the-story-of-me-in-the-60s-70s/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/01/book-review-jackie-macauley-i-sideman-the-story-of-me-in-the-60s-70s/">Book review: JACKIE MCAULEY &#8211; I, SIDEMAN: The Story Of Me In The 60&#8242;s &#038; 70&#8242;s</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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