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		<title>Album review: TABOO &#8211; Taboo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2022 12:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianmc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2022/09/album-review-taboo-taboo/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/taboo-150x150.jpeg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="taboo" title="taboo" /></a>Frontiers [Release date: 09.09.22] Taboo is an interesting marriage of the old and the new… Pretty Maids&#8217; guitarist and guiding light, Ken Hammer and H.E.R.O&#8217;s singer, writer, producer Steffan Stjerne. Sony recording artist, H.E.R.O is “Big in Japan”, racking up &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2022/09/album-review-taboo-taboo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2022/09/album-review-taboo-taboo/">Album review: TABOO &#8211; Taboo</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: RONNIE ATKINS &#8211; Make It Count</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2022 17:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianmc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2022/03/album-review-ronnie-atkins-make-it-count/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/ronnie-atkins-make-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="ronnie atkins make" title="ronnie atkins make" /></a>Frontiers [release date: 18.03.22] When Denmark&#8217;s Paul Christensen founded the Pretty Maids with Ken Hammer, he changed his name to Ronnie Atkins. And this despite assurances that his birth name sounded pretty cool. None of this matters now, he lives &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2022/03/album-review-ronnie-atkins-make-it-count/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2022/03/album-review-ronnie-atkins-make-it-count/">Album review: RONNIE ATKINS &#8211; Make It Count</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: PRETTY MAIDS – Kingmaker</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Berisford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2016/11/album-review-pretty-maids-kingmaker/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/PRETTY-MAIDS-kingmaker-COVER-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="PRETTY MAIDS – Kingmaker" title="PRETTY MAIDS – Kingmaker" /></a>Frontiers Records [Release date 04.11.16] “Kingmaker” is Pretty Maids’ 15th studio album if you include 2014’s superb “Louder Than Ever” which contained re-recordings of old tunes plus 4 newbies and it continues their run of high quality releases. The Danish &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2016/11/album-review-pretty-maids-kingmaker/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2016/11/album-review-pretty-maids-kingmaker/">Album review: PRETTY MAIDS – Kingmaker</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: PRETTY MAIDS &#8211; Camden Underworld, 22 September 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andynathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2013/09/gig-review-pretty-maids-camden-underworld-22-september-2013/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Kip-Winger-and-Pretty-Maids-093-768x1024.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="" title="" /></a>One of the most enduring bands from the European metal scene, Danish outfit Pretty Maids, have not played these shores since 1985 amazingly enough, other than an appearance at Firefest.  In the circumstances it was disappointing that even the Underworld &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2013/09/gig-review-pretty-maids-camden-underworld-22-september-2013/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2013/09/gig-review-pretty-maids-camden-underworld-22-september-2013/">Gig review: PRETTY MAIDS &#8211; Camden Underworld, 22 September 2013</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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