Get Ready to ROCK! » Pierre van der Linden https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog News - Reviews - Interviews - Radio Sun, 03 May 2026 16:35:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Album review: FOCUS – Focus 12 https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/05/album-review-focus-focus-12/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/05/album-review-focus-focus-12/#comments Thu, 30 May 2024 19:09:23 +0000 GRTR! HQ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=95708 FOCUS - Focus 12David Randall chatted to Thijs van Leer for his weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio playing tracks from the new album.  First broadcast 9 June 2024 and featured in the second hour. Spirit Of Unicorn Music [Release date … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/05/album-review-focus-focus-12/feed/ 0 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 Gig review: FOCUS/Chantel McGregor – Under the Bridge, London, 25 October 2019 https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2019/11/gig-review-focus-chantel-mcgregor-under-the-bridge-london-25-october-2019/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2019/11/gig-review-focus-chantel-mcgregor-under-the-bridge-london-25-october-2019/#comments Sun, 03 Nov 2019 12:19:35 +0000 andynathan http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=62698 FOCUS/Chantel McGregor- Under the Bridge, London, 25 October 2019This show in one of London’s more enjoyably upscale venues was an opportunity for me to kill two birds with one stone, as well as bringing together two contrasting acts in an interesting pairing. Chantel McGregor has been a rising … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2019/11/gig-review-focus-chantel-mcgregor-under-the-bridge-london-25-october-2019/feed/ 0 Album review: SWUNG – Vol.1 & 2 (feat. members of FOCUS) https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2014/12/album-review-swung-vol-1-2/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2014/12/album-review-swung-vol-1-2/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2014 20:30:00 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=25592 Swung - Vol.1 & 2In And Out Of Focus Records [Release date 03.11.14] ‘Swung’ was evidently conceived and recorded during downtime from the “day job” – for Bobby Jacobs and Pierre van der Linden this means the current incarnation of Focus. Although that band … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2014/12/album-review-swung-vol-1-2/feed/ 0 Album review: FOCUS – Golden Oldies https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2014/05/album-review-focus-golden-oldies/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2014/05/album-review-focus-golden-oldies/#comments Sat, 24 May 2014 13:22:41 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=19856 Focus - Golden OldiesIn And Out Of Focus Records [Release date 14.04.14] They say rock is dead, the endless process of reinvention now limited, and the pioneers now ageing.  There is no doubt that a great chasm will open within the next 10 … Continue reading →

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