Get Ready to ROCK! » Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog News - Reviews - Interviews - Radio Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:53:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Album review: Ritchie Blackmore’s RAINBOW In Concert 1976 – Live In Koln https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2026/04/album-review-ritchie-blackmores-rainbow-in-concert-1976-live-in-koln/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2026/04/album-review-ritchie-blackmores-rainbow-in-concert-1976-live-in-koln/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:44:45 +0000 jason https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=108196 Ritchie Blackmore’s RAINBOW In Concert 1976 - Live In KolnDemon [Release date 18.04.26] This special edition release is exclusive to RSD (Record Store Day) 2026 and catches both the Rainbow and the band at their creative and blistering energetic peak. The album was originally released a few years back … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2026/04/album-review-ritchie-blackmores-rainbow-in-concert-1976-live-in-koln/feed/ 0 Album review: RITCHIE BLACKMORE’S RAINBOW – Memories In Rock II https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/03/album-review-ritchie-blackmores-rainbow-memories-in-rock-ii/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/03/album-review-ritchie-blackmores-rainbow-memories-in-rock-ii/#comments Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:37:25 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=51921 RITCHIE BLACKMOREMinstrel Hall [Release date 06.04.18] 2-CD/DVD In 2017 Ritchie Blackmore returned with his harder rock hat on to a series of arena shows in the UK. Evidently buoyed up by the successful summer sojourn a year before and no doubt … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/03/album-review-ritchie-blackmores-rainbow-memories-in-rock-ii/feed/ 0 Gig review: RITCHIE BLACKMORE’S RAINBOW – Genting Arena, Birmingham, 28 June 2017 https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/07/gig-review-ritchie-blackmores-rainbow-genting-arena-birmingham-28-june-2017/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/07/gig-review-ritchie-blackmores-rainbow-genting-arena-birmingham-28-june-2017/#comments Mon, 03 Jul 2017 09:28:38 +0000 jason http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=46440 Rainbow - STONE FREE FESTIVAL, London, 17 June 2017When I was a teenager getting seriously into rock and metal in the early 80s I was lucky enough to see some of the biggest acts around: AC/DC, Sabbath, Quo, Ozzy etc. One band I never got to see,  however, … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/07/gig-review-ritchie-blackmores-rainbow-genting-arena-birmingham-28-june-2017/feed/ 1 Gig review: STONE FREE FESTIVAL, London, 17 June 2017 https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/06/gig-review-stone-free-festival-02-arena-london-17-june-2017/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/06/gig-review-stone-free-festival-02-arena-london-17-june-2017/#comments Sun, 25 Jun 2017 14:54:25 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=46211 Rainbow - STONE FREE FESTIVAL, London, 17 June 2017For the second successive year the Stone Free festival took over the whole of the 02 complex for the day: targeted at a discerning classic rock audience not wishing to slum it in a muddy field, and drawing inspiration from … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/06/gig-review-stone-free-festival-02-arena-london-17-june-2017/feed/ 0 Album review: RITCHIE BLACKMORE’S RAINBOW – Live In Birmingham 2016 https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/06/album-review-ritchie-blackmores-rainbow-live-in-birmingham-2016/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/06/album-review-ritchie-blackmores-rainbow-live-in-birmingham-2016/#comments Sat, 10 Jun 2017 12:32:33 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=45963 RITCHIE BLACKMOREEagle Records [Release date 09.06.17] You may wonder why – after the release last year of the German gigs – we have yet another version of Ritchie’s hard rock comeback?  As we commented in our original review, it is a … Continue reading →

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