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		<title>Album review: SPOCK&#8217;S BEARD  &#8211; The Archaeoptimist</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/12/album-review-spocks-beard-the-archaeoptimist/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sb_ta1a.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="SPOCK&#039;S BEARD - The Archaeoptimist" title="SPOCK&#039;S BEARD  - The Archaeoptimist" /></a>Madfish [Release date 21.11.25] Album reviewers, including this one, are often guilty of mining the cliché vaults and using five words where one would suffice. But then, every so often, something so good comes along that it defies words. &#8216;The &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/12/album-review-spocks-beard-the-archaeoptimist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/12/album-review-spocks-beard-the-archaeoptimist/">Album review: SPOCK&#8217;S BEARD  &#8211; The Archaeoptimist</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: SPOCK&#8217;S BEARD &#8211; Noise Floor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2018 13:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/05/album-review-spocks-beard-noise-floor/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/sb-150x150.png" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="SPOCK" title="SPOCK" /></a>Inside Out [Release date 25.05.18] Spock&#8217;s Beard return with their thirteenth album and it also marks the return of original drummer Nick D’Virgilio who guests on the album, after the previous drummer Jimmy Keegan left the band in 2016. On &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/05/album-review-spocks-beard-noise-floor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/05/album-review-spocks-beard-noise-floor/">Album review: SPOCK&#8217;S BEARD &#8211; Noise Floor</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: SPOCK’S BEARD &#8211; The Garage, London, 7 May 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
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