Get Ready to ROCK! » Sonja Kristina https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog News - Reviews - Interviews - Radio Mon, 04 May 2026 13:04:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Gig review: CURVED AIR – The Sub Rooms, Stroud, 20 November 2025 https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/11/gig-review-curved-air-the-sub-rooms-stroud-20-november-2025/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/11/gig-review-curved-air-the-sub-rooms-stroud-20-november-2025/#comments Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:17:08 +0000 GRTR! HQ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=105748 CURVED AIR - The Sub Rooms, Stroud, 20 November 2025To those of a certain age and male – most of the audience here tonight in fact – Sonja Kristina was a poster girl for rock in the early 1970s. Pre-Stevie Nicks, pre-Debbie Harry. Interestingly she told me in 2015 … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/11/gig-review-curved-air-the-sub-rooms-stroud-20-november-2025/feed/ 0 Book review: Decades – Curved Air in the 1970s by Laura Shenton https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/06/book-review-decades-curved-air-in-the-1970s-laura-shenton/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/06/book-review-decades-curved-air-in-the-1970s-laura-shenton/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2021 19:08:08 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=73446 Decades - Curved Air in the 1970s by Laura ShentonSonicbond Publishing [Publication date 18.06.21] Author Laura Shenton makes no excuses for compiling a series of extracts from previously published work.  This includes contemporaneous snippets from the likes of Disc & Music Echo to more recent cribs from Prog magazine.  … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/06/book-review-decades-curved-air-in-the-1970s-laura-shenton/feed/ 0 Album review: CURVED AIR – The Second British Rock Meeting 1972 https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2019/02/album-review-curved-air-the-second-british-rock-meeting-1972/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2019/02/album-review-curved-air-the-second-british-rock-meeting-1972/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2019 02:52:38 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=57824 CURVED AIR - The Second British Rock Meeting 1972Curved Air [Release date: 05.10.18] Dawn breaks grey on the last day of the 1972 Second British Rock Meeting at Germersheim, Germany. The festival has included sets from Pink Floyd, Humble Pie, The Strawbs, Savoy Brown, Lindisfarne and many other … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2019/02/album-review-curved-air-the-second-british-rock-meeting-1972/feed/ 0 Album review: EXCALIBUR (Alan Simon) – Ladies Of The Lake https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2019/01/album-review-excalibur-alan-simon-ladies-of-the-lake/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2019/01/album-review-excalibur-alan-simon-ladies-of-the-lake/#comments Sat, 12 Jan 2019 03:00:31 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=57386 EXCALIBUR (Alan Simon) - Ladies Of The LakeBabaika [Release date: 02.11.18] Girl Power: albeit nary a Spice in sight, but the whiff of joss hangs pendulously over this female vocalist-fronted compilation trawl through the four Excalibur sword-and-sorcery releases by French composer Alan Simon. Alan explains in his … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2019/01/album-review-excalibur-alan-simon-ladies-of-the-lake/feed/ 0 Album Review: YUKA AND CHRONOSHIP – Ship https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/07/album-review-yuka-and-chronoship-ship/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/07/album-review-yuka-and-chronoship-ship/#comments Sun, 08 Jul 2018 20:11:25 +0000 alanjones http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=53848 YUKA AND CHRONOSHIP - ShipCherry Red Records [Release date 11.5.18] Yuka Funakoshi is a Japanese keyboard virtuoso who would certainly give any of Sherinian, Rudess or Norlander a run for their money and, together with her band of exceptional session men, Yuka and Chronoship … Continue reading →

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