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Gig review: SOUTH OF SALEM – Thekla, Bristol, 27 March 2025
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Gig review: GRAHAM GOULDMAN – Cadogan Hall, London, 20 March 2025
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Gig review: THE DARKNESS – G Live, Guildford, 11 March 2025
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Tag Archives: Thea Gilmore
Feature: GRTR! Greats – THEA GILMORE
David Randall chatted to Thea Gilmore in February 2025 for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. This edited version of the interview first broadcast 23 February includes tracks from the album ‘These Quiet Friends’ plus others from Thea’s back catalogue. Part … Continue reading
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Tagged album, feature, folk, gig, interview, radio, review, rock, singer, songwriter, Thea Gilmore
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News: GRTR! Greats – New feature series starts in March at Get Ready to ROCK!
A new series starts in March, reflecting artist coverage at major classic rock website Get Ready to ROCK! Since 2003 the website has gained an unrivalled reputation for quality and insightful reviews plus interviews and features. In 2023 the website … Continue reading
Posted in ALL POSTS, NEWS, Special features
Tagged album, artists, classic rock, gig, Graham Gouldman, GRTR! Greats, history, retrospective, reviews, Robin Trower, singer songwriter, survey, Thea Gilmore, Wishbone Ash
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Album review: THEA GILMORE – These Quiet Friends
Self Released at theagilmore.net [Release date: 28.02.25] We’ve all got them. Those songs we turn to in times of trouble, joy and sadness to help us get through – songs that lift the spirit and are the companions … Continue reading
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Tagged review, Singer/Songwriter, Thea Gilmore, These Quiet Friends
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Album Review: THEA GILMORE – Thea Gilmore
Mighty Village Records [Release date: 17.11.23] Twenty one albums into a career that has set the bar so high in the singer/songwriter genre, Thea Gilmore has, at last, had the self-confidence and artistic freedom to release an eponymously titled set … Continue reading
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Tagged folk, review, Singer/Songwriter, Thea Gilmore
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Feature: GRTR!@20 Anniversary – Singer Songwriter – Primer
Singer-songwriter editor Pete Whalley gives his considered view on 20 years of the genre with the emphasis on female performers … Long considered a ‘folk’ rooted domain, the boundaries of the singer songwriter genre have blurred over the GRTR! decades, … Continue reading
Posted in FEATURES, GRTR!@20, The Primer
Tagged 2003-2023, anniversary, classic rock, Eleanor McEvoy, Hannah Aldridge, Judie Tzuke, Missy Higgins, primer, singer, songwriter, summary, Thea Gilmore, Tina Dico
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News: Albums of the Month (October 2021 – December 2021)
DEEP PURPLE Turning To Crime (earMUSIC) While the production is big, solid and bright, there’s also a live-in-the-studio feel, like it was recorded quickly and spontaneously. Listen with open ears and the album shows the band on great form, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Afterlight, albums, blues rock, Burntfield, classic rock, December 2021, Deep Purple, Eclipse, Leverage, melodic rock, November 2021, October 2021, Progressive Rock, review, singer, songwriter, Thea Gilmore, Thorbjorn Risager
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Feature: Call Collect – An introduction to Christmas (rock) Music
Christmas comes but once a year, and with it the usual mixed bag of toons. But not for us the familiar stylings of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ or ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’. We like to dig deep, a bit like … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Davey, album, carols, Christmas, feature, Hawkestrel, Hawkwind, instrumental, Jethro Tull, playlist, review, Rick Wakeman, Thea Gilmore, Thijs van Leer, Xmas
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Album Review: AFTERLIGHT (Thea Gilmore) – Afterlight
Mighty Village Records [Release date: 01.10.21] What’s a woman to do when the life that you’ve led for over twenty years reveals itself over time to be a stifling, coercive relationship that’s dominated your life and musical career? The answer … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, Afterlight, album, review, singer, songwriter, Thea Gilmore
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Album review: JIM KIRKPATRICK – Ballad of a Prodigal Son
Pete Feenstra chatted to Jim Kirkpatrick for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio playing tracks from the new album. First broadcast 20 September 2020. US One Records [Release date 04.09.20] Whilst fellow FM member and vocalist Steve Overland channels his soul … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Ballad of a Prodigal Son, blues, blues rock, Didge Digital, FM, guitarist, interview, Jem Davis, Jim Kirkpatrick, review, rock, Solo, Status Quo, Thea Gilmore
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Gig review: THEA GILMORE – The Met, Bury, 8 December 2018
Thea Gilmore is becoming something of a fixture in our seasonal despatches. As traditional as decking the halls of GRTR! HQ with boughs of holly. This time last year The Counterweight was winning our readers’ album of the year vote … Continue reading
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Tagged 8 December 2018, acoustic, Bury, Christmas Party, festive, gig, Nigel Stonier, review, seasonal, singer, songwriter, The Met, Thea Gilmore
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Album review: TRACEY BROWNE – The Doctrine Of Song
[Release date 4.05.18] You could be forgiven – listening in a ‘blindfold test’ to this sophomore release from Manchester-based singer songwriter Tracey Browne, for occasionally thinking, “blimey, where did these ‘lost’ Thea Gilmore songs come from?” But dig a little … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, album, indie, Liz Hanks, Nigel Stonier, review, singer, songwriter, The Doctrine Of Song, Thea Gilmore, Tracey Browne
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News: THEA GILMORE tops popular poll for best album of 2017, Marillion voted Top Live Act
Singer songwriter Thea Gilmore has won the popular vote in Get Ready to ROCK!’s end of year poll. Thea’s album ‘The Counterweight’ was voted ‘Best of 2017′ by readers and listeners. Alan Jones from Get Ready to ROCK! has been … Continue reading
Posted in NEWS, The Best of 2017
Tagged Austin Gold, Best of 2017, breakthrough act, Marillion, poll, popular, rock, singer songwriter, The Counterweight, Thea Gilmore, top album, top live act, vote
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Gig review: THEA GILMORE – Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, 12 December 2017
No, the GRTR! Christmas Party was not being held in a phone booth this year, but my fellow scribe Pete Whalley and I instead felt the glow of Thea Gilmore’s traditional gathering at a favourite venue in Chester. In a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 November 2017, acoustic, Chester, Christmas, festive, gig, Nigel Stonier, party, review, singer, songwriter, Telford's Warehouse, Thea Gilmore, Xmas
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Album review: THEA GILMORE – The Counterweight
WMW/Cooking Vinyl [Release date 02.06.17] So what’s a girl to do? She’s got bills to pay just like the rest of us, so is this the moment that Thea Gilmore drifts into the mainstream? From the release of the bile-spitting … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, album, Nigel Stonier, pop, review, rock, Singer/Songwriter, The Counterweight, Thea Gilmore
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Gig review: THEA GILMORE – Liverpool Philharmonic, 17 November 2015
I have been following Thea Gilmore from the early days of her career when I heard her being championed by Bob Harris on his Radio 2 Saturday show back in the late nineties. I’ve seen her develop from a bile-spitting … Continue reading
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Tagged 17 November 2015, gig, indie pop, Kelly Oliver, Liverpool Philharmonic, Nigel Stonier, pop, review, singer, songwriter, Thea Gilmore, Tracey Browne. folk
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Album review: THEA GILMORE – Ghosts & Graffiti
Fullfill [Release date 11.05.15] We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again – Thea Gilmore is one of the finest contemporary singer songwriter gracing these fair isles. In another era she would have packed theatres the length and breadth … Continue reading
Gig review: THEA GILMORE – Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, 9 December 2014
Thea Gilmore’s Office Christmas bash was a somewhat conservative affair this year. As always, Thea was on sparkling form and buoyed with festive cheer, office manager Nigel Stonier orchestrated with his usual aplomb, and secretary Fluff and temp Liz Hanks … Continue reading
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Tagged 9 December 2014, acoustic, Chester, Christmas, gig, Nigel Stonier, review, singer, songwriter, Telford's Warehouse, Thea Gilmore
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Gig review: THEA GILMORE, Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, 17 December 2013
In a week that saw Sam Bailey crowned Queen of X Factor and announcing that her first album may be one of cover versions, you can’t help feeling that the true musical troopers suffer in silence. Enter, Thea Gilmore, who … Continue reading
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Tagged 17 December 2013, Chester, Christmas, festive, folk, gig, Liz Hanks, Nigel Stonier, pop, review, singer, songwriter, Telford's Warehouse, Thea Gilmore
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Quick plays (singles): TARJA, THEA GILMORE, REBELLIOUS SPIRIT, MATINEE, RUBYLUX, VALENTIINE
THEA GILMORE – Start As We Mean To Go On Start As We Mean To Go is the second single to be lifted from Thea Gilmore’s excellent new album Regardless. With the impetus from the first single Love Came Looking … Continue reading
Gig review: THEA GILMORE, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, 10 May 2013
This promotional gig for Thea’s excellent new album Regardless, complete with supporting string quartet, proved at least one thing – there’s no finer British vocalist/singer songwriter on the scene at present. Finding local ‘talent’ to open the set – a … Continue reading
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Tagged 10 May 2013, folk, Liverpool, Nigel Stonier, Philharmonic Hall, pop, rock, singer, songwriter, Thea Gilmore
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Album review: THEA GILMORE – Regardless
Fulfill [Release date 14.05.13] Thea Gilmore is nothing if not prolific – Regardless is her 14th album in as many years, but look a little more deeply at her recent output and you’ll see that her last two offerings have … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Regardless, review, rock, singer songwriter, Thea Gilmore
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The Lady: A Homage to Sandy Denny
An evening of classic songs by Sandy Denny featuring Joan Wasser aka Joan As Policewoman, Maddy Prior, Jerry Donahue, Dave Swarbrick, Green Gartside, PP Arnold, Thea Gilmore, plus members of Bellowhead, Lavinia Blackwall (Trembling Bells), Sam Carter, Blair Dunlop (The … Continue reading
