Get Ready to ROCK! » Thijs van Leer https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog News - Reviews - Interviews - Radio Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:08:47 +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: An introduction to Christmas (rock) Music https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/12/feature-call-collect-an-introduction-to-christmas-music/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/12/feature-call-collect-an-introduction-to-christmas-music/#comments Sat, 04 Dec 2021 16:56:57 +0000 GRTR! HQ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=77288 Jethro Tull - The Christmas AlbumChristmas 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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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/12/feature-call-collect-an-introduction-to-christmas-music/feed/ 0 Book review: Decades – Focus in the 1970s (Stephen Lambe) https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/04/book-review-decades-focus-in-the-1970s-stephen-lambe/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/04/book-review-decades-focus-in-the-1970s-stephen-lambe/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2021 20:24:12 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=72523 Decades - Focus in the 1970s (Stephen Lambe)Sonicbond Publishing [Publication date 30.04.21] At the outset I should declare an interest.  As an inveterate Focus-watcher since the early 1970s, author of articles about the band for Record Collector magazine, liner notes, and the first book about Jan Akkerman … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/04/book-review-decades-focus-in-the-1970s-stephen-lambe/feed/ 0 Album review: LESZEK CICHONSKI AND FRIENDS – Thanks Jimi Symphonic https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/02/album-review-leszek-cichonski-and-friends-thanks-jimi-symphonic/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/02/album-review-leszek-cichonski-and-friends-thanks-jimi-symphonic/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:41:48 +0000 petefeenstra http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=71098 Ledzek Cichonski And Friends - Thanks Jimi SymphonicPete Feenstra chatted to Leszek Cichonski for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, including the background to his album, world record-breaking and the Hendrix festivals.  First broadcast 21 February 2021. Luna Music [Release date 26.06.2o] From the guitar and orchestral intro … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/02/album-review-leszek-cichonski-and-friends-thanks-jimi-symphonic/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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