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		<title>Album review: ORLEANS &#8211; New Star Shining</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2021 09:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/12/album-review-orleans-new-star-shining/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/orleans_nss1.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="ORLEANS - New Star Shining" title="ORLEANS - New Star Shining" /></a>Sunset Blvd Records [Release date 22.10.21] The 2021 Christmas offering from Orleans is something of a welcome surprise.  The band have existed in some shape or form since their glory days in the late 1970s on the Asylum label, although &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/12/album-review-orleans-new-star-shining/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/12/album-review-orleans-new-star-shining/">Album review: ORLEANS &#8211; New Star Shining</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Feature: An introduction to Christmas (rock) Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2021 16:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/12/feature-call-collect-an-introduction-to-christmas-music/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/jt_ca1a-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="Jethro Tull - The Christmas Album" title="Jethro Tull - The Christmas Album" /></a>Christmas comes but once a year, and with it the usual mixed bag of toons.  But not for us the familiar stylings of &#8216;Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas&#8217; or &#8216;Merry Xmas Everybody&#8217;.  We like to dig deep, a bit like &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/12/feature-call-collect-an-introduction-to-christmas-music/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/12/feature-call-collect-an-introduction-to-christmas-music/">Feature: An introduction to Christmas (rock) Music</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: THEA GILMORE &#8211; Telford&#8217;s Warehouse, Chester, 12 December 2017</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2017 02:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/12/gig-review-thea-gilmore-telfords-warehouse-chester-12-december-2017/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/171212_tgilmore1.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="THEA GILMORE - Telford" title="THEA GILMORE - Telford" /></a>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&#8217;s traditional gathering at a favourite venue in Chester. In a &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/12/gig-review-thea-gilmore-telfords-warehouse-chester-12-december-2017/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/12/gig-review-thea-gilmore-telfords-warehouse-chester-12-december-2017/">Gig review: THEA GILMORE &#8211; Telford&#8217;s Warehouse, Chester, 12 December 2017</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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