Get Ready to ROCK! » XTC https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog News - Reviews - Interviews - Radio Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:41:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Rising Stars: SPLEEN (interview) https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/01/rising-stars-spleen-interview/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/01/rising-stars-spleen-interview/#comments Fri, 10 Jan 2025 08:50:54 +0000 jason https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=100248 SPLEEN – Making Plans For NigelSPLEEN ARE: Samuele Riccucci – Guitar and Vocals, Matteo Innocenti – Drums and Backing Vocals, Olmo Fantini – Guitar and Backing Vocals, Alberto Sanna – Bass Spleen are a fierce and feisty Italian four-piece. Earlier this year they signed with renowned rock … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/01/rising-stars-spleen-interview/feed/ 0 Feature: Baker’s Dozen – Librarians With Hickeys https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/12/feature-bakers-dozen-librarians-with-hickeys/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/12/feature-bakers-dozen-librarians-with-hickeys/#comments Sat, 07 Dec 2024 11:21:24 +0000 jason https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=99644 LIBRARIANS WITH HICKEYS - How To Make Friends By TelephoneLibrarians With Hickeys are an indie pop rock duo consisting of Ray Carmen and Mike Crooker. Here both of them choose an eclectic Baker’s Dozen… Ray Carmen (in more or less no particular order) 1. Paul McCartney – Maybe I’m … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/12/feature-bakers-dozen-librarians-with-hickeys/feed/ 0 Single review: SPLEEN – Making Plans For Nigel https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/11/single-review-spleen-making-plans-for-nigel/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/11/single-review-spleen-making-plans-for-nigel/#comments Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:49:53 +0000 jason https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=99337 SPLEEN – Making Plans For NigelYouTube Spleen have been around since 2019 and now comprises Samuele Riccucci on guitar and vocals, Matteo Innocenti on drums and backing vocals, Olmo Fantini on guitar and backing vocals, and Alberto Sanna on bass. A brave move to cover … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/11/single-review-spleen-making-plans-for-nigel/feed/ 0 Album review: KIDS ON THE STREET, UK POWER POP AND NEW WAVE 1977-81 (3 CD Boxset) https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2022/11/album-review-kids-on-the-street-uk-power-pop-and-new-wave-1977-81-3-cd-boxset/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2022/11/album-review-kids-on-the-street-uk-power-pop-and-new-wave-1977-81-3-cd-boxset/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:29:22 +0000 brianmc https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=84598 KIDS-ON-THE-STREET-PACKSHOT-minCherry Red [release date: 25.11.22] Kids On The Street is a great title for this 3 CD, 77 track compilation, emphasising the uncomplicated vitality of that era’s popular music. The better informed will know it’s from The Stiffs’ song of … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2022/11/album-review-kids-on-the-street-uk-power-pop-and-new-wave-1977-81-3-cd-boxset/feed/ 0 Album review: THE DOWLING POOLE – Refuse https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2022/10/album-review-the-dowling-poole-refuse/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2022/10/album-review-the-dowling-poole-refuse/#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2022 15:25:13 +0000 jason https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=83549 THE DOWLING POOLE RefuseBandcamp [Release date 14.10.22] ‘Refuse’, the new album from The Dowling Poole features all of the ‘digital only’ tracks the group occasionally released for short periods of time and are now collated on this physical release.  Each track has been … Continue reading →

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