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Hello, and
welcome to our News Update for July 2016
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WIN
TICKETS TO 27th GREAT BRITISH R&B FESTIVAL!
This year's Great
British R&B Festival takes place August Bank Holiday weekend in
and around Colne, Lancashire.
This well-established and
popular event features an International with appearances from
Nine Below Zero, Wilko Johnson, Bernie Marsden amongst others.
The British stage will host the likes of Connie Lush, Rebecca
Downes and Get Ready to ROCK! favourites Roadhouse.
You can win a pair of
weekend tickets by heading over to our competition page.
Competition
(closes 07.08.16]
Photo: Simon Dunkerley/GRTR!
INTERVIEW SPECIALS ON GET READY TO ROCK! RADIO
Reflecting the eclectic
nature of Get Ready to ROCK! the dedicated radio station
regularly features a wide range of artist interviews and special
features.
The station's David
Randall recently caught up with Mark King of LEVEL 42 to chat about the band who
had a string of successful singles and albums in the 1980s and ahead of their
October UK theatre tour.
Pete Feenstra on the other hand spoke with
a legendary session-ist and solo performer STU DAYE. Stu worked with Alice
Cooper and Nils Lofgren in the 1970s and is now resident in the UK.
These interviews are repeated on Thursday 28 July,
from 22:00 GMT.
This Sunday (31 July), at 18:00 GMT
Graeme Taylor chats about the band GRYPHON ahead of their August UK dates.
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Albums of the Month
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HEART Beautiful Broken (UMC)
Aiming for a seventies feel, they picked songs they’ve wanted to re-do for many
years...it brings a welcome splash of colour to what was a rather monochrome period
in the band’s career. (Pete Whalley) |
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KATATONIA The Fall Of
Hearts (Peaceville)
Despite its intensity, ‘The Fall Of Hearts’ is an engaging
experience, the whole album being shot through with breathtaking
moments of musical and lyrical brilliance...A top, top effort,
the best album of the year so far...
(Alan Jones) |
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ROADHOUSE
City Of Decay
(Krossborder)
...places the emphasis firmly on the weight of their
songs, while this superbly produced album captures
both the band’s natural spark and their musical
excellence... ‘City Of Decay’ brings a new
found maturity to an already weighty musical canon. (Pete Feenstra) |
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LAURENCE JONES Take Me
High
(Ruf)
It’s an adventurous album, full of musical diversity and the band’s road tested
abilities and just like the very best concerts it leaves you wanting more. (Pete
Feenstra) |
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This month in
ROCK
July 16 - August 15 |
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In 1963 The Beatles make
their last appearance at The Cavern in Liverpool
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Songwriter Jimmy Webb born in 1946
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In 1969 the No.1 UK LP is Jethro Tull Stand Up
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Woodstock Music and Arts Fayre begins in
1969 on a dairy farm in New York |
New to our Radio Playlist
w/c 25 July 2016
PURPLE Bodacious (PIAS)
JEFF BECK Loud Hailer (Atco)
EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Reissues (BMG)
BLUES PILLS Lady In Gold (Nuclear Blast)
There is no newsletter in August, we'll return in mid-September.
Happy Holidays! Photo: Simon Dunkerley
Meet GRTR!
Pete Feenstra
Pete works tirelessly reviewing
and interviewing artists for Get Ready to ROCK! He's
always well informed and with a passion for all things blues and
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Latest gig reviews...
Our reviewers have been out and about in Manchester (SOS Festival) and
further afield, in France for the Relache Festival, and in Glasgow for
Ginger Wildheart and Joe Bonamassa...
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RECOMMENDED UK TOURS/GIGS/FESTIVALS (AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2016)
HARPENDEN BLUES, 30 July(Climax Blues Band, Laurence Jones)
DIAMOND HEAD, 30 July-9 October
CAMBRIDGE ROCK FESTIVAL, 3-7 August
CHANTEL McGREGOR, 5 August-30 September
A NEW DAY FESTIVAL, Faversham, Kent, 5-7 August
THE 14th DREAM OF DR.SARDONICUS, Cardigan, 5-7 August
NORTH WALES BLUES & SOUL FEST, Mold, 5-7 August
GRYPHON, 12-17 August, 16 Sept.
CLEETHORPES ROCKS,19 August (Wishbone Ash, Mostly Autumn)
THE GREAT BRITISH R&B FESTIVAL, Colne, Lancs, 26-29 August
QUEENSRYCHE, 26-28 August
THE WHO, 29 August-7 September
JUSTIN HAYWARD 9-25 September
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