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Pete Feenstra chatted to Steve Hillage about the box set for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. First broadcast 8 September 2019.
Steve Hillage/Gong UK dates and radio interview
Steve Hillage plays UK tour dates with Gong in November, following the release on 27 September of a new box set from UMC chronicling “The Virgin Years 1973-5″.
Much of the 13-disc box set includes previously unreleased material.
Steve recently chatted to Get Ready to ROCK!’s Pete Feenstra about the box set.
Tour dates
14 November – Engine Rooms, Southampton
15 November – Friars, Waterside, Aylesbury
16 November – Islington Assembly Hall, London
17 November – Warehouse, Glasgow
18 November – O2 Academy2, Sheffield
20 November – O2 Academy, Bristol
21 November – O2 Institute 2, Birmingham
22 November – Tramshed, Cardiff
23 November – O2 Academy, Liverpool
24 November – Concorde 2, Brighton
Graham Bonnet /Alcatrazz dates in September
Graham Bonnet returns to the UK with his band in September playing the music of Alcatrazz, plus Rainbow, MSG and Graham Bonnet solo. The band includes original Alcatrazz keyboard player Jimmy Waldo together with guitarist Joe Stump, bass player Beth-Ami Heavenstone and drummer Mark Benquechea.
Sep 19 – London: Underworld
Sep 20 – Skegness: Suncastle
Sep 21 – Buckley: Tivoli
Sep 22 – Swansea: Sin City
Sep 23 – Stoke: Eleven
Sep 25 – Belfast: Limelight
Sep 26 – Dublin: Button Factory
Sep 28 – Bradford: Nightrain
Sep 29 – Edinburgh: Bannerman’s
Sep 30 – Blackpool: Waterloo Music Bar
Oct 1 – Bilston: Robin 2
Oct 2 – Portsmouth: Guild Hall
Gig review/interview (August 2018)
Album review (Live In Tokyo 2017)
This interview with Steve Hackett was broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio on the eve of his UK orchestral tour. The hour special includes tracks from several albums included in the retrospective box set released in October 2018.
Steve Hackett is a Featured Artist at Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. More…
Steve Hackett: new live 2-CD and Bluray
Steve Hackett has announced the release of a 2CD/Bluray digipak titled ‘Genesis Revisited Band & Orchestra: Live at the Royal Festival Hall’ on 25th October 2019 via InsideOutMusic.
The album was recorded on 5 October 2018 at The Royal Festival Hall, London, during the 2018 Genesis Revisited Tour which fulfilled a long held ambition of Steve’s to perform the music of Genesis with a live orchestra.
The concert featured Steve’s regular touring band of Roger King (keyboards), Gary O’Toole (drums/percussion), Rob Townsend (saxes/flutes) with Nad Sylvan on vocals and Jonas Reingold (The Flower Kings) on bass, together with special guests John Hackett and Amanda Lehmann, and augmented by the 41-piece Heart Of England Orchestra conducted by Bradley Thachuk.
Steve commented – “It was a fantastic experience for both the band and myself to play alongside an orchestra and to feel the power of the sound this extraordinary combo created. It sounds equally compelling on both film and audio. I’m proud to release this exciting product.”
The Blu-Ray digipak also includes a behind the scenes documentary plus promotional videos for Under The Eye Of The Sun, Beasts In Our Time and Peace.
Track listing
Set 1: Dance On A Volcano/ Out Of The Body/ The Steppes/ Firth of Fifth/ Dancing With The Moonlit Knight/ Blood On The Rooftops/ Shadow of the Hierophant/ Set 2: In That Quiet Earth/Afterglow/Serpentine Song/El Nino/Supper’s Ready/
Encore: The Musical Box
Steve Hackett’s November UK tour (2-29th) will focus on ‘Selling England By The Pound’ and his solo albums ‘Spectral Mornings’ and the latest, ‘At The Edge Of Light’.
Gig review (October 2018)
Album review (At The Edge Of Light)
Photo: David Randall/GRTR!
Check out forthcoming album/DVD releases here!
Bearded Theory (23-26 May) >> Review
“Welcome aboard the Bearded Theory time machine, where four days last five minutes.”
Camden Rocks (1-2 June) >> Review
“…surely this is the Edinburgh Festival of rock music”
Download (14-15 July) >> Review
“Def Leppard remain masters of the immaculately choreographed show and unlike contemporaries Bon Jovi, have retained just enough of a rock edge for Download to continue to successfully book them as one of the select group of headline worthy acts.”
Cornbury (5-7 July) >> Review
“Cornbury got the little things spot on, be it loos that still have toilet paper on a Sunday or the fact the two main stages have no overlap (bar Sunday’s headliners), so you can maximise your music and get a few healthy steps in between walking to and from the stages.”
Ramblin Man Fair (19-21 July) >> Review
“Everyone around me was smiling and re-inforced the view that this is one of the friendliest of Festivals on the circuit. You don’t always need mean and dirty rock ‘n’ roll moves to make a connection.”
Rewind Scotland (19-21 July) >> Review
“…my wife did find a woman sheltering in the toilets during Leo’s performance as she said he made her feel physically sick! You can’t win them all…he left the stage to the crowd chanting his name and a woman peering around the toilet door checking if the coast was clear.”
Upton Blues Festival (18-21 July) >> Review
“This was a superb introduction to an annual event we’ll be returning to. Arguably better than a Saga cruise, and considerably cheaper.”
Cambridge Folk Festival (1-4 August) >> Review
“Cambridge Folk Festival, you marvellous wonders, thanks to you I have a stack of new CD’s and a new playlist of musical fabulousness. I can’t wait to see what you have in store next year!”
Beautiful Days (16-18 August) >> Review
“A man in a tutu, a bare chested man told to simply stand and flex his muscles, and a man dressed as a cow were chosen from the crowd to jump up on stage and join in with the band’s own capers. I was exhausted and broken before Less Than Jake brought me back from the brink”
Stonedeaf (24 August) >> Review
“Due to naming issues Stonedeaf is to rise again in 2020 as the Stonedead festival but I would take a punt on it being another fantastic day of rock and metal with the PA turned up and the blistering sun turned down a notch!”
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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019
BIGFOOT 6-28 September
ALCATRAZZ (Graham Bonnet) 19 September – 1 October Archive Review
KINGDOM OF MADNESS (Classic Magnum) 4-5 October Archive Review
BLACK STAR RIDERS/Stone Broken/Wayward Sons 10-26 October Archive Review
WISHBONE ASH (pictured) 12 October – 16 November Archive Review
ROYAL REPUBLIC 18 – 31 October
ROBIN TROWER/Livingstone Brown/Sari Schorr 24-29 October Archive Review
MISS VELVET & THE BLUE WOLF with George Clinton – Phat Blunt
EXCLUSIVE! Watch this mini-movie collaboration between New York’s Miss Velvet & The Blue Wolf and Parliament/Funkadelic legend George Clinton.
The album – Feed The Wolf – is released via Isotopia Records (23 August).
PHIL CAMPBELL These Old Boots
Following two very successful releases with PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS legendary long-time MOTÖRHEAD guitarist Phil Campbell has finalized work on his first-ever solo record, ‘Old Lions Still Roar’, which is scheduled for release on October 25 via Nuclear Blast.
The first single – ‘These Old Boots’ – features Dee Snider, Mick Mars and Chris Fehn whilst the rest of the album will include guest appearances by Rob Halford and Alice Cooper among many others.
PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS live dates:
23.08. B Liège – Golden Age Rock Festival
24.08. UK Newark – Stonedeaf Festival
31.08. UK Durham – Stormin The Castle !!!NEW!!!
07.09. AT Wels – Trabrennbahn BÖHSE ONKELZ Open Air !!!NEW!!!
13.09. D Altenbergen – Rock N Revel
14.09. D Bochum – Rockpalast !!!NEW!!!
15.09. F Raismes – Raismes Fest
16.09. B Leuven – Het Depot (w/ GLENN HUGHES)
18.09. F Boisseuil – Espace Culturel du Crouzy
20.09. CH Aarau – KIFF
21.09. D Neuenstadt am Kocher – Stadthalle (w/ NITROGODS)
22.09. F Strasbourg – La Maison Bleue
24.09. F Nantes – Le Ferrailleur
25.09. F Bordeaux – Rock School Barbey
26.09. F Alencon – La Luciole
27.09. F Paris – Café de la Danse
28.09. F Le Havre – Magic Mirrors
13. – 18.10. USA Los Angeles, CA – MegaCruise
w/ KING CREATURE
29.10. UK Stoke – The Sugarmill
30.10. UK Glasgow – Classic Grand
01.11. UK Manchester – Rebellion
02.11. UK London – The Dome
03.11. UK Norwich – Epic Studios
04.11. UK Nottingham – Rescue Rooms
06.11. UK Southampton – Engine Rooms
07.11. UK Wolverhampton – KK’s Steel Mill
08.11. UK Exeter – Phoenix
09.11. UK Cardiff – Tramshed
w/ LEADER OF DOWN
29.11. D Cologne – Gebäude 9
30.11. D Hamburg – Logo
01.12. D Berlin – Bi Nuu
02.12. D Nuremberg – Hirsch
04.12. D Dresden – Beatpol
05.12. D Munich – Backstage (Halle)
06.12. D Frankfurt – Das Bett
07.12. D Oberhausen – Nikolaut Winterfestival
Throughout September 2018 Get Ready to ROCK! Radio celebrated the station’s 10th anniversary and a two-hour special reflected a decade of broadcasting. “10 years in the making” features archive interviews with Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Todd Rundgren, Graham Bonnet, David Coverdale, John Wetton and Bob Catley.
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