Being a Deep Purple fan exposes you to strange things. The band’s headlining gig at the Danish Jelling Music Festival on May 26 is no exception.

The unbelievably unintelligent and overrated underachievers in Bloodhound Gang occupies the main stage before […]

The band entered just before midnight and it seemed they felt a little cold - barefeet and all - but the audience soon compensated for that. It just took the opening song to get the feedback coming from the 20,000 […]

In my previous review of Brussels (Belgium) concert (25 Jan 2006), I said that it was magic. Well, this time in the Lotto Arena of Antwerpen (Belgium) on 18 May 2007, it was super magic.

Last year I was really […]

Not so much a review, but here is the setlist of Hellendoorn:

Intro
Pictures Of Home
Things I Never Said
Into The Fire
Strange Kind Of Woman
Rapture Of The Deep
Fireball
Morsemania’s/Well Dressed Guitar
When A Blind Man Cries […]

At the age of 12, I got the albums 24 Carat, In Rock and Machine Head on vinyl from the guys at my mother’s ballroom dance hall. In the meantime Maiden, Priest and Saxon found their way to the public […]

A day without Deep Purple is a like a day without sunshine

A sunny day in the Antwerp harbour… nice temperature… fantastic day to show off my new Rapture of the Deep T-shirt which I bought at the last gig […]

I have seen DP every time in London since 2002 and this was their best to date.

Highlights were ‘Into the Fire’ and ‘The Battle Rages On’ (the latter so much the better without the dreadfully clunky studio guitar solo). […]

I’ve hesitated over this, since I’m new to rock and my comments get rather abstract, but here’s how it was for me:

Thin Lizzy somehow managed to disappoint despite my lack of expectations. All their energy and talent seem to […]

Just to add my two-pennorth….

Looking at reviews of other gigs each side of Sheffield on 2 May, it sounds like it was a similar set throughout the tour - but so good!

I haven’t seen Purple for about 30 […]

I had been at DP in Bratislava last fall and comparing that gig with last Saturday, I must say that is was pretty much alike.. .just a few changes in the setlist (only Wrong Man from RoTD) with the band […]