As the Canadian tour approaches, musician’s profiles and interviews start appearing in local media.

Niagara This Week has Steve Morse’s profile titled The Morse Code.

London Free Press (that’s London, Ontario) has a rather interesting interview with Ian Paice where […]

The five summer dates — two in Italy, one in Poland and two in Germany — that we mentioned as contradicting with the band’s summer studio plans are now listed on the ticket vendors’ sites either as cancelled or postponed until […]

A rather cryptic message from the band has appeared on the official site:

DEEP PURPLE are very excited by the prospect of making a new and significant album. To that end they have decided to extend their writing and recording […]

The show at the Moncton Casino, Canada, on February 6 is nearly sold out (there’s literally a handful of seats left) and due to the overwhelming demand a second show in Moncton has been added on February 4. Tickets for […]

Unfortunately, the Corner Brook show on February 3 has been cancelled. No explanation is given for the cancellation. The promoter Paul Merc Concerts informs that tickets will be refunded at the Pepsi Centre box office.

Corner Brook is a remote community (population […]

The Classic Rock Roll of Honour ceremony that was held early November in London will be shown on Sky Arts TV channel in the UK. The broadcast is scheduled on Boxing Day, December 26 at 1:00 pm with repeat on […]

The long awaited biography of former Deep Purple and Rainbow tour manager Colin Hart finally dropped onto my doorstep the other day. Although very much looking forward to it, I was however slightly nervous as to the content.
After all, […]

A well written review, in which the author goes to see the Purple show a tad sceptical, but comes out totally enthusiastic.

If anyone tells you that Deep Purple’s Concerto for Group and Orchestra (1969) wasn’t a masterpiece then they’re […]

Canadian tour dates in February 2012 have all been confirmed without any changes to the previously posted. Tickets for the most shows go on sale to general public this Saturday, December 3, with presales (where available) starting on December 1. […]

It is our understanding that the Canadian dates in February that we posted on Thursday are very much preliminary despite that at the time of publication they were appearing on both official sites. As of now they are still unconfirmed. Do […]