Before the Purple gig on May 1 in Wroclaw, Steve Morse joined the croud of six thousand other guitar players to set the new world record at the Thanks Jimi Festival. The official tally was 6,346 people playing together Hey […]

A new attempt on the Guitar World Record will happen on the German TV show Fernsehgarten on May 10th. We have covered the previous two records, both set in 2007 and both featuring Smoke On The Water: 1,802 players in […]

The Perfect Strangers of Finland is organizing a second Purple Night, which is now becoming a good tradition. A project called 10 Perfect Women will perform music from Deep Purple, Rainbow and Whitesnake. 10 Perfect Women includes singers Maria Hänninen, Lotta […]

Esquires Club, Bedford, May 3, 2008.

Nick Simper and the Good Old Boys:
I’m Ready, Fool, My Way, Shaky Ground, Sleepwalk, 25 Rock, Somebody to Love, Los Lobos, Come On Everybody, Shaking All Over (encores: Hush, The Good old Boys). […]

More Black Than Purple will be hosting a Purple convention on May 3rd in Bedford, UK:

Wymer UK is pleased to announce a Deep Purple convention celebrating the momentous occasion of forty years since the inception of this classic hard […]

Perfect Strangers of Finland are celebrating their 10th anniversary with a Purple Night party on January 18th at 8pm at the Tavastia Club in Helsinki:

On Friday, 18th of January, 2008, we are celebrating our 10-year old club, and we are […]

Guinness World Records has officially confirmed the new record for the Largest Guitar Ensemble with 1,802 players. The record was set on June 23, 2007 in Leinfelden, Germany (near Stuttgart). That event was organised by Guitar World Record. The previous record of […]

Upcoming gigs by several British tribute bands:

Pure Purple

Sunday 27th May, The Vic Bikers Pub, Coalville
Monday 28th May, Gilberts Bar, 54 Field Street, Willenhall, (On stage 8 to 9pm)
Saturday 2nd June, The Engine, Donisthorpe

Deeply Purple

Saturday 2nd June, […]

The Finnish fans sure know how to party!

Deep Purple play in Helsinki on Wednesday 23rd May. Before the show from 18.00, Crazy Purple of Mika Jarvinen plays DP music at Bruuveri (Fredrikinkatu 63, Kamppi shopping centre).

After the show […]

Last night in Odense, Denmark, Jon Lord witnessed an impressive performance of his piano concerto ‘Boom of the Tingling Strings’ performed by the Odense Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Mann and featuring Nelson Goerner on piano.

The near-sold out concert was a resounding […]