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JLT, Whitesnake at Magic Circle Festival

Joe Lynn Turner with Brazen Abbot and Whitesnake are to appear at the Magic Circle Festival in Germany this summer. It’s a heavy metal festival that will take place on July 9-12 in Bad Arolsen. The exact schedule is not announced […]

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Summer tour of Europe confirmed!

All European tourdates that we had posted for the summer are now officially confirmed. In addition to that, Montreux is confirmed for the closing day of the festival — July 19, plus a couple of French festivals and one in […]

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Fall tour of Germany

Talk about hard touring band…

We’ve just received tour dates for the October/November Deep Purple tour of Germany. These are preliminary dates, they come from the site of promoter Klaus Bönisch, and at this point are very unconfirmed and subject to change. […]

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Nice one - Rostock

We were so glad to see Deep Purple live again. We wish they played more ROTD songs, but the gig was awesome as usual.

Ian looked so nice in his white shirt and blue jeans. We wonder why he doesn’t […]

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Piano man in Osnabrück

Last night in Osnabrück I managed to witness the most interesting Purple gig I’ve ever seen. During the second song (Things I never said) Don´s - or better still Jon´s old - Hammond stopped working, also the keyboard on top […]

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Stainless in Ferropolis

The boys were back in town, or better said - in the city of the future as Gillan ironically described the venue during the show. However, reframed by the giant excavators from past times the band was in absolutely brilliant […]

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Spoiled by previous experience - Gefrath

After I have seen a lot of DP shows over the last 21 years, DP visited a small town very close to my hometown - I could go there by bike!

Only a few words on Alice Cooper - his […]

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Sweet fifteen at Nürnberg

Actually, it wasn’t my idea to write a review of Deep Purple’s concert. It was my Dad’s. In his opinion it was a ‘progressive rock show’ and I want to add it was fabulous, because I’m not good at using […]

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Pictures of - Mannheim

Andi Thul’s excellent shots of Alice C. and the Purple boys.

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Lost socks in Munich

After the Rocky Alice Cooper Horror Show we had to wait a little while. The tension was high.

And then… They started and the sold out Olympiahalle exploded. A few bars of Pictures of Home and we were immediately in. […]

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