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Nice evening in Pistoia

The ones I remember:

Pictures of Home (with a bit of Child In Time)
Things I Never Said
Into the Fire
Strange Kind of Woman (with duet between Ian & Steve)
Rapture of the Deep
Demon\’s Eye (nice replacement)
Contact […]

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Paicey on the rocks!

Introduced by one of the most boring shows I’ve ever seen (by Andy Timmons), the guys hit the stage at about 22.20 P.M. Not so good in the beginning, the P.A. balancing got o.k. very quickly.

Every one seemed in […]

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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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Contributors

Name: Hanako Akasaka

Email: hana_ko875@mail.goo.ne.jp

What: When Hanako isn’t doing translations for our Japanese edition, she is either constructing wickedly devious puzzles or those cuddly amigurumi dolls (Beanie Babies, watch out!!).


Name: Brian Currin

Email: brian.currin@new.co.za

What: Brian is an inveterate and painstaking catalogist, based out […]

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Varese: Same same and fantastic

The ’same’ great show.

The audience was hot, the music was loud and powerful, the band was OK. They can play everything.

Very good the four-tracks-four beginning. Mary Long, Perfect Strangers and Smoke (after 1.223 times) are always a pleasure. […]

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Varese loose my strings

What a show! Highest point over all: Loosen my strings! Finally the band follow the fan request: we want more Morse-era Purple songs!

The lowest point: The battles rages on: could be erased without problem.

The show was not very […]

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Loose in Varese

Setlist:
Pictures of home
Things I’ve never said
Into the fire
Strange Kind of woman
Rapture of the Deep
Mary Long
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Contact Lost
guitar solo - Guitar Parade
Well Dressed Guitar
The Battle Rages On
Lazy
Loosen […]

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The battle rages on in Italy

Deep Purple played a sold out gig on March 7th at Palaraschi in Parma, Italy, in front of almost 4.000 people.

The setlist was exactly this one:

Intro
Pictures of Home
Things I Never Said
The Battle Rages on (they played it during […]

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Pictures of Milano

I came from Livorno (Tuscany) all alone to see the guys and their show and I am sure I have done the right thing!

Some people say “Deep Purple are old.” Bullshits! This was my first Deep Purple live experience […]

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Another last show - Milano

Since 1999 I’ve been going to D.P. concerts thinking “I must go because this is the last tour.”

In Milano I was really really surprised by Purple. A few words about the setlist: the fact is not the songs and […]

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