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Paicey at the Stazione Birra

On September 4 Ian Paice played another gig in Italy that for some reason went completely under our radar. He performed at a Roman club called Stazione Birra with a tribute band Hush. Keyboard player Gianluca Stabbi (from the Ranfa […]

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Blackmore’s Night and OTR announce new tours

Blackmore’s Night management has announced a new United States tour. We have 4 confirmed dates in October with tickets being on sale since yesterday, August 13, and by all accounts going fast. More dates are being promised.

On the other side […]

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Italian tickets go on sale

TicketOne.it has announced five December dates in Italy:

Dec 10: Palaonda, Bolzano
Dec 12: PalaLottomatica, Rome
Dec 14: PalaEvangelisti, Perugia
Dec 15: Paladozza, Bologna
Dec 16: Mediolanum Forum, Milan

As far as we can understand the original announcement, tickets go […]

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Deep Purple Italia in Rolling Stone

Italian Deep Purple official fanclub and online community Deep Purple Italia is one of the six Italian online fan clubs featured in the latest (February 2009) issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, an Italian monthly version of the popular US magazine.

The special […]

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Blackmore’s Night in Brescia and Trento

In Brescia and Trento the man in black was in the mood for some encores. Here are the setlists and a few video clips.

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No encores in Milan

Blackmore’s Night setlist from February 3 in Milan:

God save the keg
Locked within the crystal ball
Queen for a day
Under a violet moon
Streets of London/The times they are a changin’/Soldier of fortune
Durch den wald zum Bachaus […]

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One Eye To Morocco radio premiere

Italian Capital Radio has posted online the Whatever show from January 26 that guested Gillan with what appears to be the world radio premiere of One Eye To Morocco. The show is 53 minutes long, with the interview itself starting […]

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The other eye to Europe

Ian Gillan is doing a media blitz around Europe for his new solo album One Eye To Morocco. Tonight, January 26, he will appear on Capital Radio in Italy. You can listen to it online (if you’re lucky that is, I […]

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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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