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Jon Lord back at Trondheim’s cathedral

What can be said that has not been said already about Jon Lord and his music, his performing and his dedication to his work and to the people he teams up with?

Jon Lord & the Lord Chamber Orchestra with […]

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Touring update

Here is a summary of the recent developments on the touring fronts of Purple family.

Deep Purple’s appearance at a Russian festival on June 12 has now been confirmed. They have also a new Italian open air tour pencilled in for […]

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Rock solid in Oslo

Good concert, no low points, some averages and mostly highs.

Steve and Roger in a playful mood, and Don was really showing off during the whole concert. Some interplay sections with Steve was excellent. Some particular nice bass solos from […]

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Glenn Hughes’ Norwegian Mark 3/4

Glenn Hughes and Come Taste The Band.
Restaurant Løa, Vennesla, Norway, July 24th 2009.

Glenn Hughes and the Norwegian tribute band “Come Taste the Band”, delivered to expectations at Restaurant Løa, when they performed their tribute show; “An Evening of […]

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Glenn Hughes visits a Norwegian fjord

Glenn Hughes, Rock Tent, Karmoy, Haugesund, Norway.
July 30 2009.

Glenn Hughes from Trapeze, Deep Purple Mark III and IV, Black Sabbath and solo playing at the island Karmoy near my home town Haugesund (south west in Norway), its just […]

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Glenn Hughes at Norwegian Purple tribute

Glenn Hughes played a Deep Purple set with the boys from Norwegian tribute band ‘Come Taste The Band’.

Glenn was in excellent shape and in good humour. I have seen this band a couple of times before, and they are […]

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Decent show under the midnight sun

Lakselv, Northern Norway

The set list was the same as Copenhagen, but without “Wrong man”.

Paice is brilliant. Keeps the whole thing together with Glover, but no drum solo this night. Morse was also good, but no surprises for the […]

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Coverdale inteviewed in Norway

As the Whitesnake’s 2009 tour kicked off in Norway, the local public broadcaster NRK has published an interview they did with David Coverdale:

OSE: On our weekly radio show «Radio Rock», the one song by Deep Purple people want to […]

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Snakes and sheds

The North American tour of corporate sheds on both coasts and open air festivals in the Midwest will start on June 26 and work it’s way around the continent until August 11. Please note that the North American dates (nor the new Danish show) have not been confirmed on Whitesnake.com.

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More European dates confirmed

We have a whole lot of new and confirmed European tour dates. Deep Purple’s itinerary now looks like this: end of August / Early September they play a couple of open air festivals in Switzerland, then Fête de l’Humanité near […]

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