As the Canadian tour approaches, musician’s profiles and interviews start appearing in local media.

Niagara This Week has Steve Morse’s profile titled The Morse Code.

London Free Press (that’s London, Ontario) has a rather interesting interview with Ian Paice where […]

A well written review, in which the author goes to see the Purple show a tad sceptical, but comes out totally enthusiastic.

If anyone tells you that Deep Purple’s Concerto for Group and Orchestra (1969) wasn’t a masterpiece then they’re […]

As we’ve reported previously, this past Friday, July 15, Jon Lord was awarded a honorary Doctor of Music degree by his home town’s University of Leicester. Local press covers the event; Leicester Mercury writes:

Archbishop Desmond Tutu was in Leicester on […]

Houston Press has a rather favourable review of the recently released Phoenix Rising:

Phoenix Rising details the “untold story” of DP Mk IV, first with Deep Purple Rises Over Japan. The 30-minute concert film, originally shot for movie theaters but not […]

The latest issue (No. 6/2011) of Teraz Rock, a Polish hard rock magazine, has just appeared and contains lots of Purple related stuff:

• It’s the 100th anniversary issue of the magazine, and it publishes a list of 100 the greatest […]

Online portal Entertainment Africa has a rather interesting review of the show in Johannesburg written from a prospective of a mainstream rock fan apparently of a younger generation.

Since the site is barely usable (for starters, the font on my screen is […]

As the band is back on the road in Australia, Brisbane Times has a rather favourable review of the opening night at the Convention & Exhibition Centre, giving it 4 stars out of 5:

While it’s clear the band, especially Gillan, […]

Birmingham show on November 13th received quite a favourable coverage in the local press.

Debbie Bennett writes in the Express & Star:

…On the third night of the band’s UK tour, 64-year-old barefoot frontman Ian Gillan belted out hits and rarities […]

In the anticipation of the Birmingham and London dates, Times Online has published a brilliantly eloquent piece on Deep Purple that surely will resonate in one a many hearts:

The exact date has long been wiped from the memory’s hard […]

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 […]