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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.

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Jon Lord announces Russian concerts

On his official website, JonLord.org, the maestro has confirmed three concerts for October.

The dates and cities are:

Oct 9 - Yekaterinburg, Russia - tickets
Oct 12 - St. Petersburg, Russia - tickets
Oct 15 - Moscow, Russia - tickets

At the concerts […]

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Deep Purple fined in Russia

A Russian court has fined Deep Purple for “illegally” performing their own songs, according to russiatoday.com.

The concert in question took place on October 19, 2008 in Russia’s southern city of Rostov-on-Don.
According to the court’s ruling, the musicians – […]

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Gillan and the human nature

On arrival for the brief visit to Moscow, an extremely tired and jetlagged Big Ian gave an interview on April 17 to Nevsky Express TV. Here are the excerpts from his stream of consciousness on his solo album, quantum theory, religion […]

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Easter in Moscow

It is Easter weekend in Russia and Moscow fans are celebrating it at the B1 club, where Deep Purple are playing two gig in a setting unusually intimate for a Purple gig in that country. The two setlist surprises on […]

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Less talk, more drumming

Russian web site DrumSpeech.com has posted more footage of Paicey’s drum clinic in Moscow from February 7.

Thanks to bloodsucker from the deep-purple.ru forum for the info.

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Paicey on Russian TV

Back in early February, Ian Paice flew to Moscow to do a drum clinic. A TV crew was present at the event and the footage have appeared on Russian national TV. Recording of this was recently uploaded to YouTube.

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The World As We Love It

Almost a year ago Russian band Pushking started working on their new album called The World As We Love It (working title: Pushking Duets). The goal of the project appears to be essentially similar to Gillan’s Inn — re-record an album […]

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Street of Dreams in St.Petersburg

Nevsky Express TV has published a live video of Street of Dreams from the recent Over The Rainbow gig in St.Petersburg, Russia. The video is rather high quality and appears to be shot with two professional cameras. You can watch […]

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Moscow girls sing and shout

This April Deep Purple are going to make a stop in Moscow on the way from Japan to Poland. Today Russian promoters SAV Entertainment have confirmed that the band will play two gigs at the Club B1 Maximum on April […]

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