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Pictures from Scandinavia

Two of our old friends — Trond Strøm and Christer Lorichs — have published some great pictures from the recent Scandinavian shows: Oslo Spektrum, February 4, 2014 Cloetta Center, Linköping, February 10, 2014 Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the info.

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February in Scandinavia

Undoubtedly riding on the success of the 2012 Freeze Yer Ass Canadian tour, the band will commence 2014 touring in February in Scandinavia. 3 4 dates have surfaced so far: February 4 in Oslo, 5th in Bergen, 6th in Stavanger (very unconfirmed), and 11th in Copenhagen. Tickets for Oslo, Bergen and Copenhagen will go on […]

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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 of the pond, Over The Rainbow will start a 2-month trek in early September […]

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OTR at Sweden Rock

One of the biggest and most prestigious rock festivals in Europe — Sweden Rock Festival — has booked Over The Rainbow to play at the festival this year. The exact date has not been released yet. Sweden Rock 2009 will run June 3rd to 6th at their usual location near Solvesborg in Sweden. Thanks to […]

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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 Paris, followed by arenas in Barcelona and Madrid. Then off until the British dates in […]

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Scandinavian dates confirmed

All the Scandinavian dates that we had listed in our tour dates calendar for a while now are also confirmed. One more date was added: Meri Päivät (Sea Days) Festival in Kotka, Finland on July 17. (I know, technically Finland is not Scandinavia, but let’s not raise a fuss about it, shall we? 😉 )

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Summer tour shaping up

Although there has been no word yet from Thames Talent, it looks like the summer Deep Purple tour is shaping up. New tour dates are being announced by the local media and are trickling in almost on a daily basis. For some of these, tickets are already on sale or going on sale shortly. So […]

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Valentines and midnight sun

The proverbial Purple touring juggernaut shows no signs of slowing down. We have received two festival appearances for 2009. Neither of them have been confirmed by the band’s management yet. Proceed at your own risk. 😉 Valentine’s Day will be spent in Argentina, where the band will be headlinining Cosquin Rock festival held annually in […]

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Notes from the road

In his latest installment of Notes from the road Steve Morse talks about his pet peeve — air travel, reminisces on the last tour leg, and touches on the topic that stirred so much controversy in THS comments: Afterward, I was upset to learn that some bloggers had chosen to politicize, or criticise the band’s […]

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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 Belgium. See them all in your tour dates list (and to all of you who […]

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