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This is a combined review of 3 concerts. It’s my 40th Anniversary … of following Deep Purple’s music. This came to mind during the 3 concerts I attended recently – 28th May at The Dome, Johannesburg; 30th May at the ICC Arena, Durban; & 1st June at the Grand West Arena, Cape Town. Bernie Shaw, […]
Read more »Deep Purple make a long overdue return to South Africa after a 15 year break. They were last here in March 1995 just before the release of Perpendicular. The concert was kicked off by Wishbone Ash and Uriah Heep doing short sets before Purple hit the stage at approx 10pm. Having last seen them live […]
Read more »At the end of the first leg of this year’s tour, Steve Morse sends us his update from the road: This tour has been going amazingly well. I am consistently surprised at how many places we find young people mixed with older in the audience. If we keep going, it maybe possible to meet a […]
Read more »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 so small that it is unreadable and I can’t change it as the […]
Read more »Our long time reader and contributor Brian Currin has pictures (more here) and setlist from the show on June 1 in Cape Town: Highway Star Things I Never Said Strange Kind Of Woman Maybe I’m a Leo Rapture Of The Deep Fireball (including Into The Fire riff at end) Contact Lost Guitar Solo Sometimes I […]
Read more »A bunch of tourdates that we had listed for a while, as well as a couple of new ones, have just appeared on the official Deep Purple site and as so are now confirmed. That includes all the Australian dates Singapore and Hong Kong (but not Taiwan) Armenia two of the South African dates (but […]
Read more »It looks like the long dry spell for the South African fans is coming to an end. Three concerts were announced in that country for 2010: Johannesburg, Friday May 28, Coca-Cola Dome Durban, Sunday May 30, ICC Arena Cape Town, Tuesday June 1, Grand Arena at GrandWest Casino The shows are being billed as the […]
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