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 […]
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Posted in 2010-2011 Tours by Fungus Gil on 2010-07-31
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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 […]
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Posted in 2010-2011 Tours by Dereck on 2010-07-13
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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 […]
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Posted in News by Nick Soveiko on 2010-06-17
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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 […]
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Posted in 2010-2011 Tours, Blog by Nick Soveiko on 2010-06-05
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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 […]
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Posted in 2010-2011 Tours by Nick Soveiko on 2010-06-04
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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
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Posted in News by Nick Soveiko on 2010-01-20
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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 […]
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Posted in News by Nick Soveiko on 2009-12-18
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Name: Hanako Akasaka
Email: hana_ko875@mail.goo.ne.jp
What: When Hanako isn’t doing translations for our Japanese edition, she is either constructing wickedly devious puzzles or those cuddly amigurumi dolls (Beanie Babies, watch out!!).
Name: Brian Currin
Email: brian.currin@new.co.za
What: Brian is an inveterate and painstaking catalogist, based out […]
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Posted in Blog by admin on 2008-02-11
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