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Monster Truck for European tour support

Canadian band Monster Truck will be supporting Deep Purple on their European tour from the beginning through to the Stuttgart gig on June 14. This combination are no strangers to each other as Monster Truck already have played support slot on the Canadian tour in 2012. Since then the neo-“classic rock”-sounding band have released a […]

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Rival Sons to support Purple

California band Rival Sons will be supporting Deep Purple on all dates of the European tour this Fall. In my opinion, this is a rather welcome addition to the bill. I’ve seen Rival Sons at a small club in my home town last year and the band’s music has a definitive vintage hard rock vibe […]

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California Breed add US dates

California Breed has added a string of dates in the US starting October 7 in Bethlehem, PA, and finishing on the 26th in LA. This side of the pond they will be supporting Alter Bridge. Tickets for most shows go on sale July 18. Full details in our calendar. Thanks to Daniel Bengtsson for the […]

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Truth is stranger than fiction

Still fresh from disturbing the priest, Deep Purple gained another unusual support act for September 9 performance in Tel Aviv, Israel — a Spinal Tap-ish muppet outfit called Red Band, which is a regular on local TV: Throw into a blender the puppet mastery of The Muppets, the satirical insight of classic Christopher Guest music […]

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