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Whitesnake will not tour with Led Zep

A few days ago a rumour originated in British tabloid Daily Mirror about Whitesnake as a support act on Led Zeppelin’s alledged world tour:

A long-time pal, Whitesnake’s frontman David Coverdale, said yesterday the tour was “very likely” and he was […]

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Monsters of Rock 2008

Deep Purple will headline the Monsters of Rock festival on July 11, 2008 in Zaragoza, Spain. Other bands on the bill include Twisted Sister, Ted Nugent, Saxon, Thin Lizzy, Pretty Maids, Candlemass and Rage.

The band is announced to return to […]

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JLT, Whitesnake at Magic Circle Festival

Joe Lynn Turner with Brazen Abbot and Whitesnake are to appear at the Magic Circle Festival in Germany this summer. It’s a heavy metal festival that will take place on July 9-12 in Bad Arolsen. The exact schedule is not announced […]

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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 […]

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From Atlantic to Pacific and back

The recent Deep Purple’s visit to Moscow was not all glitz, glamour and rubbing shoulders with rich and powerful. Russian promoters SAV Entertainment and Russkij Show Center have announced that during the band’s visit they have “reached an agreement” for another […]

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Fall tour of Germany

Talk about hard touring band…

We’ve just received tour dates for the October/November Deep Purple tour of Germany. These are preliminary dates, they come from the site of promoter Klaus Bönisch, and at this point are very unconfirmed and subject to change. […]

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Montreux 2008

The 42nd Montreux Jazz Festival will be held on July 4-19 this year. Deep Puple are included in the preliminary festival program announced a couple of weeks ago. The program should be finalized by April 17th.

Our boys established a good […]

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Nobody’s gonna take my car

Deep Purple are confirmed to play in London, UK on July 30 at the ExCeL. This is the venue for the British International Motor Show. Tickets can be ordered at www.seetickets.com and concert tickets include admission to the motor show during […]

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Win ticket to Classic Rocknacht

German Internet radio station Statusquorokt will have a Deep Purple special on the show on February 23. They are running a contest online with 3 questions that should not be very difficult for majority of our readers:

  1. which Status Quo song was produced […]
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Latin American tour confirmed!

More Latin American dates were announced recently on deeppurple.com. All the dates we have posted previously from other sources are now officially confirmed. Mexico, Ecuador and Chile are on the list as well.

Meanwhile, European dates for the summer keep […]

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