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June 25
Nicko McBrain's Purple experience
The drummer, Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden) went to see Deep Purple's concert in Birmingham 3 days ago. Here is what he had to say about it: 
"I had 5 tickets to go see Deep Purple. I took Steve and Jan and Mark White and his lovely wife Debbie. The band was on fire. I love these guys they are so ‘Kin tight its great. Ian Gillan was in fine voice and Steve Morse's guitar work was on splendid form. Don Airey did a fantastic keyboard solo that you would have to go a ‘Kin long way to better. He is awesome. Roger Glover was stunning as usual and along with the heartbeat was me lovely pal Ian Paice. He’s always on top of the game. I love watching him play. He has a great and unique style when he plays. He makes it look so effortless. I love him. God Blessed you mate!"
Read Nicko's full letter.
Thanks to www.ironmaiden.com for the information.

June 24
Steve Morse about Bananas
Steve Morse wrote a letter in the middle of the European tour. Here is a few bits:

"Our new Deep Purple album is due out sometime in August, so there is already getting to be some reviewers involved. The initial impressions are very positive, so that's looking like a good thing." 

"Actually, it was just a funny reaction that Ian Gillan had when Don and I played this intense instrumental exchange on the song of that same name. Imagine a very proper English accent saying "that sound like you've gone bananas" or something to that effect."

"By the way, Roger says the title came from a National Geographic type photo he pointed out to Ian that showed a skinny guy driving a bicycle loaded down with hundreds of bananas.....to which Ian replied, "That's brilliant!""

Read Steve's full letter.
Thanks to www.stevemorse.com for the information.

June 24
Interview with Roger Glover
The July/August issue (Nr: 6) of the Swedish guitar magazine, Fuzz, have a 3-page interview with Roger Glover.

June 21
Last Concert In Paris
The last Deep Purple Mk III (Blackmore, Coverdale, Hughes, Lord and Paice) concert in Paris April 7, 1975 will be released on a double CD later this year. The track list will be: Burn, Stormbringer, The Gypsy, Lady Double Dealer, Mistreated, Smoke On The Water, You Fool No One, Space Truckin', Going Down and Highway Star. The CD will be released in August/September on Purple Records in Europe and VAP/Purple in Japan. A box will also probably be released in the end of the year with the last three Mk III concert, Graz, Saarbrucken and Paris.
Thanks to Purple Records for the information.

June 21
New Compilation
EMI in Finland has released a new compilation with Deep Purple which is called "Purple Hits". It's a double CD and include songs from 1968 to 1998.
Thanks to Denis Zürcher for the information.

June 19
Bananas Sleeve
HMV Japan did publish something which looked like a possible album sleeve

June 19
New project with Steve & Jon
Mick Box (of Uriah Heep) says, a new CD is currently being recorded in Florida, USA, by this lineup: Lee Kerslake - drums, Bob Daisley - bass, Jimmy Barnes- vocals,  Jon Lord - keyboards,  Steve Morse - guitars.
Thanks to Rodrigo Werneck and www.uriah-heep.com for the information

June 13
Tracklist for Bananas
The new Deep Purple album, "Bananas", will feature 12 songs: House of Pain, Sun Goes Down, Haunted, Razzle Dazzle, Silver Tongue, Walk On, Pictures Of Innocence, I've Got Your Number, Never A Word, Bananas, Doing It Tonight, Contact Lost. Read about the new album.
Thanks to Stathis Panagiotopoulos for the information

June 6
New Single
The new single from Deep Purple's upcoming album "Bananas" will be "Haunted", which being played live on the current tour. "Haunted" will be released in August by EMI worldwide. The album's European release date has been set to August 25 by EMI Germany who apparently are so impressed with the album that they are making it a "Priority Release".
Thanks to The Purple Heart and DPAS for the information

June 6
Charity Concert
Don Airey has put together the Gransdens' 10th Anniversary Blues and Soul Charity Concert at Great Gransden Sportsfield, Cambridge, UK on Saturday, July 12. Members from Rainbow, Whitesnake, Moody Marsden, Jamiroquai and Thunder are expected at the show. Read here for more info.
Thanks to The Cambridge News for the information

June 4
Seeing is believing
Italian newspaper Corriere has uploaded a 2:30 minute video segment from the show in Milano of Deep Purple performing Hush. Watch it here. Read the tour reviews
Thanks to Andrea Vellano and "Deep Purple Made In Italy"

June 2
New Bananas!
At the first Deep Purple show in 2003 Ian Gillan revealed the title of the upcoming album to be "Bananas". But before you wonder whether band really has, ahem, gone bananas, there is an explanation to this, which Ian was happy to give Belgian DPAS chairman Marc Brans - read it at the UK DPAS website
The new tour has also revealed two songs from the new album; Haunted, which is described as a slow ballad, and I've Got Your Number, which seems to be an updated version of Up The Wall, which was first premiered on the UK tour in February 2002. The current tour has also seen the introduction of 1971 single b-side I'm Alone to the stage. Read the tour reviews

May 28
Deep Purple with Pavarotti
Deep Purple's  performance at "Pavarotti & Friends" concert, included "Smoke On The Water" and a duet with Pavarotti and Ian Gillan who did Nessun Dorma.

May 26
Deep Purple with Pavarotti on TV
"Pavarotti & Friends", which will include Deep Purple, will be broadcast on Raiuno, Italian TV, May 27. The broadcast will start at 20.40 CET. For more info, please check Raiuno and Pavarotti and Friends.

May 9
Mask, Burn & Mule
Roger Glover had some time off and wrote a letter. Here is a few bits.

About going through some tapes.
"So far we've been working on the Mask album, and in the process did re-mixes of the songs The Mask and Unnatural. I hope in the not to distant future to be able to re-master and re-mix some this album for a release to be available through the web site."

About Burn remaster:
"I have decided not to pursue the Burn remixes." "EMI will be carrying on with its plans but I have no further details to add."

About the gig with Gov't Mule.
"My turn came around 2.00am and the two songs I did, Going Down and Maybe I'm a Leo, were over far too quickly."

Check out the letter.
Thanks to Roger Glover for the information.

May 8
DVD with Don Airey
Don Airey have worked with lot of artists over the years and a DVD is now planned to show some of it.
Thanks to The Purple Heart for the information

May 4
EMI Records will release the new album
Michael Bradford (the producer) says, the new album will be released on EMI Records in August worldwide. The only country which is not confirmed yet is USA.
Thanks to Michael Bradford and Daniel Bengtsson for the information.

May 3
Interview with Roger
There is a new interview with Roger Glover, done by Classic Rock Revisited, where Roger talks about his solo album (Snapshot) and the new Deep Purple album, among other things. Here is a few bits.

"We finished the album, it's being mixed, I've heard some early mixes and I guess there's going to be some more. It won't be out until September, 2003."

"We're going out in June, in Europe. It's really just a stop-gap tour. We're not going to be featuring any new material. We are going to be featuring new material for the audience, but not any new material from the band. We'll be doing some things from the past that we haven't done before."

"The schedule at the moment now looks like we're going to be in Europe all the way up until Christmas. Then, I think we start, in the middle of January, 2004 on a big American tour and not sharing the bill for a change, it'll be our own tour and therefore indoors."

Check out the interview.
Thanks to Classic Rock Revisited and Ruediger Heinzerling for the information.

May 2
Deep Purple with Pavarotti
Deep Purple will once again perform with Pavarotti at the charity show in Modena, Italy. The show will take place May 27 and will also include other artist such as Eric Clapton, Bono and Queen. For more info check Pavarotti and Friends.

May 2
German dates on sales
Deep Purple tickets for German shows in November are on sales. For more info check www.karten-online.de and www.ticketnetz.de.