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See and read The Sunflower Jam

Deep Purple’s appearance at The Sunflower Jam turned into a very different show, high on improvisation and special guests.

Introduced by Yes’ Rick Wakeman, Deep Purple got under way with Pictures of Home and a pumping start.

- That’s Johnny […]

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Hypnotised in Israel

I wanted to share with you an incredible experience from last week’s DP gig in Caesarea Israel. Excluding the incredible venue - a real Roman Amphitheatre aged 2000 years - in front of the Mediterranean and with splendid acoustics, I […]

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They all came out to Scandinavia …

My friend, Dave, and I attended the shows in Copenhagen, Linköping, Tallinn, and Riga, amid a Scandinavian adventure that included a stop in a remote struggling fishing village at the northeast tip of the European continent. All of the shows […]

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Review from an old and devoted fan

I attended the gig in Copenhagen with a VIP-ticket.

Very excited to see the backstage and meet DP. At 6 PM I met other VIP-fans and this was very fine to talk to other big fans of DP. We got […]

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Norway-Montreux 1-0

A great, fantastic show really from Deep Purple at the Steinkjer festival 120 km north of Trondheim.

They started at 22.00 hrs sharply, and since the nights here in mid-Norway now are becoming darker again, the light show really came […]

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Copenhagen: The business - and pleasure

I guess we get the best of both worlds on the current DP tour. The energy level is high and the setlist is interesting enough to enjoy even after 40 years(!). In Copenhagen we got the kind of show we […]

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Pleased in Linköping

When Purple began they started with Fireball. I was surprised over the setlist. They had changed a lot compared to earlier shows.

There were some good surprises for me. One was Wring that neck. One of my favorite tracks and […]

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Deep Purple storms Kuopio (aka My best Purple gig)

I’ve seen the boys six times now, and this one was the best out of those, and one of the best gigs I’ve ever seen.

The band was on fire, the jamming just flowed, every one of them seemed to […]

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Siegen celebrates 40 years of Purple

As Deep Purple quite obviously prefer stages around the globe to studios, the fact that the British hard rockers are on tour is not exactly headline news. The “new” album “Rapture of the Deep” dates back to 2005 and was […]

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Odense beats Copenhagen

I just got back from Odense, from my second concert with DP in a week.

The first one was on Wednesday in Copenhagen, and I have to say Odense was the best one - a better sound, Ian Gillan sounded […]

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