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NOW What?! – on the streets now
Vinyl and CD editions of NOW What?! have made it into the eager hands of fans in Århus, Denmark. While the rest of us have our patience tested, here’s photo proof from this morning…
Read more »Archive for April, 2013
Simple is a difficult thing
Roger Glover chatted with Detroit’s radio station 94.7 WCSX about Now what?!, ‘live in the studio’ approach, his songwriting philosophy, and being simple. Listen to it at wcsx.com. Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the info.
Read more »A new start
Mathieu posted this as a comment to Stathis’ review and we thought it deserves to be promoted to a separate post. I was able to hear NOW What?! before the press conference the two Ians gave in Paris two days ago. Let me share my thougts. The first thing that strikes me is I’m unable […]
Read more »Adrenaline Mob — Kill the King
Adrenaline Mob is a project of ex-Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy with Symphony X vocalist Russell Allen. Guitar player Mike Orlando and bassist John Moyer (Disturbed) round up the band. They have released an album of original material last year, followed this March by an EP of covers, with Rainbow’s Kill the King among them:
Read more »They’ve got elephants!
Ian Gillan and Ian Paice did a press conference in Paris on April 18 and ventured pretty far from the beaten track (as far as those promotional interviews go, which often sound like the same canned answers to the same canned questions): A longer video of the press conference (with much worse audio): Thanks to […]
Read more »The Nashville diaries redux
Part 3 of Roger Glover’s diaries covering the vocal sessions in Nashville has been published. OCTOBER 2012 1 Monday Up at dawn trying different lyrics for Weirdistan. In the studio, IG starts A Simple Song and makes good progress, finishing writing as we go. Lunch at a local kebab place makes me ill and although […]
Read more »Down to Montreux
Deep Purple will perform this year at the Montreux Jazz festival on July 19, with tickets going on sale in the morning of April 19. Also appearing on the bill for July 19 is a member of another band intimately connected with this Swiss town — Brian May, with the festival director Mathieu Jaton strongly […]
Read more »Secret balletic past and inhaling with more pathos
Ian Gillan and Ian Paice have appeared on france24.com to promote Now what?!. Get the scoop on Gillan’s secret balletic past and other things at their website (the interview starts about 4:20 into the video). An audio track of the EPK chat that will be included on the DVD of the deluxe edition of the […]
Read more »The fingers write them…
An excerpt from the promotional interview with the band recorded in December 2012. (watch inside)
Read more »Gillan and Paice on BBC Radio 2
Both Ians will be on the BBC Radio 2 show Simon Mayo’s Drivetime on Tuesday, April 23. The show is on the air between 17:00 and 19:00. As a matter of rule, BBC programming is available online from their site for a week after the air date. Thanks to Peter Cross for the info.
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