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Just a quick public service announcement that Don Airey Band starts European tour tomorrow, March 11. If you’re in the neighbourhood — go and see them. The venues are intimate, the tickets are not that expensive, the musicians are top notch, and they are playing the music we all love. Just go. A snippet from […]
Read more »Swiss magazine Tracks has a cover story on the new Deep Purple album in its 2017 issue #2. A 6 page story inside includes an interview with Roger Glover, from where we present you with selected quotes. Usual caveats about reverse translation apply. On Johnny’s Band lyrics: It is not about a particular band. It […]
Read more »Take a break from all the promotional hoopla surrounding the impending release of the new album, and watch some random dude listening to Deep Purple (Child in Time from Granada TV, no less) for the very first time in his life. It’s good for a chuckle or three on that lazy Sunday afternoon. Bonus hot […]
Read more »Craig Hooper, the filmmaker behind the From Here to inFinite documentary, was profiled in his local Welsh paper. This is not his first collaboration with Purple folk — he was also responsible for the 2003 Roger Glover documentary made for ITV Wales and produced the DVD that accompanied Gillan’s Inn career retrospective in 2006. His […]
Read more »April 2017 issue of the Classic Rock magazine (now on sale in the UK) has Deep Purple on the cover, a 10-page feature Love, Death, Age: Inside the Unstoppable Deep Purple inside, plus a 7/10 review of the new album inFinite, and four pages review of Glenn Hughes’ Islington gig from January 21 this year. […]
Read more »Rainbow Memories in Rock — Live in Germany has won a Japan Gold Disc Award 2017 under the category of Best Music Videos — Overseas Music (foreign bands/labels). Despite the name, this award is more like American Grammies, as it is awarded for the best performance in a given year, as opposed to a certain […]
Read more »Two more tracks from the upcoming Deep Purple albums inFinite have been published. We don’t have the means to embed them here, so here are the instruction on how you can listen. All I Got Is You: go to bcfmradio.com/andyfox, click on ’21:00 – 02/03/2017′ (third link in the Recent Broadcasts list), and skip to […]
Read more »MetalTalk spoke to Roger Glover earlier today, March 1, “to find out more about the current ethos of the band, the inspiration for the new suite of songs as well as hopes and fears for the future”:
Read more »Documentary on the making of the new album Deep Purple: From Here To Infinity will be shown on British cable/satellite channel Sky Arts HD on Saturday, 11th March. It’s on at 9pm, with Classic Albums: Machine Head starting at 8pm, and Perfect Strangers Live following at 11pm.
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