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A skirling whiff of danger
Deep Purple opened their European leg of the Splat! tour on September 29, 2026, in Sofia, Bulgaria. And there were surprises in the set. Spoilers ahead.
Read more »Archive for September, 2026
Somebody stole his guitar
Steve Morse sat down to chat with Guitar World at the last NAMM, which was held in January 2026. They teased the interview in May, promising to publish it in full “in the near future”. After the appropriate period of gestation, the future is apparently now. Here Steve shows not only that he can play […]
Read more »Thunder in my brain
Several video clips have been posted over the last few days on the Ritchie Blackmore Official youtube channel, some of those known better than the others.
Read more »King Arthur, followed by Motörhead
Gillan has also recently appeared on The Strange Brew Podcast. In the fairly short (for these days) interview, a lot of ground has been covered — from his upcoming Talking Gib’rish tour to the Javelins, and many things in between.
Read more »These are not the same guys
Yesterday, September 25, 2026, Ian Gillan has his ‘Mr. Grover, Mr. Gillian’ moment on the national TV in UK. He appeared for a brief interview on the prime time news program. We’ll try to forgive them, for they obviously don’t know what they are doing (and, as per bloody usual, sound like strapped for time). […]
Read more »Benz on the highway
Europe teamed up with fellow Swede Erik Grönwall to play a song we all know on Swedish TV: The performance is from a long running Swedish quiz show where Europe acts as the house band for the first three episodes of the season. The question for this musical segment was of course which artists made […]
Read more »Blame it on the cat
Ritchie Blackmore was interviewed by Phil Aston for the Now Spinning Magazine podcast. In this the first episode of what is promised to be a 13-part series, no less, Ritchie talks about his recent guest appearance on stage with Deep Purple.
Read more »We all came out to college
Sometimes Deep Purple related news come when you least expect it. I was browsing the conference schedule for a pro audio-video tradeshow taking place in Stockholm in early October. Kicking off the proceedings is a talk called, “Smoke on the Water – the story behind a rock classic“. A kind of odd topic where the […]
Read more »Self-described as underrated
Greek blog Rock Overdose publishes an interview with Joe Lynn Turner done on the occasion of him apparently playing some dates in the country (his own website is conspicuously mum about it). Rock Overdose: Speaking of Ritchie Blackmore, you know him better than most people. What do you think would have to happen for Ritchie […]
Read more »What happened at the bar?
Deep Purple are resuming the Splat! tour on September 29 in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Ian Gillan spoke to an outfit from that country called Z-Rock. We talk about Deep Purple’s new music, inspiration, and the secret behind creating songs that continue to find new fans generations later. Ian Gillan also looks back at some of […]
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