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Not just mad
Deep Purple 2026 tour dates started filtering through some time ago, as you may have surmised from our front page graphics. The summer European tour is whimsically dubbed as Mad in Europe, and there’s a corresponding Mad in Japan tour earlier in the year.
Today another massive European tour has been announced. It starts on September 29 in Sofia, Bulgaria, and wraps up at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, UK, on November 24, and covers 22 countries for a total of 35 shows. Support band is announced as Jayler, with Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth added for the UK shows except London. Tickets for most dates go on sale November 21, 2025, with various presales starting earlier.
Full details in our calendar.
Thanks to Trond Strøm, Ondřej Kubín, Nigel Young, Merlijn Rotte, Thomas, gary carr, Tobias Janaschke, and Ralf Otto for the heads-up.
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Well! I am not mad at all 😃
Just very very happy they return to my miniscule country 😍
November 19th, 2025 at 07:46A little off topic but it is about Rush, so hopefully Svante will let this through. Uwe, so much for Rush being a guys only band. How could I have ever forgotten about Aimee Mann’s vocal appearance on Time Stand Still. The video clip is classic goofy 1980’s MTV era. Karin do NOT listen to this song. It is Geddy on vocals most of the time. At least I did warn you. Cheers. P.S. And in the same issue of Classic Rock an article about Genesis in 1978 luring women to their man cave, so to speak. See Uwe, the progressive rockers know what women want or need.
https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/time-stand-still-and-the-rush-duets-that-got-away
https://www.loudersound.com/features/follow-you-follow-me-genesis
November 19th, 2025 at 08:42Looks very ambitious given the recent comments from IG.
November 19th, 2025 at 10:44@2
😂😂
“Karin do NOT listen to this song.”
– thank you so much!
But you know how women are, don’t you?
The sec I’m told not to listen/read/see etc, of course that’s all I wanna do!
I’m not sure what song it is I’m not supposed to be listening to though 😄
And MacGregor, you know, after being in here more than a year, I’ve toughened quite a bit… (yes, and please don’t tell anyone: I listened to Elvis the other day, without the urge to rip off my ears…. Ok it was another person who played the song, but still: maturing all the time 😉)
Actually I can also listen to all the songs linked in here… and that is quite an accomplishment 😃😅
My your day be filled with sunshine, good coffee and a big smile 😃
November 19th, 2025 at 10:58Okay, so the tickets are now booked for me and my little daughter (22).
I was in Japan in September and saw the Budokan building
https://sites.google.com/view/janbl-in-japan/start
and I’m going there again next year in August/September. It would have been fun if they had played there while I was there.
November 19th, 2025 at 11:31I was afraid they would come to Denmark during the period I’m traveling, but luckily they’re waiting until October (and hopefully they’ll still up to it by then)
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Mad. Tongue in cheek for sure, bud appropriate as well, as hell! The schedule looks ridiculously dense – as for the touring band of four guys closing on (or already at) age of 80. This might have been OK for half of their edge, but now all the travelling will wear them strongly.
I really wonder why they don’t consider more of the residence-like tribe, just like David Gilmour did it last year. They would benefit from the comfort of doing a batch of gigs in one place without the necessity of travelling, which – by their own admission – is now the worst aspect of touring for them. Set up Prague, Munich, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Milan, Paris and London, 3-4 shows interspersed with days off in between in each big city, and it would do your case just fine.
Maybe the new album will be out until this leg of the tour. It still feels like a far stretch this set up schedule, given the recent IG’s health revealments. I hope they live happy and well enough to fulfill it with joy and satisfaction. One last swing.
November 19th, 2025 at 11:35Quite ambitous, isn’t it? Such a dense schedule for the guys, and such big venues. They play open airs in Germany in summer and then again plan to fill Festhalle or Westfalenhalle in autumn? Their last tour wasn’t sold out as I had to experience in Mannheim. However, looking forward to seeing the band.
November 19th, 2025 at 12:22Didn’t big Ian said something like Royal Albert Hall at the end of the tour? Do one concert in RAH to close the circle to 1969, and then call it a day.
Haven’t we learned to don’t believe anything Ian says in interviews? 🙂 He mentioned RAH but the bit about “closing the circle” and “call it a day” I think is an after construction from people wanting it to happen.
Then again, if something like that is planned, it would probably more special than to just stick it to the end of a long tour plan.
November 19th, 2025 at 12:30After the worrying announcements of the last few days… finally… good news..very good
I like the European concert dates,summer 2026 is reserved for World Cup in the USA (after second and third place in the last two world football tournaments, it’s the turn of the Croatian football team to win the World Cup,that’s what 4 million Croats expect, we’re humble people ..haha).
35 concerts in 57 days!!!!!??? , still
Ooh, it’s a killing machine
It’s got everything
Like a driving power….
European tour in 10 and 11 months (I’m reading between the lines) new album coming in late summer or early autumn 2026?
November 19th, 2025 at 12:45With that many dates, looks like this could be their last tour, with health issues and all. Get your tickets never know.
November 19th, 2025 at 12:57The prices for the tickets here in Milan on next october are madly absurd.
November 19th, 2025 at 13:53Digressor MacGregor, in all brevity:
– I was aware of Time Stands Still and of Aimee Mann’s involvement, it’s a nice song, always liked it. But I’m afraid that inviting a woman to sing a few sentences on one song over the course of a multi-decade career does not magically turn Rush into the Mavin Gayes and Barry Whites of Prog Rock nor their music into an ovulation soundtrack. Rush are still and always will be conceptually a musical contraceptive. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be a great band – for men! 😎
– Along with Pink Floyd, Genesis – whether with Peter Gabriel or Phil Collins fronting – were always an exception among the Prog greats of the 70s as regards appreciation by women. Carpet Crawlers (with Phil’s great high harmony vocals to Gabriel’s lead) had women melt long before Follow You Follow Me. Genesis’ early music was complex, but it was always also warm, pastoral and ambient. Both Gabriel and Collins are emotional singers. I even find Phil Collins’ drumming warmer and more organic than, say, Neil Peart’s though both were great drummers.
– But I applaud your valiant and goodhearted attempts to make Prog Rock seem more accomodating to the fairer sex! You’re a true strange meters feminist. 😇
November 19th, 2025 at 14:50@8 Svante, I have a feeling that we’re going to hear the Albert Hall mentioned again soon… 😉
November 19th, 2025 at 19:42That schedule looks pretty well spaced out, as in plenty of gaps between concerts and time off etc. The thing of concern for me looking at it from afar is why do DP keep going back to Germany so often. Look at how many appearances. It is as if they are still trying to convince certain aficionados here that they will eventually get it right one day, just keep on trying until the high expectations and fantasies of some are achieved. Are the German fans that critical? Well, here they can be at times, he he he. Some other countries only get one concert, maybe they don’t have too many wants and desires. Good luck everyone. Cheers.
November 19th, 2025 at 21:30And as usual, we in Australia misses out again. Buhhhhhh.
November 19th, 2025 at 22:43They have included Denmark, Copenhagen, that is ALL that matters for the Deep Purple members and the crew. Can we imagine if they didn’t drop in to The Danes? Cheers.
November 19th, 2025 at 22:44They’re way overdue for a return to Southern California!
November 20th, 2025 at 00:51Right, Copenhagen is one of the nicest Dutch cities, really!
As for some of the more inane comments perlocating from Oceania …
“The thing of concern for me looking at it from afar is why do DP keep going back to Germany so often?”
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/nazipedia/images/c/c1/Wtf_surprise.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160629080755
MacGregor, you cretinous island wombat, ich hau dich!!Bekause vee arrre zere spiritüal höme!
Since 1970 and In Rock
every
regular DP release has been in the German Top 20, CTTB, S&M + the original Concerto (all Top 30) and the restaging of the Concerto in 1999 (Top 40) being the only exceptions.
In Rock, Fireball, Machine Head, Made in Japan, Burn, The Hous of Blue Light, Now What?!, Infinite, Whoosh! and =1 all held the top spot!!!
There have been only two lasting major English influences on Germany worth mentioning:
– as regards the general current layout of our larger cities, world’s first airborne planning & zoning department: the Royal Air Force,
https://64.media.tumblr.com/f0be85b086cae2cbfef2c50cda3efe62/tumblr_naengwVwGi1sfslmbo2_r1_400.gif
– as regards Hard Rock: Deep Purple!!!
You name me one other country where the Minister of Defense (caught cheating with his PhD!) was bid farewell with a Grand Military Tattoo playing SOTW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzkueuywybQ
(Uwe exits stage humming to himself with great satisfaction …)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McFj_vq3cwk
November 20th, 2025 at 02:10@Karin, you are so lucky that the boys included popping into the Danes.@Tony, they’re not coming to Portugal either🤷♂️
November 20th, 2025 at 04:25So, if Mohamed doesn’t come to the mountain, then the mountain comes to Dubai 😂
I have plastered my hotel room with purple posters and I am checking the time every 5 minutes to see if it’s 8 pm yet…
@16
MacGregor 😃 you’re completely right!
And guess what? Now I have my ticket 😍 and yes it was pricey 😄 I wouldn’t sell my dear little doglet Anton, but I almost sold my coffeemaker 😄😄 nooo I didn’t!
November 20th, 2025 at 06:16Oh what a treat 💜💜💜💜💜💜
@12 – I am working on it Uwe, getting a more feminine representation into Rush. Did you see how I ‘baited’ Karin, she will NOT be able to resist. I am hoping that Aimme Mann’s pretty vocal melody line will be enough, she may well think that is Geddy. It will be a similar scenario as to Ole Coves’, banned and scorned at the beginning, totally addicted within six months. ‘I cannot believe how awesome Rush are’ will be along the lines of what we may hear here shortly from the lady of the north. Stay tuned for another exciting episode of ‘spot the lady at a Rush convention’. Cheers.
November 20th, 2025 at 06:21@21
“she will NOT be able to resist”
November 20th, 2025 at 08:54– 😂 oh yes she will!
#18: Last time I checked Copenhagen was a Danish city, not Dutch 🙂
Cheers, Eric
November 20th, 2025 at 09:33from the Netherlands
Australia misses out for probably the last time…???
November 20th, 2025 at 10:29Really very disappointing!
NOT HAPPY!!
Ian Gillan says in the National (Dubai) that =1 “is the best selling album” since Perfect Strangers.. if we assume that THOBL sold around 3 million copies, =1 is a whirlwind succsess..! 😀 Maybe
November 20th, 2025 at 10:32Fair play my Hammy ticket was £75 before usual add on’s.. Will be a nicer experience that the 02 SHED!!
November 20th, 2025 at 10:32@19
Oohhh ENJOY 😃🤩
November 20th, 2025 at 12:47#25: IG is incorrect 🙂
November 20th, 2025 at 15:10Eric @23, my friend van duitsen bloed, it was an inside joke, go to post #60 in the “Loosely Tight” thread below … 😂
My Dutch son-in-law Bram 🥰 would never speak to me again should I deem him Danish … wait a minute, since he’s blond and tall he does feel curiously flattered when people in foreign countries ask him whether he’s ’from Scandinavia’ – when I’m around I always dastardly interject “No, he’s de facto German, just with a bad medieval dialect!” and then try to escape his (wholly justified) punishing blow as he tries to beat my onbeschaamd mof hide! 🤗
Doei!
Uwe from Mofrica
November 20th, 2025 at 16:11@18
“Right, Copenhagen is one of the nicest Dutch cities, really!”
– I’ve always felt we belong more to Germany!
After all we mention numbers the same way: einunddreißig – enogtredvie!
November 20th, 2025 at 16:32And we admire you lot so much ☺️
And from a very confidential source, I also know that you lot measure distances in KM! Not Miles 😃
See! We’re practically twins!
As he has a habit of being, frequently wrong, but never in doubt. 😂
It’s unfathomable that any release today could achieve the sales of a very successful album in the mid 80s, the heyday of record buying.
And the EU never regulated the curvature of bananas either. Ian needs a good newspaper subscription (with large print) – maybe if we all pitch in together?
November 20th, 2025 at 19:19But Karin @30 (your age, right?), our admiration for great Danes is boundless as well!
https://youtu.be/XwDekxXuEkI
November 20th, 2025 at 21:12#11 AndreA:
You’re right, I saw the prices… in Italy the cost of concert tickets is out of control: the commissions of the two main agencies that control the entire concert business have reached 20% of the cost of the ticket… it’s a ticket cartel in the hands of 2 companies that should be investigated by the finance police!
Having said that, I will invest my savings in the Milan date and probably also in the Este one.
November 20th, 2025 at 22:56Karin ,
November 21st, 2025 at 02:01Hate to disappoint you :
“I learnt so much from listening to Elvis. His voice was incredible. It gets right through to you,” he says. “I grew up with that, along with opera from my grandfather and boogie-woogie records from my uncle, so it all fed into how I sing,” says Gillan
Seems Gillan (best singer ever) liked Elvis
Enjoy it all !!
@32
I know about Thomas G! I didn’t know he was this tall! I mean, Birgitte Nielsen is very tall…. 😄
😂 love the last thing he says: that Birgitte met his wife (because of the great noise all of a sudden)
Btw: I know she got somehow ridiculed for being who she was, marrying some actor… really bad b-movies etc, but she has a soft sweetness in her I really like.
She also sang:
https://youtu.be/Q0HcolIK9G4
But maybe that was better forgotten…
Even this is better:
November 21st, 2025 at 02:22https://youtu.be/q-VjTc-Ndrg
😂
@34
Oohhh you don’t disappoint me one bit 😄😄
I acknowledge that Ian heard something in Elvis!
Maybe just the way I see everything in Ian 😊
To me Ian is the perfect singer and entertainer 😃 his voice is unmatched, he is very charming on stage, glint in the eye, tongue in cheek etc, what I mean is: we never have a dull moment being entertained by the very great Ian 😃
I acknowledge also that a lot of people love Elvis, but is it ok that I can’t see the same in him like the rest of you can? 😊
My mum loved Elvis, so – and here I guess my favourite lawyer Uwe has something to add – maybe this not liking Elvis is some kind of a a belated teenage rebellion (yeah Max und Uwe: sehr spät 😉)
But let us all allow each other to our individual preferences 🥰
November 21st, 2025 at 07:52Maybe I even could accept if someone didn’t like Ian Gillan……
No no no, that far I cannot stretch 😄
@36
November 21st, 2025 at 14:43Get the rebellion thing.Been there .
Not super crazy about Elvis either but do like some.
He had a great influence on a lot of singers .
Hope you see Purple on the new tour!
Gillan seems to have more to give us.
I thank him!
My mom loved Elvis too, but that never bothered me, she was generally the adult in the family with the best musical taste, she liked English and American pop music, but had a disdain for deutsche Schlager. Unlike my dad who liked terrible stuff like this 😱 here:
https://youtu.be/pa3ZIJQ91ZU
That always caused bouts of Fremdschämen in me. 😳
November 21st, 2025 at 16:28Finally managed to buy a ticket for Manchester on the third day (general sale) after struggling with the two presale days. I finally grabbed a good seat ironcally. Will go to London if RAH is advertised but the ticket buying process leaves me feeling like a living wreck.
Ha.
November 21st, 2025 at 16:33@35
Fun fact about Brigitte (or Birgitte as her name really is) Nielsen. She went at the same school as me (Islev Skole). And no, I did not know her.
janbl
November 21st, 2025 at 18:53@37
Kiddpurple! You are amazing admitting to such in here:
“Not super crazy about Elvis either but do like some.”
– in this second shrine for Elvis! (The first shrine is located, and I cannot stress this enough, sadly in my hometown Randers….. so embarrassed!)
But ohhh man I am HAPPY I found a kindred spirit in here 😃
I have a ticket to their concert in Copenhagen, and I have to say this: only my beloved mums death could prevent me from going, but unfortunately she died 28 years ago, so I guess there are no obstacles in the way.
I have a friend, whose dad was a very skilled accountant, unfortunately he is very ill because of dementia. Well I told my friend about Purple, and he said: my old man would just love to see them again.
November 21st, 2025 at 19:06I know how the music you love can do wonders in the brain, so I suggested my friend and his wife and his dad should join me at the concert.
I hope the dear old man can cope…. However I am afraid he is too ill.
But isn’t it magic what music can do to us? Bring joy beyond what one can hope for 😍
They should play a DP song/album to the poor dementia accountant at home and see if there is any positive reaction – and if there is, then by all accounts (no pun intended) take him there. Music memory sticks to parts of the brain differing to those responsible for other skills.
November 22nd, 2025 at 12:30Guess I’ve seen too many Elvis movies!
November 23rd, 2025 at 02:05@42
Ohh Uwe, he is listening to the music he loves every day, and very loudly indeed! So his son bought him headphones so his dear dad didn’t disturb the other residents.
November 23rd, 2025 at 06:04I confirm the purchase of tickets for the Este & Milano dates in Italy!
I hadn’t seen two Purple dates since the Abandon tour, and I hadn’t seen Purple since the Now What?! tour in 2013!!
November 23rd, 2025 at 20:53I only regret not having seen them on the =1 tour, but I don’t regret the last tours with Morse with too repetitive setlists
Karin @44: In that case they should really take him to a gig. With all the lights, it’s gonna be a visual spectacle too. Should dementia grab a hold of me one day, I sure would hope someone would still take me to gigs of my favorite bands.
I so far have tickets for Coburg in Summer and Frankfurt in fall. I might go to another fall gig, but let’s not get carried away.
November 24th, 2025 at 04:55@46
I get your point Uwe, but I just talked to his son, and no, the poor man is too ill now to cope the travel and the stay at a concert.
Well I think you guys from Germany ought to travel to Hamburg and meet up with me there! 😄
November 24th, 2025 at 15:44It’s tricky… Being young and trying to do my beloved granny good I took her out of the senior citizen home she lived in and we went to a restaurant she had attended often with her hubby, my granddad. It was a wish she was able to articulate …and she did several times…though she suffered from dementia badly. When we got there she began to feel uncomfortable… I could feel it and see it. I took her back after a rather hasty meal. Later, the good nurses from that home she lived in told me it took her days to calm down again… so… yeah, it’s not easy to devide what’s right or wrong here.
November 24th, 2025 at 20:41Now Admin… I know it’s got nothing to do with DP on first sight…but then again…think of the news we received here these days… and oh…my granny liked Roger Glover’s Elements! She said it sounds like wonderful music from another world. God bless her.
@4
Of course your post is relevant! Your dear granny loved Roger Glover’s composition 💜
What a nice gesture that you took care of her 😊
November 24th, 2025 at 20:52Of course Max is right, the accountant likely lives a stimuli-poor life by now and concert hall rock gig could be too much for him.
November 25th, 2025 at 02:46@ 24- DP may drop DownUnder after Indonesia Greg, that wouldn’t surprise me especially after the cancelled outdoor performance a year or so ago. So for you mainlanders up there, there is still hope I would think. Since moving down to no man’s land aka Tasmania nine years ago, I have grown another head. So as you can imagine, I don’t go out a lot these days. Mind you, at a Deep Purple gig no-one would probably notice. Cheers.
November 25th, 2025 at 04:17@51
“Mind you, at a Deep Purple gig no-one would probably notice. Cheers.”
– 😂😂😂
Well MacGregor, cheers right back at ya!
November 25th, 2025 at 16:01“Since moving down to no man’s land aka Tasmania nine years ago, I have grown another head.”
I’m not surprised. That’s a bit like playing double bass dum, right?
Also, do they disagree with each other often?
November 26th, 2025 at 00:52@ 53 – “Also, do they disagree with each other often?” All the time Uwe, but at least I always win the argument. Seriously though it also keeps me in good stead here at THS. You have noticed my ‘never give in’ mantra, he he he. Cheers.
November 26th, 2025 at 10:33Yes, quilte, lieber Herr MacTwoGregors …
https://i.etsystatic.com/35317401/r/il/dc160a/5811487918/il_1588xN.5811487918_8za4.jpg
November 26th, 2025 at 18:46I’m MAD that Australia is missing out on a new tour once again !
Why is it so difficult for Deep Purple to come over here these days !? They’re even playing in Jakarta next year and that’s like 6 hours away….really, why?! !?
November 28th, 2025 at 09:56That’s frustrating, Cameron, I agree, but is it the band or the lack of an Australian promoter getting behind a tour and committing him-/herself?
I always thought Australia and NZ were reliable markets for DP.
November 28th, 2025 at 20:34Cameron1391 @56:
to quote Roger Glover from https://www.thehighwaystar.com/tourdates/tour-dates-faq/
November 28th, 2025 at 20:53https://deeppurple.com/blogs/news/deep-purple-pandemonium-2024
November 29th, 2025 at 22:06