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There is a new interview with Gillan and Paice in the Uncut magazine, and the two Ians are adamant to continue making music into the foreseeable future. The online version is dated June 1, 2026, so which issue it appears in the printed version — your guess is as good as ours, and probably better.

Such is the drive of the new-look Purple that Paice claims they’re con­sid­er­ing a return to the stu­dio for another new album in 2027: “We don’t have six, seven, 10 years, every­body knows that.” But he also sug­gests the Splat! world tour might be their final long-haul around the globe, and they’ll play shorter runs in future. “There’s other stuff in my life. But the idea of actu­ally stop­ping, that doesn’t com­pute.”

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