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All that jazz
Deep Purple have appeared on November 14 on French TV show Culturebox. Ian Gillan was interviewed and they did a wonderfully light, airy (pun intended) jazz rendition of Smoke on the Water live. (watch inside)
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Getaway Festival
As the summer festival dates continue to trickle in, Deep Purple’s management has confirmed that the band will headline the Getaway Festival in Sweden on August 10, 2013. Festival passes are already on sale.
Read more »How to deal with your midlife crisis
Joe Lynn Turner will be featured in the upcoming documentary Street of Dreams, which is currently in postproduction in Norway to be premiered at the Trondheim Dokumentarfestival on November 29. The film is about Norwegian bass player Jan Erling Holberg — the man behind JLT’s 2011 album Sense of Time. Although educated at LIPA, Jan […]
Read more »Concerto 2012 trailer
earMUSIC has released a trailer for the upcoming extended version of the new studio recording of Jon Lord’s Concerto for Group and Orchestra.
Read more »Whitesnake in the UK
Whitesnake will tour UK in May next year, sandwiched between Journey and Thunder, who are also on the bill. It actually appears that Journey will be headlining. Ticket presale starts November 8 at 10am, with sale to general public opening next morning. Full details in our calendar. Thanks to Classic Rock for the info.
Read more »Glory Road ebook
Martin Popoff has published a short ebook about Gillan’s album Glory Road. In a cheeky mood, I’ve been known to call Gillan my favourite band of all time, given the insane charm of all six of their albums, the guys burning it out before they could screw up (just like another one of my fave […]
Read more »Coverdale the sommelier
David Coverdale will be featured in a new documentary A Passion for the Vine produced by Zan Media in Novato, California. NovatoPatch has some of the backstory: […] Coverdale blitzes in from a private plane with what appears to be an entourage — a beautiful young woman, a chauffer and others. This is not the […]
Read more »Streaming Afterglow
The entire Black Country Communion’s new album Afterglow is available for streaming from Soundcloud courtesy of Joe Bonamassa:
2013 touring
If the stars will align right, the world live premiere of the new Deep Purple album will happen in New Zealand, where the band kicks off 2013 touring schedule on February 24, followed by six more dates in Australia. New Zealand ticket presales start on November 7, with the sale to general public followed on […]
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