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Jeb Wright of Classic Rock Revisited has conducted an interview with Steve Morse. They spoke about his work in and out of Deep Purple: Jeb: Deep Purple is your main band but I wonder if you are still allowed to create freely for your other projects as a member of the group? Steve: We have […]
Read more »Blackmore’s Night on German TV
Blackmore’s Night will appear on the German TV show Fersehengarten this Sunday, July 17. They will perform the Journeyman off their Autumn Sky album.
Read more »The Sunflower Jam
On July 8th, 2011, Deep Purple played host to the latest Sunflower Jam at the Royal Albert Hall. This isn’t a standard DP show, rather a collection of musicians assembled basically to have a bit of a jam that they wouldn’t normally get to do during their ‘day job’. The evening began with a champagne […]
Read more »Live tweeting from BCC CPH show
Black Country Communion hits classic DP ground KB Hallen in Copenhagen on July 12 and THS will be there. As from the Whitesnake show at Sweden Rock and Sunflower Jam last weekend, we will offer you the chance to keep track of the show through our twitter feed. Søren Andersen, guitarist in Glenn Hughes solo […]
Read more »Phoenix Rising Australian release
The Australian release date for Phoenix Rising has been set for July 29th through Shock Records. This will be a standalone DVD with Rising Over Japan, the Gettin’ Tighter documentary, and bonus features of Jakarta 1975 and Come Taste The Band remaster electronic press kit. The booklet will be a basic 4-page inlay. The DVD […]
Read more »Follow the Sunflower Jam
The Sunflower Jam 2011 is upon us. Tonight, July 8, the Purple world will converge at the Royal Albert Hall to witness what could possibly be a historic event. The Highway Star will be there and our special correspondent will be tweeting the proceedings live from the hall.
Read more »On oxymorons, pigeonholes and being comfrotable
Roger Glover writes about his new solo album: …Could it be a journalistic urge to put everything in an easily digestible box (please, not literally)? I guess it’s all about pigeonholes and I’m not particularly happy about being stuffed into one – it’s very dark in there. How do you describe music that is at […]
Read more »If Life Was Easy album preview
Roger Glover’s new solo album If Life Was Easy is due to be released on July 8 by Edel/earMUSIC. Here is a sneak preview.
Read more »The royal family
Martin Popoff has a new book out, titled The Deep Purple Royal Family: Chain Of Events Through ’79. Instead of trying to write something about the thing we have not seen, here is the complete press release straight from the author: The Text: 280 stuffed pages offering an exhaustive and detailed timeline of Purple milestones, […]
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