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In a recent interview to the Billboard magazine David Coverdale unveiled plans for retrospective anniversary releases: Also upcoming for Coverdale will be a remastered three-disc set to mark Whitesnake’s 30th anniversary, which he says will “embrace the beginning right up until now — including some Coverdale/Page and solo Coverdale material.” A live Whitesnake DVD is […]
Read more »While being in Lima, Peru Ian Gillan gave an interview pieces of which appeared today on Bloomberg’s newswire. The interesting bit is about the band’s plans: This is a three-year tour and finishes in Russia and then Germany in November. I guess we’ll have Christmas off and then I hope we shall then go into […]
Read more »Doogie White, who has recently parted ways with Yngwie Malmsteen, came to the rescue of a Purple tribute band at a charity gig in UK: Disaster was turned to triumph for another local act on the night after Deep Purple tribute band the Purple Project from Newbury lost their lead singer after developing laryngitis. At […]
Read more »In the new installment of his Notes from the road Steve Morse talks about Mexican food, Hammond tuning, justifiable homicides, bureaucracy on the home front, the same abroad, and politics (or not). Read all about it here. Thanks to Daniel Bengtsson for the info.
Read more »All European tourdates that we had posted for the summer are now officially confirmed. In addition to that, Montreux is confirmed for the closing day of the festival — July 19, plus a couple of French festivals and one in Belgium. See them all in your tour dates list (and to all of you who […]
Read more »The recent Deep Purple’s visit to Moscow was not all glitz, glamour and rubbing shoulders with rich and powerful. Russian promoters SAV Entertainment and Russkij Show Center have announced that during the band’s visit they have “reached an agreement” for another massive tour of Russia and Ukraine this October. The dates are very preliminary and […]
Read more »A new box set titled Around The World Live is being prepared for release by Edel. The “Deluxe Edition” 4DVD box set is slated for release in UK on Edel’s subsidiary Eagle Vision on May 19, 2008. As of now, we have no info on availability and release dates in other markets. DEEP PURPLE Around […]
Read more »Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night will be interviewed live on Kerrang! Radio. They will be guests of the “paranormal radio presenter” Yvette Fielding on her Fright Night show on Friday March 14th 2008 at 10:30pm UK time (5:30pm EST). You can try your luck listening to the station online and access archives at whatson.com (“for […]
Read more »Hard on the heels of the successful auction of Jon Lord’s Durham Concerto CD the Linda McCartney Cancer Centre will again be the beneficiary of the sale of a Deep Purple-related item, this time a poster from the Gillan’s Inn tour in 2006 signed by Ian and the band. If you are interested in bidding, […]
Read more »Talk about hard touring band… We’ve just received tour dates for the October/November Deep Purple tour of Germany. These are preliminary dates, they come from the site of promoter Klaus Bönisch, and at this point are very unconfirmed and subject to change. Deep Purple have never been strangers in Germany and tour there almost every […]
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