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Continuing the Deep Purple month, Planet Rock is giving away 3 pairs of tickets to see Deep Purple live at London Wembley Arena on Saturday 28th April. But you’ll have to be quick though, the “competition” closes at midnight on Wednesday 25th April. Now this one looks like real fun. Identify small fragments of 30 […]
Read more »Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night interviewed on Bulgarian radio: listen from candicenight.ru (MP3, 21 min). The new issue (#28) of the Fireworks magazine is out in May. It features interviews with Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan and Joe Lynn Turner all in one issue. Fireworks magazine: http://www.rathole.com/fireworks/ Fireworks at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/fireworks_magazine Thanks to Mike Garrett for […]
Read more »Hot on the heels of the Roger’s interview, ICWales.co.uk comes up with one with Steve Morse: THE pre-tour checklist for Deep Purple’s lead guitarist sounds pretty strange to many people. Practise guitar technique. Pack clothes and toothbrush. Get someone in to cut the hay. Read the complete interview.
Read more »Blackmore’s Night, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 17, 2007 Setlist: Ritchie’s Intro Past Time With Good Company Rainbow Blues Play Minstrel Play Under A Violet Moon Soldier Of Fortune Durch Den Wald Zum Bach Haus Bard David piano solo World Of Stone Diamonds And Rust Mond Tanz / Child In Time Bard David piano solo Ariel Loreley […]
Read more »Deep Purple North American tourdates started appearing on Pollstar. Although until anything is confirmed by the band’s management and posted on the official site, it is still on the shaky grounds, Pollstar draws it’s information from an industry wide database populated by announcements from promoters and booking agents. So the negotiations must be progressing. The […]
Read more »Here is the situation with the North American version of the Ian Gillan’s DVD “Highway Star – A Journey In Rock”, straight from it’s producer. Exactly what does “cut a different version” mean? Does this mean the NTSC might not be 2 discs or will contain substantially different material than the European release? Any idea […]
Read more »Planet Rock is in full swing of promoting the upcoming UK tour. This week you get: Purple Reflections Tuesday 17th April: 7pm Wednesday 18th April: 11pm (Repeat) Saturday 21st April: 6pm (Repeat) Planet Rock DJ, Nicky Horne met the band in Strasburg in March 2007. His aim was to let the band do the talking […]
Read more »In anticipation of the UK tour, a Welsh website published an interview with Roger Glover. The usual Roger’s eloquence didn’t fail him this time either: Putting it mildly, as a band we’ve had a few ups and downs. But over 40 years you show me a life that hasn’t. Whatever people think of us, right […]
Read more »There’s a new interview with Ian Gillan in the latest issue of Sweden Rock Magazine. On the Gillan split: Q: The Gillan split was a bitter one. In case McCoy and Underwood would be reading this article, what would you say to them? IG: Well, what can one say? They claim that I cheated them […]
Read more »Ian Gillan will be signing copies of ‘Smoke This’ at the following Borders bookstores during the UK tour: Bournemouth – Friday 27th April @ 5 pm – 6 pm Brighton – Sunday 29th April @ 2.30 pm – 3:30 pm Thanks to Caramba! for the info.
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