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July 20, the hot summer day was a memorable day for Ian Gillan, Georgian fans and for Istanbul, of course. Why? Here’s a really great story how Georgian fans had a special meet&greet with Gillan in Turkey, before the show: THE IDEA I live in Tbilisi, Georgia. Unfortunately DP hasn’t visited our country, but we […]
Read more »Glenn Hughes and Come Taste The Band. Restaurant Løa, Vennesla, Norway, July 24th 2009. Glenn Hughes and the Norwegian tribute band “Come Taste the Band”, delivered to expectations at Restaurant Løa, when they performed their tribute show; “An Evening of Deep Purple”. I have seen Glenn H. and CTTB a couple of times before, and […]
Read more »Ian Gillan with a symphony orchestra in Poland? Wow! I thought he would perform in Germany only. So nice to hear he was invited by the promoters of the Solidarity of Arts Festival. I had to see it! Apart from Ian Gillan, many other artists performed there: Tosh Meets Marley (I like reggae, so I […]
Read more »I bought my copy of the new Deep Purple DVD History, Hits and Highlights 3 weeks ago. This is my review. The title – odd as it sounds – has some justification after seeing it a couple of times. There is a great number of highlights indeed which easily justify this purchase – incredible live […]
Read more »Can you forget a Deep Purple show which starting with snaring drums of Highway Star? No. No. No. Thousands of NO as Istanbul screamed last night. Venue opened at 20:00, lights off at 21:00 by the lovely seaside of Bosphorus, quite warm evening, with a considerable high humidity, the show started with a different intro […]
Read more »Well, this is the 3rd time that I am in a DP show (all in Thessaloniki). But this was a special time because it was the first show for my kids, 11 and 13 yrs old. And their first time was a DP show!!! And they enjoyed it. And of cource they are right. It […]
Read more »Glenn Hughes, Rock Tent, Karmoy, Haugesund, Norway. July 30 2009. Glenn Hughes from Trapeze, Deep Purple Mark III and IV, Black Sabbath and solo playing at the island Karmoy near my home town Haugesund (south west in Norway), its just great! When I’m thinking of Deep Purple Mark III, I’m thinking of the album “Burn” […]
Read more »Glenn Hughes played a Deep Purple set with the boys from Norwegian tribute band ‘Come Taste The Band’. Glenn was in excellent shape and in good humour. I have seen this band a couple of times before, and they are pretty good. This is the best I have seen them, and it looked as if […]
Read more »Lakselv, Northern Norway The set list was the same as Copenhagen, but without “Wrong man”. Paice is brilliant. Keeps the whole thing together with Glover, but no drum solo this night. Morse was also good, but no surprises for the die hard fans, but a lot of the show was new for most of the […]
Read more »Another concert with DP on DP’s homeground, KB Hallen! Lots of good experiences before the concert when meeting souls-mates in town on their way to the concerthall and at the entrance of the hall. Lights went out at aprr. 9.15 PM and after a piece of music, my favorite starter “Highway Star”! And then it […]
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