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Blackmore’s Night in Zagreb

As the Blackmore’s Night makes it’s way around Southern Europe, here are the details for the January 27 show in Zagreb, Croatia. Set list: Locked within the crystal ball Queen for a day Under a violet moon Peasant’s promise Streets of London / The Times They Are a Changin’ World of stone Durch den wald […]

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A Light In Zoetermeer

A review of the Don Airey’s show in Zoetermeer on January 22 and a brief interview with the man himself apears on the Here Comes The Flood blog: Any chance of Deep Purple recording one of your songs on a new studio album? I don’t know. I contributed a lot to the last one, Rapture […]

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Gothenburg: End of the road for Whitesnake?

David Coverdale proved on Dec 17th in Gothenburg that he´s taken the current incarnation of Whitesnake as far as he can. Although DC increasingly needs the band to fall back on, the success or failure of a Whitesnake concert is still very much a result of Coverdale´s performance. In some areas he did very well, […]

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Stockholm: Great Whitesnake concert with three Purple songs

Yesterday I saw Whitesnake in Stocholm! It was just great. I saw Whitesnake at Sweden Rock this summer, and the sound wasn’t the greatest and there were no Purple songs. David had just had a cold; he was good but not at his best. But this time he was doing much better and entertained the […]

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Still my rock’n’ roll heroes

Summer memories: Sweden 2008 Me and my daughter (18 yrs) took a couple of rock trips this year. First chapter starts in Öja, Sweden where Deep Purple performed in August. When we went there (camping a few kilometers away from the venue). I had almost forgotten all about it since we bought our tickets as […]

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Deeply touched in Frankfurt

The Frankfurt concert was the only one that would fit into a rather busy schedule and so we were heading there by air from Copenhagen. I listened to The Aviator 10 times during the short flight. It’s one of the most beautiful songs I ever heard. At the venue we were standing close to one […]

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Stunning in Munich

My girlfriend and me, had trawelled from Denmark to see Deep Purple….and only for that. Well we came early to Munich on Saturday and spent all the afternoon and night in Olympia Park.. It’s was a sunny day, like the evening should be. The evening stared with Gotthard…. a german rockband…. and I can tell […]

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Basel: Best band ever!

I think, I am not the only one when I say: Yes, Deep Purple is really the best band ever! 😉 Well, I am 16 and I was with my friends and my dad in Basel at the Deep Purple concert. It was the second gig this year for me. But before the show started, […]

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Bamberg plagued by poor sound

To start with the positiv things… I had the best view you can imagine for a concert. first row just in front of steve. good venue and a good setlist and the company of a wonderfull woman. everything perfect for a great concert……….. but it wasnt. it was much toooooo loud and my ears are […]

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From Berlin: Many thanks!

As usual I wasn’t disappointed. The show was cool, although I was standing in a poor place where too many basses were heard. [What? Roger’s and whose else’s? /Rasmus] I’ll choose a sitting place next time:). It was so nice to hear “Contact lost” and “Perfect strangers” again. But the biggest surprise was “Wring that […]

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