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Belgian radio station Classic 21 has a special for One Eye To Morocco. You can watch Gillan’s interview undubbed, and our francophone readers will certainly appreciate the text. See and read it at classic21.be (you might need to scroll down the page a bit). Thanks to Valerio Dossini for the info.
Read more »Because the other performers at the festival did not interest us at all (Isabelle A, Bart Peeters, Eddy Grant,…) and the Purple show would only start at 23:00, we left sunny Bruges rather late, around 18:30. Due to the returning tourists heading inland from the coast it took us a while to arrive in Tienen. […]
Read more »OK,… the sky was black and lighning had been igniting roaring thunder. This must be a Deep Purple concert. After Eddy Grant who tried to do a rain dance, we had to wait for Deep Purple to break loose. Let me tell you that the other parts in the country got their share of pooring […]
Read more »OK, the sky is black and lightning was igniting roaring thunder. This must be a Deep Purple concert. After Eddy Grant doing a Jimi Hendrix act during his voodoo rain dance, we had to wait for Deep Purple to bring down the house. Let me tell you that the other parts in the country got […]
Read more »Here’s a very decent quality video of this rarely performed track from early in the Purpendicular tour. March 23, 1996, Brussels, Belgium.
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 »Johan and I arrived at 7 pm after a 3 hours drive (we got a ¾ hour traffic jam around Brussel). There were quite a lot of people; although when ordering a drink at the bar we did not have to wait. Yet half an hour later there was a queue already. The T-shirt sellers […]
Read more »I’m a fan of DP since the early 70’s. I saw them a lot of times, nearly all the ‘mk’s’. I went to the concert in Liege, at a place called Country Hall, with my son (19 years old). I was full of hope to see a good concert, because I thought that without Blackmore […]
Read more »In my previous review of Brussels (Belgium) concert (25 Jan 2006), I said that it was magic. Well, this time in the Lotto Arena of Antwerpen (Belgium) on 18 May 2007, it was super magic. Last year I was really impressed after attending a DP concert for the first time in my life after following […]
Read more »A day without Deep Purple is a like a day without sunshine A sunny day in the Antwerp harbour… nice temperature… fantastic day to show off my new Rapture of the Deep T-shirt which I bought at the last gig I saw at Rock Zottegem last year. I convinced a French friend to come along… […]
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