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Leicester Mercury has a short interview with the two Ians. The bigger one states his view on the alleged upcoming AI armageddon of creativity: My feeling about anything artistic is the beginnings of it should be organic but the development and production values, that can be technical. We’ve always benefited from advances in technology, whether […]
Read more »Ritchie Blackmore Official channel posted this local TV report on Deep Purple Mk. JLT visit to Poland in 1991.
Read more »Simon McBride spoke to ROCK ANTENNE and the end result has been posted to youtube. It’s not without some technical difficulties: audio is out of sync with video, and it sounds like audio is also cutting in and out at times. Nevertheless, here it is.
Read more »The Norway Rock Magazine features interviews with Roger Glover and Don Airey in their issue #127 (2/2026). The magazine is available for your perusal online, and the interviews in question are even in the original English, yay!
Read more »Ian Gillan gives a track-by-track rundown of the Splat! lyrics for his hometown newspaper The Portugal News: “Arrogant Boy” Billy is an ordinary guy who sticks his head up above the parapet and says to the political elite: “Hey do something, stop arguing, just get on with it, make life better for us”. And they […]
Read more »CNN has a less-than-a-minute-and-a-half long report on the new album Splat!. Apparently, dropping the name of Keith Urban into the mix doesn’t hurt with getting some mainstream exposure. Ain’t no such thing as bad publicity, right? Watch is on CNN.com.
Read more »Deep Purple have returned to reign on Olympus of hard rock. Magnificent, one of the best Deep Purple records ever. It has everything inside: riffs, catchy melodies, groove, inspired solos, and guitar/keyboard duels. The BPM is generally high; the slow pace of many — too many — mid-tempo songs from the Morse era is a […]
Read more »Location: Auditorium de Castrelos, Vigo, Spain. A fantastic location in the style of an amphitheater in Vigo’s largest park. Conditions: a hot summer evening/night – still around 29 degrees Celsius when the concert began (22:00) Entrance fee: 15€ price sponsored by the City of Vigo, as they do it every year for a series of […]
Read more »Blues Rock Review reviews Splat! in absolutely glowing terms: As AI inexcusably blitzes a forgettable culture of monotonous mediocrity, Deep Purple auspiciously land with a balls-to-the-wall Splat! to the good old days. This is what you call ‘musicality’ kids. If a band that spacetrucked and highway starred in the 70s can still produce songs this […]
Read more »A couple more interviews in the anticipation of the new album release. Roger Glover talks to Noise11 straight from his slightly dishevelled hotel room
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