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Gold edition giveaway
British based Team Rock Radio is giving away a free copy of Now what?! deluxe box set, and from the looks of it it’s open worldwide. Enter your details here.
Read more »“Gold Edition” formats rundown
[Updated with tracklist and artwork] The Now What?! tour gold edition that will be released on November 29 in continental Europe and December 2 in the UK will come in following flavours: Double CD, with the first disc containing the original studio album, plus bonus tracks It’ll Be Me and First Sign Of Madness. Second […]
Read more »Granpa Don
Deep Purple (complete with the tree generation of the Airey clan) were featured on the local news in Düsseldorf, Germany, where they played on October 29. You can watch the news report on WDR.de (in German). The relevant segment starts at 12:44 into the programme and continues for 5 minutes. Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for […]
Read more »Après Vous
Opening with Après Vous instead of a staple tune on this tour was certainly a ballsy move on the part of the band. Here’s a good one, from Regensburg on October 25. (watch inside)
Read more »A heart for children
Bild.de reports that while in Berlin Deep Purple have signed a guitar (a white Strat, no less) that is being auctioned now on Ebay. All proceeds will go to charity Ein Herz für Kinder (A Heart for Children) that promotes children health, education and welfare in Germany and abroad. The auction closes on November 9 […]
Read more »Purple for a day
About a month ago The Guardian interviewed musical duo Chas & Dave (the Chas part is none other but Chas Hodges of The Outlaws fame). He recalls an episode that happened in 1971 while supporting Deep Purple on tour: And then lightning strikes Chas. “I forgot all about it, but we did a tour with […]
Read more »Other viewpoints – the UK tour
I guess sometimes you have to be there to know. However here’s a couple more reviews from the UK tour, covering both sides of the coin…. Purple returned to Glasgow on the back of the great new album and we were intrigued to see how much they would change their set to accommodate it. We […]
Read more »Made in Japan documentary teaser
The original management company Deep Purple (Overseas) has posted a teaser for the Made in Japan documentary that is being prepared for release some time early next year: The documentary component highlights the Mark 2 period of the band with a focus on the recording of ‘Machine Head’, the friction that developed within the band, […]
Read more »Fire up your karaoke machines
In an effort to promote the tour a.k.a. gold edition of Now what?! (which has been postponed to late November – early December) the record company has posted an instrumental mix of Hell to Pay.
Read more »From Royal Albert Hall to Kleine Scheidegg
Deep Purple have been quite conspicuously absent from the list of confirmed performers when Sunflower Jam tickets went on sale earlier this month. That is, until yesterday: Deep Purple will be performing songs that honour and remember Jon Lord and the band will also perform with the Orion Orchestra, led by conductor Paul Mann, meaning […]
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