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Wife, three children, and forty keyboards
A long-ish interview with Don Airey, done during his recent solo band tour in Europe. Part insightful, two parts hilarious, here it is (watch inside)
Read more »Paris, Frankfurt and Helsinki
Several new promotional appearances have surfaced in the past few days. Ian Paice will do an in-store appearance at the F-Musiikki Vantaa in Finland, for their “Big Drum Day” event on April 8. Another in-store appearance promoting inFinite has been announced for April 10 at the FNAC Paris Saint-Lazare. Caveat: even though it is marked […]
Read more »Don Airey on tour
Just a quick public service announcement that Don Airey Band starts European tour tomorrow, March 11. If you’re in the neighbourhood — go and see them. The venues are intimate, the tickets are not that expensive, the musicians are top notch, and they are playing the music we all love. Just go. A snippet from […]
Read more »Never say never
Don Airey was inducted into the Hall of Heavy Metal History at the ceremony held on January 18 in Anaheim, California. Here is his well thought out and pretty rousing acceptance speech and bits of rather interesting backstage interview. (watch inside)
Read more »Things to look forward to in 2017
And the new year is shaping up to be a busy one. Glenn Hughes will kick of the touring on January 20 in the UK, which will be followed by a month long European tour. And right now he is in the studio recording the fourth Black Country Communion album, which we also might expect […]
Read more »Key to keys
Don Airey was a guest on Rick Wakeman’s Key to Keys this Wednesday, December 21, which aired on BBC Radio 2. In this first show Rick also chats to fellow rock pianist Don Airey. Keyboard player with Deep Purple since 2002 he has also written and played keyboards for artists like Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, […]
Read more »Summer Solo Shows
Don Airey continues to add ad hoc shows to his summer schedule, the latest being “Beer and Music on the beach” August 10th, which does have a ring to it! Apparently entry is free. In addition he will playing at Cambridge Rocks!, a fund raising event for Addenbrokes Hospital on August 3rd.
Read more »Writer in Japan interviews Roger, Don and Steve….
Writer Glenn Williams has posted transcripts of three interviews the held with Roger Glover, Don Airey and Steve Morse recently during the Japanese tour. A quick update on the album Roger? What can you tell us? RG: Well it’s hard to describe music really. It’s like how do you describe the Mona Lisa? A woman […]
Read more »New Album Update
Don Airey believes the new album by Deep Purple is now complete and being mixed by Bob Ezrin. In an interview with TASS, the Russian News Agency, he confirms “As far as I know, it’s all recorded and now… it’s on the tender mercies of Bob Ezrin (Canadian producer – TASS), he’s going to mix […]
Read more »A family affair
An interesting gig popped up in our calendar. And it’s a family affair in more than one sense: billed as Ian Gillan; performing with Don Airey Band; and an orchestra conducted by Stephen Bentley-Klein, who conducted the Deep Purple orchestral tour a few years back; supported by Papa Le Gál, the band where Ian’s daughter […]
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