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Deep Purple 2026 tour dates started filtering through some time ago, as you may have surmised from our front page graphics. The summer European tour is whimsically dubbed as Mad in Europe, and there’s a corresponding Mad in Japan tour earlier in the year. Today another massive European tour has been announced. It starts on […]
Read more »A boutique Dutch label Music On Vinyl has announced a 4LP Deep Purple Greatest Hits compilation with a rather curious track list that is light on the hits and heavy on deeper cuts. Side A 1. Highway Star (Live at Schleyer-Halle) 2. The Cut Runs Deep 3. Vavoom: Ted The Mechanic 4. Ramshackle Man 5. […]
Read more »A new batch of European tour dates has been announced today. Billed as =1 More Time Tour, it will start on October 17, 2024, in Katowice, and finish on November 10 in Glasgow. Jefferson Starship will provide the support on the continent, while Reef will be supporting in the UK. Tickets go on sale within […]
Read more »More Concerto performances have been announced for March/April 2023, this time in the southeast of Europe. These slot nicely just before the Brazilian performances later in April. 15 March – Sala Palatului, Bucharest, ROMANIA 18 March – National Palace Of Culture, Sofia, BULGARIA 22 March – Sports Hall Mirza Delibasic, Sarajevo, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA 24 March – […]
Read more »Glenn Hughes has tested positive for COVID and will be sitting out the rest of The Dead Daisies’ European tour starting with July 26 gig in Vienne, France. The recent Whitesnake recruit Dino Jelusick will stand in for the vocal duties, and Yogi Lonich will play bass on the remaining dates. In other Daisies news, […]
Read more »[Updated July 2] Tonight’s (June 25) Whitesnake show at the Rock Imperium Festival in Cartagena, Spain has been cancelled due to reasons, ahem, not quite adequately explained.
Read more »The Dead Daisies have just announced a massive European tour this summer. It will start in early June and wrap up 2 months later. The dates are a mix of The Daisies supporting the likes of Foreigner, Judas Priest, and Whitesnake in bigger venues and headlining the smaller ones. Most of the shows have been […]
Read more »The Dead Daisies have announced that the ill fated European tour, already postponed several times, have now been postponed again due to the new round of pandemic restrictions. With the latest state of play concerning Covid 19 and how it is escalating travel, border and venue restrictions, we have had to look again at the […]
Read more »On November 26 the professional Purple tribute band Purpendicular played a gig at La Traverse in Cléon, France. Paicey once again joined them on drums, and the lineup featured another Purple family veteran — Neil Murray on bass. The setlist, quite understandably for the occasion, included several Whitesnake numbers: Highway Star Walking in the Shadow […]
Read more »Just a quick update on the touring schedule. As expected, Deep Purple’s 2021 dates are being rescheduled to 2022. All dates in Italy and most of the French ones have already been rescheduled and confirmed. Of a particular interest is that not only the old dates are being moved, but a new one has been […]
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