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A second Jon Lord memorial concert will take place in Warsaw, Poland, on July 20, at the Club Proxima. The band Made in Warsaw, comprised of members of Panteon, Night Mistress and few other Warsaw rock bands, will play over 3 hours of Purple music, including obligatory hits and some rarities that has not been […]
Read more »Perfect Strangers of Finland is celebrating their 15th anniversary by organizing a traditional Purple Night concert. Who Do We Think We Are will be the theme for this Purple Night, which is being held for the fifth year in a row now. What: Solid Faces (Pietarsaari): the band that toured with Doogie White in 2009. […]
Read more »Polish fans will be celebrating the upcoming 40th anniversary of Made in Japan in style. A special event will be held in Warsaw on August 17 — the whole Made in Japan start to finish, including the encores, will be performed by a local band called Panteon. The event is dedicated to the memory of […]
Read more »The Perfect Strangers of Finland will hold it’s 4th Purple Night on January 14, 2012. The party is dubbed All Night Long and will be dedicated this time to Rainbow. Rainbow music from 1975 to 1995 will be performed by a house band and guest musicians. The house band consists of musicians who have played […]
Read more »Encouraged by the success of the two earlier Purple Night shows in 2008 and 2009, this year Perfect Strangers of Finland fan club presents the In Rock-themed Purple Night 2011. The house band will play all the songs of this album, featuring several singers: A-P Louhelainen, Jukka Ilmonen, J.J.Hjelt, Michael Henneken, Kimmo Blom and Taage. […]
Read more »Before the Purple gig on May 1 in Wroclaw, Steve Morse joined the croud of six thousand other guitar players to set the new world record at the Thanks Jimi Festival. The official tally was 6,346 people playing together Hey Joe, more than tripling the standing record for the “Largest Guitar Ensemble” of 2,052 set […]
Read more »A new attempt on the Guitar World Record will happen on the German TV show Fernsehgarten on May 10th. We have covered the previous two records, both set in 2007 and both featuring Smoke On The Water: 1,802 players in Leinfelden, Germany and 1,721 players in Kansas City, USA. The new attempt will be made […]
Read more »The Perfect Strangers of Finland is organizing a second Purple Night, which is now becoming a good tradition. A project called 10 Perfect Women will perform music from Deep Purple, Rainbow and Whitesnake. 10 Perfect Women includes singers Maria Hänninen, Lotta Lené, Erja Lyytinen, Maya Paakkari and Marenne. The house band will be Joe Doakes, […]
Read more »Esquires Club, Bedford, May 3, 2008. Nick Simper and the Good Old Boys: I’m Ready, Fool, My Way, Shaky Ground, Sleepwalk, 25 Rock, Somebody to Love, Los Lobos, Come On Everybody, Shaking All Over (encores: Hush, The Good old Boys). Glenn Hughes (with keyboardist Anders Olinder): Coast to Coast, I Found A Woman, Mistreated, Seafull, […]
Read more »More Black Than Purple will be hosting a Purple convention on May 3rd in Bedford, UK: Wymer UK is pleased to announce a Deep Purple convention celebrating the momentous occasion of forty years since the inception of this classic hard rock band with a 12-hour marathon of all things Purple. The event will be held […]
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