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We have a whole lot of new and confirmed European tour dates. Deep Purple’s itinerary now looks like this: end of August / Early September they play a couple of open air festivals in Switzerland, then Fête de l’Humanité near Paris, followed by arenas in Barcelona and Madrid. Then off until the British dates in […]
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 »All the Scandinavian dates that we had listed in our tour dates calendar for a while now are also confirmed. One more date was added: Meri Päivät (Sea Days) Festival in Kotka, Finland on July 17. (I know, technically Finland is not Scandinavia, but let’s not raise a fuss about it, shall we? 😉 )
Read more »I’ve seen the boys six times now, and this one was the best out of those, and one of the best gigs I’ve ever seen. The band was on fire, the jamming just flowed, every one of them seemed to enjoy immensely the atmosphere. The audience was very responsive, one of the best audiences I’ve […]
Read more »This report of the last Mk2 gig was shown in Finnish TV next morning, November 18, 1993. Gillan’s interview seems to have been done before the Helsinki show.
Read more »Deep Purple live in Helsinki 1st February. The icehall was full. There was 7 ,000 people. They played over 2 hours. Set list: 1. Pictures Of Home/ 2. Things I Never Said/ 3. Wrong Man/ 4. Ted The Mechanic/ 5. Living Wreck/ 6. Rapture Of The Deep/ 7. Before Time Began/ 8. Mary Long/ 9. […]
Read more »I saw Deep Purple live in Helsinki on the 1st of February… The concert venue was the icehall of Helsinki. The place was full. There were only like twenty free spots in the hall. I don’t know the exact size of the audience, but I think there were about 7.000 people. The warmup band Crazy […]
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