On May 17, Ian Paice and Pete York openend the Drums ‘n’ Percussion in Paderborn, Germany, the biggest festival of its kind in Europe. So far only one clip is available, short but stunning (watch Paicey’s luminous sticks): A brief report of the performance (in German) with photographs appears on the festival website. Thanks to […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2013-05-20
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Anastasia Kuvaldina and Andrey Gusenkov sat down to talk with both Ians when the band was in Moscow earlier this month. The interview was done for the Russian radio station Rock FM, and now they have kindly offered us full transcript for publication. Deep Purple 2013 05 02 Interview Rushing into the interview with the […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2013-05-16
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A longish (and thus interesting) interview with Ian Paice was done by Italian Radio Lombardia’s show Linea Rock some time in April and is now available for viewing: Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for the info.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2013-05-14
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Italian tribute band Forever Deep has put out an album of original material with Ian Paice and Don Airey guesting on several tracks: The Star of my Secret Arts The Wish (feat. Paice & Airey) Never My Loneliness (feat. Airey) Without your Love (feat. Paice) Do I Belong Marosh (feat. Paice) Purple Fury The album […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2013-05-13
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Ian Gillan and Ian Paice are scheduled to be the studio interview guests on Later… With Jools Holland next week. The show goes out live on Tuesday, May 14th on BBC2, is repeated in a slightly longer version the Friday after, and also available to view online on the BBC iPlayer. Thanks to BraveWords for […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2013-05-09
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Castle Rock Brewery from Nottingham has a series of one-off seasonal beers dubbed Nottinghamian Celebration Ale named after famous people born in town and beyond. This spring offering on tap: Ian Paice Celebration Ale. The beer is described as a “dark bitter with a slight ‘smoke on the water’ character”. We’re still waiting for our […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2013-05-08
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Here are two more interviews from the Now what?! promotional blitz. Virgin radio Italy (in English with Italian subtitles): GTFM Rockshow on BBC Welsh community radio used prerecorded interviews from the EPK: listen here (MP3, 22 min). Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for the info and to Andy Fox for correction.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2013-05-06
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Ian Paice has appeared on the Metal XS show and talked about the past, present and future of Deep Purple. He went to considerable length explaining, among other things, his point of view on whether the band will appear on the same stage with Blackmore again. Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for the info.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2013-05-05
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Gillan and Paice continue their promotional tour. On Friday, May 3, they were in Moscow, where they have appeared on the radio. Here is TV coverage of the visit from news channel Moskva 24: Interview to TV channel Rossija 24 (unfortunately, also with Russian voiceover), in which Gillan reveals that Vincent Price was also the […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2013-05-04
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The issue of Metal Hammer that went on sale in late March has a two page spread featuring Ian Paice interviewed by Matt Oliver of Jettback. If you have any further details, please leave a comment. Back issues can be ordered from the publisher, we just need to figure out which one it is
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Posted in News by Nick on 2013-04-29
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