Ian Gillan will appear on the Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show on Friday, May 22. The show airs each Friday on BBC 6 Music between 9 p.m. and midnight and is available online for a week after that. In other news, a new installment of the Wordography is up on Caramba: She Thinks It’s a […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-05-05
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Jeb Wright of Classic Rock Revisited has done an interview with Gillan: Jeb: Are you comfortable that your music makes up some of those deep roots? Ian: I have constantly said, with the greatest respect to everyone, that you only have a very short time where you have any contemporary value. The rest of it […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-05-01
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On arrival for the brief visit to Moscow, an extremely tired and jetlagged Big Ian gave an interview on April 17 to Nevsky Express TV. Here are the excerpts from his stream of consciousness on his solo album, quantum theory, religion and human nature: Further instructions on operating nevex.tv’s player are just like before. Thanks […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-04-23
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Rockpages.gr has a rather interesting interview with Graham Bonnet. While undoubtedly it was prompted by his resurrection of Alcatrazz, a good half of the interview is about the Rainbow days.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-04-19
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In a recent interview to the Spanish The Metal Circus, Joe Lynn Turner (among other less gregarious things) took a pot shot at Coverdale: …recently I heard on the Internet that David Coverdale was using all kinds of tapes. Well, I was in Finland [in June 2008] with Graham Bonnet and we were on the […]
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Posted in Blog by Nick on 2009-04-17
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In case any of you had any doubts, now even Glenn Hughes says that he can’t see a Mk3 reunion happening. In his April 11 interview to The Classic Metal Show he says: You know, David (Coverdale) and I have been discussing this with Jon Lord for the last three years. It’s been on the […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-04-14
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Back in February 2008 Jon Lord did two shows in Hagen, Germany. This interview was apparently recorded at around the same time. “The Older Statesman of Rock” talks about music.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-04-14
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Ian Gillan will appear on Off The Record with Joe Benson radio show tonight, April 12, at 11 p.m. Eastern Time. The show is syndicated and is carried by many radio stations across USA and Canada, some of which also broadcast online. We apologise for such short notice. Thanks to Sean Willoughby for the info.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-04-12
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Ian Gillan appeared on Dutch Radio 2 to promote One Eye To Morocco. You can listen to the podcast at schiffers.fm (scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the audio player). The interview is about 16 minutes long and is actually quite interesting once it gets past the familiar bits about […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-04-06
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Ian Gillan did an interview with BBC Radio Gloucestershire where he talks about self-discipline in the studio, the bad old days in swinging London and the role of accountants in Deep Purple’s history, among other things. The interview is 12 minutes long. You can listen to it online from the BBC (or if it doesn’t […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-04-06
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