Martin from FaceCulture emailed us that there’s more of the Gillan’s interview posted on their website. A lot more, actually. FaceCulture spoke to Ian Gillan about his solo album One Eye To Morocco, travelling, first memories, Edwin Abott Abott, Flatland, God, It Would Be Nice, Deep Purple, forty years, the next album, Fire Ball, joining […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-02-19
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JLT in a recent interview with Spanish metal website rafabasa.com went on record that they’ve got Ritchie’s approval to go on the road as Over The Rainbow: This project is very real and if you don’t see it, probably you couldn’t see it again, and it’s the reason because we would like to come all […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-02-18
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Russian Internet TV company Nevsky Express filmed interview with all five members of the band and bits of the live show from the February 16th Over The Rainbow gig in St.Petersburg. You can watch the video on their web site. Click on ‘высокое качество’ to switch to higher quality stream (you need a rather fast […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-02-18
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Dutch site FaceCulture has an interview with Ian Gillan (probably done during his media tour around Europe a couple of weeks ago). In conclusion, the subject of a new Purple album pops up: FaceCulture: Are you thinking about the new album? IG: […] We’ve got to be in the right frame of mind — where […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-02-17
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Ritchie wearing a German national team jersey and being interviewed at a soccer game in Munich during The Battle Rages On tour.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-02-15
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Here’s a video from the recent Paicey’s visit to Moscow, where he held a drum clinic on Ferbuary 8. Sadly, the interview bits are overdubbed in Russian.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-02-15
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Joe Lynn Turner has a couple of interviews out, dealing mostly with Over The Rainbow, with some old time Rainbow anecdotage thrown in for the good measure, and also the recent JLT’s Live in Germany record. The first one is with AntiMusic: Morley: I understand you’ll start off by touring. Do you anticipate recording new […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-02-12
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Italian Capital Radio has posted online the Whatever show from January 26 that guested Gillan with what appears to be the world radio premiere of One Eye To Morocco. The show is 53 minutes long, with the interview itself starting about 14 minutes into the stream, and is quite interesting. Big Ian explains title of […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-01-28
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Ian Gillan is doing a media blitz around Europe for his new solo album One Eye To Morocco. Tonight, January 26, he will appear on Capital Radio in Italy. You can listen to it online (if you’re lucky that is, I got an error message in Italian). Over the next two weeks his promo tour […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2009-01-26
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A review of the Don Airey’s show in Zoetermeer on January 22 and a brief interview with the man himself apears on the Here Comes The Flood blog: Any chance of Deep Purple recording one of your songs on a new studio album? I don’t know. I contributed a lot to the last one, Rapture […]
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Posted in DP related reviews, News by Nick on 2009-01-24
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