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OTR in St.Petersburg

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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The right frame of mind

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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Blackmore the soccer player

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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Paicey in Moscow

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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The effigy of Rainbow

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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One Eye To Morocco radio premiere

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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The other eye to Europe

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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A Light In Zoetermeer

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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Glenn Hughes at the NAMM

Glenn Hughes was interviewed by Eric Blair at the NAMM, which was held January 15-18, 2009 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Glenn talks about his plans, his life, the F.U.N.K album, and the much discussed here and elsewhere Mk3 reunion, which he says is definitely not going to happen this year.

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J.R.: “I always only wanted a normal Dad”

Jürgen “J.R.” Blackmore talks about his career, his father and the Over The Rainbow project in a recent interview with Rockinform Magazine: Your father is Ritchie Blackmore. How do you feel about it, that he’s a legendary guitarist? Jürgen: – Oh well……it was a very hard childhood time for me because everyone is looking at […]

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