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Over The Rainbow management has issued a press release concerning ticket sales for the first 3 OTR shows in Belarus and Russia. It appears that out of the three shows one was oversold and the other two very nearly sold out. Minsk, Sports Palace: 4,000+ (capacity: 4,500) St.Petersburg, BKZ: 3,500+ (capacity: 3,727, all seated) Moscow, […]
Read more »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 […]
Read more »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 […]
Read more »Setlist and a couple of short clips from Minsk, February 14 for your viewing pleasure.
Read more »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 […]
Read more »Russian English language weekly St.Petersburg Times in it’s article “Buyer beware” writes about the practice of local promoters misrepresenting the artists for something they are not. Advertisement for the upcoming Over The Rainbow show in St.Petersburg is given as one of the examples: As the advertising campaign for the show began late last year, posters […]
Read more »Terry Bezer writes in the Classic Rock Magazine blog: Classic Rock needs your help in selecting rock’s greatest singers and best-loved voices. Britain’s best rock magazine is putting together a list of the singers that changed our lives: the belters, the screamers, the warblers, shriekers, and crooners that helped define the music we know and […]
Read more »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 […]
Read more »Joe Lynn Turner will be the featured guest on Eddie Trunk’s “Friday Night Rocks” radio show on New York’s Q104.3 FM on Friday, January 9. We have no idea what they will be talking about, but an educated guess would be the Over The Rainbow project, which now has a string of confirmed live dates […]
Read more »Big Noize, featuring Joe Lynn Turner on vocals, together with bassist Phil Soussan (Ozzy Osbourne, Vince Neil), guitarist Carlos Cavazo (Quet Riot, Ratt) and drummer Simon Wright (AC/DC, Dio), have cancelled their tour of South America, literally hours before the first concert on December 4th in Lima, Peru. Band’s management and promoters are blaming each […]
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