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St.Petersburg based Sobaka.ru took a slightly unorthodox approach to the photo report of a Deep Purple concert. In its dead tree incarnation Sobaka.ru is a glossy ‘lifestyle’ magazine, so they concentrated on people in the audience instead of exclusivity of what’s happening on stage. And you know what — the result kinda sorta lends some […]
Read more »This list is being continuously updated. Progress of the album in charts around the world is neatly summarized here. The first week of Now what?! out in the wild is over and the first official chart positions accounting for both online and offline sales are in. Germany: #1 first week, #5 second, #12 third, #22 […]
Read more »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 […]
Read more »Russian magazine InRock features Now What?! as it’s cover story in issue #2(58)/2013. We are working on obtaining the original English text of the interview they did with Ian Gillan for republication on The Highway Star. Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the info.
Read more »The band has not been touring since February and as they’ve assembled for the rehearsals there were many speculations regarding upcoming setlist. This is what was played on the first three dates of the Russian leg.
Read more »As the band has gathered in a Russian studio to rehearse for the upcoming tour, Roger Glover spoke to ITAR-TASS. Here are the highlights (in reverse translation, so take it with a grain of salt): There are 14 tracks ready for the new album, probably 11 or 12 of them will pass the final selection […]
Read more »Date: 2011-03-23 and 25 Venue: Olimpiysky Sports Complex (Moscow) and IEC (Kiev) Moscow, Russia and Kiev, Ukraine This year I decided to go and see two Deep Purple gigs in the same tour – in Moscow where I live and in Kiev. They were my 6th and 7th Deep Purple concerts correspondingly. My desire to […]
Read more »While on tour in Krasnodar in Southern Russia earlier this month, Jon Lord gave a wonderful interview where he does not shy away from discussing that other band he was in. Part 1 What do you think of Russian audiences? What’s the difference between playing rock and playing classical music? Would you do a reunion […]
Read more »In this interview which he gave during the recent visit to St.Petersburg, Ian Gillan opines on many topics but music. Immigration and overpopulation, democracy, capitalism and communism, money and greed — answers are scarce, but questions are aplenty.
Read more »On March 22 Deep Purple were guests of the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at his official residence in Gorki, near Moscow. They reportedly had some tea (at least while the press was around). Medvedev Jr., aged 15, got a chance to jam with the band on his guitar. Paicey presented the prez with a pair […]
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