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When Whitesnake was confirmed for Sweden Rock Festival 2011 it came with the announcement that the show would feature, “certain very special guest performers”. According to a post on the Deep Purple Fan Forum, former Whitesnake member Bernie Marsden recently announced at a show in Glasgow that he is one of the special guests and […]
Read more »Sweden Rock Festival has just announced Whitesnake’s appearance at the 2011 fest which will be held on June 8th to 11th on their usual grounds near Sölvesborg. The announcement certainly ain’t no stranger to hype: …We’re mostly referring to certain very special guest performers. We won’t reveal who — let’s just say that any fan […]
Read more »Swedish channel SVT is broadcasting a new 10-part series called The Seventies. Deep Purple are prominently features in the first episode — 1970 — which was shown on July 17 and now you can watch it online at svtplay.se. Unless you think you’ll enjoy Joe Tempest talking in Swedish, you can skip straight to around […]
Read more »A Swedish promotor in Gothenburg, Sweden, has been fined by the local authorities for not being able to keep sound levels at legal limits. One of the shows this summer that reached an illegal level was the Deep Purple show at TrĂ€dgĂ„r’n in Gothenburg where the band played at an average of 102 dB. The […]
Read more »Blackmore’s Night management has announced a new United States tour. We have 4 confirmed dates in October with tickets being on sale since yesterday, August 13, and by all accounts going fast. More dates are being promised. On the other side of the pond, Over The Rainbow will start a 2-month trek in early September […]
Read more »One of the biggest and most prestigious rock festivals in Europe — Sweden Rock Festival — has booked Over The Rainbow to play at the festival this year. The exact date has not been released yet. Sweden Rock 2009 will run June 3rd to 6th at their usual location near Solvesborg in Sweden. Thanks to […]
Read more »We have a whole lot of new and confirmed European tour dates. Deep Purple’s itinerary now looks like this: end of August / Early September they play a couple of open air festivals in Switzerland, then FĂȘte de lâHumanitĂ© near Paris, followed by arenas in Barcelona and Madrid. Then off until the British dates in […]
Read more »Glenn Hughes did a very low key acoustic show in Sweden this Saturday. Just a guitar, some keyboards, Glenn singing, and a special guest to boot — Coast To Coast was performed together with Nathalie Lorichs. Glenn saw the clip of Nathalie perfoming CTC in high school and this time around invited her to the […]
Read more »All the Scandinavian dates that we had listed in our tour dates calendar for a while now are also confirmed. One more date was added: Meri PĂ€ivĂ€t (Sea Days) Festival in Kotka, Finland on July 17. (I know, technically Finland is not Scandinavia, but let’s not raise a fuss about it, shall we? đ )
Read more »David Coverdale proved on Dec 17th in Gothenburg that heÂŽs taken the current incarnation of Whitesnake as far as he can. Although DC increasingly needs the band to fall back on, the success or failure of a Whitesnake concert is still very much a result of CoverdaleÂŽs performance. In some areas he did very well, […]
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