Deep Purple will headline the Monsters of Rock festival on July 11, 2008 in Zaragoza, Spain. Other bands on the bill include Twisted Sister, Ted Nugent, Saxon, Thin Lizzy, Pretty Maids, Candlemass and Rage. The band is announced to return to Spain on September 13 this year to perform at the Big Twin Espana festival, […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2008-04-22
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Joe Lynn Turner with Brazen Abbot and Whitesnake are to appear at the Magic Circle Festival in Germany this summer. It’s a heavy metal festival that will take place on July 9-12 in Bad Arolsen. The exact schedule is not announced yet, so we will post these appearance in our tour dates as soon as […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2008-03-20
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All European tourdates that we had posted for the summer are now officially confirmed. In addition to that, Montreux is confirmed for the closing day of the festival — July 19, plus a couple of French festivals and one in Belgium. See them all in your tour dates list (and to all of you who […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2008-03-07
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The recent Deep Purple’s visit to Moscow was not all glitz, glamour and rubbing shoulders with rich and powerful. Russian promoters SAV Entertainment and Russkij Show Center have announced that during the band’s visit they have “reached an agreement” for another massive tour of Russia and Ukraine this October. The dates are very preliminary and […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2008-02-27
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Talk about hard touring band… We’ve just received tour dates for the October/November Deep Purple tour of Germany. These are preliminary dates, they come from the site of promoter Klaus Bönisch, and at this point are very unconfirmed and subject to change. Deep Purple have never been strangers in Germany and tour there almost every […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2008-02-22
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The 42nd Montreux Jazz Festival will be held on July 4-19 this year. Deep Puple are included in the preliminary festival program announced a couple of weeks ago. The program should be finalized by April 17th. Our boys established a good tradition of coming back to the Lake Geneva shoreline every few years — they’ve […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2008-02-17
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Deep Purple are confirmed to play in London, UK on July 30 at the ExCeL. This is the venue for the British International Motor Show. Tickets can be ordered at www.seetickets.com and concert tickets include admission to the motor show during the day.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2008-02-15
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German Internet radio station Statusquorokt will have a Deep Purple special on the show on February 23. They are running a contest online with 3 questions that should not be very difficult for majority of our readers: which Status Quo song was produced by a DP member? what’s the name of that DP member? which […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2008-01-28
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More Latin American dates were announced recently on deeppurple.com. All the dates we have posted previously from other sources are now officially confirmed. Mexico, Ecuador and Chile are on the list as well. Meanwhile, European dates for the summer keep appearing here and there. For many of them tickets are on sale or going on […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2008-01-24
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Tickets for the June Whitesnake shows in UK go on presale from January 16 9:00 am to January 18 8:00 am through Live Nation and Ticketmaster. Presale password is snakebite. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on January 19. Whitesnake will be pairing with Def Leppard to co-headline their UK dates. We […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2008-01-15
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