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NME reviews the 2024 Montreux Jazz Festival and starts right with the most important in our quarters: “We all came out to Montreux, on the Lake Geneva shoreline,” growls Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan, erupting after what could arguably be the most iconic riff ever gets a bigger reaction than any guitar part could – […]
Read more »Reprint of an article from New Musical Express, June 26, 1971, on Deep Purple’s visit to Iceland and review of the gig, in which the author reveals that he has absolutely no clue what Aurora borealis actually is. But that’s beside the point. A trot round town revealed every record shop with its windows full […]
Read more »[Updated] A short, but quite substantial interview with Glenn Hughes. Now with the review of the gig in Brno on April 28.
Read more »Metaltalk has a brief and, frankly, rather superficial review of the Singapore gig. Of interest, might be the setlist, which can give an idea of what to expect throughout the summer. At least, until July 19th.
Read more »Scottish newspaper The Courier has a historic account of a Deep Purple concert at the Caird Hall in Dundee on April 18, 1974. It is accompanied by some never before published pictures from the gig. These rare colour photographs document the night Deep Purple kicked off their UK tour in Dundee 50 years ago. They […]
Read more »Here’s Pete Makowski’s feature on Rainbow December’76 tour of Japan, originally published on January 29, 1977, in the Sounds. It is a rather long read, but well worth it. “RADIES AND GENTLEMEN PLESENTING: TONEE CALEE, DIMMY BAIN, COSEE POW, LONNIE DAMES DIO, LITCHIE BRACKMORE… LAINBOW!!!!!” (me first Nippon gig). The audience looked pretty ordinary until […]
Read more »An in-depth and well written review of the Deep Purple gig in Bengaluru, India, on December 17, 2023. Three days after British rockers Deep Purple enchanted the crowd at the Bandland rock festival in Bengaluru, the gooseflesh lingers like the whiff of cologne. For many, they have been college heroes, cocktail companions, the kings of […]
Read more »A quick roundup of the local press coverage of Deep Purple’s appearance at the Bandland festival in Bengaluru. Rolling Stone India: With two stages at Bandland, one band started when the other was done and it was more or less the case with Deep Purple kicking off with their instantly recognizable “Highway Star” from 1972’s […]
Read more »Glenn Hughes played in SĂŁo Paulo, on November 11, 2023, in the course of his Marks 3&4 tour. Red-hot chili pepper Chad Smith happened to be in the neighbourhood and sat behind the kit for a couple of tunes.
Read more »A vintage review of a Rainbow gig at the New York’s Beacon Theater. It first appeared in Sounds magazine on July 24, 1976. Rainbow hit nirvana Blackmore´s Rainbow Beacon Theatre, New York Concert review by Peter Crescenti IT MAY be a few months before Blackmore’s Rainbow appears in Britain for the first time, but even […]
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