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Deep Purple live at Budweiser Stage (Toronto, Canada 2024-08-25) Deep Purple Concert Review: Toronto, ON, Canada – Budweiser Stage (August 25, 2024) Set List Highway Star A Little On the Side Hard Lovin’ Man Into The Fire Simon’s Solo > Uncommon Man Lazy Sod Lazy Show Me Portable Door Anya Don’s Solo > Bleeding Obvious […]
Read more »Deep Purple live at Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre (Tinley Park, USA 2024-08-23) This is my 11th time seeing Deep Purple and 6th in Chicago. I had 3rd row seats on the aisle in front of the drum kit and Roger’s usual lair. What amazes me is how good and how energetic a band can be […]
Read more »Deep Purple live at Dickies Arena (Fort Worth, USA 2024-08-19) Deep Purple having not been to Southern California since before the pandemic, we decided to see the show which was the farthest west in the USA the band would come on this =1 More Time / Unleashed tour. So we hopped a flight from Los […]
Read more »A lifestyle/travel publication TimeOut (somewhat belatedly) reviews the 2024 Montreux Jazz Festival: There are few riffs more recognisable than the four-note sequence of ‘Smoke On The Water’. It’s been 53 years since a fire destroyed Montreux Casino during a Frank Zappa concert; a scene which members of Deep Purple watched from afar and would later […]
Read more »Sonic Perspectives has a review of the opening gig of the North American tour on August 14 in Hollywood, FL. There’s no point in wasting lines to explain why Deep Purple is one of the most revered and genre-defining rock n’roll bands of the last century, that has been said time and time again. But […]
Read more »Norway Rock Magazine reviews Deep Purple’s performance at the Notodden Blues Festival this past Friday, August 2: Deep Purple received the kind of reception you would expect – Hovigs Hangar, the giant popup inflatable tent in the corner of Torvet, was full. They are touring their new record “=1”, from which we would hear four […]
Read more »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.
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