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Banned
Ian Paice not only continues to tour with Purpendicular, but they also completed recording a new album together. The album is whimsically called Banned, and release date is pencilled in for October 10, 2025.
In the hot summer of 2024, the band decided to write their fourth album in a remote village high in the mountains near Porto, Portugal.
The concept was agreed on the first night, but that concept took a twist when the devastating fires took place that very evening, putting the lives of the band in grave danger.
The band were rescued off the mountain from their villa, to a safer option and to an alternative accommodation, where they spent the night watching the fires rage on the veranda.
It was here titles and more ideas came to fruition, to add to the already conceptual theme of Banned, which summarizes today’s sensitive culture, in that the slightest wrong word can get you banned, adding the pun Banned with the last two letters before the last D in the word being crossed out equaling the word Band.
With all this in mind and the whole band in agreement, it was then decided to add an autobiographical theme also, telling the story of events as they unfolded that treacherous night where many people lost their lives and homes.
The final recordings of the album were completed in Italy, Poland, and the UK. The record is produced by Alessandro Debiaggi and Robby Thomas Walsh. It is a fresh modern look back at the ’70s.
Track listing:
- Inferno
- Beast
- The Escape
- Blood Red Moon
- You Better Behave
- Banned
- Too Hard To PLease
- Seventies Kid
- The End
Purpendicular lineup:
Robby Thomas Walsh (Ireland) – vocals
Ian Paice (UK) – drums
Murray Gould (UK) – guitars
Alessandro Debiaggi (Italy) – keyboards
Mauricio Torchio (Italy) – bass
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What is is with him that whenever Little Ian wants to record somewhere things burn 🔥 down? Laser eyes behind those glasses?
Rise up, gather ’round
Rock this place to the ground
Burn it up, let’s go for broke
Watch the night go up in smoke
Rock on (rock on)
Drive me crazier
No serenade, no fire brigade
Just the pyromania, come on
https://youtu.be/nhSdljm909Y
Little Ian liked Def Leppard. He opened for them with Gary Moore on their Pyromania US tour and he and Def Lep drummer Rick Allen got along like, uhum, a house on fire. They said nice things about each other‘s drumming.
July 1st, 2025 at 23:05Hmmm, where have I heard this story before, with another band Paice was/is in? 🙂
July 2nd, 2025 at 00:15