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Skipping stones
There is a new interview with Gillan and Paice in the Uncut magazine, and the two Ians are adamant to continue making music into the foreseeable future. The online version is dated June 1, 2026, so which issue it appears in the printed version — your guess is as good as ours, and probably better.
Such is the drive of the new-look Purple that Paice claims they’re considering a return to the studio for another new album in 2027: “We don’t have six, seven, 10 years, everybody knows that.” But he also suggests the Splat! world tour might be their final long-haul around the globe, and they’ll play shorter runs in future. “There’s other stuff in my life. But the idea of actually stopping, that doesn’t compute.”
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I don’t see an issue with Ian’s eyesight either, it never held Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder back. Or Jeff Healey for that matter, a musician Ian adored. For someone who reads a lot, deteriorating eyesight is bitter, but singing?
May 25th, 2026 at 00:33“Someone connected it with my failing eyesight, but I don’t see how that’s going to ever stop me singing,” Gillan tells Uncut today. “I will retire or stop when I haven’t got the strength to do it, or when it becomes embarrassing.”
– yes 🙌🏼
“You’re getting an interpretation of events,” he says of his AI experience. “They don’t do cryptic, they don’t do humour, they don’t do irony, they don’t do most of the things that enrich our lives.”
– but so hard to avoid these days, however the great man is right!
Seems to me they are still alive and very much kicking 😃🙏🏼💜
Found this nice little review of ‘Arrogant Boy’:
https://youtu.be/3OVWaRc5bF4?is=8WC4xiIVt_5ohQW5
And this is so funny😆 :
May 25th, 2026 at 03:47https://youtu.be/zo-uGi9YNKw?is=3vhwFi2gMFoUcZB9
Well, it has been answered then, who are the two members Steve Morse said they were glad after him gone.
May 25th, 2026 at 06:56OMG – the Dolchstoßlegende lives undeterred, there it goes again.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT3iygMZiNQjnYe8zla0cSjwWedhGGQNKwIFQJROdORPTX3F3PYBn2TZqan&s=10
Dark satanic forces within DP plotted against St. Steve, the “evil Ians” scheming: “Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”
People get laid off unjustly all the time. Most of them don’t have half a dozen aircraft in their private hangar or can look back at almost 30 years of a well-paid career in an international rock band.
May 25th, 2026 at 11:01Surely they can add Australia to their 2027 schedule before they retire from touring, just one more time?
May 25th, 2026 at 11:11# 3 Andre- I agree.The Simon putting “…the dynamics of the band back on track…” type of statement is growing thin and tiresome.
May 25th, 2026 at 11:23Another album in 2027!!!
That is the greatest and the best news I’ve heard so far.
The only thing that would beat that is another album in 2028!!!
May 25th, 2026 at 14:29I correct myself, Big Ian doesn’t want to die on a tour bus, he wants to die in a recording booth! 😂
All power to him for that. 🤘
May 25th, 2026 at 14:48Don‘t forget that all these interviews have to be seen in the context of a marketing-campaign for the new album! Of course, they praise Simon – what else should they do? The current version of the band is and has always been the best incarnation of the band.
May 25th, 2026 at 16:23Just like the audience at any particular gig gets always schmoozed with being “0ur best audience on this tour”. 😂
May 25th, 2026 at 20:50A new album in 2027 and a subsequent tour? Deep Purple and the Rolling Stones are now neck and neck as to who will be the longest-running band in rock history!
May 25th, 2026 at 21:30@3 @6 – Andre, Mike
I agree with you guys! As I said before – go for dignity, if there’s a path available – and there is, but the old fart doesn’t take it, because he’s so oh! anti-system.
“I hear they’re gonna try out something new…
I can feel it sticking to my shoe…”
That’s one one hand ultra conservative – on the other – almost punk attitude, isn’t it?
But you know – we can quote the lyrics writer himself even more so here to sum an attitude going – from not so long way back:
“What a bunch of crap you have exuding from your ass
That’s not the sh*t I want to hear” (wrong, IG, in that case you will see it – if observed properly closely from right angle, watch out not to get underneath the source of substance :P)
@4 – Uwe! Come on! You’re bitching upon ‘St. Steven’ going on, but we have a lady here who is shamelessly doing ‘holy IGy’ here in truckloads and you yet praise her for it. Be consequent, or watch out which saint do you side with 😛 🙂 All in all – you’re right in one aspect – “the best version ever of the band is schmaltzing and schmoozing the best version of their audience ever on their best tour ever happening now, promoting their – undoubtedly best ever! – record”.
PS. I’m siding with St. Steven, simply because in reality he was closest possible to being in the business and actually almost being ‘a holy man’ in practice. His goodness and unquestionable decency are virtues I’m ready to praise any day, any time. And yet he flies everything and plays those wooden things like no other. I like that!
May 26th, 2026 at 05:45@ 11- a long way off Fla76. The Stones as we know commenced a lot earlier than DP and they didn’t take a break for seven years. As in, NOT existing for seven years. How much does that all add up to? About thirteen years there for DP to catch up. ZZ Top would probably be in front of DP, So third place if someone else doesn’t steel their thunder. Purple’s that is. Cheers.
May 26th, 2026 at 07:39@11 I don’t think so. Not to sound like a prophet of doom, but I think the end of the road is in sight. Our boys are old, they know it, despite all the bravado in interviews. I am pretty sure the Royal Albert Hall shows are meant to be their goodbye.
Speaking of the comparison to the Stones, DP and the Stones are two opposite ends of rock. Our boys play intelligent and technical music with classic and jazz influence. It takes skills, but also the fluidity and stamina that they may no longer have, except Simon and, to an extent, Don. The Stones play simplistic faux blues, and their popularity is based on sensuality and attitude. They may all be dead, and their estate will still be issuing studio albums of “new” material based on archived bits and pieces and glued together by a half-decent producer and AI. And people will keep buying it.
May 26th, 2026 at 08:31I am old enough to remember IG and RG talking about TBRO …and of course it was an instant fave of theirs, best since Fireball and would have an impact on the live set just like Machine Head for years to come.
May 26th, 2026 at 08:57I guess PR talk is best to swallow with a grain of salt or two.
#13 MacGregor:
sure, but anagraphically there is a year and a half between Gillan and Jagger, the generation of musicians is the same, even if the generation of the two bands is not the same
May 26th, 2026 at 12:28@12
May 26th, 2026 at 13:40You nailed it! I would never call Steve a “saint”, but a wonderful role-model for many things – inside and outside the music(business), perhaps even a little more “outside” the music.
Did you ever ever read the “Guitar One Presents Open Ears: A Journey Through Life with Guitar in Hand” book? That gives a very good impression of his mindset.
@ 15
Gillan saying Bananas was their Sgt. Pepper, making up things about the attendance during the TBRO tour, the age of the audience…..
May 26th, 2026 at 15:32