All hail the harp
Deep Purple have started their 2026 tour in earnest on June 11 in Espoo, Finland. Both already released tracks from Splat! made a live debut.
Thanks to luppakorva for the video clips and to Uwe for the heads-up.
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Deep Purple have started their 2026 tour in earnest on June 11 in Espoo, Finland. Both already released tracks from Splat! made a live debut.
Thanks to luppakorva for the video clips and to Uwe for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Maybe it‘s just me, but I prefer these two new songs in the set, short as they are, to the umpteenth 12 minute + version of Black Night!
Kurz und knapp zum Kern mag der Purple Fan stets gern!
https://youtu.be/boDdHpsn0x8
And Joey was an early fan, so there!
June 12th, 2026 at 00:33Deep Purple back in the day began their tours in Denmark. Maybe the Danes are not into Purple anymore like they used to be? Or maybe the Danes are too critical and the Purple lads are playing it safe, who can tell. A warm up gig or two is required before they head south and then return up north again later in the year. Cheers.
June 12th, 2026 at 00:37Regarding Deep Purple commencing a world tour in a certain country, we here in Australia (and perhaps also the New Zealanders) did wonder back in 1984. Apart from the obvious query, ‘how long is this going to last’, we were also asking ‘why are they starting their world tour all the way out here’? Uwe will know doubt remind every one of our existence and how important it all is to the world at large. But we Colonials, as in ex pat British, Irish and Europeans etc, were wondering if it was our intellect, charisma, suave sophistication and everything else that may have been the very reason. Or was it the total opposite, ‘these antipodeans will not know the difference, even if we mess things up and start tearing each other apart’. The mind doth boggle at times, even after 42 years. Cheers.
June 12th, 2026 at 01:13A better response from the audience for Arrogant Boy but after listening to Diablo with the harmonica added I have an affirmative take on this song now.
June 12th, 2026 at 02:33Cheers
Phil
With Rush’s current tour clocking in at 2h40, and with a setlist literally bursting at the seams, DP has some work left to do. 1h35 with very little in the way of changes. In order to shake things up, I would like to see Hard Lovin Man, Into the Fire, Lazy Sod, Lazy, WABMC, Space Truckin, Smoke, Hush and Black Night go and be replaced by something else. That part of the show has stayed the same forever.
June 12th, 2026 at 02:57