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Ian Gillan and Ian Paice are scheduled to be the studio interview guests on Later… With Jools Holland next week. The show goes out live on Tuesday, May 14th on BBC2, is repeated in a slightly longer version the Friday after, and also available to view online on the BBC iPlayer.
Thanks to BraveWords for the info.
Castle Rock Brewery from Nottingham has a series of one-off seasonal beers dubbed Nottinghamian Celebration Ale named after famous people born in town and beyond. This spring offering on tap: Ian Paice Celebration Ale. The beer is described as a “dark bitter with a slight ‘smoke on the water’ character”. We’re still waiting for our sample.
Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the info.
Members of the band alluded in the interviews that a new setlist will be rehearsed before touring starts in earnest with more songs from Now what?! incorporated into it. Ofcourse, we all want the whole album played live. But let’s be realistic optimistic and, say, they will pick 6 songs.
Now, which ones?
There’s no guarantee that anybody will listen, but here’s a chance to voice your opinion.
Poll closes at 23:59 UTC on Monday, May 13. You’ll need Javascript and cookies enabled to vote (most browsers do that by default).
Which songs from Now what?! would you like to hear live (choose up to 6)
Total Voters: 1,213
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David Coverdale gave an interview to the Metal Express Radio. He spoke about his new live releases, the upcoming British tour, his humble beginnings in Redcar, his family, and Jon Lord:
MER: Jon Lord has been a really big loss to the music world.
DC: The world is a lot worse off for his loss. I was so, so honoured to have known him and to have worked with him in two big bands. I can so easily visualise him right now. I remember bumping into him at a hotel a few years ago when he was on his way to Australia and we just sat down and had a drink together and the time just flew. It was so much fun to see him. Jon was extraordinarily articulate, charming and such a funny man. He was so gifted musically too and I totally miss him. He was from Leicester so he had a good bloke energy about him so he was able to sit down and bloke it with the best of them. It`s weird you know. I have a big 65” TV in my gym to try to distract me from the pain in my knees and it`s wired into Apple TV so I can access all my photographs. I have around 20,000 photos on there. I put in on shuffle and there`s lots of personal photos on there and lots of music related photos too. When a picture from the Slide It In era of Whitesnake came up half the band has passed away. Jon Lord, Mel Galley and Cozy Powell are all now gone and that`s such a shame. It`s chilling, it just stops you in your tracks. I really miss them all; they were great musicians and fantastic to play with. Loss is tough and to find the time to grieve and process that is difficult particularly in a public scenario. People ask how I feel when I lose a close friend but how do you think I feel? It`s hard to lose such people. The only contact I have now is with the daughter from Jon`s first marriage. On the day he died I had all my family here, it was the Olympics at the time and I just couldn`t get a flight or a hotel. We were laughing about that and in times of sadness sometimes it`s easy to grieve in laughter. Sara, his daughter joked that it was really inconvenient of her Dad to die at that time. Jon would have loved that. We talked about everything and anything.
Read more in Metal Express
Thanks to BraveWords for the info.
NOW What?! has seized the #1 spot in Germany, Deep Purple’s unofficial second home.
This is confirmed by Media Control, who says this is the seventh time Deep Purple hit the number one spot in Germany. (Seventh Heaven?)
In the UK, NOW What?! has reached #1 in the Rock & Metal Albums Top 40 dated May 11:
Let us just take a moment to congratulate the band – and earMUSIC – as we look forward to hearing as many of the new songs as possible on the upcoming tour.
Thanks to Nigel Young.
Vincent Price will be the next single from Now what?!, to be released on June 7 as a download, CD single and seven-inch transparent vinyl. It will be backed by the slightly infamous First Sign Of Madness, which previously was available only as a bonus track in one the the big box chains in Germany.
Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.
Here are two more interviews from the Now what?! promotional blitz.
Virgin radio Italy (in English with Italian subtitles):
GTFM Rockshow on BBC Welsh community radio used prerecorded interviews from the EPK: listen here (MP3, 22 min).
Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for the info and to Andy Fox for correction.
Roger Glover chats about Now what?! with Portuguese radio show Metal Global. You can listen to it at rtp.pt (the interview is in English).
Thanks to Jorge Botas for the info.
Ian Paice has appeared on the Metal XS show and talked about the past, present and future of Deep Purple. He went to considerable length explaining, among other things, his point of view on whether the band will appear on the same stage with Blackmore again.
http://vimeo.com/65450700
Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen for the info.
Gillan and Paice continue their promotional tour. On Friday, May 3, they were in Moscow, where they have appeared on the radio. Here is TV coverage of the visit from news channel Moskva 24:
Interview to TV channel Rossija 24 (unfortunately, also with Russian voiceover), in which Gillan reveals that Vincent Price was also the working title for the album, and both state that the band will play several new songs live, but they have not decided yet which ones:
Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov and SergeyDP for the info.
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