It appears that Ticketmaster is selling tickets for the second night at Hammersmith on November 15. The tickets quietly went on sale on Wednesday and are all seated this time.
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Promotion for the Ian Gillan’s album One Eye To Morocco goes into full swing. Tonight, Saturday, March 21, starting at 6pm he will appear in a 2 hour special on Rock Radio in Scotland:

Ian takes over the airwaves to celebrate the release of his new solo album, One Eye to Morocco, next week. During the show he plays some of his favourite tracks and talks about why they’re important to him.

The show will be repeated on Sunday, March 22, at 8pm on Rock Radio Manchester. You can listen to both broadcasts online if you’re in the UK, and as we’re told by the Rock Radio, there’ll be a chance to listen again afterwards.

We apologize for such short notice.

Rock Radio has also put together a Ian Gillan special on their website.

Decent promotion has paid off in other countries. One Eye To Morocco has entered the German album chart at #97. The chart is compiled by a market research company Media Control GfK, although the full 100 long entry list is only available to subscribers. Let us know how the album is doing in your country.

Thanks to Lisa Johnston and Blabbermouth for the info.

On April 17 Italian label Frontier Records is releasing the second Sunstorm album called House of Dreams with Joe Lynn Turner on vocals.

The Sunstorm project came to being in 2006 when Turner accepted Frontiers President Serafino Perugino’s concept to “blow the dust off” from songs that Joe wrote for the aborted follow up to his 1985 solo debut Rescue You. This resulted in the first album simply called Sunstorm.

The new album apparently follows the same formula, with some tracks dug up from JLT’s archives and some contributed by other musicians.

Track list and preview:

1. Divided
2. Don’t Give Up
3. The Spirit Inside
4. I Found Love
5. Say You Will (Jim Peterik)
6. Gutters of Gold (Jim Peterik)
7. Save a Place in Your Heart (Paul Sabu)
8. Forever Now (Paul Sabu)
9. Tears on the Pages (Jim Peterik, Jon Lind and Russ Ballard)
10. House of Dreams
11. Walk On

(Co-)writing credits appear where appropriate. Brothers Tom and James Martin (House Of Lords, Khymera) wrote the remaining tracks.

Artist: SUNSTORM featuring Joe Lynn Turner
Title: House of Dreams
Label: Frontiers Records
Format: 1CD
Music Style: Melodic Rock
Release date: April 17th 2009
Cat. #: FR CD 409
Cod: 8024391040928
Special Notes: Features sticker with lineup info

Producer: Dennis Ward
Guitars: Uwe Reitenauer and Thorsten Koehne
Drums: Chris Schmidt
Keyboards: Gunter Werno

Thanks to Frontier Records, Lisa Walker and Gustavo Solinas for the info.

Belgian radio station Classic 21 has a special for One Eye To Morocco. You can watch Gillan’s interview undubbed, and our francophone readers will certainly appreciate the text. See and read it at classic21.be (you might need to scroll down the page a bit).

Thanks to Valerio Dossini for the info.

In the latest issue of the Polish Teraz Rock magazine (March 2009) there is a very interesting three page interview. Ian Gillan and Wieslaw Weiss are talking about One Eye To Morocco and some other things. Plus a few fine photos.

Thanks to Joasia Ostrowiecka for the info.

Judas Priest have announced on their official website some North American tour dates, starting July 1st and going into the early August. They have also stated that they will be touring with Whitesnake for most of the dates, but not all of them. So far, there is nothing on Whitesnake.com.

Thanks to Blabbermouth.net for the info.

In case you’ve been wondering what that after gig moment was all about, here is the explanation — Battle Rages On at the Cosquin Rock Festival as shown on Argeninian TV. Brings back painful memories of Hammersmith’2002.
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Gillan/Glover album Accidentally On Purpose remains one of the most unique works in the Purple family. Here are some video clips from that period.
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Glenn Hughes did a very low key acoustic show in Sweden this Saturday. Just a guitar, some keyboards, Glenn singing, and a special guest to boot — Coast To Coast was performed together with Nathalie Lorichs. Glenn saw the clip of Nathalie perfoming CTC in high school and this time around invited her to the microphone:

Sail Away:

Full setlist for the night:

I Found A Woman
Sail Away
It’s About Time
Mistreated
This Time Around
Superstition (Stevie Wonder cover)
Seafull
Will Our Love End
Coast To Coast
Imperfection
Don’t Let Me Bleed
Holy Man
Superstar (???)

You Keep On Movin’

Thanks to Daniel Bengtsson and Christer Lorichs for the info.

As previously reported exclusively by The Highway Star, seven rolls of 8mm film from Deep Purple’s 1972 concerts in Japan have come to light.

We also promised you a look at the film. Click on this photo to see a series of screen grabs from the black & white film.

90 seconds of Highway Star from this film will be included in the History section of the upcoming 2DVD set “History, Hits & Highlights”.

The clip is filmed from right in front of the stage. At first the band is seen walking casually onto the stage, then they tear into the song. Filmed on 8mm, the quality is obviously not comparable to modern day High Definition footage, but the energy of the band is unmistakable.

The full confirmed track list for “History, Hits & Highlights” is now set to look like this:

UPDATE: THS readers made the producers aware of a couple of mistakes in the track list. Strange Kind Of Woman is indeed the Top Of The Pops recording, but obviously not 10 minutes long. Also, the No No No rehearsals are from Beat Club, Never Before is the promo clip.

Disc 1

History (20.00 – documentary including Made In Japan footage)
Help (5:21 – Danish TV)
Hush (3:30 – Playboy After Dark)
Wring That Neck (3:20 – Canadian TV)
Hallelujah (3:42 – Beat Club)
Mandrake Root (12:08 – Southbank)
Speed King (4:13 – WDR Vicky Leandros)
Black Night (3:10 – Top Of The Pops)
Child In Time (9:36 – Doing Their Thing)
Lazy (11:06 – Copenhagen 1972)
Strange Kind Of Woman (3:55 – Top Of The Pops) *updated
Fireball writing session (silent) (3:58 – ABC TV Australia)
Fireball (3:26 – Disco ZDF)
Demon’s Eye (10:09 – RBB Germany)
No No No (7:15 – Beat Club)
Into The Fire (3:57 – RBB Germany)
Never Before (3:29 – promo) *updated
Highway Star (6:04 – Beat Club)
Smoke On The Water (4:47 – Hofstra)
Burn (6:35 – London 74 / Polytechnic Project)
Mistreated (10:24 – California Jam)
Love Child (4:20 – Tokyo 75)
You Keep On Moving (5:42 – Tokyo 75)

Disc 2

And The Address (2:55 – Playboy After Dark)
Wring That Neck (24:19 – Bilzen Jazz Festival 1969)
Wring That Neck (11:19 – Pop Deux’ Paris 1970)
Mandrake Root (15:01 – Pop Deux’ Paris 1970)
Black Night . (3:15 – Promo clip)
No No No (rehearsals) (15:00 – Beat Club) *updated
Jt Nuit’ French TV 1974 (3:08 – INA France)
Burn (6:35 – Leeds Polytechnic Project 1974)
Interview (Leeds Polytechnic Project 1974)
Space Truckin’ (10:00 – Leeds Polytechnic Project 1974)
New Zealand TV Doc Nov 1975 (23:06 – New Zealand TV 1975)
Smoke On The Water (3:00 – New Zealand TV 1975)
Tony Edwards (DP manager) interview (2:11 – French TV 1976)