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Dressing up for tea with Alice
Sharply looking Ian Gillan made the society page in Czech media after attending an Opera Ball in Prague last Saturday. Here are more pictures from the life of rich and famous.
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Blackmore’s Night in the “Yes Man”
Blackmore’s Night song Olde Mill Inn is featured in the new Jim Carrey comedy Yes Man, with Blackmore and Night names mentioned in the closing credits. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but here’s the proof.
Olde Mill Inn is a real place and has been the couple’s favourite hangout in Long Island ever since the infamous Normandie Inn closed down a few years back.
Blackmore’s Night in Zagreb
As the Blackmore’s Night makes it’s way around Southern Europe, here are the details for the January 27 show in Zagreb, Croatia.
Set list:
Locked within the crystal ball
Queen for a day
Under a violet moon
Peasant’s promise
Streets of London / The Times They Are a Changin’
World of stone
Durch den wald zum Bach haus
Drinking song / Solo spots
Soldier of fortune
Home again
Loreley
Ariel
Toast to tomorrow
Far far away
Diamonds and rust
Wish You Were Here / Ocean gypsy
Wind in the willows
new song (???)
Black night / Difficult to cure / Smoke on the water / Woman from Tokyo
The Clock Ticks On
All for one
Christmas tree
Mid-winter’s night / Dandelion wine
And a few clips. Video is not the best quality (given how notorously strict Blackmore’s security are about unauthorised recording, it’s understandable), but audio is half decent.
Locked within the crystal ball
Queen for a day (part 2)
Soldier of fortune
Thanks to Kevin Dixon for the info.
Blackmore signature strat
Fender is reintroducing the Ritchie Blackmore Signature Stratocaster model. The 2009 reincarnation of the guitar features alder body, maple neck, scalloped rosewood fingerboard, big headstock, two Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder pickups (middle pickup is fake), vintage F-style tuners, and comes in one colour only. MSRP is $1,500 and online retailers have it at around $1,200.
Video courtesy of GrearWire.
Zabrze, Poland, 1993
Professionally shot footage from Purple show in Zabrze, Poland on October 31, 1993, has surfaced. Local TV crews are routinely given permission to film part of the show to accompany news coverage. Usually it results in a few seconds of the band on stage making it all the way on the air. This one is a whole lot longer, includes complete Highway Star and parts of Black Night, Perfect Strangers and Child In Time. Nice Polish choir on Child In Time 😉
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One Eye To Morocco radio premiere
Italian Capital Radio has posted online the Whatever show from January 26 that guested Gillan with what appears to be the world radio premiere of One Eye To Morocco. The show is 53 minutes long, with the interview itself starting about 14 minutes into the stream, and is quite interesting. Big Ian explains title of the album ( actually, the other eye is to Caucasus 😉 ). Watching the World Cup in a beach cafe in Rimini, the late Luciano Pavarotti, Gillan’s Butterfly Ball appearance, recording of the album in Toronto, and many other things — it’s all there. Five tracks from the new album were played: One Eye To Morocco, No Lotion For That, The Sky Is Falling Down, It Would Be Nice, and Always The Traveller — so you have a chance to preview that as well.
If you can’t wait until he appears in your local radio, listen here or if it doesn’t work for you, try the WinMedia stream directly.
Thanks to Larry (a.k.a. Crimson Ghost) for the info.
The other eye to Europe
Ian Gillan is doing a media blitz around Europe for his new solo album One Eye To Morocco. Tonight, January 26, he will appear on Capital Radio in Italy. You can listen to it online (if you’re lucky that is, I got an error message in Italian).
Over the next two weeks his promo tour will also take him to Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris, Warsaw, Prague and Hamburg. We will post details when (and if) we get them.
Thanks to Drew Thompson and Mirko for the info.
Caveat emptor: Live 1974 DVD
There is a new live Deep Purple DVD scheduled for release on February 10. It’s called “Live 1974 (TV Recordings)” and the label press release claims that
[…] the 55-minute disc features footage of “DEEP PURPLE performing for the TV cameras in 1974 in Germany, originally broadcast in Argentina. […]
Track listing:
Burn
Might Just Take Your Life
Mistreated
Smoke On The Water
You Fool No One
The Mule
Space Truckin’
Now, we don’t want to sound all doom and gloom before we have the actual product, but several things make us very, very sceptical.
- There is a shot from Cal Jam on the cover.
- Track listing looks identical to Cal Jam.
- The label (IMV Blueline) has a track record of releasing shoddy compilations.
- Not that it’s completely impossible, but a totally unknown 55 minute long Purple video recording from 1974 surfacing on a small independent label?
Thanks to Blabbermouth.net for the info.
A Light In Zoetermeer
A review of the Don Airey’s show in Zoetermeer on January 22 and a brief interview with the man himself apears on the Here Comes The Flood blog:
Any chance of Deep Purple recording one of your songs on a new studio album?
I don’t know. I contributed a lot to the last one, Rapture of the Deep. I did my bit and I was quite pleased with that. We will be recording again. There are some plans for that.And a follow-up for your solo album?
I promised Ed van Zijl that there will be some guest appearances on the new one. I can’t give you any names, though.
Thanks to Hans Werksman for letting us know.
Classic Rock in search of the Voice Of Rock
Terry Bezer writes in the Classic Rock Magazine blog:
Classic Rock needs your help in selecting rock’s greatest singers and best-loved voices.
Britain’s best rock magazine is putting together a list of the singers that changed our lives: the belters, the screamers, the warblers, shriekers, and crooners that helped define the music we know and love, be it prog or punk, metal or melodic rock, grunge, garage rock or plain old rawk.
Who are the singers you love? Who are the greatest at delivering live – and who are the most disappointing? Who has the greatest range, the most unique voice – who delivered rock’s greatest vocal performances and what are they?
Leave your comments below – the best may be used in the magazine and the top 5 best comments (as chosen by the magazine team) will receive a Classic Rock goody bag.
You all know what to do. If interested, leave comments in their blog. I doubt they read ours.
Thanks to Dave Hodgkinson for the info.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing