Blackmore’s Night will be featured in a two part broadcast on German radio station Radio T. The show will air on September 13th and 20th at 20:00. Interview is conducted by Manja Kolb. Radio T is on the air in Chemnitz at 102.7 MHz and on cable at 98.25 MHz and 103.7 MHz. See www.peters-kramladen.de for further information.

Thanks to Mike Garrett for the info.

A mimed playback of St. Theresa done on a morning TV show on August 16. Blackmore barely pretends he’s actually playing guitar ;). Backing singers are from the support band Gothien, as the Sisters of the Moon have been given the Spanish Archer following the last show of the German tour.
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David Coverdale will be interviewed in the new episode of BBC Radio 2s Masters of Rock series devoted to classic, contemporary and obscure hard rock and metal. The show, which is hosted by Bruce Dickinson, will include a chat with Coverdale about his colourful career. The program is scheduled to air on August 23 at 10:00 p.m. (GMT).

In other Coverdale related news, Whitesnake has set “Good to be Bad” as the title of its new studio album, tentatively due early next year.

Thanks to DPAS and Mike Garrett for the info.

Steve Morse will appear on an upcoming album by a fellow Dixie Dreg T Lavitz. The album is called ‘School of the Arts’ and will also feature Dave Weckl (drums), Frank Gambale (guitar), Jerry Goodman (also a Dixie Dregs member, violin) and John Patitucci (bass). It will be released on October 9th.

Thanks to Alwin Bastiaansen for the info.

During Deep Purple show on August 12 in Costa Mesa, California, Edgar Winter joined the band on stage to play saxophone on Smoke on the Water. The next day in Ventura Michael Bradford jumped on stage unannounced for the Highway Star and stayed for Smoke on the Water. Steve Morse gestured to Michael to take the solo during Smoke mere seconds before it was to start, catching him a bit off guard (and, reportedly, the FoH sound engineer too). Michael tore it up with a blazing solo.

Thanks to Rick Damigella for the info.

Ian Paice will do a drum clinic and a gig in Italy on September 7. He will perform a “Deep Purple Night” with The Perfect Strangers Band at piazza Roma in Castelli (Teramo). Show starts at 21:00 and it’s free entrance. For further information please call 0861979142 or +393385451753. Further updates (if any) will be posted on out tour dates page.

Thanks to Francesco Caporaletti for the info.

The business model of the so-called “classic rock” FM radio is well known — milk fans of the older bands for everything they can by putting them on a nostalgia trip. This results in predictable playlists that are put together by marketing people of a big faceless corporation. Play greatest hits and nothing else. In Purple terms this translates into Smoke on the Water, Hush, and occasionally, Woman From Tokyo, Space Truckin’, Lazy, and maybe, if you’re lucky, Perfect Strangers or Knocking at Your Backdoor.

Music radio (from the listener’s point of view) shouldn’t be like that. It’s not just a medium for playing a handful of 30 year old hits over and over and over again. It should be a medium that expands horizons, introduces people to new and old, but long forgotten, music.

How about a radio playlist that includes MTV, ’69, Listen Learn Read On, Money Talks, Junkyard Blues, Hey Joe, Razzle Dazzle, Wrong Man, A200, Lazy (from Made in Japan), When A Blind Man Cries, Never Before, Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming, You Fool No One, Hey Cisco, Call Of The Wild, Bad Attitude, Pictures Of Innocence, Fools, Gypsy’s Kiss, Before Time Began, Clearly Quite Absurd, Prelude: Happiness, One More Rainy Day, Speed King, Flight Of The Rat, Help, Living Wreck, Into The Fire, Bloodsucker, Lady Luck, Purpendicular Waltz, Cascades, Somebody Stole My Guitar, River Deep Mountain High, Dealer, A Twist In The Tail, Drifter, Rapture Of The Deep, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, A Castle Full Of Rascals, This Time Around, We Can Work It Out, Sail Away, Mitzi Dupree?

And that’s not the complete playlist yet. And most important, it’s not imaginary.

Satellite radio will kill FM. I say, good riddance.

The new blues album by The Hoochie Coochie Men and Jon Lord titled “Danger: White Men Dancing” will be released on October 1, 2007 on Edel Records. A special limited edition version with a DVD will also be available. The album will be distributed in the UK through Pinnacle.

Catalogue number: 0184622ERE
Special Edition CD + DVD: 0184628ERE

The Hoochie Coochie Men, named after the Willie Dixon song “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man”, are Tim Gaze on lead vocals and guitar, Rob Grosser on drums, Jim Conway on harmonica and Bob Daisley (Rainbow, Ozzy Osbourne, Gary Moore) on bass.

Daisley, Gaze and Grosser began writing the material at Rob’s studio Disgracelands at the end of 2005, and continued writing, arranging and recording throughout 2006, with Grosser as engineer, Daisley as producer and mixing by Steve Scanlon in Melbourne. Jon Lord’s keyboard parts were recorded at Olympic Studios, Barnes, with engineer Darren Schneider from the U.S.

The album also features guest vocals from Ian Gillan, Jimmy Barnes and Jeff Duff, and is the second Hoochie Coochie Men album that Jon Lord has featured on.

Thanks to The Publicity Connection for the info.

Roger Glover, Ian Paice and Jon Lord will take part in the Sunflower Jam 2007, a fundraising event organised by the British charity Sam Buxton Sunflower Healing Trust. Both Jacky Paice and Vickie Lord are involved with the Trust, so participation of their husbands is almost a given ;). The 2007 Jam is following the success of the Sunflower Jam 2006, which raised £90K, and will take place on Thursday 20th September at The Porchester Halls, London W2.

This years Jam includes Status Quo, Beverley Knight, Gary Moore, Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Jon Lord, Margo Buchanan, Paul “Wix” Wickens, Nick Fyffe, Steve Balsamo and Aitch McRobbie.

There will be a champagne reception, a dinner prepared once again by Paul Clerehugh of the Crooked Billet, an auction hosted by Jeremy Irons, a raffle and a few surprises along the way.

If you are interested in purchasing a table for this years event either go to www.thesunflowerjam.com or contact them directly by email or by telephone on 07768 784342.

UPDATE (Aug 11): we’ve been informed that individual seats are also available at £300 each.

Thanks to Jacky Paice and Akiko Hada for the info.