Ian Gillan took some time off from his North America tour and answerd a few questions from Darryl Sterdan at Winnipeg Sun. Here is a few bits:
About endless touring:
“Every now and again I have my arm twisted to take some time off. But a week or 10 days is about all I can endure before I’m no good to anyone.”
About Blackmore:
“In the early days he was great. I used to room with him. He had a great sense of humour. We were buddies. But later in life, he became something of what is commonly called a control freak. I would put it closer to megalomania, to be honest. He’s a difficult guy. But he’s gone now. We hope he’s happy, but the divorce is final and all the clouds have blown away now.”
Read the full interview here.
Thanks to Winnipeg Sun for the information.
On saturday 26th august Don Airey will be appearring on the U.K. digital radio station Planet Rock on the show “my planet rocks” with Nicky Horne. The show airs at 7.00pm U.K. time (6.00pm GMT).
Thanks to Paul Bush for the information
Ian Gillan spoked to Reuters yesterday. He told them that he had already lined up a publisher for his upcoming novel, which is a political thriller titled “Wessex“. Gillan said, “This is my one and only novel. This really is a labour of love. It’s the only idea I have ever had for a book which has inspired me to write it.” Gillan also said he expected the book would be controversial. “A lot of wrong things have become the law and this affects people very deeply.” “This book is based on my own philosophies.”
Gillan also said during the interview that he has signed a deal last week with a British company to remaster and re-release the five solo albums that he produced during the 1970s and 1980s. This should happen later this year.
Thanks to Yahoo UK News for the information.
Here you can watch Ian Gillan live from the current tour.
Smoke On The Water
Bluesy Blue Sea
The footage is taken from the Buffalo (USA) show August 16.
Thanks to Immergent for the information.
Big thanks to Philippe Warda who sent us this review that his friend published on his website:
08/16/2006 – Ian Gillan
Town Ballroom
Notes: Went with Philippe Warda, Rocky & Sex Machine. They had some
cute bikini hag with a small rack and a big crack come out holding
signs with the songs on it like some ring side girl. Gillan was gold,
but he didn’t do Trashed which hurt me bad.
Set list(s):
Ian Gillan
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No Laughing In Heaven (?)
Into The Fire
Hang Me Out To Dry
Have Love Will Travel
Wasted Sunsets (ultra rare, Billy and Rocky went nutz!!!)
Not Responsible
? (instrument jam because Ian forgot his harmonica and they couldn’t
do the planned number)
Unchain Your Brain
Bluesy Blue Sea
Texas State Of Mind (Michael Lee Jackson song from new album…I
stepped out to take a piss)
Sugar Plum
When A Blind Man Cries
Men Of War
70’s drum solo
Smoke On The Water (burp)
Encore
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I’m Evil (?)
Knockin’ At Your Back Door (total sickness!!)
There will be a rock and roll charity (in aid of complementary cancer services at University College London Hospital (UCLH)) evening of dinner and musical entertainment at the Porchester Halls, London, U.K. on 14th September. There will be performances from Ian Paice, Jon Lord, Robert Plant, Paul Weller, Phil Manzanera, Linda Lewis, and Sam Brown supported by a Celebrity House Band including renowned musicians Paul ‘Wix’ Wickens, Margo Buchanan, Nick Fyffe and Bernie Marsden. The attendees promise to be equally star studded, with confirmed guests including Sir John Mortimer, Frida from Abba and Damon Hill with Kathy Lette as our compere on the night and Gryf Rhys Jones our celebrity auctioneer. More info can be found at The Sunflower Jam
In a message on Ian Gillan’s official website, the Deep Purple singer has announced the line-up for the backup band on his “Gillan’s Inn” solo tour of North America that starts in August. The band members are:
Randy Cooke – drums
Rodney Appleby – bass
Michael Lee Jackson & Dean Howard – guitars
Joe Mennonna – keys & tenor sax
Pollstar reports:
“Deep Purple hung on to the last minute before canceling its appearance at Baalbeck, Lebanon, only pulling out when the Israeli bomb and missile barrage spread to that city.
‘The band and the festival have agreed it’s best not to go,’ The band’s booking agent, Agency Group chief Neil Warnock, told Pollstar after Liza Minnelli and Lebanese diva Fairouz canceled their summer shows.
At the Gillan’s Inn site, you can download versions of “Smoke on the Water” without lead vocals and lead guitar. You can then add your own talent and upload your version to the site. If you have a band, you can record the song from scratch and upload that.
The visitors to the site vote for the best track in each category and every week, one submission will move on to the finals based on the average votes of the visitors. At the end of the contest, Ian Gillan will choose one winner from each category.
The winners of the Vocal and the Lead Guitar categories will win a trip to Las Vegas to perform live with Ian Gillan at the House of Blues.The winner of the Band category will receive gear for their band.
The complete rules for the contest is available here and more info about the prizes can be found here.
The other day, we posted a news report based on Deep Purple’s press release about the band still wanting to go to Lebanon. I added some info from my local Swedish morning paper on the town Baalbeck to the news story to add something that the other reports didn’t have. Mention of the Baalbeck info in the Undercover report about the story made me realise they must have quoted us in their report. Without any credits to us.
Then Swedish media agency PM went on to quote Undercover. So now we have Swedish papers printing the PM story, and by that quoting another Swedish paper by way of THS and Undercover in Australia. Without credits both to Sydsvenskan and us.
I want to add that I don’t think the missed credits are a big deal, although it is a bit bad that the journalists doesn’t mention where they take their quotes from. But it is funny to follow news around the world in this day and age.
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
