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Lyric Theatre, Star City, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
April 21, 2004

Jennifer Stokes' photos

Silver Tongue
Woman From Tokyo
I Got Your Number
Strange Kind Of Woman
Bananas
Knocking At Your Back Door
Contact Lost - Steve Morse solo
The Well Dressed Guitar
Don Airey's solo (including Waltzing Matilda)
Perfect Strangers
Highway Star
Doing It Tonight (Ian's rapping bit was fantastic!!)
Lazy
When A Blind Man Cries (amazing vocals)
Space Truckin'
Smoke On The Water

Hush
Hit The Road Jack - Black Night

Billed as Deep Purple, "Up, close and personal" it certainly was. Same set list as Tuesday's show except the solos seemed better. Maybe that was just because I was sitting in the front row!
I scored a drumstick (for my 11-year-old daughter) and IG liked my Mambo shirt.
With a third concert in Sydney tomorrow night DP are "our resident band". So this is what tomorrow holds - enjoy.
Graeme Milton

As Graeme said, what a great show we got last night. The songs from Bananas sit so well in the set list and the guitar and keyboard solos were a real blast.
I was in third row in front of Steve and scored one of the many guitar picks he threw to the crowd. Ian sang a couple of different nursery rhymes before moving into Hit The Road Jack, including the ditty about "sitting in front of the TV playing with my wee wee".
Support was from Australia's own Billy Thorpe and it was one of the few occasions I've experienced a crowd getting into the support act's singalong as much as the main act. The sing-along to Most People I Know was as loud and impressive as for Smoke and Black Night.
My only disappointment was the Steve didn't do the FM radio dial intro to Smoke.
Back in 1998 I would never have expected three Purple shows in five years. Let's hope they get back here for another before the boots are hung up!
Craig Buchanan

I went to the concert in Sydney, it was OK, but not great.
The new stuff has a very different style to their old stuff and so jumping between the two seems to detract from the energy of the concert.
It would be nice if they played at least something from the David Coverdale era, perhaps Burn, Mistreated or Stormbringer.
Craig Baldwin