Still smoking
BraveWords has a review of the Deep Purple gig in Montreal on August 17, 2026:
Monday night on August 17, Place Bell in Laval hosted a triple bill of classic-rock royalty as Deep Purple brought their Splat! tour to town behind their new album of the same name: their 24th studio record and one they’ve been road-testing all summer across North America.
The crowd was a study in generational overlap: silver-haired lifers who’d have caught the band the first time around standing next to twenty-somethings in 70s inspired clothing, dressed for a decade they were born 40 years late to see.
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Photo credit: Thomas Mazerolles


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