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Smoke on the Dundee

Newspaper The Courier has another piece of Scottish Purple history: a picture of the band taken backstage at the Caird Hall in Dundee on October 15, 1970. It is published as a part of their 1970s illustrated nostalgia trip. Check it out in The Courier.

In other trainspotting news, a cassette tape with handwritten label Rainbow — Rainbow Rising was spotted all the way out in New Zealand on the UK TV programme The Repair Shop. It was series 11, episode 20 from 2023, if you are really inclined to track it down.

Thanks to Simon Dickens for the repair info.

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Posted by Nick on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025, filed under Blog. You can follow comment on this post through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a comment. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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2 Comments to “Smoke on the Dundee”:

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    MacGregor says:

    “Aberdeen Press and Journal – 13 Oct 1970

    15 Oct 1970 – Dundee, Caird Hall – UK

    Deep Purple
    Tear Gas” ???????????
    Was Deep Purple’s performance that bad that they needed tear gas? Or perhaps the audience were rioting for more and the tear gas had to be used to settle all those screaming ladies down. Big Ian had somewhat of a reputation to uphold back then. I didn’t think the Scots would behave in such a manner. They weren’t Danish were they? Cheers.

    September 4th, 2025 at 00:31
  2. 2
    Ted says:

    Rainbow Rising cropped up on the latest episode of The Repair Shop too. Only a brief glimpse of someone wearing the T shirt but an odd coincidence.
    (I hope my memory’s not failing me on this.)

    September 4th, 2025 at 08:54

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