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Blue News reviews Deep Purple’s appearance on the 2026 edition of Montreux Jazz Festival: On Monday evening, the Stravinski Auditorium was transformed into a rock temple. That may sound like a cliché—but for someone who isn’t very familiar with this genre of music, that’s exactly how it felt. After an explosive opening act by Danko […]
Read more »EuroWeekly reviews the Deep Purple appearance at the Starlite Festival in Marbella, Spain, on July 9, 2026: McBride may be no Ritchie Blackmore, the famously enigmatic founding member who will always be the guitarist most associated with Purple despite Steve Morse having spent 28 years in the band, yet it immediately becomes clear that he […]
Read more »Location: Auditorium de Castrelos, Vigo, Spain. A fantastic location in the style of an amphitheater in Vigo’s largest park. Conditions: a hot summer evening/night – still around 29 degrees Celsius when the concert began (22:00) Entrance fee: 15€ price sponsored by the City of Vigo, as they do it every year for a series of […]
Read more »“Can I have 5 beers please …” It was hot. But thanks to the buildings of the beautiful Kloster Wieblingen and the slowly setting sun most of the audience had a place in the shade. Nevertheless those brave parademics had a lot o do obviously. We could see them rush from one end of the […]
Read more »Metal Talk reviews the Deep Purple’s appearance at Hellfest from June 18, 2026: Is Gillan’s voice what it used to be? Of course it is not. But the man is 80 and still sounds very good. Also, new recruit Simon McBride (well, not that new) shows why they got him. He slots in impeccably and […]
Read more »Chaoszine is reviewing the first Deep Purple gig in of the Mad in Europe tour in Espoo, Finland. The atmosphere inside Espoon Metro Areena on June 11, 2026, carried the heavy, unmistakable scent of nostalgia, but more importantly, it crackled with the ozone of high-voltage rock and roll. To witness Deep Purple in the current […]
Read more »Roppongi Rocks has a short review of the Deep Purple gig in Tokyo Budokan, on April 11, 2026: They opened the Budokan show in style with “Highway Star”. Deep Purple back on stage at Budokan! This is what it is all about. Classics such as “Lazy”, “Space Truckin’” and “Smoke on the Water” were obvious […]
Read more »The Chosun Daily reviews in a most positive way the Deep Purple gig in South Korea from April 18, 2026. At 7 p.m. on the 18th, the Culture Park inside the Paradise City Resort in Incheon. The band Deep Purple opened their performance with their signature song *Highway Star*. The knuckles of the members were […]
Read more »Georgia Today reviews in most transcendental terms the recent Deep Purple gig in the country: The evening of 16 November in Tbilisi transformed the Sports Palace into an environment that resembled a vast anthropological chamber. Deep Purple appeared onstage as the custodians of a fifty-year cultural archive, and the audience moved through the space as […]
Read more »On November 16, Deep Purple have played their first gig in 5 months, and that happened in Tbilisi, Georgia. Several pieces of video evidence have already surfaced on them intertubes. Here is what appears to be a complete show. The quality is not bad for an audience recording; starts a little shaky, but get better […]
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