Actually, it wasn’t my idea to write a review of Deep Purple’s concert. It was my Dad’s. In his opinion it was a ‘progressive rock show’ and I want to add it was fabulous, because I’m not good at using words I don’t know the meaning. OK, we’re talking about the Deep Purple gig in […]
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Posted in 2006 Germany, 2006 Tours, Tour Reviews by Rasmus Heide on 2006-05-13
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Since 1999 I’ve been going to D.P. concerts thinking “I must go because this is the last tour.” In Milano I was really really surprised by Purple. A few words about the setlist: the fact is not the songs and the music played, but how they play. I’ve enjoyed an incredible hard rock band: on […]
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Posted in 2006 Europe 2, 2006 Tours, Tour Reviews by Rasmus Heide on 2006-05-13
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After many DP shows in Milan, this is been the first where group use large screens at side of the stage. Strange that they’re using them in the smallest venue available in city where everyone is able to see the show as to be on the stage. Probably this has been the best DP show […]
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Posted in 2006 Europe 2, 2006 Tours, Tour Reviews by Rasmus Heide on 2006-05-13
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At the moment, there is a TV commercial in the USA for the american car “Lincoln Navigator“. The song in the background is Deep Purple’s “Highway Star”. Thanks to Tracy Heyder and Caspianrex for the information.
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Posted in News by Benny on 2006-05-12
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Ian Gillan is on the cover of the current issue (Issue 55) of Whisky Magazine, with the headline “Scotch on the rocks – Deep Purple and Uriah Heep talk malt.” The magazine has 1 page interview with Ian Gillan.
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Posted in News by Benny on 2006-05-11
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Watch the promovideo for Ian Gillan’s new solo album (Gillan’s Inn) here (wmv, 12,7 MB). You can read our special feature here. You can buy the album in THS shop. Thanks to Nathan Lassiter and Immergent for the information.
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Posted in News by Benny on 2006-05-10
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Nick Simper and his band The Good Old Boys make their first(?) trip outside the UK in September when they go to Austria to play the Planet Music Club in Vienna on September 9. Don’t go there expecting any Deep Purple Mk. I songs though. This band is about even older rock classics. A track […]
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Posted in Blog by Svante Axbacke on 2006-05-02
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The current issue of the German magazine “Heavy” (Number 91), has a one page interview with Ian Gillan about “Gillan’s Inn”.
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Posted in News by Benny on 2006-05-01
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The upcoming DVD with Ian Gillan is a two-and-a-half hour documentary, full of music, lost archive footage, tales from Ian Gillan and interviews from members of Deep Purple (both past and present). It features Tony Iommi, Joe Satriani, Joe Elliot, Ronnie James Dio, Luciano Pavarotti, Jon Lord, Colin Towns, Sir Tim Rice, the late, George […]
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Posted in News by Benny on 2006-05-01
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