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Archive for July, 2010



Purple’s eye to Caucasus

Almost 1 year ago I told you the story, how hundreds of Georgian fans travelled 2000km to see Deep Purple’s concert in Istanbul and to meet Ian Gillan personally. Now I tell you, how 1,000 Georgian fans travelled to Armenia for Purple’s concert again. We all rented 5 buses, several mini-buses, taxes, personal cars and […]

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New home for the Hub

The Deep Purple Hub, the fan-forum and show resource website that has grown steadily since its inception a few years ago, has taken the next logical step in that growth: a domain name and their own server. You will now find it at http://deeppurplehub.com.

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Cork review at Musicnews.ie

An Irish site dedicated to promoting independent bands have published nothing short of a glowing review of the June 30 show in Cork: Deep Purple are considered one of the founding fathers of heavy metal. Once crowned the loudest band in the world in the Guinness book of world records, Deep Purple blazed a trail […]

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Upcoming releases

Several Deep Purple archival (re)releases are currently in production due for later this year: The 35th anniversary edition of Come Taste The Band with the album freshly remixed by Kevin Shirley and mastered by Bob Ludwig. A blue ray edition of Rises Over Rapan with 5.1 surround sound and a newly produced documentary showcasing the […]

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Black Country Communion Album Artwork

The album is released by Mascot Records in the UK and Europe on Monday September 20th, followed by a North American release via J&R Adventures on September 21st.

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“Glut of foreign stars” forces cancellation of Finnish shows

After the Deep Purple’s Joensuu show has been cancelled a few days ago, we now have received news that Turku show is cancelled as well. YLE.fi speculates that both shows have been cancelled due to poor ticket sales caused by competition: The Deep Purple shows likely suffered from competition from two big rock festivals, this […]

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