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No time to lose
That awesome Italian tribute band Strange Kind of Women didn’t lose any time learning and rehearsing the freshly released single and performed it at their gig on May 4 in Graz, Austria.
Read more »Next single from =1
According to the German online retailer JPC, the next Deep Purple single from =1 will arrive on June 28, and it will be in physical form. The track to be released is Pictures of You, and the formats will include CD and vinyl.
Read more »The loudest and longest encore
Bristol 24/7 has a review of a new book The West’s Greatest Rock Shows 1963-1978, complete with the cover photo of Deep Purple Mark 3 on stage in all their bell-bottomed and platform-shoed glory, and excerpts covering reviews of several local gigs, including said Mark 3 at the Colston Hall in Bristol, on May 20, […]
Read more »Singapore setlist
Metaltalk has a brief and, frankly, rather superficial review of the Singapore gig. Of interest, might be the setlist, which can give an idea of what to expect throughout the summer. At least, until July 19th.
Read more »Portable Door
The first single from =1 is upon us.
[Updated] with video.
[Update #2] live performance.
Failed to prove to a robot
Ian Gillan was interviewed by Singapore’s The Straights Times. He spoke about the gig Deep Purple are about to play in the country and the upcoming new album: We haven’t done a show since before Christmas because we’ve been working flat out on a new record. So everyone is like a caged lion at the […]
Read more »=1 it is
It is official — the new Deep Purple album is called =1, and the release date has been set to July 19, 2024. But Deep Purple is more than just their members and ‘=1’ embodies the essence and attitude of their 1970s incarnation possibly more than any other album in recent memory. With the legendary […]
Read more »Equals one
A series of cryptic messages appeared over the past few days on various social media accounts affiliated with the band. They revolve around a new handwritten logo and an elaborate math equation, which (if my calculus serves me right) equals to one. The timing and style of the said cryptic messages make some people to […]
Read more »Tickets from 75p to £2
Scottish newspaper The Courier has a historic account of a Deep Purple concert at the Caird Hall in Dundee on April 18, 1974. It is accompanied by some never before published pictures from the gig. These rare colour photographs document the night Deep Purple kicked off their UK tour in Dundee 50 years ago. They […]
Read more »Abandon all hope ye
An outfit called Hypergallery has posters of Abandon artwork for sale. They are said to be limited edition (50 copies) prints “meticulously reconstructed from the original source material by artist Ioannis”. The band had just completed Abandon and were late getting the cover art together. I sat in their manager Bruce Payne’s office along with […]
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing