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Ian Gillan will appear on the Friday Night Rock Show tomorrow, Friday, October 14. The show is being briadcasted on cable channel Vintage TV, available in the UK on Sky 369, Freeview 82, Virgin 343, Freesat 505 and BT/TalkTalk 82.
Read more »Couple of weeks ago Team Rock did a small feature focusing on Big Ian talking about the truly sad state of affairs in the band surrounding his departure in 1973. Here is the quote: It was bizarre, actually. Because I had actually handed in my letter of resignation to the band months earlier, while we […]
Read more »Two upcoming items are worth mentioning, if at least partially in the caveat category. First, Deep Purple’s September 14, 2002 performance from the Jon Lord farewell tour is getting a standalone DVD release in the USA. The show was previously available on video as a part of 2008 Around The World Live box set, packaged […]
Read more »An interesting gig popped up in our calendar. And it’s a family affair in more than one sense: billed as Ian Gillan; performing with Don Airey Band; and an orchestra conducted by Stephen Bentley-Klein, who conducted the Deep Purple orchestral tour a few years back; supported by Papa Le Gál, the band where Ian’s daughter […]
Read more »A brief addendum to our coverage of the induction. Short press conference that Gillan, Paice, and Glover gave after receiving their awards. It may answer some questions, but I guess not from the people who are in write-only mode. On his part, Blackmore posted this message on Facebook: Obviously, as you know from the post […]
Read more »A 1992 vintage interview with Ian Gillan recorded during his tour of Brazil. (watch inside)
Read more »Lyme Regis Radio has an interview with Ian Gillan hidden deep in the bowels of their archives. It is undated as far as the year is concerned, but Gillan’s Inn is mentioned at one point as his new album, so this gives some sort of a time frame. This is 34 minutes of Big Ian […]
Read more »Norwegian based webzine Eternal Terror has a new extensive interview with Bernie Tormé. The conversation covered a lot of ground, from Bernie’s latest solo work Blackheart, to his thoughts on the state of the music industry, to reminiscing on replacing Randy Rhoads in Ozzy’s band, to his time with Gillan: I remember reading somewhere that […]
Read more »From thew latest installment of Dear Friends published on Caramba!, it sounds like Gillan will not be accepting the induction: Dear Friends, Families and Fans, Putting the past shenanigans to one side, the induction is not – in clear fact – for Deep Purple. It is an arbitrary selection of past members, which excludes Steve […]
Read more »Ian Gillan has an interview in Cricket Monthly, of all places. He talks about his passion and how his dayjob interferes with it: What is your favourite ground to watch cricket? I don’t get to a lot of cricket because I’m on the road non-stop. We played in 54 countries last year, so I have […]
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