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Yet another bonus track
German chain Media Markt sells Now what?! CDs with a sticker that unlocks a free download of a bonus track called First Sign of Madness from it’s own website.
Read more »Hell to Pay on TV Total
Today, April 24, the band also appeared on the German TV show TV Total. They performed Hell to Pay live (and not All the Time in the World as was announced earlier). Watch it on ProSieben.de Thanks to Milan Fahrnholz and Ralle for the info.
Read more »Roger: “we have to be the dog!”
A long(ish) and rather interesting interview with Roger Glover on Rockpages.gr: Rockpages.gr: What really surprised me in the new album is that you weren’t afraid to have long tracks, longer than regular 4, or 5 minute rock songs, you went a little further trying new stuff that I haven’t heard from Deep Purple again, what […]
Read more »An insecure singer talking Klingon
(Updated Apr 24) Ian Paice and Ian Gillan made a very entertaining appearance today on BBC Radio 2. The show will be available for listening online until April 30 from the BBC. Chat with Ians starts approximately 65 minutes into the recording. Both Ians were also on BBC Radio 4 Front Row last week recalling […]
Read more »Win a signed copy of Classic Rock hardback
Classic Rock magazine is running a competition in which they are offering 5 Deep Purple hardback special edition magazines signed by both Ians. The competition is apparently open worldwide. Head over there and fill in the form to enter.
Read more »Live on German TV
(Updated Apr 23) Deep Purple are scheduled to appear on German late night comedy show TV Total this Wednesday, April 24. We don´t have any details about the taping and if there are any tickets left but the broadcast will start at around 11 pm CET on German private TV channel Pro Sieben. This time […]
Read more »Now What?! A Review
The last time there was this long a gap between Deep Purple studio albums was in the period 1976 – 1984. Back then Amazon was the forest which no doubt provided the cardboard for the record sleeve, not the company you most likely bought the cd from! In the days preceding the release of Perfect […]
Read more »Simple is a difficult thing
Roger Glover chatted with Detroit’s radio station 94.7 WCSX about Now what?!, ‘live in the studio’ approach, his songwriting philosophy, and being simple. Listen to it at wcsx.com. Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the info.
Read more »A new start
Mathieu posted this as a comment to Stathis’ review and we thought it deserves to be promoted to a separate post. I was able to hear NOW What?! before the press conference the two Ians gave in Paris two days ago. Let me share my thougts. The first thing that strikes me is I’m unable […]
Read more »They’ve got elephants!
Ian Gillan and Ian Paice did a press conference in Paris on April 18 and ventured pretty far from the beaten track (as far as those promotional interviews go, which often sound like the same canned answers to the same canned questions): A longer video of the press conference (with much worse audio): Thanks to […]
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