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Blackmore’s Night song Olde Mill Inn is featured in the new Jim Carrey comedy Yes Man, with Blackmore and Night names mentioned in the closing credits. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but here’s the proof. Olde Mill Inn is a real place and has been the couple’s favourite hangout in Long Island ever since […]
Read more »As the Blackmore’s Night makes it’s way around Southern Europe, here are the details for the January 27 show in Zagreb, Croatia. Set list: Locked within the crystal ball Queen for a day Under a violet moon Peasant’s promise Streets of London / The Times They Are a Changin’ World of stone Durch den wald […]
Read more »Fender is reintroducing the Ritchie Blackmore Signature Stratocaster model. The 2009 reincarnation of the guitar features alder body, maple neck, scalloped rosewood fingerboard, big headstock, two Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder pickups (middle pickup is fake), vintage F-style tuners, and comes in one colour only. MSRP is $1,500 and online retailers have it at around $1,200. […]
Read more »Jürgen “J.R.” Blackmore talks about his career, his father and the Over The Rainbow project in a recent interview with Rockinform Magazine: Your father is Ritchie Blackmore. How do you feel about it, that he’s a legendary guitarist? Jürgen: – Oh well……it was a very hard childhood time for me because everyone is looking at […]
Read more »Rumours of a Mk3 reunion have been flying around for a while now, always turning to sum up to about exactly nothing. In the most recent resurrection of the idea, Peter Makowski of Classic Rock talks about it like of a definite possibility: In separate interviews David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes and Jon Lord have all […]
Read more »The wedding & Christmas special issue of the Blackmore online fanzine Cartouche is out. In this issue: news from the marriage of Ritchie and Candice retrospective reviews of Christmas Carols and Beyond The Sunset interviews with Candice, Carole, members and entourage of Blackmore’s Night review of the Blackmore’s Night Christmas performance in Long Island messages […]
Read more »Classic Rock Magazine has made good on their promise to (finally!) put Deep Purple on the cover — they appear on the February 2009 issue. Inside the issue there is a 20-page Purple feature with interviews from Gillan, Glover, Paicey and Coverdale, excerpts from an old Blackmore interview, and sidebars on Steve Morse and JLT. […]
Read more »Envision Radio Networks’ Chop Shop Guitar Show has announced The Chop Shop’s Top 100 Most Complete Guitar Players of All Time. Yes, yet another top list. You have every right to be sceptical, but this one at least makes an attempt of being quasi-objective. Each guitarist was ranked by a five member panel of “industry […]
Read more »French station Radio Mercure 93FM will air a 90-minute Blackmore’s Night special on December 5 at 21:25 CET. Radio Mercure also broadcasts online in a variety of stream formats. Blackmore’s Night have a string of European dates pencilled in for the late January and early February. A tour of US South and West coast is […]
Read more »Richard Hugh and Candice Lauren were pronounced husband and wife at 4:48 pm on October 5, 2008, at a small gathering of friends and family. Update [Oct 15]: pictures from the wedding are available on Candice Night’s website. More pictures here. Thanks to Mike Garrett for the info.
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