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October in Latin America
Deep Purple will spend this October touring Latin America. We have confirmed dates starting October 5 in Belem, Brazil, and finishing in Panama on the 27th. Full details in our calendar.
Read more »Gillan in Rock Meets Classic Tour 2012
Ian Gillan will take part in the Rock Meets Classic Tour 2012. The tour will also feature Steve Lukather (Toto), Jimi Jamison (Survivor), Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann’s Earth Band), Robin Beck, The Mat Sinner Band & The Bohemian Symphony Orchestra Prague. The line-up also includes Jimmy Kresic (keyboards), Alex Beyrodt (Primal Fear, Voodoo Circle / […]
Read more »Concerto in Wiesbaden
As we hear from reliable sources, long time THS contributor Axel D. has managed to make his dream come true. He talked Jon Lord into performing Concerto at his hometown of Wiesbaden, Germany. The papers have been signed and the show will take place on November 6th, 2011. They chose the beautiful historic Kurhaus of […]
Read more »Montreal venue has not changed
Contrary to what you might have read on other music news sites, the venue for June 6 Deep Purple show in Montreal has not changed. It will be held at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier located inside the Place des Arts complex. Yes, we are sure. The source of misinformation was an error in a press release issued […]
Read more »Bay area gig moved
The San Francisco Bay Area show on June 25 has been moved from Mountain View to the Sleep Train Pavilion in Concord. Tickets presale started today, with the sale to general public starting tomorrow, April 29. Joe Satriani is listed as a support act. And we all know how this might play.
Read more »UK tour goes on sale
Tickets for the short Deep Purple tour of UK are going on sale this week. Nov 26 — Glasgow Nov 27 — Birmingham Nov 29 — Manchenster Nov 30 — London Presale for Glasgow starts April 14, register at TicketSoup.com. Presale for the other three shows starts April 13, but we do not have any […]
Read more »American dates confirmed
Almost all dates on the North American tour in June have been confirmed by Deep Purple’s management. Only June 7 in Boston and the three Canadian dates still remain unconfirmed at the time of this writing, despite tickets being on sale for quite a while. Stay tuned for further developments. The tour is being billed […]
Read more »North American tour’s finally happening?
Looks like it. There is no official word yet from the band’s management, but there are 4 North American dates that have surfaced so far with tickets already on sale: June 3 – Rama, Ontario (just north of Toronto) June 4 – Quebec City June 18 – Chicago June 23 24 – Los Angeles The […]
Read more »Whitesnake and BCC announce more summer dates
Whitesnake have confirmed a number of new live dates. Two dates have been announced for the US, including headlining the M3 festival in Maryland on May 14. In June they’re off to Europe, traversing Russia, Scandinavia (including appearance at the Sweden Rock Festival), UK, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria and […]
Read more »Greece in May
The Greek Reporter announces four Greek dates for Deep Purple in May: May 20 – Athens May 21 – Patra May 23 – Thessaloniki May 25 – Ioannina The tickets are supposed to go on sale on January 26. Athens, Patra and Thessaloniki shows will be opened by Vasilis Papakonstantinou, while George Gakis and the […]
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