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Deep Purple North American tourdates started appearing on Pollstar. Although until anything is confirmed by the band’s management and posted on the official site, it is still on the shaky grounds, Pollstar draws it’s information from an industry wide database populated by announcements from promoters and booking agents. So the negotiations must be progressing. The […]
Read more »As you probably have already heard, following the gig at the Radio City Music Hall on March 30th, Ronnie James Dio has announced that he is quitting Heaven and Hell tour for undisclosed reasons. Apparently Tony Iommi wants to fulfil the band’s extensive US and European touring commitments in April/May/June. He has asked Ian Gillan […]
Read more »getreadytoROCK is running a competition to win a couple of tickets for any show (except Bornemouth and Glasgow) of the upcoming Deep Purple UK tour. The competition includes one unbelievably difficult question, for which I’m sure none of our readers know the answer. It runs until April 15. Enter here. UPDATE (March 30): Once you’re […]
Read more »Deep Purple were featured on British radio Planet Rock yesterday. The DJ Nicky Horne mentiond that: April will be Deep Purple month on Planet Rock. He saw DP in Strasbourg the other day. Did a 90-minute “tell-me-some-anecdotes” session with Ian Paice, Ian Gillan and Roger Glover. Also did an interview with Ian Gillan. These will […]
Read more »Iceland maybe a small nation, but not without it’s passions. We’ve been informed that May 27 show in Reykjavik is already almost sold out and Deep Purple has sold the most tickets by single band in Iceland beating bands such as Metallica, Roger Waters, Foo Fighters, Led Zeppelin, Incubus, Bryan Adams, Iron Maiden and many […]
Read more »In the wake of JLT, Glenn Hughes started today his massive tour of Russia. The tour kicked off in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on the Pacific coast and will work it’s way west. Glenn and his guitar player arrived to the city just two hours before the show after a 42 hour trip from Los Angeles via Seoul […]
Read more »Deep Purple have been confirmed to perform at the Rock Fest 2007 in Cadott, Wisconsin on Thursday, July 19. Could it be the first sign that the long overdue North American tourdates are shaping up? The festival lineup so far looks like this: Thursday, July 19 4:30 Dennis DeYoung 6:30 The Mick Fleetwood Band 8:45 […]
Read more »Joe Lynn Turner and Graham Bonnet are scheduled to appear on a double bill in late May and early June in Japan. Bonnet will front Alcatrazz and JLT’s band will feature guitarist Akira Kajiyama. Kajiyama and Turner recently released their first dually-billed album “Fire without Flame”. Tourdates: May 30 – Tokyo – O-East May 31 […]
Read more »Blackmore Productions has announced preliminary tour dates for June 2007: Wednesday, June 6, Reykjavik, Iceland Sunday, June 10, Glenrothes, (Fife) Scotland Tuesday, June 12, York, England Thursday, June 14, Reading, England Sunday, June 17, Birmingham, England Tuesday, June 19, Yeovil, England Wednesday, June 20, Cardiff, Wales Saturday, June 23, Brighton, England And then, off to […]
Read more »Ian Gillan’s tour of Australia has been cancelled. On his website Gillan published this message from himself and his management: We regret to announce that the Australian Ian Gillan tour dates have been cancelled. The main reason for this cancellation is the bullet which remains in Rodney Appleby’s neck from his recent shooting by a […]
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