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Tonight on the telly
Hot off the press, and slightly unverified. Tonight, November 12, at 11pm local time, Ian Gillan will be hosting a show on channel 358 (NOW Rock) of Sky TV.
Read more »Tonight on the BBC
BBC Four TV channel will be showing a Radio 2 in Concert Deep Purple appearance from November 16, 2017, playing in front of a live audience at the BBC Radio Theatre. It will air on October 4, 2024, at 22:05 local time, and will be available on the BBC iPlayer for 30 days after that. […]
Read more »Only quill pens and horseback messengers
This is straight from the desk of bizarre appearances in our trainspotting department. Some time over the past year, crooks posing as Ritchie Blackmore scammed an old lady in the UK out of £115,000. See the maestro himself appearing at around 12:40 expressing sympathy for the victim and vehemently denying his involvement because he doesn’t […]
Read more »Had a letter, once
Don Airey and Cozy Powell promote the Down to Earth Rainbow tour on British telly
Read more »Sweet jazz o’ mine
[Updated Jul 25]: European channel Arte TV this year is showing performances from the Jazz Open Stuttgart festival. Deep Purple are playing at the festival on July 18, 2023, and it will be broadcast live online, as well as made available for replay for 90 days afterwards.
Read more »They All Came Out To Montreux
A three part documentary about the Montreux Jazz Festival, titled They All Came Out To Montreux, will air in the UK on BBC Four starting at 10:15 PM on June 16. The film was directed by British filmmaker Oliver Murray. If you are interested in music documentaries, you might have seen his previous works Ronnie’s […]
Read more »Number one by the lunch time
A Dutch TV documentary on the history of Love is All, with participation from Roger Glover, Eddie Hardin, Ronnie James Dio, Ray Fenwick, and the book author Alan Aldridge. Everything you wanted to know about the track that to everybody’s surprise charted in that part of the world, and then some. It looks like this […]
Read more »Perfect Spanish scrawl
Ian Gillan appeared on a Spanish talk show La Resistencia, managing to overcome at the end some hilarious and some not so much language barriers.
Read more »And this is how you drop the sticks properly
Paicey’s personal drum cam footage from a live version of 7 and 7 Is — German TV Rehearsal Take 1
Read more »Story of the Whitesnake songs
AntiMusic reports that a Whitesnake special will be shown on a US cable/satellite channel Reelz on February 19, 2022, at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT. It will be a part of the Story of Their Songs series. Spawned from the mind of former Deep Purple frontman David Coverdale the British rock band Whitesnake first appeared on […]
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