Roger Glover was a guest yesterday, April 2 on Star 107 radio station in Cambridge, England. His 25 minute long interview gets more and more interesting once the now familiar talking points about inFinite and the Long Goodbye Tour are out of the way.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2017-04-03
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Johnny’s Band continues being played on the BBC Radio 2 since the premiere on March 6, and is climbing up their airplay chart. It is now at number 15 (with 18 times on air) in the Airplay Chart Top 40. This is a 28-day trailing chart that covers February 28 to March 27 inclusive. According […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2017-03-28
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April 2017 issue of the Classic Rock magazine (now on sale in the UK) has Deep Purple on the cover, a 10-page feature Love, Death, Age: Inside the Unstoppable Deep Purple inside, plus a 7/10 review of the new album inFinite, and four pages review of Glenn Hughes’ Islington gig from January 21 this year. […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2017-03-09
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Documentary on the making of the new album Deep Purple: From Here To Infinity will be shown on British cable/satellite channel Sky Arts HD on Saturday, 11th March. It’s on at 9pm, with Classic Albums: Machine Head starting at 8pm, and Perfect Strangers Live following at 11pm.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2017-03-01
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Deep Purple are featured in the latest issue of the British magazine Uncut: While warming up for a final tour and album, Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and Ian Paice recall their wild career in rock […] The issue in question has Björk on its cover and is dated April 2017. It went on […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2017-02-17
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Four Rainbow shows in June 2017 are being advertised by British concert ticket vendors: London O2 on the 17th, Manchester Arena on 22nd, Glasgow SSE Hydro on 25th, and Birmingham Genting Arena on 28th. All appear to be reserved seating and go on sale December 8 at 10:00 a.m. Tickets will be available through: Ticketline […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2016-12-05
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It is now more or less official: Deep Purple will play the UK in November 2017 and the tour is being promoted as The Long Goodbye Tour. Tickets go on sale December 9, with presales starting a day earlier. Support for all 5 shows will be Europe. There are also some a lot less official […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2016-12-02
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Ian Gillan was interviewed by Andy Fox for his Rockshow on the occasion of the Vinyl Collection release. Of course, Andy knows his Purple stuff (he even played Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming on this show), so the interview turned out to be rather entertaining.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2016-11-22
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Wymer UK has secured the stock of tourbooks for the now cancelled Glenn Hughes’ European tour. They are now offered for sale at £10. This 24 page programme is to the best of our knowledge the first ever programme for a Glenn Hughes solo tour. It is made even more unique by the fact that […]
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Posted in News by Nick on 2016-11-09
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Wymer has sent us a formal press release and some promo pictures for upcoming Jerry Bloom’s book For One Night Only. Since our first mention the book has obtained a more or less firm publication date — December 9.
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Posted in News by Nick on 2016-10-22
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