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Charity auction for backstage passes

Teenage Cancer Trust is holding an eBay auction for a pair of tickets and backstage passes for any one of the four Deep Purple UK shows: Glasgow, November 26 Birmingham, November 27 Manchester, November 29 London, November 30 The auction closes on October 23. The tickets and passes have been donated by Roger Glover. Thanks […]

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Be a Purple roadie for a day

Next week starting Monday October 10 Planet Rock will be running an unusual promotion for the Deep Purple UK tour in late November. All next week we are going to be giving you the chance to do something most people can only dream of – you could be part of the road crew for one […]

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Glenn Hughes in the UK

Glenn Hughes will do two solo tours of the UK in the upcoming months. In November he will appear on a 5-date stint tied up to the paperback release of his autobiography (due on November 1 in North America and November 11 in the UK). These shows are billed as acoustical and including “excerpts from […]

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More Don Airey on British radio

Don Airey will do a couple more radio appearances to promote his new solo album All Out. On Wednesday, September 21st, he will appear on BBC Radio Cambridge in the Sue Marchant evening entertainment show. The show runs between 7 and 9 pm, with Don scheduled to appear between 8:00 and 8:30 pm. The show […]

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BCC on British TV

UK cable/satellite channel Sky Arts will be showing highlights from this year High Voltage festival on Saturday, August 20 at 10pm. We are not sure as to the exact content of the programme, but the following artists are mentioned in the announcement along with Black Country Communion: Judas Priest, Dream Theater, Slash, and Thin Lizzy.

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Doc Rock

As we’ve reported previously, this past Friday, July 15, Jon Lord was awarded a honorary Doctor of Music degree by his home town’s University of Leicester. Local press covers the event; Leicester Mercury writes: Archbishop Desmond Tutu was in Leicester on Friday. You may have heard about it, seeing as news of his honorary degree […]

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Sunflower Jam through the ‘tubes

For all of us who could not be at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday, Youtube to the rescue.

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Follow the Sunflower Jam

The Sunflower Jam 2011 is upon us. Tonight, July 8, the Purple world will converge at the Royal Albert Hall to witness what could possibly be a historic event. The Highway Star will be there and our special correspondent will be tweeting the proceedings live from the hall.

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BCC 2 in UK charts

Black Country Communion 2 was released last week in the UK and is enjoying chart success. The Official Charts Company reports that for the week ending June 25 it has topped the Rock Charts and is at #23 in general Album Charts.

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More Hughes in UK press

Glenn Hughes is currently on tour in the UK and a couple more of his interviews have appeared in the press. Northhampton Chronicle & Echo has a Q&A style piece covering topics as diverse as Stevie Wonder and Glenn’s cooking habits: Does it surprise you what a strong following Deep Purple still has, decades after […]

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