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British tour goes on sale

We have 4 dates for the UK tour in November: Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham and London Hammersmith. Tickets for these go on sale tomorrow, February 6, at 9 am. Please note that these dates are not yet confirmed by Purple management.

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See and read The Sunflower Jam

Deep Purple’s appearance at The Sunflower Jam turned into a very different show, high on improvisation and special guests. Introduced by Yes’ Rick Wakeman, Deep Purple got under way with Pictures of Home and a pumping start. – That’s Johnny Lord!, exclaimed Ian Gillan after Hush with an extended solo from Jon Lord – and […]

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Highway stars in London

Firstly the venue, The excel is excellant!,great place for the motor show,so much roomand the temporary arena was great too,good time to go to the motorshow,late in the evening,no queues,got to do loads of things that you would normally have to wait ages to do,show was on until 8pm.. I saw little Ian wandering around […]

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Deep Purple at the London Motor Show

A very different and refreshing set from the past few years. Started of with Fireball and finsihed with Black night with many favourites in between. From where I was the sound was great and the boys looked like they were realling enjoying themselves. I even managed to take a few pic\’s. [May we see them? […]

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Still the best there is

It’s the first time I’ve seen Deep Purple outside since Knebworth (23 years ago!) and it’s a perfect, warm evening, a nice big stage, beautiful lights stage lights gathering prominence as the daylight fades, and a perfectly balanced sound. The arena is just a square of tarmac surrounded by some temporary-looking grandstand seating. The crowd […]

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A wonderful night

Last night i went to a very wonderful Concert of DP at EXcel in London. The set list was nearly the same as the DP-Fan from Belgium has written. They started with Fireball and ended with Black night. This concert was much better than the last one i saw in Germany / Mannheim. I cant […]

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Jon Lord gives details about his summer concerts

Jon Lord felt he need to make some clarifications regarding his upcoming Summer Proms concerts, so he asked us to post this information: Hi All I [would like to] clear up what appears to be a bit of confusion about what I am gonna play at these three UK “Summer Proms” gigs I’m doing, on […]

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Good To Be Bad in the charts (update)

Here’s an update of the Good To Be Bad charts position: UK #1 in Top Rock Albums (week ending April 27, the chart wasn’t updated on May 4) #7 in Top Albums (week ending April 27) #22 in Top Albums (week ending May 4) USA #8 on Billboard Top Independent Albums (peak position as of […]

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Doogie White saves the day & Buy a lesson from Paicey

Doogie White, who has recently parted ways with Yngwie Malmsteen, came to the rescue of a Purple tribute band at a charity gig in UK: Disaster was turned to triumph for another local act on the night after Deep Purple tribute band the Purple Project from Newbury lost their lead singer after developing laryngitis. At […]

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Around The World Live

A new box set titled Around The World Live is being prepared for release by Edel. The “Deluxe Edition” 4DVD box set is slated for release in UK on Edel’s subsidiary Eagle Vision on May 19, 2008. As of now, we have no info on availability and release dates in other markets. DEEP PURPLE Around […]

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