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Blackmore’s Night and OTR announce new tours

Blackmore’s Night management has announced a new United States tour. We have 4 confirmed dates in October with tickets being on sale since yesterday, August 13, and by all accounts going fast. More dates are being promised. On the other side of the pond, Over The Rainbow will start a 2-month trek in early September […]

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Over The Rainbow hits the streets of Texas

Here’s a news cast video of Over the Rainbow’s recent visit to El Paso, Texas, USA. It features live clips from their appearance at El Paso Street Festival and interviews with Joe Lynn Turner and Bobby Rondinelli. Go to www.kvia.com and click on ‘Top News Videos’.

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Gillan off the record

Ian Gillan will appear on Off The Record with Joe Benson radio show tonight, April 12, at 11 p.m. Eastern Time. The show is syndicated and is carried by many radio stations across USA and Canada, some of which also broadcast online. We apologise for such short notice. Thanks to Sean Willoughby for the info.

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One Eye in Houston Press

Bob Ruggiero of The Houston Press did an interview with Ian Gillan. There is some typically Gillan anecdotage besides the usual story behind his latest album: The funniest thing was when we did the tour for House of Blue Light in the late ’80s and somebody, without telling me or the rest of the band, […]

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Tommy Bolin radio specials

There will be a couple of Tommy Bolin specials on the US college radio in the coming months. Saturday May 2nd, KUNM 89.1 FM in Santa Fe / Albuquerque, New Mexico, along with Dr. Rock & The Psychedelic Radio Head~Shoppe will be hosting a three hour Tommy Bolin radio special from 11:00 p.m. to 2:00 […]

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Snakes and sheds

The North American tour of corporate sheds on both coasts and open air festivals in the Midwest will start on June 26 and work it’s way around the continent until August 11. Please note that the North American dates (nor the new Danish show) have not been confirmed on Whitesnake.com.

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Whitesnake on the highway

Judas Priest have announced on their official website some North American tour dates, starting July 1st and going into the early August. They have also stated that they will be touring with Whitesnake for most of the dates, but not all of them. So far, there is nothing on Whitesnake.com. Thanks to Blabbermouth.net for the […]

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Kansas violin

Steve Morse was a special guest at the 35th anniversary gala for Kansas that took place on February 7 in Topeka, KS. Classic Rock Revisited has a full account of the evening: Former Kansas guitarist, and current Deep Purple axe-slinger, Steve Morse, joined his former group onstage performing the blazing “Musicatto” from 1986’s Power album. […]

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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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End of tour energy

Performance energy peaked in Dallas. It was clear that they gave it all for the final show of the North American Tour. No sound problems here. Good job Dallas, for feeding their energy. The set list changes included playing both Woman from Tokyo and Kiss Tomorrow Good-Bye. For the encore they played a killer Speed […]

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