Oberhausen TV report
Local TV station ARD Brisant showed this report from the gig in Oberhausen on November 13. Unfortunately, the interviews are overdubbed, but looks like nothing groundbreaking has been said. Don Airey...
View ArticleEssener Pop & Blues retrospective on Rockpalast
German TV show Rockpalast will be showing on March 28 a 4 hour retrospective on the Essener Pop & Blues Festivals held in 1969 and 1970. The broadcast is touted to include excerpts from the shows,...
View ArticleEin grosser Deutschlandfan
Blackmore did an interview with German publication Spiegel Online, and it is quite an entertaining read even in reverse translation done by a machine. He reveals in the interview that he visited...
View ArticleBig fat tires and everything
Ritchie Blackmore recently spoke to German national newspaper Die Welt. Quite curiously, his interview appears not in the arts or entertainment section, but in the automotive one. Here’s the gist of...
View ArticleLike father, like son
Early February this year German TV channel NDR aired a short special about Jürgen Blackmore. Here’s the gist of it courtesy of our correspondent on location: After five years of lack of communication,...
View ArticleGlenn Hughes tour changes
There has been some changes to Glenn Hughes tour dates scheduled for November-December this year in Europe. The changes have likely been precipitated by co-headliners Living Colour pulling out “due to...
View ArticleRocks cover story
German magazine Rocks is featuring Deep Purple on the cover of its current issue (January 2017). Apart from an eight page story of their rise with In Rock, it also features six pages on the new album...
View ArticleFrom Here to inFinite on the big screen
German cinema chain UCI Kinowelt will present the premiere of the documentary Deep Purple — From Here to inFinite on the big screen in their theatres across the country on March 16 at 20:00. This is...
View ArticleJa, ja — Smoke on the water
Roger Glover and Ian Paice have also appeared on German TV channel BR Fernsehen in an evening news segment for February 22. (watch inside)
View ArticleA good piece of music is still a good piece of music
Roger Glover and Ian Paice did several interviews for the German press while attending the documentary premiere in Düsseldorf. Most of them by now are quite repetitive, so we won’t list them all, but...
View ArticleSaturating the print
German GoodTimes magazine has Mark 2 on the cover of the latest issue (2017/02), with two extensive features inside — one on the Mark 2: Der Bruch war die größte Schande des Rock’n’Roll! (The breakup...
View ArticleSaturating the airwaves
As if saturating the print in the month of the new album release was not enough, here is a list of promo appearances on German TV. Whichever publicity agent booked all those, have certainly earned...
View ArticleEven the holes in the road are good
Ian Paice and Roger Glover were guests on German Radio 21. And it resulted in an entertaining 20 minute interview, in which they were asked about their favourite drinks, what smartphone app gets the...
View ArticleHard rock reloaded
Release of the Deep Purple’s new album was the top story today, April 7, at the Deutsche Welle cultural news programme Euromaxx. Thanks to Yvonne and Nigel Young for the info.
View ArticlePaicey and Roger on Radio Bob
Ian Paice and Roger Glover will appear on Radio Bob! in Germany tomorrow, April 16 between 10 am and noon CEDT. Said radio also broadcasts online worldwide (albeit it is not clear how much of the show...
View ArticleSaturn exclusive for inFinite
German brick-and-mortar and online retailer Saturs carries a version of the new album that is exclusive to the chain. It contains two bonus tracks — live versions of Smoke on the Water and Black Night...
View ArticleDing-dong, we have a winner
The new Deep Purple album inFinite has achieved top position in the German album charts for the week of April 7-14. It follows on the success of Now what?!, which also got to number 1 upon its release....
View ArticleDeep Purple on Kuno’s
Deep Purple will be featured on the next week (the one starting May 1st) episode of Kuno’s TV show in Germany. The show is half an hour long and is being posted online for your viewing pleasure....
View ArticleFrom here to inFinite on German TV
The acclaimed documentary From here to inFinite about the making of Deep Purple’s latest album will be shown on German TV channel Nitro this Thursday, November 23, starting at 23:05. The film, of...
View ArticleRoger joins the circus
There are 8 dates in Germany announced towards the ends of this year for an outfit called Pete York’s Rock and Blues Circus doing a Ticklin´da´Groove tour. Said circus consists of Pete York himself,...
View ArticleEclipsed celebrates Purple’s 50th
German magazine Eclipsed is celebrating 50th anniversary of the band in style. The current April 2018 issue has a historical picture of Mark 2 on the cover and 18 pages dedicated to the band inside....
View ArticleAnother achievement for Flesh & Blood
Recently released Whitesnake’s Flesh & Blood album has reached #3 on the Official German Album Chart issued on May 17. What is interesting however, is that according to BraveWords, this is the...
View ArticleMagic Moments of Rock and Pop
A Didi Zill retrospective exhibition is on display at the Rockmuseum Munich, which is located in the Olympiapark Tower (Olympiaturm). The exhibition will be open throughout the summer until August 30,...
View ArticleMore summer dates
More dates have surfaced for the Deep Purple summer tour of 2020. In addition to two appearances in Austria, we now have six more dates in Germany: Stadtpark Freilichtbuhne, Hamburg, on June 24;...
View ArticleArt and history exhibition donates the proceeds
The Deep Purple Art and History Exhibition that was held in Spring 2018 in Cologne, Germany, came to a conclusion of sorts. The exhibition netted 1500 euros, and while Roger Glover was in the...
View ArticleJuly morning in January
Don Airey will be performing with Uriah Heep in place of Phil Lanzon on the two upcoming German gigs: January 14th in Würzburg and 15th in Frankfurt. Phil will not be able to perform due to family...
View ArticleThe church organ
This is a rather unusual cover even by our standards. Child in Time performed on a church organ at the funeral of German actor and Deep Purple fan Jan Fedder, who succumbed to cancer on December 30,...
View ArticleRoll over Beethoven
German city of Bonn is celebrating the 250th birthday of their son Ludwig van Beethoven in 2020. In the occasion, gallerist Peter Wierny has initiated a tribute project with national and international...
View ArticleThe 2020 album in Rocks magazine
Deep Purple and their upcoming new album is the cover story of the issue #75 (February 2020) of Rocks magazine out from Germany. Machine translation of the promo blurb reads: Deep Purple (Exclusive!)...
View ArticleThe postman always rings twice
Our contributor from Germany posted a summary of the Rocks magazine coverage of the upcoming Deep Purple album in the comments, and it deserves to be promoted to a news item. The feature is quite...
View ArticleMysterious single
A limited edition 10" single from the upcoming Whoosh! will be released on June 20 in conjunction with the German Record Store Day.
View ArticleAll German dates postponed
[Updated] German promoter KBK has announced that all Deep Purple shows organized by them and scheduled for 2020 in the country -- and that includes even the three October dates -- have been postponed...
View ArticleFrom Bosch to Marsden
Several new Purple related items appeared in European press. German magazine Mint dedicates no less than 40 pages to all things Purple in its May 2020 issue (#36). Among them: complete album guide;...
View ArticleDon Airey’s live album
Edel/earMUSIC will release Don Airey’s band Live in Hamburg in February this year. This show is from March 14, 2017, and took place at the Fabrik club in Hamburg. The setlist contains a healthy mix of...
View ArticleCommie Fraulien
Another vintage article about Deep Purple, which originally appeared in the New Musical Express on December 12, 1970. It is based on interviews with the two Ians and tells the story of troublemakers in...
View ArticleOut on parole
Apparently the promotion campaign for Turning to Crime has already begun, quietly so far. Roger and Big Ian have been spotted doing interviews on October 11 at the Park Hotel in Oberhausen, Germany....
View Article7 And 7 Is live on German TV
Deep Purple performing 7 And 7 Is live* on a German TV show Das Erste am Morgen. * Except we don’t think Steve was actually in the same studio or, in fact, on the same continent as the rest of the...
View ArticleIt ain’t over yet
Tonight (Dec 5, 2021) show of Ian Paice and Neil Murray with Purpendicular in Kehl, Germany, will be the last one for a while. The remaining dates of the December leg have been cancelled with a...
View ArticleBefore rock’n’roll came skiffle
Roger Glover was interviewed by Rock Antenne out of Germany. Listen to him talking to the giggly DJ. Roger is his usual patient and eloquent. Thanks to Yvonne for the info.
View ArticleThe Deep Purple Rockshow
Radio BOB! in Germany has a monthly show hosted by our own Ian Paice and Don Airey. The Deep Purple Rockshow is on the air every first Saturday of the month from 18:00 to 19:00. We are being told that...
View ArticleA riff for eternity
German edition of the Rolling Stone magazine is celebrating 50th anniversary of Smoke on the Water with a cover story in their March 2022 issue. Thanks to Tobias Janaschke for the heads up.
View ArticleAnd 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 (looks like from this session):
View ArticlePurple train to Hamburg
Our contributor Tobias Janaschke went to see the band on June 23, 2022, at the Stadtpark in Hamburg, and has sent in this photo report. Local broadcaster NDR has a short video report from the gig,...
View ArticleSly, sly
Edel has posted a video of the band performing Demon’s Eye at an open air gig in Düsseldorf, Germany, on September 3, 2005. That was one of the couple of warm up gigs before the release of Rapture of...
View ArticleTracing undiscovered stars
Edel has posted another video from the Düsseldorf 2005 gig — title track from the just about going to be released Rapture of the Deep. We’ll forgive the less than stellar camerawork… Thanks to...
View ArticleTrail of happiness and misery
The record company has posted a third video track from the Düsseldorf 2005 gig — this time it’s Strange Kind of Woman. Previously released from the same show: Demon’s Eye and Rapture of the Deep.
View ArticlePlease hang on
The latest issue of the Eclipsed magazine (#246, Dec 2022/Jan 2023) in Germany has the 50th anniversary of Made in Japan as the cover story — unabashedly tagged “The mother of all live albums”, plus a...
View ArticleDas making-of Machine Head
German edition of the Classic Rock magazine has “Das making-of Machine Head” as the cover story for their July/August 2023 issue (a.k.a. #121). This may or may not be somehow related to the English...
View ArticleSweet 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...
View ArticleThe last battle
German magazine ROCKS is running a feature on The Battle Rages On and subsequent tour as the cover story of their latest issue (2023/6). We are being told that the article is well written and...
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