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DEEP PURPLE Announce New US / European Tour Dates; 2022 Tour Merch Now Available Online

November 25, 2022, a year ago

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Deep Purple have announced new tour dates for the US in February, and Europe in July. The band's current tour itinerary is below.

February 10 - XCITE Center at Parx Casino - Bensalem, PA 11 - State Theater - New Brunswick, NJ 13-17- Rock Legends Cruise X 19 - Jacksonville Theater - Jacksonville, FL 20 - Mahaffey Theater - Saint Petersburg, FL 21- Steinmetz Hall - Orlando, FL

March 13 - Budokan - Tokyo, Japan 17 - Ueno Gakuen HBG Hall - Hiroshima, Japan 19 - Sun Palace Hall - Fukuoka, Japan 21 - Intec Arena - Osaka, Japan

June 24 - Rock Imperium Festival II - Cartagena, Spain

July 7 - Rockwave Festival - Athens, Greece 12 - Stadthalle - Vienna, Austria 13 - Stadthalle - Graz, Austria 16 - Laszlo Papp Arena - Budapest, Hungary 18 - Stuttgart Jazz Festival - Stuttgart, Germany

The 2022 tour merch range is now available in the Official Deep Purple Store - links to EU and US stores here .

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Deep Purple will take their  =1 More Time Tour across the UK and Europe this autumn.

The veteran rockers will play arena shows in Poland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Birmingham, London, Leeds, Manchester and Glasgow between October 17 and November 10.

For the UK leg they'll be joined by special guests Reef, and the EU run will be opened by Jefferson Starship. Tickets go on general sale at 10am GMT on Friday (March 22).

The run will follow previously confirmed dates in Australia this April, plus headline shows and festival appearances across mainland Europe this summer..

The band's line-up currently consists of frontman Ian Gillan, bassist Roger Glover, drummer Ian Paice, keyboardist Don Airey and guitarist Simon McBride, who joined the band in 2022.

Deep Purple released their latest album, 'Whoosh!', in 2020.

Deep Purple Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows

Mon June 17 2024 - TOULOUSE Zenith (France) Tue June 25 2024 - ISTANBUL Kucukciftlikpark (Turkey) Wed July 10 2024 - ROME Cavea Auditorium (Italy) Thu July 11 2024 - MAROSTICA Piazza Castello (Italy) Sat July 13 2024 - BELGRADE Tasmajdan Stadium (Serbia) Tue July 16 2024 - INNSBRUCK Olympiahalle (Austria) Thu July 18 2024 - SALEM Schloss Salem (Germany) Fri July 19 2024 - DRESDEN Elfbufer (Germany) Sun July 21 2024 - WINTERBACH Zeltspektakel (Germany) Mon August 05 2024 - FURUVIK Amusement Park (Sweden) Tue August 06 2024 - STOCKHOLM Grona Lund Amusement Park (Sweden) Thu October 17 2024 - KATOWICE Spodek Arena (Poland) Sat October 19 2024 - BERLIN Max Schmeling Halle (Germany) Sun October 20 2024 - BERLIN Messehalle (Germany) Tue October 22 2024 - MANNHEIM SAP Arena (Germany) Wed October 23 2024 - MUNICH Olympiahalle (Germany) Fri October 25 2024 - ESSEN Grugahalle (Germany) Sat October 26 2024 - LINGEN Emsland Arena (Germany) Mon October 28 2024 - BRUSSELS Forest National (Belgium) Tue October 29 2024 - AMSTERDAM Ziggo Dome (Netherlands) Thu October 31 2024 - ESCH SUR ALZETTE ROCKHAL (Luxembourg) Fri November 01 2024 - PARIS Zenith (France) Mon November 04 2024 - BIRMINGHAM Resorts World Arena Wed November 06 2024 - LONDON O2 Arena Thu November 07 2024 - LEEDS first direct Arena Sat November 09 2024 - MANCHESTER AO Arena Sun November 10 2024 - GLASGOW OVO Hydro

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Deep Purple – Whoosh! Tour 2022

The English rock band Deep Purple will perform on Saturday, July 2, 2022, starting with 9.00 pm, at the Auditorium Parco della Musica – Cavea, in Rome , as part of the Rock in Roma Festival 2022 .

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Besides the concert in Rome, Deep Purple will also appear on stage in Bologna , on July 3, 2022, at the Bologna Sonic Park 2022 .

Deep Purple, formed in Hertford in 1968, is considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock. Originally formed as a psychedelic rock and progressive rock band, the band shifted to a heavier sound in the 1970s.

The current lineup of the band features Ian Paice (drums), Roger Glover (bass), Ian Gillan (vocals, harmonica, percussion), Steve Morse (guitars), and Don Airey (keyboards).

To date, Deep Purple sold over 100 million copies of their albums worldwide. The band received the Legend Award at the 2008 World Music Awards, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016.

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Rock in Roma is a music festival which takes place every year in Rome, since 2002. Until its 2008 edition, the event was known as the Romarock Festival . The festival usually has a various lineup, which allows the meeting of different cultures and musical genres.

The 2020 edition was postponed first to 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and then to 2022.

Auditorium Parco della Musica, designed by Renzo Piano and completed on December 21, 2002, represents a complex of halls dedicated to music, in particular, and to art, in general. The Cavea is an open-air amphitheater in the heart of the Auditorium, which can accommodate up to 3,000 spectators.

Auditorum Parco della Musica is located in Largo Luciano Berio, in the northwest of Rome. The closest bus stop is De Coubertin/Auditorium , located about 110 meters away, on the bus Lines 53, 168, 910 and 982.

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Deep Purple are an English rock band, formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968, and active since their reformation in 1984.

Over the course of a career that’s lasted almost forty years - and that’s not allowing for an eight-year break after an initial split in 1976 - Deep Purple have cemented their position as one of the most influential rock and roll bands in the history of the genre. Furthermore, they’re considered genuine pioneers of both hard rock and heavy metal after having moved away from initial roots in progressive rock, and have the commercial clout to back up their towering status within the rock community; they’ve sold in excess of one hundred million albums internationally. The current lineup features just one original member, Ian Paice on drums, although frontman Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover both joined the band shortly after they began, in 1969. Steve Morse, on guitar, and Don Airey on keys round out the five-piece as they stand today, and they continue to tour and record; their latest album, “Now What?!”, was released in April of 2013, and flirted with progressive metal.

That album might not have been as successful as the records that defined them back in their seventies heyday - March 1972’s “Machine Head”, which features their signature song “Smoke on the Water”, frequently features on countdowns of the greatest rock records ever - but they still pack out arenas the world over; their status as bona fide rock legends has long since been secure.

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Perhaps it’s because their one and only split, in 1984, seems so long ago now, or perhaps because they lacked an iconic character of Ozzy Osbourne or Jimmy Page’s standing, but Deep Purple are the one member of the ‘unholy trinity,’ alongside Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, who seem to have the lowest public profile. Sure, they still tour arenas, but Sabbath have been playing stadiums this summer, and as for Zeppelin, the number of applications for tickets for their one-off reunion at the O2 stretched into seven figures. Quietly, though - as unsuitable a phrasing as that is - the biggest band ever to come out of Hertford are continuing to do quite nicely for themselves. Their most recent UK jaunt had them mixing things up, playing some arenas and some theatres, and doing their best to avoid accusations that they’re trading off of former glories; of the seventeen tracks making the setlist each night, seven were plucked from last year’s 'Now What?!' record. The classics made the cut, too, of course, as did all the trappings of the classic rock show - extensive soloing and plentiful crowd participation included. Stadium tours any time soon? Probably not, but if we’re talking about the preservation of their legacy, Deep Purple are certainly doing it justice.

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Wonderfull concert by Amsterdam Ziggo Dome last Night of 2 june 2017.

Whole members of Deep Purple are playing very well ! Roger Clover, Don Airy, Steve Morse , Ian Paice and off course Ian Gillian himself . I was dissopointed not playing "Child in Time" . Everybody was expected this song. I was very happy to see this guys.

One of my favorite leadguitar Ritchie Blackmore was not present. Well Deep Purple , thank you all , to coming to Holland.

I was proud to see you again and my evening was best performance!

Thank you Deep Purple keep at going.

Greetings from Horn ( little village in Netherlands)

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Deep Purple exploded onto the stage at the Fox Theater in Detroit with their opening song,"Highway Star!" From then on they gave a blistering and thunderous performance!

The visual effects and lighting were spectacular! Their stage presence was commanding and presentation very tight and spot on!

I have seen Deep Purple multiple times over the years. I must say this show found them in their finest form!

The crowd was ravenous to eat up every note! Detroit is the best place in the world for a concert!

This tour is title,"The Long Goodbye."

I sincerely hope this isn't so. Hopefully in the future they will tour as,"Hello Again!"

It was my first time seeing Deep Purple and they did not disappoint. The band was extremely tight and witnessing Steve Morse shred the guitar was worth the price of admission alone. They ripped through two hours of classics including a couple of new tunes off their latest album which was just as strong. Don't miss what may be one of your last chances to see these guys in such strong form. At my show in South Florida, Nicko McBrain from Iron Maiden came out to see the band and introduced them. Their influence can be heard throughout the Rock world and they should be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Besides being a fan of Deep Purple I have to criticize the show. Sorry! Mainly the sound technician did a bad work. Sound was way too loud that it was overlapping. Sometimes it was difficult to recognize the song and hear a melody. Members of the band, the musicians, worked hard and well, unfortunately, Ian Gillan has to retire. It was hard to hear him singing, he often was disappearing from stage. That, to say, in my opinion, he used to be "the Nail" of the shows with his high notes.

I was expecting more pleasant evening from the band I like.

seen DEEP PURPLE with edgar winter warm up, Alice Cooper warm up (why they did this is ridiculous !Deep Purple on a farewell tour played 7 songs off their latest album? they had an organ solo. Ian Gillian spent half the show going bejind the wall probably to get high. no encore song. Alice Cooper should have played the whole 3 hours because he was the best. always a good show. Edgar winter smoked Deep Purple. they need Ritchie blackmore back and david coverdale. Glover and pace the only stars. deep purple needs to retire for good.

Smashing gig!

Suppirt act Cats In Space were a great surprise with their pop rock style that was heavier than expected.

Europe were really good. Joey Tempest was his usual 80s flamboyant self, and the sound was cracking!

Depp Purple were superb. This line-up is tight and settled, with some excellent playing in the original Purple vein. Ian Gillan looked like he'd just wandered in off his sofa, he was so chilled.

All in all, a superb gig that crossed a massive item off my own bucket list

Well it was 47 years since I first saw them and 32 years since I sat in a bin bag in a field at Knebworth. They blew me and my son-in-law away last night.

The new albums songs from Infinite were fantastic especially The Surprising and Birds of Prey interspersed with some old favourites such as Fireball, Perfect Strangers and Smoke on the Water.

Bit disappointed no Highway Star.

As much as I loved it I think it's time to call it quits for playing live - go out on a high with your new album.

I didn't know what to expect. I have seen many bands the last few years, but I had forgotten what good musicians sound like. I remember now after seeing Deep Purple last night. What a fantastic display of musicianship by each member. At some point each of them wee featured and that's why we go! Performers who really love to perform. You don't get that much anymore. And the songs.......well they were awesome as well. I recommend highly if you get the opportunity.

What an incredible show. Starlight Theatre in Kansas City is a beautiful venue and it was a beautiful night. Judas Priest played before Deep Purple and blew the (non-existent) roof off the place. Their experience and chops were on full display. Deep Purple headlined and played lots of the crowd favorites. They may be old and the lineups may have changed, but if you grew up listening to this stuff, don't miss out on seeing them now.

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One of Britain's most influential bands return to the road in 2024, as Deep Purple bring the =1 More Time Tour to The O2 on Wednesday 6 November.

Fronted by the legendary Ian Gillan, whose vocals have defined generations and accompanied by the masterful bassist Roger Glover, the powerhouse drummer Ian Paice, the maestro on keyboards Don Airey, and the sensational guitarist Simon McBride, Deep Purple guarantees a musical journey like no other. Since joining the band in 2022, Simon McBride has already played to Deep Purple audiences totalling more than half a million people.

Selling over 100 million records and laying the ground for hard rock and metal, the band continue to tour arenas the world over and release hit albums. Their last studio album, 2020’s ‘Whoosh!’ was their highest charting in 46 years, making Number 4 in UK Album charts. Combining ‘Now WHAT?!’ (2013) and ‘Infinite’ (2017) and “Whoosh” (2020), Deep Purple returned as one of the best-selling hard rock bands around, with sales exceeding one million copies.

They have been touring the globe consistently since forming in 1968, travelling through rock genres and line ups to become a British institution. A measure of their influence can be seen in their fans, who count Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden and Metallica among their most ardent numbers.

Hit songs ‘Hush’, ‘Black Night’, ‘Speed King’ ‘Fireball’ and ‘Smoke On The Water’ helped define heavy rock, riffs and all. They remain true to the band’s origins and their ever-forging future.

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LIVE REVIEW: Deep Purple with special guests Blue Oyster Cult Live in London

London o2 arena | 20th october 2022.

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The much delayed UK tour by rock legends Deep Purple finally ‘Whooshed’ into London for what looked like a sell-out show at the O2 Arena. Following a solid performance from support band Blue Oyster Cult (who did a fine job of warming up the crowd) the audience rose to their feet as Purple took to the stage and gave a performance that belied their years.

The sound was the best I’ve heard at the O2 (and possibly anywhere) with all instruments clear and distinct and the band themselves sounded like they’d never been away. Remarkable. The big change this time around of course was the inclusion of new boy Simon McBride on guitar (stepping in to replace long-time guitarist Steve Morse who withdrew from the band for family reasons). Simon quickly proved that he was up to the task, knowing when to pay homage to the original solos in classic songs and when to put his own stamp on proceedings. He particularly shone during the extended intro to ‘Uncommon Man’ which he made his own.

A couple of new songs from the recent ‘Whoosh’ album rubbed shoulders with Purple classics in a set-list that spanned the band’s long career.

‘Anya’ from 1993’s ‘The Battle Rages On’ shone brightly – shorn of the gentle guitar intro that Ritchie Blackmore used to play back in the day, the song packed a punch, with keyboard player Don Airey locked in tight with McBride’s heavy riffing (you can tell that they’ve worked together before, outside of Purple). The two of them did a ‘Speed King’ style guitar/keyboard joust halfway through ‘Hush’ which was a joy.

A big highlight of the set was ‘When a Blind Man Cries’ – I’ve seen this song performed numerous times, but Ian Gillan was just incredible here – he really sang his heart out. Grown men in the audience were wiping away tears (I’m not kidding). He feels it from his soul, indeed!  A nice blues bar piano intro from Don too.

So a triumphant return of the mighty Deep Purple. I for one can’t wait for the next show.

Set List: Highway Star/Pictures of Home/No Need to Shout/Nothing at All/ Uncommon Man/Lazy/When a Blind Man Cries/Anya/Perfect Strangers/Space Truckin’/Smoke on the Water/ Encore: Hush/Black Night

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"I hear this screaming from behind me: Simon! Simon! Start the bloody song!" How Deep Purple entered their Mk IX era, inspired by the tedious complications of modern life

Deep Purple might never have been fashionable, but with a new guitarist on board and a brand new album, they look likely to be around for some time yet

Simon McBride doesn’t usually get nervous before shows, but right now he’s having a mini-meltdown. It’s May 22, 2022, and he’s due to walk out on stage at Tel Aviv’s Menora Mivtachim Arena in less than 15 minutes. He’s played hundreds of gigs before, some of them in venues as big as this, but this is different: it’s his first show as guitarist with Deep Purple . And he’s bricking it. 

“Basically the shit hit the fan,” he says now. “I was, like: ‘Oh crap, I’m going on stage to play to fifteen thousand people with Deep Purple. How am I going to do this? Aaagh!’” 

Back in Tel Aviv, his new bandmates are unaware of what’s going through his mind as they troop out onto the stage and fire up traditional set opener Highway Star . Drummer Ian Paice kicks things off with that immortal, wrist-snap shuffle before keyboard player Don Airey and McBride start decorating the beat with a few familiar chords. Except… 

“So I’m standing there in front of this big audience, and Paicey starts playing,” McBride recalls, “and I hear this screaming from behind me: ‘Simon! Simon! Start the bloody song!’ It was Don. I’m like: ‘Oh shit…’” 

Snapped out of his trance, he made it through that song, and the next, and the next. That’s when McBride finally unclenched his arse. “It was all good after that,” he says. “That’s when I started thinking: ‘Okay, this will be fine.’” 

It’s the kind of baptism of fire no musician wants, let alone one who is following in the giant footsteps of previous Purple six-string maestros Ritchie Blackmore , Tommy Bolin and Steve Morse , the latter of whom McBride is filling in for – temporarily at first, then it became permanent (we’ll get to that shortly). But – a friendly roasting from Ian Paice after the Tel Aviv show aside – McBride has earned his spurs in the eyes of his new bandmates. 

“When Steve Morse joined the band thirty years ago, somebody asked him what it was like to step into Ritchie Blackmore’s shoes,” says Purple singer Ian Gillan. “Steve said: ‘As far as I know, Ritchie took his shoes with him when he left.’ Simon walked into this band fully shod.”

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The addition of Simon McBride means Deep Purple have officially entered their Mk IX era. For most bands, line-up changes are par for the course, but Purple is an institution where such things are etched into the minds of fans like papal lore. Each incarnation occupies a specific place in the Purple story, their respective merits pored over, dissected and compared with what came before. 

Actually, it’s a minor surprise that Deep Purple made it past Mk VIII. In 2017 they announced The Long Goodbye tour in support of that year’s Infinite album . “It may be the last big tour,” Ian Paice said, suggesting that the Purple juggernaut, rumbling along in one form or another for a large chunk of the previous 50 years, was nearing the end of the road. No more weeks holed up in rehearsal rooms and studios, no more endless slogs around the globe, just the prospect of a golden retirement on the horizon. So how’s that working out for them? 

“Actually, I retired when I was nineteen,” says Roger Glover. “I haven’t had a job since then. This? This isn’t a proper job.” 

The bassist is at home in Switzerland. It’s 9.30am and he’s a few minutes late to our Zoom call, having just stumbled out of bed, although that hasn’t prevented him from sparking up his first roll-up of the day. 

If this is what retirement looks like, more people should try it. The last dozen years have seen this venerable and venerated band hit a late career… well, purple patch. The Now What?! album in 2013 marked the start of a restorative partnership with producer Bob Ezrin, which continued through Infinity, 2020’s Whoosh! and 2021’s pandemic-era covers set Turning To Crime .

This unexpectedly productive output continues with their 21st studio album, the enigmatically titled =1 . Sonically and musically, it slots in next to their recent, Ezrin-produced albums. It’s the sound of a band who rediscovered the joy of jamming out songs in a rehearsal room just over a decade ago, rediscovering a little of the confidence they’d lost in the process. 

The title =1 is Ian Gillan’s. It was inspired by his frustration with the endless bureaucracy and tedious complications of modern life. 

“I found myself online, trying to fill in some blurry matrix of traffic lights or motorcycles, trying to prove to a robot that I’m human,” Gillan says, speaking from his home in Portugal. “I thought: ‘This has got to stop.’ We live in a society of compliance. You have to comply if you want to get anything done. You have to jump through hoops. It drives me nuts.” 

He began doodling in his notebook. “I wrote this ridiculous equation, with the answer ‘=1’. All that crap on the left-hand side, that’s what you want to get rid of. That’s the whole point.” 

He says the idea of ‘=1’ gave him a focus when it came to writing lyrics for the new album that he hadn’t had up to that point. “I didn’t want to conceptualise the album, but I wanted some common thread,” he says. “There’s no literal connection, it’s just a mood thing. They feel like they’re all coming from the same room.” 

It’s not clear what that room actually looks like to anyone but Ian Gillan. The album’s first single, Portable Door , finds the singer imagining escaping tricky situations via the titular exit. Another song is called Lazy Sod . Then there’s Old-Fangled Thing , tangentially inspired by the history of the pencil.

“For 2000 years, people were wandering around scratching their heads as to why their erasers had such long handles,” he says of the latter. “Until they discovered the graphite inside it and civilisation was born.”

This is typical Ian Gillan: jokey and serious at the same time. “I do take things seriously,” he counters, “but I happen to be standing in a different place. It’s the parallax effect on reality. Most of us think the same way, because that’s how we’ve been indoctrinated by parents and school and culture. I like to take a step sideways and see things from a different angle. You could call it lateral thinking. But I like to see the funny side of things. So you’re half right.”

It’s not just Gillan who’s marching half a step out of time with the rest of the world. Purple themselves have never really been synced up with what’s going on around them. They’re not perceived as ‘cool’ in the way that former peers Led Zeppelin were and Black Sabbath have become. 

“From the beginning, we were all so different as people, different backgrounds, different culturally, everything,” says Gillan. “The only common thread was music, and even that wasn’t common because there was so much in it. So we decided on one thing, and that was to avoid fashion at all costs – fashion in music, fashion in clothes, all of it. We didn’t want to be part of the music scene. It served us well. If you’re fashionable today, by definition tomorrow you’re not.” 

There must have been moments when Deep Purple were fashionable, though? He thinks for a second. 

“1971, possibly,” he says. Then he changes his mind. “Actually, we’re still waiting."

Roger Glover has his own take on the meaning behind the title of the new album. “ =1 is such a strong symbol,” he says. “I think of it now as being the history of the band. We’ve been through multiplications, divisions, extractions, brackets, algebra… all that, and yet we’re still one band.” 

There was one more mathematical twist before they started work on =1 . It’s the first record they’ve made without guitarist Steve Morse since 1996’s Purpendicular . It’s not news that Morse was Purple’s longest-serving guitarist, clocking up 11 more years than Ritchie Blackmore (28 in total, to the Man In Black’s 17), but what’s less noted is the role he played in helping give direction back to a band who were lacking it at the end of Ritchie Blackmore’s increasingly dictatorial second term, 1984–93. 

Except Morse himself is no longer a member of Deep Purple. The reason is complicated and emotive, and while his former bandmates are respectful and sensitive about the circumstances, they’re honest too. According to Glover, Morse had never been happy with Purple’s touring schedule. 

“Steve really wanted to end the band around the Infinity album: ‘We’re back on top, we’re doing something great, let’s end now with a bang,’” says the bassist. “That didn’t go down too well with me or anybody else, really. First of all, I don’t want to stop. Second of all, going out with a bang is not the way this band does things. [Adopts hokey showman’s voice] ‘The last, final gig of Deep Purple – where’s it gonna be?’” 

In the autumn of 2021, the four musicians – Glover, Paice, Morse and Airey – met in Hamburg to start writing new songs. Two days in, Morse received a call that his wife, Janine, was seriously ill and in intensive care back home in the States. He flew home to immediately be with her. 

“We were in there for another week,” says Glover. “Me, Don and Paicey, just jamming around on various things.” He grimaces. “It sounded like a band at the Holiday Inn bar. You need a guitarist.”

They were more than happy to give Morse the time he needed to be with his wife – who wouldn’t be? “There was no thought of replacing him,” says Gillan. 

Morse returned to play a handful of shows with the band in early 2022. But there was a further tour later that summer.

Gillan: “Steve wasn’t able to get back out on the road, and it was as simple as that. He didn’t want to move far from home. Completely understandable. But we just wanted to work.”

Glover: “The thing is, there was no guarantee how long Steve was going to be away. It could have been a week, it could have been a year. There was no way of knowing. We couldn’t stop, we had commitments, we had tours. Steve’s always complained about the length of the tours, so the writing was on the wall, in a way. But we had to make a really tough decision.”

On July 31, 2022, it was announced that Steve Morse was leaving Deep Purple to concentrate on caring for his wife, who was suffering from stage four cancer. Today, Glover admits that it was the band’s decision to part ways with him. 

“It was really tough,” he says. “We talked about it, we discussed it back and forth: ‘What are we going to do?’ We couldn’t take no action, something had to happen. He got [the news that he was being let go] from the management, but I called him and we talked. He was not happy, either. It was hard and it was sad, and after twenty-eight years of making some great music with Steve, it was… for me it was a tough decision. But that’s life sometimes.” 

Glover says he’s talked to Morse since he left the band. “I’ve spoken to Steve several times. He was my choice in the band in the first place. There’s a connection between us that the others don’t have. So yeah, it’s difficult. But we talk, and we laugh. He’s a survivor.” 

Morse’s exit left Deep Purple a man down. Did they think of giving Ritchie Blackmore a call and telling him there was a job going? 

“Ha ha ha,” Glover says drily, arching an eyebrow. “No.”

As it did many people, covid hit Simon McBride hard. “I had three years of doing nothing,” he remembers, speaking to Classic Rock via Zoom from his home just outside Belfast, where an impressive collection of guitars is visible hanging on the wall behind him. 

“I even applied for a job in Asda. I didn’t get it. I thought: ‘I’m not even good enough to work in Asda…’” 

So I’ll join Deep Purple instead? 

“I mean, basically, that’s what happened, yeah,” he says with a laugh. 

The retail industry’s loss was rock’n’roll’s gain. The 45-year-old McBride is a good fit for Purple. He’s confident without being cocky, unafraid to speak his own mind. Asked if working with producer Bob Ezrin was intimidating, he replies: “No. He tried, but I think he met his match with me. I wasn’t taking any nonsense.” (He does caveat this with fulsome praise of Ezrin’s studio technique, adding that “he’s a lovely guy”.) 

While the guitarist is new to Purple, he’s an old hand on the scene. In his teens he played in Irish rockers Sweet Savage and with former Commitments star Andrew Strong, before making a name for himself as a blues-rock hotshot in the Gary Moore mould. He released three solo albums between 2008 and 2022 and appeared on records by Whitesnake offshoot Snakecharmer, musician and druid Clive Culbertson, and many more. 

McBride’s entry into Deep Purple seemed fated. He’s been a member of Don Airey’s solo band since the early 2010s, and has appeared on stage with all of his future bandmates. “Just never at the same time.” 

It was Airey who put McBride’s name forward to step in when Steve Morse first became unavailable. “Don sent me a tape about four years ago: ‘Listen to this great guitarist,’” says Glover. “And it was great. When it happened with Steve, there was no question about anyone else. Simon was the first choice. The only choice.” 

Not that McBride saw it coming. He first received an email from Purple’s manager around Christmas 2021, asking him if he was free to stand in for Steve Morse at a handful of US shows the following February. In the end, Morse played the gigs, but he was unable to do a few dates that were scheduled in late May and early June. Could McBride step in then? 

“I said: ‘Yeah, cool, I’ll do them,’” he says now, with a casualness he probably wasn’t feeling at the time.

The first of those shows was the one in Tel Aviv, which started with McBride almost fluffing his big entrance. The tour was due to run until the end of summer 2022, but even then it was still a temporary thing. He fully expected Morse to return.

“For me, Steve was the guitarist,” he says. “At that point I was just a session guy. I know how to deal with that stuff. It’s a great experience to go and play, then you’re done, you go home and you never think about it again. You don’t get caught up in: ‘I’m the new Deep Purple guitarist.’ No you’re not.” 

Except at some point midway through that tour he was. McBride was on the road with them in Europe when he got a sense that something was afoot. The band’s manager had flown out to a gig, which rarely happened, in Germany. 

“I remember sitting in some bar, drinking those small German beers with no gas you get over there, and Don’s knocking them back,” McBride remembers. “I was looking at him, thinking: ‘There’s something going on. You’re celebrating something.’” 

The next morning, he got the message: the gig as guitarist with Deep Purple was his if he wanted it. “They’d had a meeting that day. I don’t know what was said or what went on.” 

A couple of nights later, McBride was sitting in another hotel bar, this time with Ian Gillan. At one point, after a few more beers, the singer asked him a question: “Are you part of this fucking band, or what?’” 

“And I was like: ‘Yeah,’” says McBride. “There was a lot of celebrating.” 

Has he spoken to Morse about it? 

“Only over email. He was lovely at the start – whatever I needed, gear-wise, he said to use his. I spoke to him recently over email when his wife passed away [Janine Morse died in February 2024]. I get on fine with Steve. There’s no sour grapes there. It just is what it is.” 

Has he had any grief from the more dug-in factions of Purple’s fan base? 

“Steve got grief, Satriani got grief, Tommy Bolin got grief,” he says. “But strangely, when I joined it was more positive than anything. I could see people slagging me off, but the management were going: ‘It’s very minimal – it’s ninety-nine per cent positive.’ You’re always going to get the hard-core Ritchie fans who stopped listening to Deep Purple after he left. But Ritchie hasn’t been in the band for thirty-odd years. Times move on.”

The senior members of Deep Purple have seen all this before, many times. Occasionally they’ve been the reason for it. In 1973 Gillan resigned from the band, followed by Roger Glover (the bassist had less choice in the matter, being fired by Blackmore). “I was young, confused, arrogant, immortal,” Gillan says. “I was finding it hard to cope. I didn’t know how to.” 

Then there’s Ritchie Blackmore. His relationship with the other members of the band that he co-founded has been a decades-long combination of soap opera and Greek tragedy. Glover recalls how the glorious, we’re-in-this-together early 70s gave way to something more stressful after their 1984 reunion , with the guitarist eventually choosing to walk out of the studio whenever the rest of the band refused to play the songs he’d written. 

Blackmore left Purple for the second and final time in 1993. His no-show when Purple were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2016 suggested the two parties weren’t on each other’s Christmas card lists. 

“Ritchie’s been on his own road for a long time,” says Glover. “He’s not involved with us at all. He’s been suing us, there’s been bad feelings over the years. It’s cost us a lot of money. But since we changed management [circa 2020] he’s come on board. He’s now part of the Purple family. Not personally. Through his people.” 

That’s not to say a reunion is on the cards. 

“Happiness is important to us at this stage,” Glover says diplomatically. At the same time, retirement also isn’t on the cards. The Long Goodbye that was promised a few years ago seems to be a fairly open-ended concept. But when the end does eventually come, Deep Purple are more than happy to go gentle into that good night. 

“The stress and the enormity of that decision is beyond us,” Glover says of a pre-determined expiry date. “We’re a band that carries on until we stop. If the last gig happens to be somewhere outside Edinburgh, or in a field in Poland, or wherever, then that’s the last gig. No hoopla. That’s never been the Deep Purple way.” 

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German 10th Anniversary tour

November 2024

28 The Raven, Straubing

29 Tollwood Festival, Munich

30 Schützenhalle, Diessen – Ammersee  Get tickets here

Spanish 10th Anniversary tour

20 Madrid – Sala Rockville  – updated ticket link:  Get tickets here 

21 Granada – Planta Baja.   – updated ticket link:  Get tickets here

22 Sabinillas – Plaza Vicente. Free entrance!  Change of venue

April & May 2024

UK 10th Anniversary tour

17 Library Theatre, Darwen, near Blackburn                                     Get tickets here

18 Customs House, South Shields                                                   Get tickets here

19 Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh.                                                          Get tickets here

20 The Cat House, Glasgow – New venue, tickets still valid           Get tickets here  

21 Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool                                                    Get tickets here

25 Yardbirds, Grimsby                                                                       Get tickets here

26 Birdwell Venue, Barnsley                                                              Get Tickets here

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28 The Crown, Hornchurch                                                             Get tickets here

1    Corn Exchange, Exeter                                                                Get tickets here

2   The Brook, Southampton                                                            Get tickets here

3   O2 Academy, Islington.                                                               Get tickets here

4    O2 Academy, Oxford                                                                  Get tickets here

5    Caerphilly WMC, Caerphilly                                                     Get tickets here

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Germany – “Made In Europe”

23 The Raven, Straubing, Germany   Get tickets here 

24 Tollwood festival, Munich, Germany – link to follow

25 3 Rosen, Ammersee, Germany      Get tickets here 

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UK tour – “Made In Europe”

19 Library Theatre, Darwen, near Blackburn   £15 (plus booking fee)       Get tickets here

20 The Wardrobe, Leeds                                   £15                                      Get tickets here

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27 The Q Room, Leicester                                   £15                                    Get tickets here

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30 The Crown, Hornchurch                                £15                                       Get tickets here

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April 20 Library Theatre, Darwen, near Blackburn          Get tickets here

21 Academy 3, Manchester                                     Get tickets here

22 Room 2, Glasgow                                                Get tickets here

23 Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh                                Get tickets here

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28 The Brook, Southampton                                  Get tickets here

29 The Globe, Cardiff                                              Get tickets here

30 Mill Arts Centre, Banbury                                   Get tickets here

May 1  O2 Academy, Islington, London                         Get tickets here 

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UK tour 2021 – “The Battle Rages On”     

June 30 Library Theatre, Darwen, near Blackburn    Get tickets here

July 1  Room 2, Glasgow  Get tickets here

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4 The Waterloo, Blackpool    Get tickets here

8 Epic Studios, Norwich   Get tickets here

11 O2 Academy, Islington, London    Get tickets here

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17 The Brook, Southampton    Get tickets here

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5 The Continental, Preston. Get tickets here

6 Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh. Get tickets here

7 Hard Rock Cafe, Glasgow.  Get tickets here

8 The Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool. Get tickets here

12 The Horns, Watford.  Get tickets here

13 The Brook, Southampton.  Get tickets here

14 Suburbs, Guildford.  Get tickets here

15 O2 Academy, Islington, London. Get tickets here

Back Into The Fire UK tour 2019

9    Lligwy Beach Cafe, Moelfre, Anglesey, Wales .

10  Hard Rock Cafe, Glasgow.  Get tickets here

11  Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh. Get tickets here

12 The Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool. Get tickets here

16 The Horns, Watford. Get tickets here

17 Palmer Tavern, Reading.

18 Mill Arts Centre, Banbury. Get tickets here

19 The Crown, Romford.

Saturday 29  Pink Purple Zep Fest II, Estepona bullring, Spain.  Get tickets here

August 2018

Friday August 24     The Old Courts, Wigan.    Get tickets here

Sunday August 26   Swanbourne Music Festival, Swanbourne, near Leighton Buzzard, Bucks.   Get tickets here

Monday August 27 The Ley Hill Music & Beer Festival, Ley Hill, near Chesham, Bucks.    No ticket required. Event starts 14:00. We are on 16:00

Thursday July 12    Louie Louie, Estepona Port, Spain 23:30

Friday July 13         The Ginger Pig, Coin, Spain. 17:00  With support from Karma. €15 entry includes BBQ.

Saturday July 14    Hot Castle Rock, Duquesa Castle, Spain. Event starts around 20:30. We are on around 22:30

February 2018

Thursday February 22     The Horns, Watford       Get tickets here

Friday February 23          Crauford Arms, Wolverton near Milton Keynes     Get tickets here

Saturday February 24     Palmer Tavern, Reading.     No ticket required

Sunday February 25       The Crown, Romford.           No ticket required

Thursday March 1          Bootleggers, Kendal                   Get tickets here

Friday March 2              The Hardrock Cafe, Glasgow    Get tickets here

Saturday March 3          The Continental, Preston          Get tickets here

Sunday March 4            The Waterloo, Blackpool           No ticket required

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Thursday March 23   Bootleggers Bar, Kendall  – advance tickets £12 (MOTD)

Friday March 24        Hardrock Cafe, Glasgow – support from Dio’s Apostles – advance tickets from £10

Saturday March 25   The Continental, Preston – advance tickets £8 (Paypal below) or £10 on the door

Thursday July 13     Louie Louie, Estepona Port, Spain

Saturday July 15     Castillo de la Duquesa, Spain

August 2017

Saturday August 26  Estepona bullring, Estepona, Spain. Pink-Purple-Zep Fest.

Sunday   August 27   Louie Louie, Estepona Port playing a mix of Deep Purple and Rock covers

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